Category: Worldly stuff

Recognize the title? Most people probably won’t see the relationship between the title and today’s events in history. I thought it was appropriate because today, July 27th, 2003 is the 50 year anniversary of the armistice between North and South Korea. Over 5 million people were killed during the Korean War.

I read a story this morning from the Associated Press that talked about a rain-soaked ceremony being held in Panmunjom. This is the village where the armistice was signed 50 years ago today. 1,200 veterans attended this ceremony and later toured a military hut that straddled the demarcation line where a single North Korean soldier stood guard.

AP-Obit-Jeffries

Creator of original ‘Star Trek’ starship dies

(Los Angeles-AP) — The man who created the original “Star Trek” starship “Enterprise” has died.

Film and T-V art director Matt Jeffries has been ill and died of a heart attack Monday at a Los Angeles-area hospital. He was 82.

Jeffries worked as a set designer for films in the late 1950s. He served as art director for T-V shows like “The Untouchables,” “Little House on the the Prairie” and “Dallas.”

Jeffries designed the “Enterprise” before the “Star Trek” series debuted in 1966, and remained with the show for many years.

(Copyright 2003 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved)
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NEW YORK (CNN) — Famed violinist Isaac Stern died Saturday. He was 81.

“Stern did pass away today,” said Maria Dolce, an administrator at New York Hospital – Cornell Medical Center.

During more than half a century as a professional musician, Stern appeared on concert stages around the world and served as a mentor to many young musicians.

Born in Kreminiecz, Ukraine in 1920, he came to the United States at 10 months of age after his parents fled the Russian Revolution in 1921.
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