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Only 5% of the ocean has been explored. According to the National Ocean Service, it’s a shockingly small percentage. Just 5 percent of Earth’s oceans have been explored and charted – especially the ocean below the surface. The rest remains mostly undiscovered and unseen by humans. Sea exploration and mapping didn’t truly start until theContinue reading “Shiver me timbers”

Tennis players are not allowed to swear at Wimbledon (or at any match, for that matter.) Because of this, line judges have to learn curse words in every language so they know when a player has violated the rules. Demand Euphoria!

April 29, 1964 – The Toho Studios released their first cross-over monster movie Mosura tai Gojira (Godzilla vs. the Thing (Mothra)) in Japan on this date. This is the first Godzilla film without newly-shot American footage added for the American release. This film marked one of the few instances in which Eiji Tsuburaya had toContinue reading “Godzilla vs. the Thing premieres”

April 28, 1975 – Tom Snyder interviewed ex-Beatle John Lennon on The Tomorrow Show. At the time, no one knew then that John Lennon would be taking an extended hiatus from public life, taking time to raise his son and live a less public life. The interview Lennon gave Tom Snyder in 1975 revealed heContinue reading “Tom Snyder interviewed John Lennon in his last TV interview”

April 27, 1971 – CBS executives finally sobered up and the last episode of Green Acres aired on this date. This was to have been the pilot for a proposed spin off featuring Elaine Joyce as Carol. Oliver and Lisa only appear briefly in the beginning as an excuse to introduce Carol and the pilot.Continue reading “Green Acres Finale”

April 26, 1978 – The concert billed as The Band’s “farewell concert appearance“, was held on November 25, 1976, at Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco. The concert film, The Last Waltz, directed by Martin Scorsese, starring members of the band and many of their friends, premiered in the US on this date. The Band’s managementContinue reading “The Last Waltz”

April 26, 1933 –I’m glad I was born when I was. My time was the golden age of variety. If I were starting out again now, maybe things would happen for me, but it certainly would not be on a variety show with 28 musicians, 12 dancers, two major guest stars, 50 costumes a weekContinue reading “Carol Burnett”

April 26, 1962 –The NASA Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon after sixty-four hours of flight, on this date. The probe’s mission was to rough-land a seismometer capsule on the Moon, to collect gamma-ray data in flight, to study the radar reflectivity of the lunar surface, and to continue testing the Ranger program forContinue reading “On the Moon”

April 26, 1978 – NBC aired a a musical version of The Prince and the Pauper, Ringo, starring Ringo, Art Carney, Angie Dickinson, Carrie Fisher, Vincent Price, John Ritter, and George Harrison narrating, on this date. Really, don’t feel you have to watch the whole thing (it’s not very good.)

Malaria Awareness Day was designated on this date by President George W. Bush in 2007, to remind people that Malaria kills 3,000 children a day. He asked the world to join the fight to wipe out malaria on the African continent. So I encourage all Americans to begin heavily drinking Gin and Tonics to honorContinue reading “Today is Malaria Awareness Day.”