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Magnificent Songs of Color (September 2)
Red: Red River Valley
Blue: Mood Indigo
Yellow/Gold: Tie a Yellow Ribbon
Brown: Little Brown Jug
Green: Greensleeves
Black: Black Magic Woman
White: White Christmas
****Miscellaneous Multi-color song: Over the Rainbow.
Magnificent Women of America, Dead and Alive (August 26)
Dead
Jane Pittman, Amelia Earhart, Marian Anderson, Clara Barton, Rosa Parks, Jeanne Kirpatrick, Sacajawea.
Alive
Phyllis Schlafly, Condoleeza Rice, Laura Bush, Marva Collins, Michelle Malkin, Sara Palin, Mary Anastasia O'Grady.
Magnificent Songs of Significance or Charm With Unusual Titles (August 19)
I don't do windows and I won't go to hell for you.
She blinded me with science.
All in a mouse's night.
In a gadda da vida.
Cheeseburger in Paradise
Purple Haze
The Colonel Bogey March
Magnificent Latin Phrases (August 12)
Pactum Serva (Keep the Faith)
Semper Fidelis (Always Faithful)
Gloria In Excelsius Deo (Glory to God in the Highest)
Quid Pro Quo (This for That)
Annuit Coeptus (He Has Favored Our Undertakings)
Veritas Liberat (The Truth Shall Set You Free)
Lex Rex (The Law is King)
Magnificent 7 Signature Songs by Singular Singers
Female
Kate Smith: When the moon comes over the mountain.
Doris Day: Que Sera, Sera
Aretha Franklin: Respect.
Patsy Cline: Crazy.
Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter.
Celine Dionne: My Heart Will Go On Forever.
Petula Clark: Downtown.
Male
Bobby Darin: Mack the Knife.
Bing Crosby: White Christmas.
Tennessee Ernie Ford: 16 Tons.
Tony Bennett: I Left My Heart In San Francisco.
Dean Martin: Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime.
Frank Sinatra: My Way.
Chuck Berry: Johnny Be Good.
Magnificent Seven Triple A words (July 29)
Masada
bazaar
Tarawa
lasagna
Vaskana
Alfalfa
Alaska
Magnificent Sevens (July 22)
Seventy times Seven (God's eternal forgiveness)
Seventh Inning Stretch
Temple Menorah
December 7
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
The Right Stuff (Mercury Seven Astronauts)
Seventh Seal of Revelation
Magnificent Not-Your-Average Joes (July 8)
Non-fiction
Joe Louis, Josephine Baker, Joseph the husband of Mary, GI Joe, Joe Paterno, Joe McCarthy, Joseph Stillwell.
Fiction
Joe Marsh, Little Joe Cartwright, Mighty Joe Young, Joe Camel, Joe Palooka, Joe Friday, Cup of joe.
Magnificnet American Small Towns (July 1)
Lake Placid, NY
Ennis, MT
Gettysburg, PA
Hillsdale, MI
Coupeville, WA
Wapakoneta, OH
Mount Airy, NC
Magnificent Big Screen Movies With A Keystone Konnection (June 24)
Groundhog Day
The Deer Hunter
Slapshot
Night of the Living Dead
Gettysburg
The Molly Maguires
Rocky
Magnificent (Non-Biblical) Pearls of Wisdom (June 17)
"There is no security on this earth, only opportunity." -- Douglas MacArthur.
"We shall nobly save or meanly lose this last best hope of earth." -- Abraham Lincoln.
"If you rest, you rust." -- Anonymous.
"The harder I work, the luckier I get." -- Thomas Jefferson.
"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."
"If we forget we are one nation under God, the we will be a nation gone under." -- Ronald Reagan.
"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure."
Magnificent Rubber Tree Plant Movers (June 10)
Father Edward Sorin, founder of the University of Notre Dame du Lac.
John F. Kennedy, goal setter for getting a man to the moon.
Ben Franklin and America's Founders, a Republic unlike the world has ever seen.
Orville and Wilbur Wright, pioneers of human flight.
Henry Ford, who aimed to produce "wheels for the world."
The Baptist founders of Hillsdale College, promoting religious and civil liberty.
Walt Disney, whose dreaming upon a star changed the world.
