Paul McCartney and Bill Joel singe the Lennon-McCartney "Meet the Beatles" classic, "I Saw Her Standing There", Shea Stadium, July, 2008. It was here in around 1965 the Beatles invented stadium concerts, I believe.
2/ Here the Beatles sing "I Saw Her Standing There". The Beatles were huge Little Richard fans, so the woooos are straight Little Richard.
3/ And here, the master - Little Richard - pays back his students - the Beatles with "I Saw Her Standing There". #PaulMcCartney#LittleRichard#Beatles
Kid from North Dakota buys two AR-15 assault rifles on 18th birthday. In #Uvalde#Texas he kills 18 children, 3 adults. Let's include 10 Kevlar vests and 10 bulletproof backpacks in the price of each gun. #CostofBusiness#NRA 1/ yahoo.com/news/ruben-gal…
2/ #2A#2ndAmendment not for high-capacity guns but militia-men w/ muzzle-loaded muskets, etc. Ban high-capacity magazines. All gun sales or transfer, public or private, must require a background check and registration. Gun thefts/gifts must be reported.
#TankTuesday#ColdWar#Tanks#History - While Germany's Leopard 2 MBT differs from Leopard 1, it's the longest production tank "brand" I know. Leopard 1 debuted ~1965. 55+ years later, Leopard 2 is still in service. Not sure when production ended. Great clip from @PhilLoder!
Eiffel Tower #EiffelTower was built 1887 to 1889 as a temporary tower for the Paris 1889 World's Fair. It was easily the world's tallest building, and was made possible by changes in material. It has three "floors". To visit, book tickets online. The arches are cosmetic. 1/
Galveston: In 1900, Galveston, population 36,000, was obliterated, making it the site of the worst natural disaster in US history, a sad record it retains to this day. 6,000 to 12,000 were killed, thousands of buildings wiped out, etc. 1/
2/ Galveston was rebuilt with a massive seawall and the land was raised as much as 17 feet. 15 years later, another similar hurricane and storm surge hit. The wall worked. Only 53 were killed. #Galveston#Texas#hurricane#UShistory
3/ 1900 #Galveston hurricane: Galveston was one of Texas' largest cities and was very, very wealthy. Disregarding #statistics#probabilities#science#data, plans for a seawall to protect the sandbar city were dismissed as ridiculous. #nature
Paul McCartney's masterpiece Tug of War released #OTD 4/26/1982 (40 years ago)! Produced by #Beatles producer George Martin, the album featured Stevie Wonder, Ringo Starr and Carl Perkins. The smash #1 hit Ebony and Ivory sought perfect harmony. This...
2/ #PaulMcCartney#TugOfWar … was his first post-Beatles album produced by George Martin. The production is impressive, the songs varied. It's in the wake of Lennon's death, the Wings breaking up, etc.
3/ #BLM#EbonyAndIvory was a beautiful song AND a video marvel. McCartney and Wonder were shown “side by side on my piano” though actually across the Atlantic Ocean from each other. Then again, McCartney helped invent the music video, so maybe no surprise?