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#1,791
I learnt of a potential Police copyright case.

A couple got stuck on a Western Australian beach and, in the process, discovered a message in a bottle, exposed by the elements, predating the Police version by an age. Invalid Link Removed .

The message was dated June 12, 1886, and said it had been thrown overboard from the German sailing barque Paula, 950km from the WA coast.​

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Between 1864 until 1933, thousands of bottles were thrown overboard from German ships, each containing a form on which the captain would write the date, the ship's coordinates and details about its route.

It was part of an experiment by the German Naval Observatory to better understand global ocean currents.
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Captain's journal confirms 'extraordinary find'

The colleagues compared handwriting samples from the form and the captain's entries in Paula's meteorological journal.

"Extraordinary finds need extraordinary evidence to support them," Dr Anderson said.

"Incredibly, there was an entry for June 12, 1886, made by the captain, recording a drift bottle having been thrown overboard.

"The date and the coordinates correspond exactly with those on the bottle message.
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#1,792
Dominique and The Singing Nun represent a stirring tale, for today's relating. Like me, you may remember the song, and the movie. This, to me, is a new and somewhat puzzling perspective on the adventures of Jeanine Deckers, who, sadly, took her own life in March of 1985.

It was the most unlikely of hits, reaching number one on the pop charts for four consecutive weeks in 1962. Elvis was king, and the Beatles would have their first number one single only a month later — the hysteria-inducing I Wanna Hold Your Hand. But for the moment, the public was listening to something quite different.

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Dominique chronicles tales of eleventh-century cleric Saint Dominic. It was written and performed by Jeanine Deckers, a Dominican sister from Belgium. Deckers played her music within the confines of her convent, but it proved so popular that the Reverend Mother gave permission to record it for Church use.


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Deckers recorded her music at Philips studios. She entranced studio executives, who convinced Church officials to release her music commercially under the name Sister Smile (Soeur Sourire). In the United States, she became known as the Singing Nun.

Within months of the recording, the Singing Nun achieved stardom. She appeared on the Ed Sullivan show, and a romanticized movie was made about her life, starring Debbie Reynolds. But with all the recognition came problems.[…]
No. 2640: The Singing Nun
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LBS-bass said:
I learned that when you lend the guitar player your strap because he forgot his, and then he forgets to give it back to you afterwards, you have a nice excuse to buy a new orange strap that will match your new tobacco burst bass.
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I lent our guitarist my spare strap at last Friday's gig, he gave it straight back as we were breaking down, so no excuses to buy another.

He is on chemo and a side effect of one of the many tablets is memory loss which is probably why he forgot his strap. This kicked in on the start of one song and he couldn't remember the riff, the drummer and I kept it going until it came to him. If anyone in the audience noticed they didn't mention it.
 
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delta7fred said:
I lent our guitarist my spare strap at last Friday's gig, he gave it straight back as we were breaking down, so no excuses to buy another.

He is on chemo and a side effect of one of the many tablets is memory loss which is probably why he forgot his strap. This kicked in on the start of one song and he couldn't remember the riff, the drummer and I kept it going until it came to him. If anyone in the audience noticed they didn't mention it.
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This one has severe ADHD and is experiencing short term memory loss as a result of a change in his medications. He's a really great guy who would give you the shirt off his back, and plays really well. So I don't mind. Sorry to hear of your friend's chemo.
 

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