Magnificent Show Stealers in the Movies (June 3)
Jack Palance in "Shane"
Glenn Close in "Fatal Attraction"
Sean Connery in "The Untouchables"
Tommy Lee Jones in "The Fugitive"
Haddie McDaniels in "Gone With the Wind"
Gene Hackman in "The Unforgiven"
Morgan Freeman "The Shawshank Redemption"
Magnificent Losers (May 27)
Fact
Memorial Day Heroes
Ernest Shackleton
George Washington
Robert E. Lee
Davy Crockett et al from the Alamo
Harvey Haddix
General Kutuzov
Fiction
Rocky Balboa
Don Quixote
Charlie Brown
Rick Blaine (of Casablanca)
Tom Doniphon (The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence)
Santiago (Hemingway's Old Man)
Achilleus
Magnificent Movie Titles As Descriptors of Our Current Times (May 13)
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
The Muppets Take Manhattan
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
The Wizard of Oz
Hang 'Em High
Village of the Damned
The Road to Perdition
Magnificent Phoenixes: From Ashes to Glory (May 6)
Israel
Allied Forces of WW II
Those Who Have Beaten the Big C
Johnny Cash
AM Radio
Substance Abuse Recoverers
American Rail Industry
Magnificent Things That Never Get Old (April 29)
Love of and for one's parents
Smile
The Kiss of Newlyweds
Holding a Newborn Baby
Sunrise/Sunset
Readings from the Holy Bible
Declaration of Independence
Magnificent Names are the Same in Fame (April 22)
Related
Theordore Roosevelt, Cal Ripken, George Bush, John Adams, George Foreman, Douglas MacArthur, Dale Earnhardt.
Not Related
James Brown, Jimmy Johnson, James Buchanan, James Polk, John Williams, Engelbert Humperdinck, Joe McCarthy.
Magnificent Technological Innovations (April 15)
Printing press
Light Bulb
Hoover dam
Cotton gin
Panama canal
Hydraulics
Silicon wafer
Magnificent Verses from the Good Book (April 8)
Magnificent Signature Lines (April 1)
Entertainment or Non-Fiction Group
"You can't handle the truth." Lt. Col. Nathan Jessup.
"Book 'em, Danno." Steve McGarrett
"How sweet it is!" Jackie Gleason
"We have a really big shew, tonight." Ed Sullivan
"Good-night Mrs. Calabash, wherever you are." Jimmy Duranty
"Just the facts, ma'am." Sgt. Joe Friday
"Come up and see me sometime." Mae West
Reality or Non-Fiction Group
"Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall." Ronald Reagan
"Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee." Muhammad Ali
"I shall return." Douglas MacArthur
"One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." Neil Armstrong
"I regret that I have but one life to give for my country." Nathan Hale
"Give me liberty or give me death." Patrick Henry
"You're the man." The Prophet Nathan
Magnificent Movie Lines in the Common Culture (March 25)
"You can't handle the truth."
"I'll be back"
"You talking to me?"
"What we have here is failure to communicate."
"I'll make him an offer he can't refuse."
"I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore."
"Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn."
Magnificent Nicknames for People (March 18)
Sporting Group
Iron Horse
The Rock
Galloping Ghost
Sultan of Swat
The Yankee Clipper
The Splendid Splinter
The Gipper
Non-Sporting Group
Iron Lady
Red Baron
Wizard of Menlo Park
Stonewall Jackson
Old Blood and Guts
Black Jack Pershing
The Grunt Padre
Magnificent Street Addresses (March 11)
FACT
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue (D.C.)
10 Downing Street (London)
3 Abbey Road (London)
501 Market Street (Philadelphia)
1 World Trade Center (New York)
42nd and Broadway (Times Square)
2513 6th Avenue (Altoona)
FICTION
77 Sunset Strip
1313 Mockingbird Lane
221B Baker Street
123 Sesame Street
328 Chauncey Street
186 Fleet Street
7 Eccles Street
Magnificent 7 Tea Party Anthems (March 4)
Proud to be an American
Fanfare for the Common Man
America the Beautiful
Red, White, and Blue (Lynnard Skynnard)
Simple Man
Ode to Liberty
We Must Take Back America
Magnificent 7 Actors With Range (February 25)
Tom Hanks
Johnny Depp
Burgess Meredith
Jack Lemmon
Denzel Washington
Jack Nicholson
James Cagney
Magnificent Right People for the Right Job (February 18)
ALIVE
Norman Schwarzkopf
Ward Connerly
The American Soldier
Rush Limbaugh
Sully Sullenberger
John Glenn
Thomas Sowell
DECEASED
Annie Sullivan
Flight 93 passengers
General George Patton
Rosa Parks
Mother Teresa
General McAulliffe
General George Washington
Magnificent Rights (February 11)
Right to Life.
