They locked me in the brig! I was wearing something that said Army, on a naval vessel, so they locked me up!

To Lynn(MyLady) Yes, Little Darlin’- there are cowboys in it!

"The Star Spangled Banner"
Words by Francis Scott Key
Music by John Stafford Smith


"The Star Spangled Banner" is the national   more...anthem of the United States of America. The lyrics are from a poem entitled, "Defense of Fort McHenry", written in 1814 by Francis Scott Key, after he witnessed the September 13th attack by the British Royal Navy on Fort McHenry in Baltimore, Maryland. This War of 1812 bombardment is now known as the Battle of Baltimore (September 12-14, 1814).
Throughout the night of the 13th, the bombing was heavy. At dawn on September 14th, Francis Scott Key saw that the huge American flag, which is now called "The Star Spangled Banner", was still waving at the fort. It inspired him to write the now famous poem.

The flag currently hangs at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.

On March 3rd, 1931, by congressional resolution, The "Star Spangled Banner" became the national anthem of the USA.

"The Star Spangled Banner" lyrics:

Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines in the stream:
'Tis the star-spangled banner! Oh long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion,
A home and a country should leave us no more!
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust."
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

The Performance of "The Star Spangled Banner" was taped by Leigh Richards with permission of the 2008 World’s Toughest Rodeo featuring the "Toughest Cowboy" competition, televised on Fox Sports Network (FSN)

"The Star Spangled Banner" (The National Anthem) © 2008 Leigh Richards Creative Communications. All Rights Reserved.
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This Canadian National Historic Site is not really a “castle” at all. Dundurn Castle was built by Sir Allan Napier MacNab, and completed in 1835 at a cost of $175,000.00. Seventy-two rooms made up its   more...18,000-square-footage (1,700 square metres) and 42 of them are now open to the public after being restored to what they would have been in 1855. Sir John A. MacDonald, first Prime Minister of Canada, and England’s King George VII were among those entertained there.

Some interesting facts from the tour:
-- Dundurn Castle was the first home in the province to have gas lighting and running water. The water was pumped through the house by a young boy who earned $2.00 per month for his service.
-- The “Scullery Maid” was a young girl of 9 or 10. She washed the dishes from the entire household’s seven meals each day. Her wage -- $1.30 per month.
-- Refined sugar was delivered in a solid, paper-wrapped “cone”. It was shaved or chipped off when needed. The cost of a cone of sugar - $75.00. The cost of a new home - $100.00.
-- Sir Allan MacNab was often accused of treating his servants too well. :)

The Victorian Kitchen Garden was a project undertaken by the City of Hamilton as part of the restoration. This formal garden is walled in Scottish fashion, and has a series of walkways and beds full of fruit, flowers, herbs and vegetables that would have been grown during Sir Allan NacNab’s lifetime at Dundurn. The garden is maintained the “old fashioned way” – by hand, and all natural.  less

a trip around the dockyard

(Click link below for Pt.2)This groundbreaking documentary brings together UFO researchers and Bible scholars. These two fields of knowledge placed together bring ... new insight into the UFO phenomenon   more...and alien abductions and demythologizes ancient accounts of angels and gods. What does Biblical prophecy say about the role of UFOs in the future? Featuring: Dr. Chuck Misler, Dr. Barry Downing, Dr. David Jacobs, Sigung John Peel. This is not my personal view but its the way I would probably look at it if I did trust the bible 100%:
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A vacation day trip to Montreal, Quebec with stops at the Biodome, Botanical Gardens, and Old Montreal.

(Click link below for Pt.3)This groundbreaking documentary brings together UFO researchers and Bible scholars. These two fields of knowledge placed together bring ... new insight into the UFO phenomenon   more...and alien abductions and demythologizes ancient accounts of angels and gods. What does Biblical prophecy say about the role of UFOs in the future? Featuring: Dr. Chuck Misler, Dr. Barry Downing, Dr. David Jacobs, Sigung John Peel. This is not my personal view but its the way I would probably look at it if I did trust the bible 100%
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funny commercial

(Click link below for Pt.4)This groundbreaking documentary brings together UFO researchers and Bible scholars. These two fields of knowledge placed together bring ... new insight into the UFO phenomenon   more...and alien abductions and demythologizes ancient accounts of angels and gods. What does Biblical prophecy say about the role of UFOs in the future? Featuring: Dr. Chuck Misler, Dr. Barry Downing, Dr. David Jacobs, Sigung John Peel. This is not my personal view but its the way I would probably look at it if I did trust the bible 100%
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This groundbreaking documentary brings together UFO researchers and Bible scholars. These two fields of knowledge placed together bring ... new insight into the UFO phenomenon and alien abductions and   more...demythologizes ancient accounts of angels and gods.What does Biblical prophecy say about the role of UFOs in the future?  less

