This really IS Patti LaBelle, Wynonna Judd and Chaka Khan showing up to a charity gala in L.A. last Sunday.
I learned something new today. In English (British) language history, if someone has "Fitz" in their last name, it denotes a male who is illegitimate to the aristocracy.
Fascinating!
Fitz: used in compound names, to indicate illegitimate paternity of the sons of kings and princes of the blood; as, Fitzroy, the son of the king; Fitzclarence, the son of the duke of Clarence.
Happy Friday people. Remember LaToya Jackson?
I love local news about really classy Pittsburghers. This one is great.
PITTSBURGH (AP) - A Pittsburgh-area couple says a wedding night brawl was a misunderstanding that exploded into a full-fledged fight with other hotel guests.
David and Christa Wielechowski face charges for allegedly assaulting hotel guests last month. An interview with the couple was broadcast on WPXI-TV on Monday.
Christa Wielechowski says the fight erupted after she stuck out her backside for her new husband to kiss it. The drunken groom tapped it with his foot, and his intoxicated wife tripped on her gown landing on her face.
Hotel guests thought David Wielechowski had harmed his bride. The wife says she told them she was fine, but a man punched her husband in the face.
The Wielechowski's spent their wedding night in separate prison cells.
As most of you know, I'm a real history nerd, so to hear of a fallen comrade breaks my heart. But I have to say that God really does have a sense of humor and when MY number comes up, I hope I'm taken out in a blaze of historic glory myself.
R.I.P. brother.
CHESTER, Va. - Like many boys in the South, Sam White got hooked on the Civil War early, digging up rusting bullets and military buttons in the battle-scarred earth of his hometown.
As an adult, he crisscrossed the Virginia countryside in search of wartime relics — weapons, battle flags, even artillery shells buried in the red clay. He sometimes put on diving gear to feel for treasures hidden in the black muck of river bottoms.
But in February, White's hobby cost him his life: A cannonball he was restoring exploded, killing him in his driveway.
More than 140 years after Lee surrendered to Grant, the cannonball was still powerful enough to send a chunk of shrapnel through the front porch of a house a quarter-mile from White's home in this leafy Richmond suburb.
White's death shook the close-knit fraternity of relic collectors and raised concerns about the dangers of other Civil War munitions that lay buried beneath old battlefields. Explosives experts said the fatal blast defied extraordinary odds.
"You can't drop these things on the ground and make them go off," said retired Col. John F. Biemeck, formerly of the Army Ordnance Corps.
White, 53, was one of thousands of hobbyists who comb former battlegrounds for artifacts using metal detectors, pickaxes, shovels and trowels.