There's no right way to do wrong.
Right to be Wrong.
Right man for the right job.
Bill of Rights.
Certain Inalienable Rights.
Right Hand of God.
Magnificent Daves (February 4)
Davy Crockett
Statue of David
King David
David Copperfield
David Buick
David Ricardo
David Ben-Gurion
Magnificent Visitors to Our Homes (January 28)
Gold Star Parents
Iwo Jima Veteran
Robotics Genius Dr. Whitaker
Joe Namath
Mike Fisher, former PA AG
Al Halloran, Scout Master
Religious and Medical Missionaries
Magnificent Elections Since 1960 (January 21)
2006 Pennsylvania State Senate 30th District [Eiche Clobbers Jubey]
2005 Blair County District Attorney [Consiglio over Donaldson]
1984 U.S. President [Reagan wins 49 states]
2004 9th Congressional District Republican Primary [The Chicken edges out Delgrosso]
2009 Altoona Mayor [Schirf and Mills team up for the benefit of Altoona]
1994 U.S. Senate in PA [Santorum whips Wofford]
1964 U.S. President [from the ashes of defeat would rise the future success of Conservatism]
Magnificent Songs with Eponymous John (January 14)
When Johnny Comes Marching Home
Johnny Angel
Johnny B. Goode
Don Giovanni
John Barleycorn Must Die
Gospel John
Johnny Get Angry
***Big Bad John and Dr. John the Medicine Man were taken on the table.
Magnificent Seven Seconds That Outdid the Firsts (January 7)
Ringo Starr (better than the Best)
The Second Adam
The U.S. Constitution
Pennsylvania
Second Continental Congress
SOS
Locke's Second Treatise on Civil Government
Magnificent Seven Who Slipped the Surly Bonds of Earth in 2009 (December 31)
Paul Harvey, Robert Novak, Les Paul, Jack Kemp, Harry Kalas,
William Safire, Gidget.
Magnificent Gravitationally Enhanced People: Real and Imaginary, Persons of a Portly Pedigree (December 3)
REAL
Jackie Gleason
John Adams
Benjamin Franklin
St. Thomas Aquinas
Kate Smith
Curley Howard
G.K. Chesterton
IMAGINARY
Santa Claus
Pillsbury Dough Boy
Yogi Bear
Fred Flintstone
Ralph Kramden
Miss Piggy
Porky Pig
Magnificent Social Membership Organizations (November 19)
Boy Scouts of America
Rotary
Future Farmers of America
Daughters of the American Revolution
Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobels of the Mystic Shrine
National Rifle Association
Kiwanis
Magnificent Sisters (November 5)
"In the cookies of life, sisters are the chocolate chips."
The Iowa class battleships: USS Iowa, USS Wisconsin, USS Missouri, and the USS New Jersey.
The Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria
The Dionne Quintuplets
Mary and Martha
The Andrew Sisters
The Lennon Sisters
The McGinnis Sisters
Magnificent Sports Nicknames Not Yet In Play (October 29)
Chicago Bootleggers
Boston Big Digs
Butte Kickers
Harrisburg Lars
South Side Socialists
Worchester Shiresauces
Erie Ghosts
Magnificent Bells (October 22)
"Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee."
"Saved by the bell."
The Bells of St. Mary's.
"Every time a bell rings, an angel gets his wings."
Carol of the Bells.
Miracle of the Bells.
The State House Bell of Pennsylvania, a.k.a., The Liberty Bell
Magnificent Flags, Second Tier (October 15)
Gonzales Flag
POW-MIA Flag
Olympics Flag
Gold Star / Blue Star Flags
The Stars and Bars
The Flag of Israel
Fort Moultrie Flag
Magnificent Final Lines of Literature (October 8)
MOBY DICK: "It was the devious-cruising Rachel, that in her retracing search after her missing children, only found another orphan."
FINNEGAN'S WAKE: "A way a lone a last a loved a long the"
REVELATION: "The grace of the Lord be with all the saints."
STOPPING BY THE WOODS ON A SNOWY EVENING: "And miles to go before I sleep."
ECCLESIASTES: "For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil."
PATRIOTISM: "Despite those titles, power, and pelf,
The wretch, concentred all in self,
Living, shall forfeit fair renown,
And, doubly dying, shall go down
To the vile dust from whence he sprung,
Unwept, unhonour'd, and unsung.
RITA HAYWORTH AND SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION: "I hope."
