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LOOKING BACK AT THIS DAY IN HISTORY

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     Stone in Vietnam (Sept. 16, 1967 – late November, 1968)

Oliver Stone was part of the battle at Firebase Burt on the
evening of January 1, 1968.  He was wounded twice and
awarded the Bronz Star for combat gallantry. He was also
awarded the Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster.

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Oliver Stone is 66 today

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PORTLAND POSTCARD ~ 1954

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BODY OF ‘MONA LISA’ TO BE EXHUMED?

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(FOX News) – Lisa Gherardini is coming closer to emerging from the grave. The
remains of the woman believed to have inspired Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa
likely are about to be exhumed by researchers.

The announcement, at a news conference in Florence, follows the discovery of
another skeleton, the fourth since the bone hunt began last year — beneath an
altar in the church of the now-derelict Convent of St. Orsola.

"The skeleton doesn’t belong to the Mona Lisa, but it’s hinting to her burial. Indeed,
she might be just underneath," Silvano Vinceti, president of a private organization
known as the National Committee for the Promotion of Historic and Cultural Heritage,
told a news conference on Wednesday.

Vinceti’s ambitious project aims to possibly reconstruct Lisa’s face in order to see
if her features match that of the iconic painting hanging at the Louvre Museum in
Paris.

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Self-portrait of Italian
artist Leonardo da Vinci

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TODAY IN HISTORY

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    Grace Patricia Kelly
(November 12, 1929 – September 14, 1982)

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Rainier III, Prince of Monaco and Princess Grace on their wedding day in
April, 1956

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ROCKY KING, INSIDE DETECTIVE

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Roscoe Karns (above) played the title role in the popular DuMont Television
Network
series from 1950 to 1954, one of the longest-running programs on
the network. His son, character actor Todd Karns, also appeared in the
series. It was a live crime series set in New York City. The DuMont offices
and corridors were used as sets since the program was produced on a
small budget. .

At the end of each program, Rocky King would exchange telephone small
talk with his unseen wife Mabel and, after hanging up, say to no one in
particular, "Great girl, that Mabel".

 

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Although most episodes were destroyed, some still exist, including 
37 at the
UCLA Film and Television Archive. Four episodes of the 
series were released to
DVD on November 21, 2006. 

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