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Right Around The Corner, The “5” Royales (1956)The Royal Sons Quintet, aka The Royals, aka The “5” Royales were a gospel group that made the crossover to R&B and laid the foundation for what would later be called Soul Music. Active during the years 1951 through 1965, they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2015.
Armed robbery is hard in Russia.
Bunkerville is a good name for a blog.
Recreating a 121 year old hamburger.
“Cool costume, bro, but what ARE you?”
Anyone besides me want to see him attacked by giant lagoon weasels?
The saddest Egyptian god. He has a dung beetle for a head.
[Top image: Bean goose flying upside down (“whiffling”) near Arnhem, Netherlands. It’s a quick maneuver by young show offs. More here.]
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Sea Lice
Sea lice are actually jellyfish
The term sea lice was inappropriately coined by residents who suffered strange rashes after swimming in coastal waters in the 1950s, according to the Florida Department of Health. (There is such a thing as actual sea lice, it turns out, but they are tiny parasites that affect fish, not humans.)
The rash that humans tend to get, on the other hand, “is caused by miniature jellyfish larvae trapped under bathing suits when in the water,” states a 2017 brochure available on the Health Department’s website.
“If pressure occurs from exercising, surfboards, lying on the beach, etc., stinging cells are released and cause itching, irritation, and welts,” the brochure continues. The larvae also like to hang out in people’s hair, so the back of the neck—where hair hangs down and touches the skin—is a common place for lesions.
The .Gif Friday Post No. 696 – The Mask, The Milky Way & The 99 Percent
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Destroyer Squadron 15 is based in Yokosuka, Japan, and is embarked on the carrier. U.S. 7th Fleet has not fully specified the escorts accompanying USS Reagan on its patrol, but the CSG includes the USS Halsey (DDG-97), homeported in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
[Photo and caption via USNI News.]
Kelp
[Photo by J. Erick Smith.]
Statues
[Found here.]
Twitter suspended that user’s account, @statuefun, for violating the ToS, presumably for promoting violence and/or tobacco use.
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I Can See Everybody’s Baby, Ruth Brown & Her Rhythmakers (1955)Ruth Brown was known as “Miss Rhythm” and “The Queen of R&B,” while Atlantic Records was called “The House That Ruth Built.” The Rhythmakers [sic] provided backup vocals and were better known as The Drifters.
Brown recorded many hits from 1949-1955, and faded from public view in the ’60s to become a housewife and mother. She returned to music in 1975 at the urging of Redd Foxx.
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Road deaths 2018-19, UK vs. US.
[Top image: Still from short film Adiosu (2013) by Martino Pinna found here.]
Hurricane Ida live tracking images via WeatherUnderground; animated satellite image at NOAA.
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Tacky Raccoons 