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• Elvis was stationed in Germany for eighteen months, which is where he first met Priscilla Beaulieu. • “Heartbreak Hotel” was released just seventeen days after being recorded and • Elvis took karate lessons while in Germany. He received his first degree black shipped 300,000 belt in July 1960. He carried the certificacopies in its first tion in his wallet everyday for the rest of three weeks. It his life. That year he was also promoted to was #1 on BillSergeant and received his full stripes beboard’s pop fore being officially discharged from active singles for eight duty. His first recording post-Army took weeks. It also hit place on March 20, 1960. He began film#1 on Country ing GI Blues in April. and #5 on R&B charts and sold • In August 1960 he started filming Flaming over one million Star, in which he portrayed the son of a copies, earnNative American father and a white mothing Elvis his first er. He earned recognition from a tribal Nagold record. tive American council for his work in the
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• In late summer of 1968 Elvis filmed his 29th film. Elvis himself is part Cherokee. His • Elvis made his first television appearance film Charro! This is the only one of Elvis’s great-great-great grandmother was Native on Stage Show one day after “Heartbreak films in which he does not sing on camera. American Cherokee named Morning Dove • The 1968 TV Special Elvis airs on December Hotel” was released. His first album, Elvis White. Presley, was released two months later 2, 1968 on NBC. It is one of the biggest televiand also reached #1 on Billboard, staying • Blue Hawaii entered the Billboard charts sion hits of the year and its sound track album there for ten weeks. It went gold as well. in October 1961 and stayed there for one goes to #8 on the pop charts. Rock writer Greil and half years and at #1 for twenty weeks • It was a whirlwind for Elvis his first few Marcus is quoted as saying, “It was the finest alone! It is the best selling of Elvis’s remonths. He had his first screen test for music of his life. If ever there was music that cords during his lifetime. His best selling Paramount Pictures the same month his bleeds, this was it.” album of all time was GI Blues. first album was released in 1956. Over the • Elvis passed away on August 16, 1977 from late spring and early summer of 1956 he • In 1962, Elvis sees Priscilla for the first time heart failure. He was forty-two years old. appeared on the Milton Bearle Show on since Germany. Elvis receives his second deNBC twice. He began to film Love Me Tengree black belt in 1963. der in August and made several appearThe Garden ances on the Ed Sullivan Show over the • Elvis bought Franklin Roosevelt’s Presidential Christian Bookstore yacht, the Potomac, for $55,000 and donated fall. Buy - Sell* it to St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital • Elvis Presley Day was declared in Tupelo, New Used - Consign in Memphis to use to raise funds. In 1965, he MS on September 26, 1956 and Love Me 6801 S Emporia St #107 donated $50,000 to the Motion Picture Relief Tender premiered in New York in Novem(Arapahoe S. of Shane Co.) Fund, which is reportedly the largest donation Donations ber. www.GardenChristianBookstore.com the organization has ever received. Pick up available (720) 436-0095 • Elvis, a natural blonde, began dying his • Elvis entertained The Beatles in his home in *with approval hair black in January of 1957. His hair had darkened naturally over the years and was described as a dark chestnut by his early twenties. • It was this same year that Elvis purchased Graceland, paying $102,500 for it. He bought it in March but didn’t spend his first night until June. • Elvis performed his last international performance in Vancouver, Canada on August 31, 1957. He also released two more films that year, Loving You and Jailhouse Rock. It was also in 1957 that he performed in Hawaii for the first time. This was his last performance before joining the army.
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ARIES (March 21 to April 19) Despite your Aries penchant for wanting to tackle a problem head-on, you might want to take a little more time to see how a current situation develops. It could surprise you. TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Taking on the role of peacemaker in a disruptive environment is a challenge. But you can do it. Just continue to have the same faith in yourself that so many others have in you. GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) Although your work schedule keeps you busy, you should make time to start preparing for that important upcoming family event you’ll want to celebrate in a special way. CANCER (June 21 to July 22) Home is where the Moon Child wants to be early in the week. But by week’s end, a chance to travel raises her or his excitement level, and that of the lucky person who gets to go along. LEO (July 23 to August 22) Be careful not to be a copycat when dealing with someone who uses unfair or even unkind methods to reach a goal. As always, do the right thing the right way, and you’ll win in the end. VIRGO (August 23 to September 22) An offer could have many good things attached to it that are not apparent at first glance, including a chance to move into another career area. You might want to check out its possibilities. LIBRA (September 23 to October 22) With responsibilities surging both in the workplace and in the home, it’s important to prioritize how you deal with them. Be patient. Pressures will begin to ease starting early next week. SCORPIO (October 23 to November 21) A positive reaction to a suggestion could indicate that you’re on track for getting your message to the right people. Devote the weekend to catching up with the special people in your life. SAGITTARIUS (November 22 to December 21) A new attitude from those in charge could make things difficult for you unless you can accept the changes without feeling as if you’re being pressured into doing so. CAPRICORN (December 22 to January 19) Family matters once again dominate much of the week. But don’t neglect your workplace duties while you deal with them. An offer to help could come from a surprising source. AQUARIUS (January 20 to February 18) A difficult workplace situation begins to ease, but there are still matters that need to be dealt with before it’s fully resolved. There’s also a more positive turn in domestic relationships. PISCES (February 19 to March 20) Don’t let yourself be rushed into making a decision about an intriguing financial arrangement. Asking questions and checking it out now could pay off in a big way later on. BORN THIS WEEK: You might have a tendency to be more than a bit judgmental, but others understand it comes from a warm, loving heart..
