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In the spring of 1963 Studs Terkel introduced Chicago radio listeners to an up-and-coming musician, not yet 22 years old, “a young folk poet who you might say looks like Huckleberry Finn, if he lived in the 20th century. His name is Bob Dylan.” (Listen to the interview below.)

Dylan had just finished recording the songs for his second album, The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan, when he traveled from New York to Chicago to play a gig at a little place partly owned by his manager, Albert Grossman, called The Bear Club. The next day he went to the WFMT studios for the hour-long appearance on The Studs Terkel Program. Most sources give the date of the interview as April 26, 1963, though Dylan scholar Michael Krogsgaard has given it as May 3.

Things were moving fast in Dylan’s life at that time. He was just emerging as a major songwriter. His debut album from the year before, Bob Dylan, was made up mostly of other people’s songs. The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan, which was finished but hadn’t yet been released, contained almost all original material, including several songs that would become classics, like “Blowin’ in the Wind,” “Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right” and “A Hard Rain’s a Gonna Fall.” Within a few months Dylan would make his debut at the Newport Folk Festival and perform at the historic March on Washington. But when Dylan visited WFMT, it’s likely that many of Terkel’s listeners had never heard of him. In the recorded broadcast he plays the following songs:

  1. Farewell
  2. A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall
  3. Bob Dylan’s Dream
  4. Boots of Spanish Leather
  5. John Brown
  6. Who Killed Davey Moore?
  7. Blowin’ In The Wind

Dylan tells Terkel that “A Hard Rain’s a Gonna Fall” is not about atomic fallout, even though he wrote the song in a state of anxiety during the Cuban missile crisis. “No, it’s not atomic rain,” Dylan says, “it’s just a hard rain. It isn’t the fallout rain. I mean some sort of end that’s just gotta happen…. In the last verse, when I say, ‘the pellets of poison are flooding their waters,’ that means all the lies that people get told on their radios and in their newspapers.”

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Tue, 05 Mar 2013 11:20:00 -0800 If U.S. Land Were Divided Like U.S. Wealth http://momojo.posterous.com/if-us-land-were-divided-like-us-wealth http://momojo.posterous.com/if-us-land-were-divided-like-us-wealth

If American Land were Distributed the way American Wealth Is 

The Congressional Budget Office confirms that the top 1% has tripled its income since 1979, while the upper middle class has increased its wealth much more modestly, and the rest of the country has seen only a small gain. 

Just to be clear, the 1% are about 3 million, the 9% are about 27 million, and everyone else crowded into that little torrid strip is about 278 million.

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Fri, 01 Mar 2013 07:21:00 -0800 So God Made a Farmer - Paul Harvey http://momojo.posterous.com/so-god-made-a-farmer-paul-harvey http://momojo.posterous.com/so-god-made-a-farmer-paul-harvey

So God Made a Farmer - 

 The 2013 Super Bowl advertisement for Ram Trucks featuring excerpts from a 1978 Paul Harvey address to the Future Farmers of America Convention.

So God Made a Farmer - Paul Harvey

And on the 8th day, God looked down on his planned paradise and said, "I need a caretaker." So God made a farmer. 

God said, "I need somebody willing to get up before dawn, milk cows, work all day in the fields, milk cows again, eat supper and then go to town and stay past midnight at a meeting of the school board." So God made a farmer. 

"I need somebody with arms strong enough to rustle a calf and yet gentle enough to deliver his own grandchild. Somebody to call hogs, tame cantankerous machinery, come home hungry, have to wait lunch until his wife's done feeding visiting ladies and tell the ladies to be sure and come back real soon -- and mean it." So God made a farmer. 

God said, "I need somebody willing to sit up all night with a newborn colt. And watch it die. Then dry his eyes and say, 'Maybe next year.' I need somebody who can shape an ax handle from a persimmon sprout, shoe a horse with a hunk of car tire, who can make harness out of haywire, feed sacks and shoe scraps. And who, planting time and harvest season, will finish his forty-hour week by Tuesday noon, then, pain'n from 'tractor back,' put in another seventy-two hours." So God made a farmer. 

