We Didn't Start the Fire - What I Think - Part 7
This is the seventh post in my blog series about the song We Didn't Start the Fire by Billy Joel. I am writing about the significance of each item mentioned in the song. That is, what significance I THINK they have. I am not doing any research or looking anything up, so I could be totally wrong. (And I've been starting to take a little ribbing at just how wrong I have been on some of them. That's OK though, I think I've got today's nailed.)
More information about this blog series can be found in the series' first post.
Einstein - Albert Einstein was a mathematical and physical sciences genius. He was born in Germany where he grew watching his father's businesses fail. As a youngster, his teachers didn't give his creative thinking much credit. Eventually, he published an academic paper in college which started to gain him acclaim in academic circles. After college, Einstein moved to America, where he oversaw the invention of the atomic bomb.
James Dean - Dean was born the small town of Fairmount, Indiana. During his early twenties he became a cooler than cool actor who caused many a teenage girl's heart to swoon. He died at the age of 25 when the Porsche Spider he was driving at a high rate of speed on Pacific Coast Highway in California crashed.
Brooklyn's got a winning team - The Brooklyn Dodgers won the world series in 1943.
Davy Crockett - There was a fad during the 1950s in which young boys wore coonskin caps like the one Davy Crockett wore back in the 1820s.
Peter Pan - This was a popular Broadway musical in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Sandy Duncan played the part of Peter.
Elvis Presley - Elvis was a popular rock and roll singer. He had more hit records than anyone else in America during the 1960s.
Disneyland - Walt Disney opened Disneyland in Anaheim, California in 1955.
More information about this blog series can be found in the series' first post.
Einstein - Albert Einstein was a mathematical and physical sciences genius. He was born in Germany where he grew watching his father's businesses fail. As a youngster, his teachers didn't give his creative thinking much credit. Eventually, he published an academic paper in college which started to gain him acclaim in academic circles. After college, Einstein moved to America, where he oversaw the invention of the atomic bomb.
James Dean - Dean was born the small town of Fairmount, Indiana. During his early twenties he became a cooler than cool actor who caused many a teenage girl's heart to swoon. He died at the age of 25 when the Porsche Spider he was driving at a high rate of speed on Pacific Coast Highway in California crashed.
Brooklyn's got a winning team - The Brooklyn Dodgers won the world series in 1943.
Davy Crockett - There was a fad during the 1950s in which young boys wore coonskin caps like the one Davy Crockett wore back in the 1820s.
Peter Pan - This was a popular Broadway musical in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Sandy Duncan played the part of Peter.
Elvis Presley - Elvis was a popular rock and roll singer. He had more hit records than anyone else in America during the 1960s.
Disneyland - Walt Disney opened Disneyland in Anaheim, California in 1955.
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posted by Steve Gall at
12:07 AM
1 Comments:
You are doing really good on this list! Overall, correct with some of your minor details a little off. But considering you did no research, I am very impressed! I would say that 99.9% of us wouldn't be near as close as you are. I mean, who really knew that James Dean was born in Marion, Indiana instead of Fairmount, where he moved when he was 9 after spending some time in Brentwood, CA? And most people do believe that Einstein oversaw the atomic bomb, when really all he did was write a letter to FDR encouraging him to allow one to be made. For the record, they didn't involve Einstein in the atomic bomb development because they didn't think they could trust him. He was German by birth, and tended to have loose lips.
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