The professionl chorus my friend is a part of pulled off a Hallelujah Chorus flashmob at the West Side Market in Cleveland, yesterday:

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According to this article, UC Riverside has acquired (at substantial cost) an original first edition of HG Wells' The Time Machine, in order to look at the differences.

It was published sooner than the British version, and may possibly have been printed off of an earlier version of the manuscript.

This footage is from a street performance at the 1904 St. Louis Expo:

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From the description on the site:
Princess Rajah performs an "Oriental" or belly dance, and a balancing chair act in her teeth like that often found in folk performances in various cultures from Northern Africa to Greece. Shot outdoors in a street scene at the St ( Read more... )

If you're in the US, today's date (01/02/2010) is a palindrome.

If you live anywhere else, you'll have to wait until the first of February. (;

This is nifty

Peter Tchaikovski and friends messing around with that newfangled recording device

Johannes Brahams introduces and plays a piano arrangements

They streamed the 1938 War of the Worlds broadcast!

Right now!

Started at 8pm Eastern, the same time the original broadcast began, 71 years ago, tonight. (:

waroftheworldstribute.com

In honor of the 200th anniversary of his birth, the Edgar Allen Poe Museum is giving the author a "proper" funeral, after his original one was rather poorly done ( Read more... )

When kids could actually PLAY on playgrounds! When, if we fell off the monkey bars and skinned our knees or broke our arm, it was our own damned fault!When I was a kid, playgrounds had equipment that was TALL and OPEN and full of metal bars and mega-slides, and had asphalt or pebbles underneath it ( Read more... )

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