God had to have somebody willing to ride the ruts at double speed to get the hay in ahead of the rain clouds and yet stop in mid-field and race to help when he sees the first smoke from a neighbor's place. So God made a farmer. 

God said, "I need somebody strong enough to clear trees and heave bails, yet gentle enough to tame lambs and wean pigs and tend the pink-combed pullets, who will stop his mower for an hour to splint the broken leg of a meadow lark. It had to be somebody who'd plow deep and straight and not cut corners. Somebody to seed, weed, feed, breed and rake and disc and plow and plant and tie the fleece and strain the milk and replenish the self-feeder and finish a hard week's work with a five-mile drive to church. 

"Somebody who'd bale a family together with the soft strong bonds of sharing, who would laugh and then sigh, and then reply, with smiling eyes, when his son says he wants to spend his life 'doing what dad does.'" So God made a farmer. 

 

 

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Sun, 24 Feb 2013 15:14:00 -0800 Mom Dancing - Jimmy Fallon & First Lady Michelle Obama http://momojo.posterous.com/mom-dancing-jimmy-fallon-first-lady-michelle http://momojo.posterous.com/mom-dancing-jimmy-fallon-first-lady-michelle

WATCH: Michelle Obama mom-dances with Jimmy Fallon for ‘Let’s Move’

In a sketch airing before the first lady’s sit down interview with Fallon, the two–with Fallon in a wig and his best mom outfit–performed “The Evolution of Mom Dancing,” a spoof on the wildly popular “Evolution of Dance” video which went viral and has been viewed more than 200 million times on YouTube.

Watch Fallon and the first lady dance: 

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Fri, 22 Feb 2013 13:48:45 -0800 How Baseballs Are Made http://momojo.posterous.com/how-baseballs-are-made-65620 http://momojo.posterous.com/how-baseballs-are-made-65620
How baseballs are manufactured

Ever wonder how major-league baseballs are manufactured? Find out by checking out this episode of the Discovery Channel's "How It's Made" television series.

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Thu, 21 Feb 2013 16:32:00 -0800 Porsche Design Studio unveils world’s largest LED TV for outdoor theaters http://momojo.posterous.com/porsche-design-studio-unveils-worlds-largest http://momojo.posterous.com/porsche-design-studio-unveils-worlds-largest

The super rich love to attend film festivals, and while they can afford to fly down to the on the French Rivera to witness a rich movie-watching experience, the rich love to spend on getting the cinematic experience right in their backyard, besides the pool. We have earlier told you about the luxurious private outdoor theaters and waterproof TV's for a plush backyard, but Porsche Design Studio has now introduced the world’s largest outdoor television under “201 C SEED,” a brand formed in collaboration with the expertise of Global Bright Group, to score above the rest.

201 C SEED TV
201 C SEED TV

The 201-inches waterproof LED screen is integrated in a flattened piece of concealed black metal in a circular hole in the ground. It emerges from the ground silently and unravels its magic all in 15 seconds, and the screen unfolds into seven panels in a further 25 seconds for complete set-up. "The performance begins when C SEED magically appear from the ground, like a kinetic sculpture," says Porsche Design Studio.

The bigger picture experience comes complete with extremely bright images, which are clearly viewable even in direct sunlight, 270-degree rotation, three-way audio system including 15 speakers and wireless remote control.

The 201 C SEED can be installed as a monolith in a grassy area or terrace installed according to custom needs. The monstrous outdoor screen will be available on order from September 2011 starting at about $810,000.

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Tue, 19 Feb 2013 20:21:00 -0800 Worlds Cutest Frog - Desert Rain Frog http://momojo.posterous.com/worlds-cutest-frog-desert-rain-frog http://momojo.posterous.com/worlds-cutest-frog-desert-rain-frog

 

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Sun, 17 Feb 2013 23:03:00 -0800 Air - La Femme D'Argent http://momojo.posterous.com/air-la-femme-dargent http://momojo.posterous.com/air-la-femme-dargent

Air - La Femme D'Argent

The first track from Airs' Moon Safari album, accompanied by scenes from a video shot from a streetcar traveling down Market Street in San Francisco in 1905. 
Before the earthquake/fire of 1906 destroyed the area. Remarkable footage of the turn of the century lifestyles in California.
You can download video from the www.archive.org

A Trip Down Market Street Before the 1906 Fire

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Sun, 17 Feb 2013 22:21:00 -0800 A Trip Down Market Street San Francisco Before the Fire (1906) http://momojo.posterous.com/a-trip-down-market-street-san-francisco-befor http://momojo.posterous.com/a-trip-down-market-street-san-francisco-befor
Pictures: San Francisco's main thoroughfare as seen from the front window of a moving Market Street cable car, before the downtown area was destroyed in the 1906 earthquake and fire. This unusual record has been called the first "structural film" because it follows exactly the externally imposed structure of the car ride.

