The Library of Congress posted this picture of the Texas Troubador, Ernest Tubb. His best known song is probably “Walking the floor over you." In September 1947, Tubb led the first Grand Ole Opry in New York’s Carnegie Hall, accompanied by future Hee Haw regular Minnie Pearl as well as a number of musicians with names out of Damon Runyon: Cy Sweat, Smokey Swan, and Radio Dot.
From the National Science Foundation: Evolution of earliest horses driven by climate change - When Sifrhippus, the earliest known horse, first appeared in the forests of North America more than 50 million years ago, it would not have been mistaken for a Clydesdale. It weighed in at around 12 pounds--and it was destined to get much smaller over the ensuing millennia.
The Library of Congress released this photo of Iconic tenor Enrico Caruso. He was born on February 25, 1873 in Naples, Italy. Over a career spanning 25 years, he performed at the world’s great opera houses, including nearly 900 appearances at New York’s Metropolitan Opera alone. In this age of the mp3 we take recorded music for granted, but Caruso was one of the first classical performers to make recordings, 176 examples of which can be heard on the National Jukebox.
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