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  • Northern Spotted Owl Photo, Redwood Forest Picture -...

    Rated Sep 30 • 1 review • animals, birds • nationalgeographic.com

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    From the page: "Northern Spotted Owl

    Photograph by Michael Nichols

    This Month in Photo of the Day: National Geographic Magazine

    A tagged northern spotted owl swoops toward a researcher's lure in a young redwood forest."
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    Northern Spotted Owl Photo, Redwood Forest Picture - National Geographic Photo of the Day

  • Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    Rated Sep 28 • 1 review • central america • wikipedia.org


    September 28, 1542
    Cabrillo encounters California

    Portuguese explorer Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo sails into present-day San Diego Bay during the course of his explorations of the northwest shores of Mexico on behalf of Spain. It was the first known European encounter with California.

    At San Diego, Cabrillo landed at Point Loma Head, now part of the Cabrillo National Monument. He then sailed on to explore much of the rest of the California coast. During one landing, he broke his leg and apparently fell sick with complications from the injury. He died in January 1543, probably on San Miguel Island off the Santa Barbara coast. Despite his reports of the appealing California coastline, the first Spanish settlement was not established in California until 1769, when Father Junipero Serra founded his mission at San Diego.
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    Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

  • B.B. King - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    Rated Sep 16 • 1 review • blues • wikipedia.org

    Born on This Day


    From the page: "B.B. King

    King performing at the Fox Theater in Oakland, April 2009
    Background information
    Birth name Riley B. King
    Also known as B.B. King
    Born September 16, 1925 (1925-09-16) (age 84)
    Origin Itta Bena, Mississippi, U.S.
    Genre(s) Blues, electric blues, blues-rock, Memphis blues, soul-blues, rock and roll
    Occupation(s) Musician, singer, songwriter, record producer
    Instrument(s) Guitar, vocals, piano
    Years active 1947 - present"

    Riley B. King (born September 16, 1925), known by the stage name B.B. King, is an American blues guitarist and singer-songwriter acclaimed for his expressive singing and guitar playing.
    Critical acclaim and widespread popularity have cemented his reputation as possibly the most respected, successful, and most recognized bluesman, not just in the United States, but in the world.[1] Rolling Stone magazine ranked him at #3 on its list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time".[2] According to Edward M. Komara, King "introduced a sophisticated style of soloing based on fluid string bending and shimmering vibrato that would influence virtually every electric blues guitarist that followed."
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    B.B. King - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

  • Carnival Costumes Photo, Venice Picture - National...

    Rated Sep 16 • 1 review • photography • nationalgeographic.com



    From the page: "Carnival Costumes, Venice

    Photograph by Jodi Cobb

    This Month in Photo of the Day: National Geographic Magazine

    Instead of renting costumes from shops around the Piazza San Marco, some Carnivalgoers like these create their own fanciful designs."
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    Carnival Costumes Photo, Venice Picture - National Geographic Photo of the Day

  • Clayton Moore - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    Rated Sep 14 • 1 review • acting • wikipedia.org

    Born on This Day

    From the page: "Clayton Moore
    Clayton Moore as The Lone Ranger
    Born Jack Carlton Moore
    September 14, 1914(1914-09-14)
    Chicago, Illinois
    Died December 28, 1999 (aged 85)
    West Hills, Los Angeles, California
    Spouse(s) Mary Moore (1940-1942)
    Sally Allen (1943-1986)
    Connie Moore (1986-1989)
    Clarita Moore (1992-1999)"

    Moore's big break came in 1949, when George Trendle spotted him in Ghost of Zorro. As producer of the radio show and creator of "The Lone Ranger" character, with writer Fran Striker, Trendle was about to launch the masked man in the new medium of television. Moore was cast on sight.
    Moore then faced the challenge of training his voice to sound like the radio version of The Lone Ranger, which had then been on the air since 1933, and succeeded in lowering his already distinctive baritone even further. With the first notes of Rossini's stirring "William Tell Overture" and announcer Fred Foy's "Return with us now, to those thrilling days of yesteryear ... ," Moore and co-star Jay Silverheels, in the role of Tonto, made television history as the first Western written specifically for that medium. The Lone Ranger soon became the highest-rated program to that point on the fledgling ABC network and its first true "hit," earning an Emmy nomination in 1950. Moore starred in 169 episodes of the television show.
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    Clayton Moore - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

  • Prayers, Cambodia Photo, Picture - National Geographic...