DV25 version (editable quality) of the famous film. From the Internet Archive.

This version was transferred from a new 35mm print made from a restored 35mm negative, which was made from 1906-era 35mm print. The frame-roll problem seen in other versions has been fixed.

Here is a post from the SFGate blog that explains some of the history of this film and how film scholar David Kiehn discovered that it was in fact produced in 1906 (just before the quake and fire), not 1905: 

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SFGate Blog

The video below is titled “A Trip Down Market Street” and it’s true to its name, a 13 minute trip from 8th Street down Market Street to the Ferry Building just days before the great quake of 1906. You’ll see a vibrant metropolis full of cars, bikes, horses, cable cars and people traversing Market St. The detective story behind the film clip is almost as interesting as what it contains. (Please note that there are rolling frames and a slight stall in the early part of the film which end at the 1 minute 40 second mark.)

The film was shot by early San Francisco film innovators the Miles Brothers and has been widely available through the Library of Congress and You Tube (which has a novel version set to an Air soundtrack) and was originally dated to the fall of 1905 but recently local author and silent film historian David Kiehn made some surprising discoveries about its date. He had seen “A Trip Down Market Street” many times over the years but it was only around 2005 that he managed to get ahold of a 16mm print which made him “all the more curious about it.” The Library of Congress had researched and dated the filming to September or October of 1905. Per Kiehn, “some thought it was shot earlier in 1904 but since the Library of Congress had narrowed it down to that point everyone thought that it was shot in 1905.” Read the Library of Congress’ description of the film’s date here.

At first Kiehn was just trying to confirm the 1905 shoot date so he thought “gee, there were 5 newspapers in San Francisco at that time so somebody must have written about it.” He dug through the San Francisco Public Library’s collection of microfilm starting with August of 1905 and running through October 1905. He went “page by page and couldn’t find a single thing about it so I looked at the film again more closely and I noticed that there were puddles in the cavities by the rails on the street and especially at the end of the film autos drive through puddles splashing water.” So, he went back to the papers and checked the weather reports for the period only to find that September and October of 1905 were “as dry as a bone.”

Kiehn took a look at the angle of the sun and narrowed the time of year to late March or April 1906. Then he examined the buildings along Market Street, the state of construction narrowed the window down to late 1905 or before the earthquake in 1906. To tie all these pieces together he “went back to the papers to look for information on filming and weather reports. In March and April, especially late March 1906, there was a lot of rain but there weren’t any references to any filming being done.” But, “being a film historian I then realized that there was a theatrical magazine where filmmakers of the day advertised their films called the New York Clipper. The San Francisco Public Library coincidentally has that magazine on microfilm so I looked at late March and April of 1906.”

In the April 28th edition he saw an ad by the Miles Brothers for two films that they were just releasing called “A Trip down Mount Tamalpais” and “A Trip down Market Street.” The ad appeared ten days after the April 18, 1906 earthquake but Kiehn notes that this wasn’t someone playing games with history. Since print publications required a long lead time for composition it was most likely composed by April 18th, 1906. The films were shot on or around April 12th and shipped to New York on April 17th, the eve of the quake.

That would appear to confirm the date for the film but Kiehn dug deeper by dating the early license plates on cars in the film. The DMV told him that the records no longer existed but he found them in the California State Archives in Sacramento. He eventually found one of the plate numbers from the film, 4867, and traced it to a Jay Anway who registered his car in early 1906 which further verified his research.

There are many other twists and turns along the way to confirming the film’s date. Kiehn has written up the entire tale in the most recent issue of the Argonaut.

