709

Western Australia

taken near Margaret River

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We're The Superhumans 

 Rio Paralympics 2016 

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Life is Beautiful

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Duct Tape Man is back

Tape Face

 Strange Mime Uses Howie Mandel in Musical Act 

 America's Got Talent 2016

Pokemon

Went Kangaroo shooting last night

got four of these buggers

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Louis Armstrong

 (August 4, 1901 — July 6, 1971),

 nicknamed Satchmo or Pops, was an American jazz trumpeter

 and singer from New Orleans, Louisiana.

“What a Wonderful World” [1970 Spoken Introduction Version]

 along with Oliver Nelson’s Orchestra is a song written by 

Bob Thiele (as George Douglas) and George David Weiss. 

It was first recorded by Louis Armstrong and released as a single in 1968.

 Thiele and Weiss were both prominent in the music world

 (Thiele as a producer and Weiss as a composer/performer). 

Armstrong’s recording was inducted 

in the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999.

 Intended as an antidote for the increasingly racially 

and politically charged climate of everyday life in the United States,

 the song also has a hopeful, optimistic tone with regard to the future,

 with reference to babies being born into the world 

and having much to look forward to.

 The song was initially offered to Tony Bennett, who turned it down. 

Thereafter, it was offered to Louis Armstrong.

Armstrong died of a heart attack in his sleep on July 6, 1971

 at the age of 69, 11 months after playing a famous show 

at the Waldorf-Astoria’s Empire Room.

 He was residing in Corona, Queens, New York City,

 at the time of his death. 

He was interred in Flushing Cemetery, Flushing, in Queens,

 New York City.

 His honorary pallbearers included

 Bing Crosby, Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie, Pearl Bailey, 

Count Basie, Harry James, Frank Sinatra, Ed Sullivan,

 Earl Wilson, Alan King, Johnny Carson and David Frost.

 Peggy Lee sang The Lord’s Prayer at the services 

while Al Hibbler sang “Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen” 

and Fred Robbins, a long-time friend, gave the eulogy.

Armstrong was posthumously awarded

 the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1972

 by the Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. 

This Special Merit Award is presented by vote of the 

Recording Academy’s National Trustees to performers who, 

during their lifetimes, have made creative contributions

 of outstanding artistic significance to the field of recording.

 Recordings of Armstrong were inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame,

 which is a special Grammy award established in 1973 

to honor recordings that are at least twenty-five years old,

 and that have “qualitative or historical significance.”

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The Carbonaro Effect 

 Banned Medical Device Wrings Neck

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Miscellaneous Cartoons

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Kido's First Shell Game

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Wedding pictures with a difference

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First Lady Michelle Obama Carpool Karaoke

James Corden's White House tour takes an unthinkable turn 

when First Lady Michelle Obama joins him 

for a drive around the grounds singing Stevie Wonder 

and Beyonce.

 Surprise guest Missy Elliott drops in to sing 

"This Is For My Girls."

of course it was set up and the Secret Service were on hand

But what superb cool  classy person is The First Lady

proves she's way above the pack  ...ed

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Around the World

France

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USA

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Romania

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China

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Scotland

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Czech Republic

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Mongolia

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Netherlands

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Australia

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Lebanon

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Japan

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New Zealand

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Canada

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When kids meet their Heroes 

Emotional Moments

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Kids

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Kadan Bart Rockett 

Little Magician Judge Cuts 2 

 America's Got Talent 2016

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Seagull lands on man's head and stays there

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Those funny Animals

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Traffic jam in Lamar valley

Yellowstone national park

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Odds and Ends

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SKATEBOARD PUSHING CAT

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This weeks signs

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Girl With Insane Skating Skills

This is Sofia Bogdanova 

and she is a master at the sport of Inline skating.

 Sofia won first place in the Junior division.

 Imagine what she will be like when 

she is in the professional division.

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Phun Phacts

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Muhammad Ali 

made several appearances

 on Candid Camera. 

Here,

 he's in disguise as messenger 

to deliver a package.

 The Champ pretends to be broke

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"Word of the Week"

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