Meg Johnson

Roll Tide!

[ESPN @espn]

SING THAT SONG, WEST VIRGINIA!

What a moment in Morgantown. This is why we love college baseball ❤️

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Easy Lover was recorded for the solo album of Philip Bailey (Earth, Wind & Fire member), Phil Collins played drums, produced and sang as well. It became one of the biggest hits of the 80s and the two became great friends.

[🎸 Rock History 🎸 @historyrock_]

“Simple Man” was written in 1973 by Ronnie Van Zant and Gary Rossington for Lynyrd Skynyrd’s debut album.

It came about shortly after Ronnie lost his grandmother and Gary lost his mother. The two met at Ronnie’s apartment, sharing memories and the advice those women had given them. Gary played a simple chord progression while Ronnie wrote the lyrics. The song was finished in about an hour.

Gary Rossington summed it up this way: “We just put into a song what our mothers or grandmothers had told us. They actually wrote it. We just played it.”

The lyrics are advice from a mother (or grandmother) to her son: live peacefully, don’t chase after money or riches, be true to yourself, and find satisfaction in the simple things.

During the recording, producer Al Kooper didn’t want to include it because he considered it weak. Ronnie kicked him out of the studio and told him to wait outside until they finished recording it. Eventually, Kooper admitted he had been wrong.

After his death in the 1977 accident, the song took on even greater emotional significance and continues to convey that simple yet profound message more than fifty years later.

[TaraBull @TaraBull]

In 1973, AMC and Levi’s teamed up for the wildest factory option ever: an AMC Gremlin with real denim seats, copper rivets, and classic jean stitching.

A jeans car

[Joel Osteen @JoelOsteen]

You went to God with your request. Now add the thanksgiving. Believe that it’s already done. From now on, no more begging God for the same thing. “Father, thank You that I am free. Thank You that I’m whole. Thank You that the power in me is greater than what’s trying to stop me.”

[Joel Osteen @JoelOsteen]

Don’t be intimidated by the size of your dream. He’s the one who put it in your heart. Those things God whispered to you that you haven’t told anyone about, it seems so unlikely that you don’t see how it could ever happen. God wouldn’t have spoken that to you if He didn’t have a way to bring it to pass. All He needs is for you to come into agreement. Dare to ask Him.

[Joel Osteen @JoelOsteen]

Don’t be defined by one event. Don’t let one failure, one disappointment, one bad season, sour the rest of your life. Move forward in faith. Your destiny is waiting. Your children are counting on you. This is your time to shine. Dare to believe.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The 7 most famous laws in the world

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

That water clarity is an engineering decision, and the math behind it is wilder than the video.

Roman aqueducts ran on gravity alone. No pumps, no pressure systems. Engineers carved channels with a gradient so shallow it borders on absurd. The Pont du Gard in southern France drops 2.5 centimeters over 275 meters. That's roughly the thickness of a coin over the length of three football fields. They surveyed that accuracy with plumb lines and wooden leveling instruments.

The clarity you're seeing is a direct product of flow velocity. Too steep and the water erodes the channel walls, picks up sediment, turns brown. Too flat and it stagnates. Roman engineers targeted a slope of about 20 centimeters per kilometer, which kept the water moving fast enough to stay fresh but slow enough to stay clear. Before the water reached the city, it passed through multi-chamber settling tanks where velocity dropped near zero. Suspended particles sank. Clean water flowed out the top into the next chamber. Repeat three or four times.

Pliny specified the minimum slope in writing. Vitruvius published the exact mortar ratio for hydraulic cement: one part lime to two parts volcanic ash for underwater work. The pozzolana from Pozzuoli reacted with water to form a calcium-aluminum-silicate compound that actually gets stronger the longer it sits submerged. Modern concrete degrades in water. Roman concrete bonds with it.

Scale the whole system and it gets harder to process. Eleven aqueducts fed Rome at its peak. Combined output: roughly 1 million cubic meters of water per day. That works out to about 250 gallons per person for a city of one million. Modern New York delivers about 125 gallons per person per day. Ancient Rome had access to double the per capita water supply of the largest city in the United States, running entirely on slope and stone.

