SEVEN SPANISH ANGELS | RAY CHARLES AND WILLIE NELSON — AMERICA ON COFFEE (Reblog)

A great story song performed by two season musicians, Ray Charles and Willie Nelson. The song was written by Troy Seals and Eddie Setser, and recorded by… Read more “SEVEN SPANISH ANGELS | RAY CHARLES AND WILLIE NELSON”

SEVEN SPANISH ANGELS | RAY CHARLES AND WILLIE NELSON — AMERICA ON COFFEE

BILLBOARD #1 HITS: # 425: ” SIR DUKE”- STEVIE WONDER – MAY 21, 1977 — slicethelife (Reblog)

Billboard #1 Hits: #425: “Sir Duke”- Stevie Wonder. May 21, 1977. #1 for 3 weeks in Billboard Hot 100. Single: ” Sir Duke”- Stevie Wonder Record Company- Tamla Genre: Funk, R&B Written by Stevie Wonder Time: 3:54 B-side:” He’s Misstra Know-It-All” Album- Songs In The Key Of Life Grade: A+ Peaked at #1 3 weeks […]

BILLBOARD #1 HITS: # 425: ” SIR DUKE”- STEVIE WONDER – MAY 21, 1977 — slicethelife

St. Anne Shrine, Sturbridge, MA — Gargoyles and Grotesques (Reblog)

A Bronze Statue of Saint Joan of Arc in Full Battle Armor Seen on the Grounds of St. Anne Shrine in Sturbridge, MA (Originally Published on Gargoyles and Grotesques on December 23, 2017)

St. Anne Shrine, Sturbridge, MA — Gargoyles and Grotesques

Chippewa Lake – Abandoned Since 1978 — Architectural Afterlife (Reblog)

Chippewa Lake Park is a former Medina County theme park, which operated for 100 years, from 1878 until 1978. Since the park’s closure, it has sat vacant. Early history Initially opened by Edward Andrews as Andrew’s Pleasure Grounds in 1875, the park offered a picnic ground and beach, a steamboat, and the park’s first roller…

Chippewa Lake – Abandoned Since 1978 — Architectural Afterlife

On This Day December 16 — The Boston Tea Party

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On December 16 1773, the incident we now know as ‘The Boston Tea Party‘ occurred.

This was a protest against the East India Company’s recently legalised trade monopoly and the tax on tea. It was carried out by furious American patriots in Boston Harbor, who, dressing themselves as Mohawk Indians, stormed East India Company vessels and threw more than three hundred chests of tea into the freezing waters.

This famous incident followed the passing of the Tea Act in the British Parliament in London, earlier in 1773. This was designed to aid the supposedly struggling East India Company at the British colonies’ expense — an act which was to have severe and momentous consequences in the long term.

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