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One of my favorite operas. Thanks for posting and Tatiana is a wonderful Tatyana. That scene was marvelous.

So Pompeius "magnus" got his not long after Caesar chased him out of Italia and was decapitated upon setting foot in Egypt. I suppose that was divine justice.

Go CATS!

@giles422 Actually I believe the call was roughing the passer not a facemask. It was, I admit, a somewhat strange call given what they could get away with in the '60s. The newspaper accounts of the game called it a roughing the passer/ personal foul. Willie Davis was called on a dubious roughi...

I love how Lombardi gets going into his subject halfway through the clip, demonstrating very animately blockinc techniques. Never listen to anyone saying he was just a screaming tyrant. This man was a COACH! John Madden attended a seminar on this play (an 8 hour version of this clip) and still ...

This song was Number one on Billboards hot 100 this week 45 years ago, knocking out the Beatles "paperback writer" for a week. The week ending July 2, 1966.

@HugePokemonFan1203 No these aren't the Beatles themselves. These are voice actors affecting not very good semi-scouse accents. The Beatles had virtually no involvement in this show (other than the songs themselves obviously). They had a bit more involvement in the "yellow submarine" movie a ...

@jet - There were three flight directors for each mission leading his own team since Gemini. For Apollo Lunar missions with LM and CM separated it was learned (from the Apollo 9 mission) that it was too difficult to control/ monitor both craft when separated so there was a second control team pr...

Bugs apparently got hold of a "C" ration sticker (his secret weapon) which was only available to Doctors and other people with occupations with travel deemed essential to the war effort and were very hard to get. The "A" sticker that he also holds next to it was one that was what most people had...

@guitarcrusin Well, in the beatles case this is patently untrue. "I want to hold your hand" and "We can work it out" disprove your assertion at a stroke without going into the rest of their work. However, I share your outrage that RUSH isn't in R&RHOF. That is because Jann Wenner (of rolling st...

Commentator definitely not Walter Cronkite. MBS was at one time the 2nd largest (in audience) US radio network until overtaken by CBS in the late thirties. It was known for Children's serials such as the Lone Ranger in the late afternoons, and sports programming (boxing and college football, ...

thanks for keeping some of diz2001's great posts alive.

Thanks for posting this zellco. As always, your channel has the best "as broadcast" stuff which is much appreciated by space nuts like myself.

This was Tuesday, July 19, 1966. Gemini 10 was in its second day in orbit and the weather forecast makes it clear tomorrow is a Wednesday.

@ishotu747 No videotaped record of the game other than this opening has been found. ESPN put together a reconstructed version of the Ice Bowl about a dozen years ago using the NFL films shots of the game and having Ray Scott add commentary as if he was doing the game. You can find it on amazon.

@rentawally I believe your memory is faulty on this. Lennon was shot on Monday night and as you can tell from this clip of Monday Night Football it was breaking news near the end of this game. I was watching this game when Cosell announced it, a half hour earlier all they knew was that he was s...

@Rowlandph No. These are not kinescopes. They are videotapes. you can tell by the clarity and the timing clock on the screen which was used in editing videotapes in the large multiplex players of the day.

@marksmail2 "I'm Alive" was their first really big hit, going to number one in the UK in June 1965.