The Dancing Cockatoo

Take a look at Snowball, the dancing cockatoo, at the website below. Turn your speakers up and watch him dance to The Backstreet Boys and then take his bows.
http://birdloversonly.blogspot.com/2007/09/may-i-have-this-dance.html

US Navy 232 Years Old Today!

On Friday, October 13, 1775, meeting in Philadelphia, the Continental Congress voted to fit out two sailing vessels, armed with ten carriage guns, as well as swivel guns, and manned by crews of eighty, and to send them out on a cruise of three months to intercept transports carrying munitions and stores to the British [...]

Forty Years Ago Today: October 2, 1967

On 2 October 1967 in a solemn, traditional Navy ceremony with full military honors, eighteen unidentified and or missing USS FORRESTAL CVA-59 crew members who died on 29 July 1967 are honored today at Arlington National Cemetery.
It was the largest group burial in Arlington National Cemetery since World War II, Superintendent John C. Metzler said.
Catholic [...]