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• It was Canadian educator Laurence J. Peter who made the following sage observation: “An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.” • You might (or then again, you might not) be surprised to learn that in this country, the most popular meal, for both lunch and dinner, is a sandwich. And the beverage to go along with that meal is more than likely going to be a soda. • If you’re like the average home-owning American, you can paint the entire exterior of your house with 30 gallons of paint. If you’re the president, though, it takes quite a bit more: The White House requires 570 gallons to cover it. • You’ve probably been to a restaurant with a dessert called Death by Chocolate, but the real-life event is less appetizing. A worker in New Jersey recently fell into a vat of boiling chocolate and perished before co-workers were able to pull him out. • It seems that Japan has a vending machine for just about anything you can think of -- even fresh eggs. Here’s how it works: The machine has about 10 doors, behind each of which is a mesh bag full of eggs. You drop in coins totaling about $2 to unlock one of the doors. Simply open the door, pull out your eggs and be on your merry way! • The town of Waco, Texas, has an entire museum dedicated to the popular soda Dr Pepper. Even more surprising is the fact that it gets more than a hundred visitors a day, on average. (c) 2009 King Features Synd., Inc.
Thought for the Day: “There are two types of people -- those who come into a room and say, ‘Well, here I am!’ and those who come in and say, ‘Ah, there you are.’” -- Frederick L. Collins
A doctor of psychology was doing his normal morning rounds when he entered a patient’s room. He found Patient #1 sitting on the floor, pretending to saw a piece of wood in half. Patient #2 was hanging from the ceiling, by his feet. The doctor asked patient number 1 what he was doing. The patient replied, “Can’t you see I’m sawing this piece of wood in half?” The doctor inquired of Patient #1 what Patient #2 was doing. Patient #1 replied, “Oh. He’s my friend, but he’s a little crazy. He thinks he’s a lightbulb.” The doctor looks up and notices Patient #2’s face is going all red. The doctor asks Patient #1, “If he’s your friend, you should get him down from there before he hurts himself” Patient #1 replies, “What? And work in the dark?”
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to real life and if I do, I will certainly refrain from making my former mistake. I was a nuclear physicist, you know, and it was the stress of my work in weapons research that helped put me here. If I am released, I shall confine myself to work in pure theory, where I trust the situation will be less difficult and stressful.” “Marvelous,” said the head of the institution. “Or else,” ruminated the inmate. “I might teach. There is something to be said for spending one’s life in bringing up a new generation of scientists.” “Absolutely,” said the head. “Then again, I might write. There is considerable need for books on science for the general public. Or I might even write a novel based on my experiences in this fine institution.” “An interesting possibility,” said the head. “And finally, if none of these things appeals to me, I can always continue to be a teakettle.”
Tom had this problem of getting up late in the morning and was always late for work. His boss was mad at him and threatened to fire him if he didn’t do something about it. So Tom went to his doctor who gave him a pill and told him to take it before he went to bed. Tom slept well and in fact beat the alarm in the morning by almost two hours. He had a leisurely breakfast and drove cheerfully to work. “Boss”, he said, “ The pill actually worked!” “That’s Mary was having a tough day and had all fine” said the boss, “ But where were stretched herself out on the couch to do you yesterday?” a bit of what she thought to be well-deA motorist, driving by a Texas ranch, served complaining and self- pitying. She hit and killed a calf that was crossing the moaned to her mom and brother, “Noroad. The driver went to the owner of the body loves me ... the whole world hates calf and explained what had happened. me!” Her brother, busily occupied playHe then asked what the animal was worth. ing a game, hardly looked up at her and “Oh, about $200 today,” said the rancher. passed on this encouraging word: “That’s “But in six years it would have been worth not true, Mary. Some people don’t even $900. So $900 is what I’m out.” The mo- know you.” torist sat down and wrote out a check and handed it to the farmer. “Here,” he said, “is the check for $900. It’s postdated six years from now.”
A man who had been in a mental home for some years finally seemed to have improved to the point where it was thought he might be released. The head of the institution, in a fit of commendable caution, decided, however, to interview him first. “Tell me,” said he, “if we release you, as we are considering doing, what do you intend to do with your life?’ The inmate said, “It would be wonderful to get back
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