I have 3 Bradford pear trees and I planted them all one year ago, 1 of them is flowering and blooming very nicely and the other two have cracks in the trunk of the tree that you can see pretty far in to the tree.
The Yardbirdsâ manager, Giorgio Gomelsky, gave Eric Clapton the nickname âSlowhandâ in early 1964. The Yardbirds rhythm guitarist, Chris Dreja, recalled that whenever Eric Clapton broke a guitar string during a concert, Eric would stay on stage and replace it.
In 1923, Birdie Reeve, at 16, set a world record of 29,000 strokes an hour using two fingers on each hand, spread out in a V formation. She was billed in vaudeville acts as the âworldâs fastest typistâ and was said to have a vocabulary of 64,000 words. Birdie Reeve Kay (above) was born in Chicago on January 16, 1907. She reached speeds of more than 200 words, or 800 letters, a minute, with a typing method devised by her father Thomas Reeve.