    Rated Sep 03 • 1 review • culture • nationalgeographic.com



    From the page: "Prayers, Cambodia

    Photograph by Fritz Hoffman

    This Month in Photo of the Day: National Geographic Magazine

    Water carries prayers for her ancestors. Widow Suy Moeur, 70, of Kar Kranh village, Cambodia, participates in a ritual celebrating the end of the rainy season, when villagers can once again travel easily across the previously waterlogged land."
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    Prayers, Cambodia Photo, Picture - National Geographic Photo of the Day

  • Diving Tiger Photo, Animal Wallpaper -- National...

    Rated Aug 27 • 1 review • animals • nationalgeographic.com



    From the page: "Diving Tiger, California

    Photograph by Briana Taylor

    This Month in Photo of the Day: Animals

    I took this photo at Six Flags Marine World in Vallejo, California, in 2004. The trainers were throwing meat into a small pool to demonstrate the tigers' diving ability, and this beautiful creature looked right into my camera. The scowl on his face is not from disgust or anger; rather, it results from how these big cats scrunch up their nose to keep water out."
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    Diving Tiger Photo, Animal Wallpaper -- National Geographic Photo of the Day

  • Cuban Tree Frog Photo, Animal Wallpaper -- National...

    Rated Aug 18 • 2 reviews • animals • nationalgeographic.com


    From the page: "Cuban Tree Frog, Florida
    Photograph by James Snyder
    This Month in Photo of the Day: Animals
    This is a Cuban tree frog on a tree in my backyard in southern Florida. How and why he ate this light is a mystery. It should be noted that at the time I was taking this photo, I thought this frog was dead, having cooked himself from the inside. I'm happy to say I was wrong. After a few shots he adjusted his position. So after I was finished shooting him, I pulled the light out of his mouth and he was fine. Actually, I might be crazy but I don't think he was very happy when I took his light away."
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    Cuban Tree Frog Photo, Animal Wallpaper -- National Geographic Photo of the Day

  • My Way News - JFKs sister Eunice Kennedy Shriver dies at 88

    Rated Aug 11 • 1 review • politics • myway.com


    In this Friday, Nov. 10, 2006 file photo, Eunice Shriver Kennedy, founder of Special...
    From the page: "JFK's sister Eunice Kennedy Shriver dies at 88
    Aug 11, 6:47 AM (ET)

    HYANNIS, Mass. (AP) - President John F. Kennedy's sister Eunice Kennedy Shriver, who carried on the family's public service tradition by founding the Special Olympics and championing the rights of the mentally disabled, died Tuesday morning, her family said in a statement. She was 88.
    Shriver had suffered a series of strokes in recent years and died at 2 a.m. at Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis. The hospital is near the Kennedy family compound, where her sole surviving brother, Sen. Edward Kennedy, has been battling a brain tumor.
    As celebrity, social worker and activist, Shriver was credited with transforming America's view of the mentally disabled from institutionalized patients to friends, neighbors and athletes. Her efforts were inspired in part by the struggles of her mentally disabled sister, Rosemary."
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    My Way News - JFKs sister Eunice Kennedy Shriver dies at 88

  • Photo: Perseid Meteor Shower to Yield 80 Meteors an Hour?

    Rated Aug 11 • 2 reviews • astronomy • nationalgeographic.com


    A "shooting star" streaks over Canada's Quebec Province during the Perseid meteor shower on August 12, 2008. The 2009 Perseid show is expected to peak on Tuesday, August 11.
    Perseid Meteor Shower to Yield 80 Meteors an Hour?
    Ann Minard
    for National Geographic News
    August 10, 2009

    The Perseid meteor shower will have to fight it out with a bright moon for visibility this year, but astronomers are still predicting a dazzling show.

    From any vantage point in the world, you might see more than 80 meteors an hour streak across the sky during the best viewing time, when the moon's glare will be weakest--late Tuesday night and into the wee hours of Wednesday, local cloud and lighting conditions permitting.
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    Photo: Perseid Meteor Shower to Yield 80 Meteors an Hour?