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Dina Manzo Opens Up About THE BOOK

Real Housewives of NJ reality star Dina Manzo sat down with People.com to talk about her rocky relationship with co-star Danielle Staub and the now infamous book.
While she doesn’t take complete blame, Dina now says she had everything to do with showing it around to friends and family.
I felt bad because it wasn’t [...]

Father’s Day

Father’s Day is a day honoring fathers, celebrated on the third Sunday of June in 52 of the world’s countries and on other days elsewhere. It complements Mother’s Day, the celebration honoring mothers.
Father’s Day is a celebration inaugurated in the early twentieth century to complement Mother’s Day in celebrating fatherhood and male parenting, and to [...]

Strawberry Festival Oxnard

This morning I’m yanking the seats from my minivan and loading it to the hilt. I’ll be a vendor this weekend at the California Strawberry Festival in Oxnard! I’m excited to be doing a new show, albeit a little nervous, as I’ve never done it before so I have no idea what to expect. [...]

Diamonds Are Forever

Starring Sean Connery as James Bond, Jill St. John as Tiffany Case, Lana Wood as Plenty O’Toole, Jimmy Dean (the sausage guy) as Willard Whyte and Charles Gray as the villain, Ernst Stavro Blofeld. Directed by Guy Hamilton. Filmed in Las Vegas.
Diamonds Are Forever (1971) is the seventh spy film in the James Bond [...]

Elections West Bengal 2009

Under the terms of the Indian Independence Act, 1947, the erstwhile province of Bengal ceased to exist. The Muslim majority districts of East Bengal went to Pakistan. In 1950, the territory of Cooch Behar was merged with West Bengal. In 1954, the former French possession of Chandranagore became part of the State and in [...]

Any Given Sunday

Any Given Sunday is a 1999 film directed by Oliver Stone featuring an ensemble cast, consisting of Al Pacino, Cameron Diaz, Dennis Quaid, Jamie Foxx, James Woods, LL Cool J, Matthew Modine, John C. McGinley, Charlton Heston, Ann-Margret, Lauren Holly, Bill Bellamy, Lela Rochon, Aaron Eckhart, Elizabeth Berkley and Marty Wright.The film also featured [...]

Out to Sea

Out to Sea is a 1997 romantic comedy film starring Walter Matthau, Jack Lemmon, Rue McClanahan, Dyan Cannon & Brent Spiner. The film was directed by Martha Coolidge. The screenplay was written by Robert Nelson Jacobs. The original music score was composed by Michael Muhlfriedel and David Newman.
Compulsive gambler Charlie Gordon (Matthau), hiding out [...]

Native American Symbols

Native American symbols offer us a complete and reverent language of life, nature, and spirit. This language is unmatched in its depth and power. This language derives it’s power from the fact that American Indians viewed all things – whether seen or touched – living or inanimate – as possessors of a spirit. Further, [...]

State of Alaska

The city of Anchorage, Alaska as well as the whole state of Alaska would be the first to legalize possession and use of marijuana in 1975, a decision by the state Supreme Court. It was re-criminalized in 1990 but recently overturned, making pot legal. On a lesser note several other cities have de-prioritized possession [...]

Saturday Night Live

Everybody remembers Chris Farley, the big loveably guy from Saturday Night Live. Before he was the Beverly Hills Ninja, or Tommy Boy, or even before he was in Black Sheep or Almost Heroes, Chris was on Saturday Night Live and played characters like Matt Foley the energized motivational speaker, Bennet Brauer the gross-out news [...]