The Trevi Fountain in Rome is still fed by one of them. Two thousand years, same source, same gravity, same water.

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"Hurt" is not an original by Johnny Cash. The song was written by Trent Reznor (Nine Inch Nails) in 1994 for the album The Downward Spiral. Rick Rubin had to insist several times on Cash recording his version, at first Johnny found the idea completely insane because the original version is industrial and noisy. At 71, already very ill, almost blind and with trembling hands, Cash completely transformed the band.

The iconic video, directed by Mark Romanek, was filmed at the House of Cash (his own museum). June Carter Cash appears looking at him fondly, the video was shot in February 2003, a few months before she died (May) and Johnny himself (September).

Trent Reznor was so moved that he declared, "This song is not mine anymore." It is considered one of the best covers of all time.

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Opry stars Vince Gill and Lainey Wilson took to the Opry stage to honor the legendary Dolly Parton for her 80th birthday and it was a moment we won’t forget

[🎶𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘀 ✨ @Old_But_Gold50s]

Composer Henry Mancini wrote "Moon River" specifically for Audrey Hepburn and considers her rendition of the song his favorite. For BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S ('61) Mancini won his first Oscar for Best Score in addition to winning Best Song with lyricist Johnny Mercer.

[DepressedBergman @DannyDrinksWine]

Hal Needham requested Jerry Reed to write a theme song for "Smokey and the Bandit" (1977). Jerry Reed came up with the iconic theme song, "East Bound and Down" overnight.

When he played it for Needham, judging by his reactions, Reed thought that the song wasn't good enough & offered to rewrite the song if Needham found it unsatisfactory. Needham replied,

"You change one word, one note and I'll choke ya".

P.S: On this day, 49 years ago, "Smokey and the Bandit" (1977) premiered in New York City, USA.

[Dave Mosbey @Davidm1983]

Up to 14 commitments from the Heritage Hills class of 2026.

Men’s Cross Country & Track
Gavin Shields – Oakland City University

Men’s Track & Field
Carsten King University of Evansville
Caiden Bosley Bethel University
Isaiah Bosley Bethel University

Football
Tyler Ruxer – Oklahoma
Jett Goldsberry – Purdue
Carter Payne – Indiana State
Gabe Jackson – Missouri S&T

Baseball
Peyton Gray – Western Kentucky University

Boys Basketball
Jake Prior – Saint Francis

Wrestling
Dalton Pledger – Marian University Indianapolis
Hayden Smith – Grand Valley State University

Softball
Nevaeh Hayden – Saint Mary‑of‑the‑Woods
Haley Fisher – Olney Central College

@kylesokeland

[Real Country Music @real_kuntry]

East Bound and Down

[🎼🌺Music Love♥️ @ThoNg676733]

This song takes me back to a world that doesn’t exist anymore………

[Dante @DanteTheDon]

Was not ready for Eric Church to deliver the best commencement speech I’ve ever heard.

Six guitar strings. Six pillars of a life.

Faith. Family. Spouse. Ambition. Community. You.

Tune them when you’re whole, not just when you’re broken.

Watch the whole thing.

[J.P. Hovey @jhovey34]

Honestly was not expecting Eric Church to give one of the best commencement speeches of all time.

Chief CRUSHED this 🫡

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"Everywhere" was written by Christine McVie during the chaotic sessions of Tango in the Night (1987). While the other members of Fleetwood Mac lived in hell (Lindsey and Stevie quarreling, Mick Fleetwood destroyed by illicit substances), she composed this happy music. The most joyful and pop track on the album was born in the midst of the greatest drama in the band's history. It became one of their biggest hits in the 80s!

[Pete @petelash3]

What a dominant performance today by our jr high @hhpatriots @hhtrack today winning both @PocketAthletics conference titles in style. Congrats athletes and coaches Simon @ValLashWash THE CHAMPS ARE HERE