Articles for tag: 1973, Greatest Songs, Road Trip Songs

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Top 10 Songs by Bad Company

Bad Company is a very well known band from the seventies and eighties, and for good reason. The original band members including, Paul Rodgers, Simon Kirke, Mick Ralphs, and Boz Burrell made six albums from 1973 to 1982. After 1982, the band replaced some band members and tried to continue the legacy, but could never ...

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1973 Fire in St. Louis Destroyed Millions of Military Records

In the summer of 1973, the six-story National Personnel Record Center in St. Louis employed about 2,200 people. They were charged with maintaining and protecting 38 million sensitive military personnel records. At sixteen minutes and fifteen seconds after midnight on July 12, an alarm sounded at a nearby firehouse. The first fire trucks arrived on ...

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Reasons for the Overthrow of Salvador Allende in Chile in 1973

On September 11, 1973, the Chilean military overthrew the country’s socialist dictator and president, Salvador Allende. What led the military to such a dramatic step? The Allende regime, in its colossal scope of rights violations, was rapidly becoming intolerable. The military in Chile, in accordance with the country’s general attitudinal trend, was willing to be ...

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Top 20 Elton John Hits

Reginald Kenneth Dwight was born in Pinner, Middlesex, England in 1947. In 1966, Elton formed his first band called Bluesology. Bluesology started out backing visiting U.S. soul artists, like the Isley Brothers, Billy Stewart and Patti LaBelle and the Bluebelles. Also, in 1966, Bluesology became the supporting band for Long John Baldry. In fact, it ...

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The Big Muddy Monster: 1973 Bigfoot Sightings in Southern Illinois

Mention the Big Muddy Monster and everyone in Southern Illinois knows who you’re talking about, even though the encounters with the Big Muddy Monster go way back to a few brief weeks in 1973. ARRIVAL IN MURPHRYSBORO On the evening of June 25, 1973, two young people heard the chilling, unearthly scream of some creature ...