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In the news about Lockerbie...

A Libyan man accused of making the bomb which destroyed Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie 34 years ago is in United States custody, Scottish authorities have said.

The US announced charges against Abu Agila Masud two years ago, alleging that he played a key role in the bombing on 21 December, 1988. The blast on board the ( Read more... )

I found interesting info about Gypsies on the internet.... I might excerpt some of it here...

Here's the first bit:

The term Gypsy derives from Egyptian, reflecting a mistaken assumption of the origins of the people who refer to themselves as the Roma.

Ethnic Gypsies are the descendants of diverse groups of people who were assembled in northern India ( Read more... )

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There are some superstar recording artists... many, in fact, who are not yet on my DRAHoF list of favourite recording artists. It's a personal preference list... with a little over a hundred artists on it now.

One of those superstars, tho, who I am now inducting.... is Elton John.


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I'm way behind on chronicling our Disney trip in here. Only up to the 4th full day now... which was spent at Disney's Animal Kingdom ( Read more... )

So... after getting into Epcot and looking around a bit... we met up with Dad and Darlene, as we were hoping to do. Dad and Darlene had arranged to be in Orlando as they were later taking a cruise from southern Florida to Europe (where they are at this present time ( Read more... )

Believe it or not, with this one, I am now absolutely caught up with listing all the songs on my HoF list (so far). I was about 20 or so behind before...

The 590th song added to my Song Hall of Fame is... "A Whiter Shade of Pale" by Procol Harum ( Read more... )

Another for my personal Song Hall of Fame list... "Hooray for Captain Spaulding" by Groucho Marx ( Read more... )

Info from Volume 1 of my journal ( Read more... )