SOFT ROCK BAND MEMBER HAS DIED AT 80

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Jim Seals was a one-half member of the American soft rock band
Seals and Crofts who are world-famous for their hits like summer
Breeze and Diamond girl. Jim Seals, half of the 1970s band Seals
and Crofts, died at the age of 80. Seals, half of the ‘Summer
Breeze’ duo Seals & Crofts (below). 

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LEGENDARY CHARACTER ACTOR HAS DIED

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Philip Baker Hall (September 10, 1931 – June 12, 2022)

Philip Baker Hall, one of Hollywood’s most recognizable
character actors, has died at the age of 90. He was best
known today for his roles on “Seinfeld” and in the films
of Paul Thomas Anderson. The news was first announced
by Hall’s neighbor and friend, Los Angeles sports writer
Sam Farmer, on Twitter. Hall died from emphysema at his
home in Glendale, California.

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HISTORY WAS MADE ON THIS DAY

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CAMILLE BOHANNON

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FAMOUS DIARY WRITER BORN ON THIS DAY

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Annelies Marie Frank (12 June 1929 – c. 12 March 1945)

Ann Frank was Jewish Holocaust victim whose diary describes
her family’s evasion of the Nazis during the World War II-era
German Occupation of the Netherlands. Her Diary of a Young
Girl (The Diary of Anne Frank) gives a full account of her life in
hiding from June 1942 through early August 1944.

Before Fame

She was born in Frankfurt, Germany, and was raised primarily
in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Ann received a blank book for
her thirteenth birthday that she soon transformed into her now-
famous diary. Ann Frank died of typhus in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

Taken from outside the reconstruction of a barracks, the photo shows a barbed wirefence, and beyond it a grassy area with a small timber hut
A partial reconstruction of the barracks in the Westerbork
transit camp where Anne Frank was housed from August
to September 1944.

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A Memorial for Margot and Anne Frank shows a Star of David and the full names, birthdates, and year of death of each of the sisters, in white lettering on a large black stone. The stone sits alone in a grassy field, and the ground beneath the stone is covered with floral tributes and photographs of Anne Frank

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REMEMBER THIS LOCAL KID’S TV SHOW?

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Mr. Moon began as a radio show in the early 1950s and debuted
on  KOIN-TV November 16, 1953, one month after the station went
on
 the air
. The final show aired in 1958.


       
Ed Leahy (below) played Mr. Moon and Wonder Bread was one of
the sponsors of Mr. Moon.      

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