Nanook

Beekeeper,Golfer,Amateur Trombonist,Retired Healthcare, Zappa fan,live music enthusiast,Grandfather of 10,luv my 2 dogs.May you always have water in your well.

[Fran Mallon @FranMallon1]

An amazing video of Dolly Parton singing one of her most famous songs in Páidí Ó Sé’s pub in Ventry Co. Kerry 🇮🇪 in 1990
How did Páidí pull that coup off
#RIPDolly

[Nanook @Nanook456]

@unmaskingthem @GuntherEagleman I thought they could turn off the ignition remotely?

[Nanook @Nanook456]

@CharlieBatch16 Shaping the men of the future !

[Nanook @Nanook456]

Outstanding movie ! RIP Dolly

[Nanook @Nanook456]

@colin_dunlap @NASCAR Best of luck , remain focused on your goal and you WILL achieve it!

[Nanook @Nanook456]

@jonahTson46 @Jimfrombaseball It is real and incredible!

[Jim Koenigsberger @Jimfrombaseball]

Scheduled to pitch for, '55th Fighter Group' in England during WWII, but as his plane was shot down, he radioed his fellow pilots:
"Tell the boys I won’t be back for the game."
After his plane crashed, he was captured, held in a POW camp and had his right leg amputated by a POW doctor.
Bert Shepard’s recovery and running so impressed a POW camp doctor, that he asked Shepard to demonstrate his mobility for the hospital staff.
After WWII, on the day that he officially signed with the Washington Senators, Bert Shepard caught a cab and returned to 'Ward 49' at Walter Reed, where he was fitted for a new artificial leg;
His, “Baseball leg".
"I got an awful lot of publicity right away.
That sort of helped me to stay with the ball club until I could prove myself.
I pitched several exhibition games and got ‘em out each time."
His first MLB game box score after the war.....
5 1/3 innings, three hits, one walk, one hit batter, two strikeouts and one earned run.
The Boston Globe called it:
"By far the most inspiring performance by a limbless veteran of WWII."
Bert Shepard remains the only player to have ever played in the major leagues on an artificial leg.
Late in his life, when Bert Shepard was in his 70's, he said he often wondered:
"Who carried me from the wreck?”, and “Who saved my life?"
Little did he know that around the same time a British businessman, who knew of Bert Shepard's legend, went on a hunting trip to Hungary.
There he met a fellow hunter, a retired doctor named Ladislaus Loidl, who told a story of how he had once rescued a wounded American flier from his downed plane.
Loidl recalled that his wife had made a dress out of the airman’s parachute, and remembered reading the name Bert Shepard on the pilot’s dog tags.
The British hunter suggested Loidl contact Shepard.
He did!
In May of 1993, the two men met at the doctor’s home in Austria, 49 years after their first meeting on a German battlefield.
"I prayed for this.
And after half a century, my dream has incredibly come true."
Bert Sheppard.

[Nanook @Nanook456]

@elonmusk Sadly His passing: He died by suicide in 1993 at the age of 44.

[Nanook @Nanook456]

@ZachBitango @elonmusk Thanks for posting

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@Moyos_oreeoluwa @mirexmoses It a very funny movie !

[Nanook @Nanook456]

@don_ukens Lost all of our apples this year to a frost …

[Nanook @Nanook456]

@thrillerhub Always too long and not funny ….

[Nanook @Nanook456]

@Todd_Spence Maybe it wasn’t funny !

[Nanook @Nanook456]

@KingMVP225 Interesting how God works, you were on the wrong floor for just this reason .

[Nanook @Nanook456]

@WDS225 @PittsburghSport Usually only once per game, I guess to keep him honest ….

[Nanook @Nanook456]

@miles_commodore Guy had tree trunks for legs …

[Nanook @Nanook456]

@Photomusicrock Life goes on, as hard as it sometimes seems….

[Todd Spence @Todd_Spence]

ZZ TOP's first tv appearance was on Johnny Carson's The Tonight Show in 1986, and it's one of the best because not only did Doc Severensen join in with his trumpet, but both he and Carson wore fake beards and sunglasses to really welcome the Texas band for their network debut 🔥

[Nanook @Nanook456]

@Jimfrombaseball David went on to be a cardiologist, graduating from Harvard . He has since passed !