Charles Phoenix’s Slide of the Week: Spruce Goose, Long Beach, CA, 1947
Amid much fanfare and speculation that it would never fly, the biggest airplane ever built finally emerges to show off for the whole world to see. This slide was taken either just before or after its brief, but meaningful, maiden voyage into flight on November 2, 1947; the only one it would ever take. The flying cargo ship gracefully flew about one mile at an altitude just above sea level. It had to fly, because if it didn’t the government would’ve never paid the bill. Howard Hughes built th read
A good first half of the week and a more ho-hum, standard second part. Really nothing interesting going on here elsewhere. If anyone’s wondering, the current header is taken from the film Privilege. As always, all times are EST and program days begin at 6:00 AM. Saturday August 23 - Laurel & Hardy Sunday August 24 - Henry Fonda 7:30 AM Let Us Live (Brahm, 1939) - BW-68 mins. - Fonda plays one of two men convicted and sentenced to death for a murder they didn’t commit. Maureen O’Sulli read
Josh Hartnett, I mean, Steve Hartnett is the Howard Hughes of the local restaurant industry. He’s a big-money player but he doesn’t hang out in his restaurants and he prefers to keep his name out of the press. You may not know of him but chances are he has fed you at one of his places: he founded Fox & Hound (80-ish locations), Cool River (Dallas, Austin, Denver), and Flip’s Patio Grill in Grapevine. He is co-owner of Bob’s Steak & Chop House (excluding the Lemmon Ave. location) and the read
“Land Banking”: Discover This Old Secret for Creating Wealth “All a man has to do to get rich in America is find out where people are going, get there first and buy land.” — Gen. Douglas MacArthur Bob Hope, the great American comedian and Hollywood star, was actually born in England. He once quipped, “I left England at the age of 4 when I found out I couldn’t be king.” He struggled early to make it in showbiz. “Before long, I was in debt. I had holes in my shoes, and I was eating doughnuts a read
Accumulated Bits Of A Cell’s Own DNA Can Trigger Autoimmune Disease August 22nd, 2008 response, the researchers now identify an enzyme known as 3′ repair exonuclease, aka Trex1. In studies of mice, the researchers showed that single-stranded DNA fragments derived from endogenous retroelements accumulate in Trex1-deficient hearts. Those fragments are produced through a process known as reverse transcription in which specialized enzymes copy RNA back into single-stranded DNA. Trex1 usually brea read
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