Magnificent Proper Nouns Gone Common (October 1)
john hancock
doozy
sandwich
cardigan
silhouette
braille
boycott
Magnificent National Park Units (not recommended by Ken Burns, nor in Pennsylvania or D.C.) September 24
Harper's Ferry, Virginia
Mount Rushmore and the Badlands of S.D.
Carlsbad Caverns
Boston National Historic Park
Fort McHenry
USS Arizona Memorial
Statue of Liberty
Magnificent Sports Movies (September 17)
Chariots of Fire
Miracle
Field of Dreams
Hoosiers
Glory Road
Remember the Titans
The Hustler
Magnificent People born in Pennsylvania, Non-sporting group (September 10)
Jimmy Stewart
Fred Rogers
George Marshall
Daniel Boone
Andrew Mellon
Milton Hershey
Philip Paul Bliss
Magnificent Bumper Stickers (September 3)
So how's that hopey, changey thing working out for you?
Give me ambiguity or give me something else.
I'll keep my freedom, my guns, and my money; you keep the change.
I wouldn't be caught dead with a necrophiliac.
I was born with nothing and I still have most of it.
Honk if you voted for Obama (it's the button in the middle of your steering wheel)
EARTH FIRST!! We'll stripmine the other planets later.
Magnificent Acronyms (August 27)
ROTC
SNAFU
MASH
LASER
AMED
WYSIWYG
PENNDOT
Magnificent Movie Songs Descriptive of Pennsylvania's Government (August 20)
March of the Gladiators
Theme from Titanic
Help
Trouble (from The Music Man)
Tubular Bells (theme from the Exorcist)
Shaft
Feed Me (from Little Shop of Horrors)
Magnificent Accomplishments of the Gipper (August 13)
Won the Cold War
Restored America's belief in American Principles
Made Conservatism Cool
Fired the Air Traffic Controllers
Reduced Taxes and Regulations Which Led to Unprecedented Economic Growth
"The Speech" (A Time for Choosing)
Wrote and Published "Abortion and the Conscience of a Nation".
Magnificent Trios (August 6)
Globe, Anchor, Eagle (Marine Corps Insignia)
Three Crosses of Calvary
Red, White, and Blue
God, Family, Country
Virtue, Liberty, and Independence
Father, Son, and Holy Ghost
U S A
Magnificent Fine Wine-ers (July 30)
Charleton Heston
Regis Philbin
Grandma Moses
George Burns
Colonel Sanders
George Washington
Ronald Reagan
Magnificent Shills from the Animal Kingdom (July 23)
Snoopy
The Geico Gekko
Tony the Tiger
Elsie the Cow and husband, Elmer the Bull
Charlie Tuna
Morris the Cat
Silly Trix Rabbit
**in memory of Gidget, the Chihauhau
Magnificent Clerics Who Made Secular Contributions to Mankind (July 16)
Lewis Carroll, Franz Liszt, Wilber Wilberforce, Martin Luther King Jr., Georges Lemaitre, Mother Teresa, John Paul II
*Martin Luther and John Calvin were overqualified for inclusion to this list.
Magnificent Coincidences in American History (July 9)
Adams and Jefferson die on the Jubilee of the Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1826.
9/11
Lincoln-Kennedy similarities.
Battles of Vicksburg and Gettysburg end on same day.
Robert Todd Lincoln proximate to first three presidential assassinations.
Civil War begins and ends on the property of William McLean.
Edwin Thomas Booth (brother of John Wilkes Booth) saves the life of Robert Todd Lincoln.
Magnificent Foreigners Deserving of Honorary U.S. Citizenship (July 2)
Robert Rogers
Baron von Steuben
Elian Gonzalez
John Paul II
Alexis de Toqueville
Edmund Burke
Adam Smtih
Magnificent Places of Patriotic Inspiration (June 25)
Local
Flight 93 Memorial, Fort Roberdeau, Gospel Hill, Presbyterian Cemetary (Williamsburg), Soldiers and Sailers Monument at the Blair County Courthouse, Horseshoe Curve, The Wall That Heals
Beyond Local
World War II Memoraial, USS Arizona Memorial and USS Missouri, Gettysburg Battlefield, Tomb of the Unknown Soldiers, Statue of Liberty, USS Enterprise, Vietnam Memorial
Magnificent Unusual but Useful Words (June 18)
Incorrigible, Redact, Discombobulate, Nefarious, Coeval, Cant, Egregious.
Magnificent Two Word Phrases in the English Language (June 11)
Let's roll.
Thank you, You're welcome, Excuse me, Yes sir, Yes ma'am (all the two word phrases of civility and respect)
Sudden death.
