ROSS SIMPSON

Linda Evans is a actress known primarily for her roles on
television. In the 1960s she played Audra Barkley, the
daughter of Victoria Barkley (played by Barbara Stanwyck)
in the Western ABC television series The Big Valley (1965–
1969). She is best known for portraying Krystle Carrington
in the 1980s ABC primetime soap opera Dynasty, a role she
played from 1981 to 1989.

Suez Canal inauguration oil Painting with Ottoman Turkish, Egyptian and French Flags.

The Suez Canal, connecting the Mediterranean and the Red seas,
was inaugurated in an elaborate ceremony attended by French
Empress Eugénie, wife of Napoleon III. 

In 1854, Ferdinand de Lesseps, the former French consul to Cairo, secured an agreement with the Ottoman governor of Egypt to build
a canal 100 miles across the Isthmus of Suez. An international team
of engineers drew up a construction plan, and in 1856 the Suez
Canal Company was formed and granted the right to operate the
canal for 99 years after completion of the work.

Construction began in April 1859, and at first digging was done by
hand with picks and shovels wielded by forced laborers. Later,
European workers with dredgers and steam shovels arrived.

Rare actual photo of the Suez Canal November 16, 1869

Project Paperclip Team at Fort Bliss.

In a move that stirs up some controversy, as part of "Operation Paperclip," the United States shipped 88 German scientists to
America to assist the nation in its production of rocket technology.
Most of these men had served under the Nazi regime and critics in
the United States questioned the morality of placing them in the
service of America. Nevertheless, the U.S. government, desperate
to acquire the scientific know-how that had produced the terrifying
and destructive V-1 and V-2 rockets for Germany during WWII, and
fearful that the Russians were also utilizing captured German
scientists for the same end, welcomed the men with open arms.

The Sound of Music is a musical with music by Richard Rodgers,
lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, and a book by Howard Lindsay
and Russel Crouse. It is based on the 1949 memoir of Maria von
Trapp, The Story of the Trapp Family Singers. Set in Austria on
the eve of the Anschluss in 1938.

The original Broadway production of The Sound of Music,starring
Mary Martin and Theodore Bikel (below),was a smash success
from the very night of its opening.