TIM MAGUIRE

                                       
                                         Tim Maguire

Troyal Garth Brooks is 52 today

                   
                     Ross Simpson

Henry Louis "Hank" Aaron, nicknamed "Hammer", or
"Hammerin’ Hank", is 80 years old today.

The Rothschild Prayer book

NEW YORK (AP) — A Renaissance prayer book has sold for $13.6 million,
just short of the auction record set 15 years ago for an illuminated manuscript.

Christie’s auction house says the Rothschild Prayer book was purchased
Wednesday by a private collector bidding by telephone.

The ornately illustrated Book of Hours sold in 1999 at Christie’s London for
$13.4 million to a European collector.

It was commissioned around 1505 by a member of the imperial court of the
Netherlands. It entered the Rothschild family collection in the 19th century.

The 150-page book features full-page color drawings, called miniatures, by
leading masters of illumination.

The manuscript was part of a collection of Nazi-confiscated treasures that
was returned to the Rothschild banking dynasty by the Austrian government
in 1999.

                                       
                                            Camille Bohannon

Dolly Rebecca Parton is 68 today

This song was released on June 6, 1974 as the second single from
Parton’s thirteenth solo studio album, Jolene. She wrote the track in
1973 for her one-time partner and mentor Porter Wagoner, from
whom she was separating professionally at the time.