Kiehn has managed to get the IMDB to change their date for the film but the Library of Congress hasn’t updated theirs yet. He hopes they’ll come around soon.

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Sun, 17 Feb 2013 22:21:00 -0800 1906 San Francisco Earthquake footage http://momojo.posterous.com/1906-san-francisco-earthquake-footage http://momojo.posterous.com/1906-san-francisco-earthquake-footage
San Francisco 1906 Earthquake footage 

History caught on camera:  This footage is extraordinary, very bleak and miserable... and the quality of the footage looks so genuine. Somehow I don't think newer filming technology has the same breathtaking effect of old films like this.  From Prelinger Archives

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Tue, 05 Feb 2013 14:07:00 -0800 Photographs of Laurent Schwebel http://momojo.posterous.com/photographs-of-laurent-schwebel http://momojo.posterous.com/photographs-of-laurent-schwebel

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Extraordinary French Photographer 

French photographer Laurent Schwebel, 52 years old, was stabbed and killed and his camera robbed while he was taking pictures in Buenos Aires. A naturalist photographer, he was born in 1959 and in the Alsace region of eastern France and killed on February 8, 2012, in Plaza San Martin, Retiro, Buenos Aires. He worked as a geologist, naturalist and photographer guidance of a French travel agency specializing in travel naturalists. Attached are some more fascinating photos from Schwebel.

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Tue, 05 Feb 2013 13:36:54 -0800 CLOWN SO SAD http://momojo.posterous.com/clown-so-sad http://momojo.posterous.com/clown-so-sad
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Mon, 04 Feb 2013 15:11:50 -0800 FRIENDS http://momojo.posterous.com/friends-26853 http://momojo.posterous.com/friends-26853
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Tortoise Helps His Buddy Who's Flipped Over

"It's better to be a slow buddy, than a no buddy at all"

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Mon, 04 Feb 2013 14:37:00 -0800 Joe Cocker's Woodstock Translation http://momojo.posterous.com/joe-cockers-woodstock-translation http://momojo.posterous.com/joe-cockers-woodstock-translation
Joe Cocker's Woodstock Translation

Finally, after 40 years, someone has opened the vault and revealed the answer to a question that has clawed at our brains since the 1969 Woodstock album was released:

What the hell were the lyrics to Joe Cocker's version of  'A Little Help From My Friends'?

He was so wigged-out and loopy on a multitude of drugs, no one has been able to understand his jarbled, mush-mouth version....until now!

ENJOY

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Mon, 04 Feb 2013 12:44:58 -0800 Transporters http://momojo.posterous.com/transporters http://momojo.posterous.com/transporters
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Old cars on transport trucks from 1948 to 1956. 

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Sun, 27 Jan 2013 23:44:56 -0800 Live On Jimmy Fallon - Christopher Cross & The Roots Perform “Ride Like The Wind” http://momojo.posterous.com/live-on-jimmy-fallon-christopher-cross-the-ro http://momojo.posterous.com/live-on-jimmy-fallon-christopher-cross-the-ro
(Live On Jimmy Fallon) 

Jimmy Fallon’s Yacht Rock Party included this performance by Christopher Cross (with surprise guest Michael McDonald). Watch Christopher Cross sing Ride Like the Wind in this video clip, with Fallon’s awesome house band The Roots. 

 

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Sun, 27 Jan 2013 23:09:00 -0800 "Mack The Knife" (Live In Studio) - Frank Sinatra & The Quincy Jones Big Band (1984) http://momojo.posterous.com/mack-the-knife-live-in-studio-frank-sinatra-t http://momojo.posterous.com/mack-the-knife-live-in-studio-frank-sinatra-t

"Mack The Knife" - Frank Sinatra & The Quincy Jones Big Band - 1984

Kurt Weill, composer. Frank Foster, arranger. Saxes: George Young (lead), Frank Wess, Mike Brecker, Frank Foster, Ronnie Cuber. Trumpets: Jon Faddis (lead), Lew Soloff, Alan Rubin, Randy Brecker, Joe Newman. Trombones: Urbie Green (lead), Wayne Andre, Benny Powell, Dave Taylor (bass). Horns: Jerry Peel, John Clark, Sidney Muldrow, Peter Gordon. Rhythm: Steve Gadd (drums), Ray Brown (bass), Bob James (piano), George Benson (Guitar), Lionel Hampton (vibes), Ralph MacDonald (percussion), Margaret Ross (harp). Featuring Mule Holley (bass & grunt), George Benson (guitar), Joe Newman (trumpet), Urbie Green (trombone), and Lionel Hampton (vibes).

