Month: May 2024

A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall Bob Dylan Cold War Cuban missile crisis duck and cover John Hammond May 27 Music quotations Nat Hentoff The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

“A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall…”

1 month ago
Robert Deis

When Columbia Records released the first, self-titled album by Bob Dylan in 1962 it went largely unnoticed by the general public. Only about 5,000 copies were sold at the time.…

A long time ago in a galaxy far far away Alien Barack Obama In space no one can hear you scream John F. Kennedy May 25 May the Force be with you Star Wars

7 famous space-related quotes launched on the date May 25th…

1 month ago
Robert Deis

By an odd coincidence, some famous space-related quotations from several different sources are linked to the date May 25th. On May 25, 1977, Star Wars—a movie by the then little-known…

47 percent of the people gaffes Historical quotes May 17 Mitt Romney Political quotes September 17

Mitt Romney’s infamous “47 percent” quote

1 month ago
Robert Deis

      On May 17, 2012, Republican presidential candidate, Senator Mitt Romney (R-Utah), said something that was later cited as one of the factors that caused him to lose the election…