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#5480~Tenor Stefan Zucker held the longest-sustained high note on record during a Carnegie Hall performance in 1972. He held an A in alt-altissimo for 3.8 seconds.

#5481~Tina Turner was known as Annie Mae Bullock before she adopted a stage name.

#5482~Actor Gary Busey, who won a best actor Oscar nomination for his portrayal of Buddy Holly in the 1978 film "The Buddy Holly Story," bought one of Holly's guitars at auction for $242,000 in 1990.

#5483~The group Chicago was the first ever rock group to appear at New York's Carnegie Hall, in April 1971.

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#5485 (I think?)


Celticangel gets drunk on 2 glasses of Bailey's Irish Cream!!!

#5486~You think correctly!

Wow! Two glasses? :)

#5487 .... yeah, but she can handle the Vodka just fine!! :) Weird, huh?

#5488~Different type of alcohol, I suppose, or maybe she'd eaten more recently with the Vodka! :)

5489 - I'd stick to Bailey's then - cheap drunk!

#5490

Good evening!

5491

such a hot day

5492

but a good day

#5493~I'll agree with you on that one, Steph. :)

5494

5495

#5496~Sarah Bernhardt played the role of Prince Charming in "Sleeping Beauty" when she was 62 years old.

#5497~And, mentioning Sarah Bernhardt, the actress is thought to be the first woman to wear trousers, in 1876.

(My source doesn't say *where,* only that statement.)

#5498~The 1950s instrument group The Champs, who had a number-one hit with "Tequila," in 1958, got their name from Champion, Gene Autry's horse. Autry owned Challenge Records, for which The Champs recorded.

#5499~Paul McCartney owns the publishing rights to "Stormy Weather" and "Hello Dolly," as well as the soundtracks of "Grease," "Mame," "Annie," and "A Chorus Line," among many others.

#5500~The Beatles "Can't Buy Me Love" holds the record for the biggest leap to the number one position on Billboard's Hot 100 chart. On March 28, 1964, it entered the chart at number 37; the next week, it was number one.

#5502 - I think that this is correct based on the reply counter.

A post got dropped somewhere...

#5503...

yup, a double post at 5471.

#5504

#5505

here are some facts about beer... let's call them factoids as I have not checked them against more than one source...

5506


2800 BC is the first recorded record of a drunk driving fatality. In ancient Egypt, an inebriated charioter was apprehended after running down a vestal virgin of the goddess Hathor. The culprit was crucified on the door of the tavern that sold him the beer, and his corpse allowed to hang there until scavengers reduced it to bones

An Epgytian text of 1600 BC gives 100 medical prescriptions using beer.

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An Epgytian text of 1600 BC gives 100 medical prescriptions using beer.

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A few years ago, the New Castle Brewery in England brewed 1000 bottles of Tutankhamun Ale from a 3200 year old recipe found in the sun temple of Queen Neferti.

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Stiegl beer ( a beer from Slazburg, Austria) was first made in 1492, the same year Columbus discovered America.

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In 1516, William IV of Bavaria decreed that only four ingrediants could be used for brewing beer: water, malted barley, hops and yeast. It became law. This was known as the "Pledge of Purity" or "Reinheisgebot".

--5511--

The lease for a one acre plot of land signed by Arthur Guinness in 1759 expires in the year 10759.

--5512--

The red triangle that is the Bass Brewery logo was designed in 1777 and is the worlds oldest international trademark.

--5513--

In 1788, Ale was proclaimed "the proper drink for Americans" at a parade in New York City.

--5514--

In 1790 George Hodgson of the Bow Brewery in East London formulates a beer that will survive the five-to-six month sea journey to India. He brews a pale ale with a higher amount of malt, hops it twice the normal rate, and then adds a healthy dose of priming sugar to keep the yeast in a feeding frenzy. Thus is born the style "India Pale Ale or PIA".

--5515--

The oldest operating brewery in the United States, D.G. Yuengling & Sons of Pottsville, PA, has been owned and operated by the Yuengling family since 1829.

--5516--

In 1896, Helmut Keineger, a Bavarian brewer, commited suicide in a Munich jail cell. His crime: placing chemicals in his beer that ran contrary to the Reinheitsgebot purity law of 1516.

--5517--

In the '30's there was a brewers strike. All the brewers refused to work. Back then sales were centered around your brewery and you had to keep all the local pubs and bars stocked. A certain St. Louis brewery was worried about losing customers so they put the assisstant brewers in charge. Back then assisstants were nothing more than glorified peons and really knew little of making beer. They would make a batch and it would be bad so they would dump it and try again. they dumped so many batches that the gutter ran with beer. They finally came up with a recipe that was usable and it was shipped out to the local pubs. It had come to be known by the locals as 'gutter beer'. When the strike ended, the owners did not want to throw out all the barrels of the remaining beer as it had already cost them too much with the lost batches. So they figured that if they gave it a good name and marketed right they could sell it. Today it is known as Michelob.


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The first beer cans were produced in 1935.

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