Check in with your Favorite Elvis Song on his 75th Birthday, Plus INTRO TO ELVIS (ILLUSTRATED)

A few curious facts for the new to Elvis: Elvis Aaron Presley was born January 8, 1935 in a little house in Tupelo, Mississippi. He had a stillborn brother Jesse Garon Presley. There was no doctor yet present during the birth and Elvis' parents put him in a shoebox in the oven to keep him warm. His real hair color as an adult was dark blond. His eyes were extremely blue.He was shockingly different for the 50's and stunningly talented: Heartbreak Hotel Elvis was one of the most beautiful (I would argue THE most beautiful person) ever photographed. Men and...

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The Light of Almonds

In the Old Testament tabernacle, a copy of the temple in heaven, the sanctuary was covered with curtains. To the left of the sanctuary entrance was a piece of equipment used to illuminate it, the gold lampstand. According to the pattern God gave Moses on Mt. Sinai, the shaft, branches, bowls, ornamental knobs and flowers of this lampstand were hammered from one gold piece. The center shaft was flanked by three branches decorated with almond blossoms on either side, all seven branches topped by little bowl-lamps containing olive oil. Inside the holy place (the sanctuary) but outside the curtain veiling...

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Precision Insanity -- Chuck Aaron's Aerobatic Helicopter (Part 1)

Red Bull gives you rotors? So what makes pilot Charles "Chuck" Aaron's airshow act so special? Well, all you had to do was watch his HELI-AEROBATIC act at Oshkosh to know that something SERIOUSLY DIFFERENT had come to Wittman Field. The Red Bull BO-105 CBS, made by Eurocopter/Messerschmitt Boelkow Blohm (MBB), blew everyone away with a routine rarely seen anywhere, much less at world-class airshow like Oshkosh.

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Prayer Request: Aaron Has a Rare Tumor

I don't do prayer requests very well, but a dear friend of ours needs one. Their grandson has a Schwannoma tumor on the vagus nerve and will be undergoing surgery on July 25. Their Dr. wants to remove it before it grows into the brain stem or chest area. This is a very rare tumor for an adult to have let alone a child. There have only been a handful of these surgeries done. They will not know until they get inside if this growth is on the side of the nerve or surrounding the mass. Please Pray for Aaron,...

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BARRY BONDS: HOMER-BY-HOMER (plus the obligatory YouTube mocking)

SOURCE NO DATE OPP FIRST LAST ING 1 6-04-1986 ATL Craig McMurtry 5 2 6-06-1986 NYM Ron Darling 5 3 6-09-1986 CHC Scott Sanderson 5 4 6-16-1986 STL Danny Cox 3 5 6-19-1986 MON Bryn Smith 4 6 6-30-1986 PHI Charles Hudson 1 7 7-05-1986 LAD Orel Hershiser 2 8 7-25-1986 SF Roger Mason 3 9 8-04-1986 MON Jay Tibbs 5 10 8-07-1986 MON Bob Sebra 5 11 8-11-1986 CHC Jamie Moyer 2 12 8-12-1986 CHC Scott Sanderson 1 13 8-14-1986 PHI Charles Hudson 1 14 8-30-1986 HOU Jim Deshaies 5 15 9-10-1986 STL Tim Conroy 1 16 9-23-1986...

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The asterisk just doesn't apply (THE 2ND MOST CONTROVERSIAL HOME RUN IN BASEBALL HISTORY)

There's no denying 756 home runs, and if Selig wants to try, he'd better examine the rest of baseball history Baseball's most cherished record now belongs to Barry Bonds, and no matter what is said, written or alleged, there is no taking it away. Teeing off on a 3-2 pitch from Washington Nationals left-hander Mike Bacsik, Bonds launched his 756th career home run to the deepest part of AT&T Park on Tuesday night. The instant the ball left his bat and sizzled toward right-center field, there was no doubt the San Francisco Giants' controversial slugger had just elbowed his way...

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Bonds hits 756th home run to set MLB record

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Barry Bonds became the most prolific home-run hitter in Major League Baseball history Tuesday night, slugging his 756th in front of more than 43,052 hometown fans to pass Henry Aaron. Bonds' record-setting homer came in the fourth inning to give the Giants a 5-4 lead over the Washington Nationals. Bonds hit a 3-2 pitch from Washington's Mike Bacsik deep to center field. The game was delayed by a standing ovation for Bonds, whose late father Bobby was a Giants player, coach and front-office employee.... Bonds also holds the season record for home runs with 73 in...

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Bad cameo in horror flick (MARIOTTI IS BARRY APOPLECTIC AT MICHAEL JORDAN'S SELLOUT)

The Natural -- Michael Jordan -- should know better than to give Barry Bonds a video salute after slugger's 754th homer SAN FRANCISCO -- He was real. He was natural. His muscular definition, by all accounts, was developed in weight rooms and not in some science lab. His only competitive sin on the court was trying to destroy one's dignity, and when you ponder it all, Michael Jordan's magnificent legacy only should be enhanced by the sleaze surrounding Barry Bonds. So why, after Bonds ripped his 754th home run at AT&T Park, would a tribute from Jordan suddenly appear on...

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This Day In History

Peter the Great: the Russian czar levied a tax on beards (1698)

Quote of the day

"Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers."

by Robert Green Ingersoll