The dates on Supreme Court Justice Murphy are incorrect. William Francis Murphy was born on April 13th , 1890 not April 13, 1893 in Harbor Beach, Michigan to two Irish immigrants and devout Catholics. He got his law degree at the University of Michigan (LL.B., 1914) and, after serving in the first World War and […]
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AC/DCs Rhythm Man Malcolm Young
The AC/DC Young brothers are legendary, what was so special about them?
A. L. Kroeber cultural anthropologist & Ursula LeGuin
Hi Folks, I’ve been ill with vertigo from an inner ear infection, so I’ve been reading alot and posting little. I will try to get those tasks more intune in the days that follow. Thanks. Alfred Louis Kroeber was an American cultural anthropologist who studied under famed Franz Boas at Columbia University. He received the […]
C612 Feleena and Marty Robbins
Marty Robbins may have been born in the mountain deserts of Arizona on September 26, 1925 , but with a Grand Trine in Water the Navy was a sure bet. Neptune in the eighth is the key to the great love song of El Paso, his greatest hit, not only because it highlights the fatal […]
C206 Eagle-eyed Judge Anton Scalia
The header picture is of Judge Scalia, and his wife and family. The Scalia had nine children in order of birth they are: Ann Forest, Eugene, John Francis, Catherine Elisabeth, Mary Clare, Paul David, Matthew, Christopher James, and Margaret (Meg) Jane. Judge Scalia suddenly died February 13th, 2016 on vacation in Texas, leaving the High […]
C780 Montgomery Clift unforeseen honors unfulfilled
Monty Clift and James Dean were the young turks of the 1950s Hollywood Scene. but only Monty made it out of the decade, though only just. James was the more petulant and angry of the two; Monty was the sensitive “artistic” type that women wanted to mother. Only when Monty got out of the 1950s […]
Cal Cunningham and the politics of morality
Update November 19, 2020 I nearly forgot…Our prediction that Cal would lose was dead to rites. Read it here from the Citizen. Original Post, October 10 2020 Senator Cal Cunningham seems to be in trouble being like Tony Weiner, husband to Secretary Hillary Clinton’s aide Huma Abedin, he’s been sexting a woman. That was his […]
Astrology of Ruta Lee: Rare Talent & Ambition from the Stars
Last night Ruta Lee appeared on the Fugitive, the second part of the d episode ANGELS TRAVEL ON LONELY ROADS as a redhead. I remembered her from Hollywood Squares that my grandmother faithfully watched, so naturally I did her chart and went to her website, the eponymously named Ruta Lee, to learn more. Ruta was born […]
C155 Titanic Kate Winslet
Table of contents Riding the seas of inspiration Reversing Anglin Download the chart Kate Winslet was born Kate Elizabeth Winslet to an acting family on October 5, 1975 at 7:15 am giving her the ascendant of 12 Libra, Miners emerging from a mine. This rising symbol shows her curiosity and indomitable self-confidence that is the […]
C405 The Sense & Sensibility of Jane Austen
Jane Austen born December 16, 1775, during the Revolutionary War in Winchester, England. She was a great writer of mystery romances. — Pride and Prejudice is a good intro because it is short. Sense and Sensibility is the better effort. Emma and the great Persuasion are solid literary efforts with the latter her best. Northanger […]
The Mother of COBOL, Grace Murray Hopper
Rear Admiral Hopper was born on December 9, 1906 around midnight in New York, New York. She gave many contributions to computer programming, software development, and the design and implementation of programming languages including the invention of an English-language computer language called COBOL, the largest and most robust back end language ever implemented.
C469 Winesburg’s Sherwood Anderson
Vogue Magazine, December 1926 Photograph by Edward Steichen THE history of Sherwood Anderson is the history of a man groping painfully for an understanding of his own ideas. They flash before him out of the void, and he contemplates them with a sort of wonder, seeking to penetrate their significance, and sometimes not succeeding. Here […]







