Archive for March, 2013

NEWS ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY

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Sandy Kozel

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Andrew Lloyd Webber (Baron Lloyd-Webber) is 65 today

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WILLIAM SHATNER IS 82 TODAY

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High School yearbook, 1948

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Actor William Shatner is also a musician, recording artist, author 
and film director. He became a cultural icon for his portrayal of
James T.
Kirk, captain of the USS Enterprise, in the NBC science
fiction series, Star Trek, from 1966 to 1969.

 

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A VINTAGE VIEW OF PORTLAND IN 1929

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NE Broadway at 11th avenue

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‘’THE ROCK’’ WAS CLOSED ON THIS DAY IN 1963

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1934 Postcard of Alcatraz Island

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Alcatraz Island, located in the San Francisco Bay in California, was developed as
a military prison (1868), and a federal prison beginning in 1933.

Because the penitentiary was becoming more costly to operate than other prisons,
coupled with the salt water erosion of the buildings, Attorney General Robert F.
Kennedy ordered the facility closed. The U.S. Penitentiary in Marion, Illinois
opened as the replacement for Alcatraz.

Today, the island’s facilities are managed by the National Park Service as part of
the Golden Gate National Recreation Area and is open to tours.

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Robert F. Kennedy

ALCATRAZ military prison

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NEWS THAT MADE HISTORY

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Ross Simpson

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