(Click link below for Pt.5)This groundbreaking documentary brings together UFO researchers and Bible scholars. These two fields of knowledge placed together bring ... new insight into the UFO phenomenon   more...and alien abductions and demythologizes ancient accounts of angels and gods. What does Biblical prophecy say about the role of UFOs in the future? Featuring: Dr. Chuck Misler, Dr. Barry Downing, Dr. David Jacobs, Sigung John Peel. This is not my personal view but its the way I would probably look at it if I did trust the bible 100%
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David Harper Tells a Family American Civil War Story

a 2 minute INTRO. Can you guess how many hours the whole thing is? Give your guess in a comment. The full video will be posted soon. Then you'll know the ANSWER! "The Longest Vlog Ever" in the   more...entire history of videosharing.  less

Fudmottin shows the end life of a 19th century barn

Our little town is celebrating its 50th anniversary...the main event is the arrival of the "Royal Hudson" a refurbished Steam Engine...( this is not the typical "Beeke video" :-)   more...)  less

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On the old Market Square in front St. Petri Cathedral in Bremen, Germany. The St. Petri Dom was started in 1035, so most of its archtecture is in the Romanic style...and only the "late" additions   more...in the Gothic Style.  less

Gathering on a very wet weekend.Downloaded to my laptop from my camera.Like all things,you just had to be there to soak it all up.The people,sights,smell of food cooking and everything going at once.May   more...be a little poor quality but,Hey,I tried. Just enjoy'n life like everyone else that was there,NO CAMERAS ALLOWED INSIDE :P  less

HISTORIC RUSSIAN PLANES

This video is from the same day as the Kinzua trip. It's a small oil museum (the Penn-Brad Oil Museum) located in Bradford. I stopped to take care of the camera, and shoot some quick video of the place   more...from the outside.  less

<a href="http://www.pc.gc.ca/lhn-nhs/qc/coteaudulac/index_e.asp">Coteau-du-Lac</a>, Quebec.

Mom and I took a jaunt along Old Highway 2 towards montreal, ending up at Coteau-du-Lac.
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The "Coteau rapids" are located between Lake St. François and Lake St. Louis, and are the narrowest and most turbulent section of the entire St. Lawrence River. In the less than 13 km separating the Great Lakes from the St. Lawrence Valley proper, the River hurtles over three sills for a total drop of 25.6 m

Coteau-du-Lac occupied a strategic position between Montréal and the Great Lakes. As a result, a pair of warehouses were built to ensure the smooth transit of provisions to the hinterland. The warehouses each measured 160 m  less

It is a rusting metal skeleton which is usually hidden by the sand and the waves - but every now and then it appears as a reminder of a legendary lifeboat rescue from nearly 100 years ago.
These photographs   more...were captured in recent weeks by local lensman Andreas Yiasimi on the beach to the east of Cromer pier.
Sand stripping currents and a low tide sometimes reveal what remains of one half of the Fernebo, which was lost off Cromer in 1917. The other half of the Swedish ship sank separately after the boat was blown in two by a mine.
The January day all those years ago was the scene of Cromer lifeboat coxswain Henry Blogg's first of three RNLI gold medals.
A lengthy account of the rescue is available in at least two books, but in short Blogg and his men saved the lives of nearly 30 men that day.
Around the middle of the day 16 were plucked to safety from the Greek ship Pyrin in an extremely challenging rescue.
But the real story of the day was yet to be revealed.
Despite their exhaustion from the earlier rescue, Blogg and his crew twice tried unsuccessfully to launch and get to the Fernebo.
On the third attempt they made it through the crashing seas and rescued 11 more men. Six men had already got themselves near to shore on a small boat which capsized, but they made it to safety thanks to the efforts of some of the many hundreds of people gathered to watch what was one of the most dramatic days Cromer had even witnessed.
Cyril Jolly, in his book Henry Blogg of Cromer, The Greatest of the Lifeboatmen, noted how one Cromer man recalled the Fernebo rescue 40 years on, having seen it all happen at the age of nine.
He too had yelled himself hoarse acclaiming the lifeboat-men and there and then had placed Henry Blogg alongside Horatio Nelson and Robert Falcon Scott as his boyhood heroes.
Hardly surprising - in all it had been an on and off 14 hour battle to help both ships.
While most tourists walking the beach at Cromer today would never see the Fernebo wreck, a large proportion of locals will have little or no knowledge of it either.
Some will have seen the odd jagged lump of metal in the past but unable to see the full form of a keel.
One of those who knows the wreck better than most is Frank Muirhead, the archivist at the town's Henry Blogg Museum.
I used to play in it as a little kid, said Mr Muirhead.
There was a bit more of it left then of course.
When there are scarring tides and you go down there at the right time, there is often quite a bit of it on show.
There had been deliberate removal of parts of the ship many years ago, said Mr Muirhead, with explosive charges used to remove some sections.
Mr Yiasimi said he took the photographs about a month ago during an unrelated photo shoot.
It was quite something to see, he said, and I thought it would be a good idea to record it before it was covered up again.
Article By ED FOSS EDP
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Monday night car club held a road trip in honor of old hwy 80 turning 80 years old.

Un-official visit to the historic Hydro-plant in Green Valley, Ca. Home movie documentary hosted by Richard Parker gives us a personal tour of the inner-workings of the facility.