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Sun, 27 Jan 2013 09:42:00 -0800 BEAUTIFUL EMPEROR PENGUINS http://momojo.posterous.com/beautiful-emperor-penguins http://momojo.posterous.com/beautiful-emperor-penguins

Music by Mike Rowland, Film by Ruedi & Priska Abbühl
Credit for this beautiful Emperor Penguin film goes to Ruedi & Priska Abbühl. Their websites: http://www.naturemovie.ch

And the Music ... All glory goes to composer Mike Rowland from the album "My Elfin Friends," 
Mike Rowland website: http://www.mikerowland.co.uk/
Ambient Classical Mike and Jana Rowland: http://www.ambientclassical.com/

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Thu, 24 Jan 2013 10:01:00 -0800 Ayrton Senna (1995) BBC Documentary http://momojo.posterous.com/ayrton-senna-1995-bbc-documentary http://momojo.posterous.com/ayrton-senna-1995-bbc-documentary

Ayrton Senna (1995)  BBC Documentary 

Viewers can now watch the 1995 BBC documentary about Ayrton Senna online. 

This is believed to be in public domain and was uploaded purely for the enjoyment of all classic F1 fans!

With Asif Kapadia’s new documentary about the Brazilian F1 driver at cinemas, it makes for a nice companion piece.

Presented by Steve Rider, the 50 minute programme features plenty of archive footage from Senna’s life and interviews with Frank Williams, Alain Prost, Gerhard Berger, Martin Brundle, Damon Hill, and Nigel Mansell. <49.26>
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Senna Remembered

Ayrton Senna
"Senna" - the award-winning 1995 documentary about the career of the Brazilian icon
By Andrew Benson

