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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