Knock, knock.
All aboard.
Bottoms up.
Play ball.
Magnificent Nicknames for Places or Things (June 4)
Old Glory, the Emerald Isle, Happy Valley, the Keystone State, the Great White Way, Old Ironsides, Uncle Sam.
Magnificent Names for the Z-List (May 28)
Zero Mostel
Arthur Fonzerelli
Zelda Fitzgerald
Zorba the Greek
Ozzie Nelson
Zane Grey
Itzhak Perlman
**In honor of Peter Zezel (1965-2009)
Magnificent Inspirational Movies (May 21)
Men of Honor
It's a Wonderful Life
Escape from Sobibor
Hoosiers
Ben Hur
Patton
A Man for All Seasons
Magnificent Dodos (May 14, 2009)
Value of the Dollar
Liberty
God and goodness in public schools
Ethics
Manners/Civility/Decency
Attention to houses of worship
Innocence
Magnificent Inspiring Songs (May 7)
God Bless America
God Bless the USA
The Marine Corps Hymm
Stars and Stripes Forever
America the Beautiful
Impossible Dream
Fanfare for the Common Man
Magnificent Books for Barack (April 30)
Non-fiction
Common Sense (Thomas Paine)
Tao de Ching (Lao Tzu)
The Road to Serfdom (Friedrich Hayek)
Democracy in America (Alexis de Toqueville)
Economics in One Lesson (Henry Hazlitt)
The Theory of Moral Sentiments (Adam Smith)
The Law (Frederic Bastiat)
Fiction
Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)
War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)
Gulliver's Travels (Jonathan Swift)
Animal Farm (George Orwell)
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch (Alexander Szolzinitsin)
Pilgrim's Progress (John Bunyan)
All Quiet on the Western Front (Erich Maria Remarque)
Magnificent Duos (April 23)
World Twin Trade Towers
Rock 'N' Roll
Laurel and Hardy
Smith and Wesson
Iliad and Odyssey
Stars and Stripes
Apollo-Soyuz
Magnificent Signs at Blair County Tea Party (April 16)
"You're welcome" [sign on a baby stroller]
"You can't fix stupid, but can vote them out."
"Don't Tread on Me" [Gadsden flag is always stylish]
"Free markets not freeloaders."
"Specter must go."
"I've come unarmed--this time."
"I went to bed a housewife and woke up a terrorist."
Magnificent Narcissists (April 9)
Muhammad Ali, Barbara Streisand, Donald Trump, Alec Baldwin, Steve Jobs, Madonna, Rush Limbaugh.
All-Time Penn Staters (April 2)
Joe Paterno, Sue Paterno, Athlene Stere, Fred Lewis Pattee, Mary Behrend, Mike Reid, Don Bellisario.
Apologies to the many outstanding scientists, statesmen, businessmen, and other Penn Staters who have enriched the world with their contributions who did not make the final list.
All Time Best TV Theme Songs (March 26)
"Suicide is Painless" (MASH); Peter Gunn; Mission Impossible; Rawhide; Route 66; "William Tell Overture" (The Lone Ranger); Star Trek.
Best Named Towns and CIties (March 19)
United States: Cincinnati, OH: Deposit, NY; Kokomo, IN; Kalamazoo, MI; Philadelphia, PA; Petaluma, CA; Shenendoah, VA.
International: Reykjavik, Iceland; Killarney, Ireland; Katmandu, Nepal; Bethlehem, Israel; Copenhagen, Denmark; Obergammau, Germany; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Best Women Characers in Fiction (March 12)
Mother Nature, Lady Liberty, Deborah of the Book of Judges, Jo of Little Women, Jane Eyre, Princess Fiona, Dagny Taggart.
Best Sports Figures Born and Raised in Pennsylvania (March 5, 2009)
Honous Wagner, Johnny Unitas, Joe Montana, Arnold Palmer, Wilt Chamberlain, Stan Musial, Tony Dorsett
Best Pennsylvania Sports Figures by Adoption
Jim Thorpe, Roberto Clemente, Joe Paterno, Mario Lemieux, Bobby Clarke, Josh Gibson, Mike Schmidt
Two-Hit TV Wonders (February 26, 2009)
Jackie Gleason, Andy Griffith, Larry Hagman, Mary Tyler Moore, Bob Keeshan, Dick Van Dyke, Michael Landon
Best Movies (February 19, 2009)
Wizard of Oz, Casablanca, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence, Ground Hog Day, Amadeus, Shadowlands, The Magnificent Seven
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