Michael Schumacher may statistically be the greatest Grand Prix driver who ever lived, but to many who watched Ayrton Senna's career no-one can equal the brilliant Brazilian.
Senna's greatness does not lie in statistics, impressive though his career record is. It is embodied in the irresistible force with which he dominated an era of Formula One.
Senna's death on 1 May 15 years ago changed F1 forever, but his life also had an indelible effect.
The same moment that you are seen as the best, the fastest and somebody that cannot be touched, you are enormously fragile 
Ayrton Senna
In many ways, it was a negative one.
Senna's single-minded pursuit of success led to an uncompromising driving style that verged on dangerous, an approach since followed with conspicuous success by Schumacher.
But, to many, Senna also redefined what was possible in an F1 car.
He had a rage to win married to an ability that some would argue has never been equalled.
Senna dominated his cars every bit as forcefully as he did his rivals, employing a unique driving style to drag them to levels of performance their designers scarcely believed possible.
Perhaps the ultimate example of this was in qualifying for the Monaco Grand Prix in 1988, when Senna was in his first year at McLaren-Honda as team-mate to Alain Prost.
Then it was Prost who the other drivers measured themselves against, and establishing primacy over the Frenchman was initially Senna's number one goal.
Monaco, where Senna went on to win a record six times, gave him a chance to demonstrate his superiority.
CAREER STATISTICS
Senna had a will to win and an intensity that drove him to pursue perfection
Races: 162
Wins: 41
Poles: 65
Drivers' titles: 1988,'90, '91
Teams: Toleman, Lotus, McLaren, Williams
Born: 21/3/60 (Sao Paulo, Brazil
Died: 1/5/94 (Imola, Italy)
In qualifying, he set pole position with a lap 1.4 seconds faster than Prost managed in an equal car, and afterwards spoke in ethereal terms of an almost supernatural experience in reaching beyond his conscious self while driving.
The rivalry between Senna and Prost grew into the bitterest the sport has ever seen, and each man to a degree became defined by it.
But Senna had marked himself out as something special long before he went head-to-head with his greatest rival. His potential was obvious even before he reached F1.
In 1983, the Williams team gave the then up-and-coming Formula Three driver a test in their Grand Prix car, and within 40 laps he had taken it around Donington Park faster than its regular drivers, including reigning world champion Keke Rosberg.
Unfathomably, team owner Frank Williams did not offer Senna a contract, and it was to take him another decade before he had the chance to sign him again.
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Instead, Senna moved to the midfield Toleman team and immediately made waves, being denied victory in torrential rain at Monaco, his sixth Grand Prix, only when the race was stopped before half distance because of the poor conditions.
His ability was already frightening his rivals, to the point that one said it was appropriate Senna's name had laxative connotations because that was the effect he had on him.
At the end of the year, showing the single-mindedness which was to become familiar, Senna walked out on a three-year contract with Toleman and joined Lotus, then one of the top teams.
Ayrton Senna barges Alain Prost out of the 1990 Japanese Grand Prix
Senna and Prost fought out a battle of such intensity that onlookers feared for their lives 
His first win came in only his second race with them, Senna using all his peerless ability in the rain to make his rivals look flat-footed at the 1985 Portuguese Grand Prix.
Five more wins followed in three years at Lotus, but Senna saw the team's decline coming before most, and moved in 1988 to form a super-team with Prost at McLaren.
For three years - two as team-mates and one after Prost left to join Ferrari - the two fought out a battle of such intensity that onlookers feared for their lives.
It certainly drove Senna to new extremes. After one particularly frightening incident, Prost told Senna that if he wanted the title badly enough to die for it, he could have it.
Senna did sometimes appear to be putting his ambition ahead of his instinct for survival, most notably at the Japanese Grand Prix in 1990, when Senna secured the second of his three titles by driving into the back of Prost's Ferrari at 160mph, taking them both out of the race.
Throughout all this, Senna's breathtaking talent was in vivid relief. But if his driving was captivating enough, he was equally remarkable out of the car.
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Senna was blessed with the good looks of a romantic hero, and his dark eyes were mirrors to a soul of complexity and surprising vulnerability.
This combination was made all the more powerful by his willingness to discuss the risks inherent in his job.
Deeply religious, Senna seemed sometimes to be overwhelmed by fatalism about the danger of his chosen profession.
Ayrton Senna
Senna's determination to win took him to new extremes
His charisma was magnetic - he could hold in spellbound silence a room of hundreds of hard-bitten journalists - and his intellect, expressed with poetic eloquence in several languages, was formidable.
"You are doing something that nobody else is able to do," he said. "(But) the same moment that you are seen as the best, the fastest and somebody that cannot be touched, you are enormously fragile. Because in a split second, it's gone.
"These two extremes are feelings that you don't get every day. These are all things which contribute to - how can I say? - knowing yourself deeper and deeper. These are the things that keep me going."
When Senna joined Williams for the 1994 season, his position as the king of F1 was unquestioned. The team had dominated F1 in 1992 and '93, and Senna was expected to canter to the title.
But Williams' car initially had a serious design flaw, and only Senna's super-human ability put it on pole for the first race in Brazil.
In the race, though, he was flat beaten by Schumacher's superior Benetton, and Senna suffered the ignominy of spinning in his chase of the German.
Senna was killed in an accident that will never be fully explained

Anyone wondering how much of that performance Senna dragged from within only had to look at his team-mate Damon Hill, whom Senna had lapped by half distance.
Senna went to Imola trailing Schumacher in the championship and desperately needing to win.
Already it was clear that one of F1's great rivalries was in the offing, the young pretender challenging the supremacy of the veteran master, who was determined to hang on to his position.
But as Senna headed into the Tamburello corner at 190mph, with Schumacher just over a second behind, something went wrong.
The Williams speared off the road and hit a concrete wall, still travelling at 137mph.
As fate would have it, a front wheel was knocked back towards the cockpit and Senna's helmet visor was pierced by a suspension arm. If the wheel had missed him, he would have stepped from the wreck unhurt.

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Sometimes babies laughs are so damn cute! 
This baby girl thinks it is so funny when her father feeds the family dog popcorn that she cracks-up. 
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Baby Girl Laughing Hysterically at Dog Eating Popcorn

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