3 posts tagged “bush”
Babe Ruth's "Uniform Player Transfer Agreement" from Boston to NY that set the legendary Curse of the Bambino into play. (PRNewsFoto/Red Baron Antiques)
Babe Ruth, Richard Nixon, Charles Lindbergh, Walt Disney, Mickey Mantle, JFK, Marilyn Monroe, Grateful Dead, Ty Cobb, Elvis Presley, the Wright Brothers: Who could gather all of these names and many more in one location for one auction with NO MINIMUM OR RESERVE? None other than Red Baron. May 2-4, 2008, they will host the world's largest memorabilia auction in Atlanta, Georgia.
The collection, taking 38 years to amass over 2000 items, is the success of one man, Mr. Doodle Harris. In the continued efforts of his admirable accomplishment, a portion of proceeds from this auction will benefit charity.
Over $5 million has been invested in these items that have been monumental in American History; they will all be sold with NO MINIMUM and NO RESERVE. To give a brief glimpse of some of the items up for grabs: The Uniform Transfer Agreement that set the "Curse of the Great Bambino" into action trading Babe Ruth from Boston to New York, as well as autographed helmets from every professional football team and many college teams. Presidential and political items ranging from letters and papers from Presidents Nixon, Reagan, Hoover, Teddy Roosevelt, Kennedy, Bush, George W. Bush, Clinton, Garfield, Cleveland, and others to the Bible of Malcolm X, loans from the Union to the Confederacy and a Life magazine autographed by Prince Charles and Princess Diana with their wedding photos. There are numerous guitars and records autographed by leading recording artists from the past 40 years to include: Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Grateful Dead, The Beatles, Beach Boys, Led Zepplin, and hundreds more. Autographed items from those who changed history such as Albert Einstein, Charles Lindbergh, and the Wright Brothers. Also, there is movie memorabilia from every movie and actor from The Wizard of Oz to Star Wars to The Lord of the Rings.
Nothing like this has ever been seen, much less been sold. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, that shouldn't be missed. The breadth and depth of this collection is too profound to be put into words.
AT&T has admitted that it edited the lyrics of a Pearl Jam song during a live webcast, taking out parts that criticized George W Bush.
Monitors
of the band's set at Lollapalooza in Chicago cut the two lines
referring to Bush. The show was being shown through AT&T's Blue
Room entertainment website. Spokesman for AT&T Michael Coe said
that the lyrics should not have been cut. He said: "What was edited out
of those songs should not have been edited out.
"That was a
mistake and we regret that." The lines which were cut were from a song
being done to the tune of Pink Floyd's famous "Another Brick in the
Wall". They consisted of "George Bush, leave this world alone" and
"George Bush find yourself another home". AT&T's Blue Room is a
site that contains concerts, video game advice, interviews and other
content and can only be accessed with a high-speed internet connection.
Currently George W Bush is floundering badly in the polls due to the
unpopular war in Iraq.
A book written by a US army veteran about his year's tour of duty in Iraq has won an award as the best book to start out as an online blog.
Colby Buzzel's book about his experiences as a machine gunner in the US army in Iraq won the $10,000 Lulu Blooker prize.
My War: Killing Time in Iraq, won the award over 110 other entries from 15 countries around the globe.
The book started out as the blog My War, which Mr Buzzel said he started out of boredom when he was posted in Mosul, in the middle of the Sunni triangle in Iraq.
Mr Buzzel told the Associated Press: "I went into it without any aspirations. It was just a way for me to deal with what I was going through.''
With its visceral descriptions of combat and dark humor, My War soon gained a massive following.
After blogging for eight weeks, the US military stopped Buzzel. However, by this time publishers had already been in touch with the soldier, whose book is published by Penguin and has been translated into seven different languages.
Meanwhile, American troops stationed overseas will no longer be able to access the popular video clip site YouTube and the social networking site MySpace.
The two sites are among 11 that the US military has blocked on all of its computers world-wide.
