Ciaran Bourke was a founder of the Dubliners. He came from a wealthy family who hired an Irish nurse from the countryside. She taught him Gaelic (Gaeilge) and appreciation of traditional music and jigs. Inspired by her, Ciaran, as an adult, gathered a band of like-minded Irish musicians and taught them the same, thereby keeping the traditional music alive. RTE, Ireland’s National Public Service Media, has some more on this for his tribute in their archives. Food, Guinness and Saveur And if you want to have a traditional Irish meal to enjoy it with see over here on the Saveur…
-
-
Warner Baxter was the first American to win the Academy Award for Best Actor. He was the first actor to portray the character of Jay Gatsby on-screen in The Great Gatsby (1926). By 1936, Baxter was the highest-paid actor in Hollywood, earning a record $284,000. His best role is that of the doctor who treated Abraham Lincoln‘s assassin, in The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936). Sorry, cannot find that one. But the one below was directed by the great Frank Capra. This one is rather amusing as Baxter had a fear of horses — Uranus (which rules the Equines btw) 20 Libra 25…
-
Sharon Stone in the 1990s sold cold aloofness with alluring sexuality. Is that far from her own base personality?
-
How Marin Marias lost his wife and voiae and found his voila.
-
You can download Stormy Daniels Stormy Daniels was born on March 17, 1979 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and named Stephanie Clifford. We have rectified her chart for 2:13 AM, CST giving her an Ascendant of 02 Capricorn 11 or Capricorn 12. Charubel, the Welsh mystic, says it makes their ambition go “eastward.” In this case towards Washington D.C. Ms. Daniels has a Grand Trine in her chart, but it relies on a translation of light in Pisces, and thus fails in the counter clockwise direction. We haven’t run into too many with this configuration, so at this point I have yet…
-
HOW DO I LOVE THEE? (From Sonnets from the Portuguese) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning HOW do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace. I love thee to the level of everyday’s Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light. I love thee freely, as men strive for Right; I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise. I love thee with the…












