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NGC 7320 is a spiral galaxy in the Stephan’s Quintet. However, it is not an actual member of the galaxy group, but a much closer line-of-sight galaxy at a distance of about 40 million light years. Other galaxies of Stephan’s Quintet are some 300 million light-year distant.

Wallace Roney (born May 25, 1960, Philadelphia) is an American jazz (hard bop and post-bop) trumpeter.[1] Roney took lessons from Clark Terry and Dizzy Gillespie and studied with Miles Davis from 1985 until the latter’s death in 1991. Wallace credits Davis as having helped to challenge and shape his creative approach to life as well…

Jimmy Hamilton (May 25, 1917 – September 20, 1994) was an American jazz clarinetist, tenor saxophonist, arranger, composer, and music educator, best known for his twenty-five years with Duke Ellington. Hamilton was born in Dillon, South Carolina, and grew up in Philadelphia. Having originally learned to play piano and brass instruments, in the 1930s he…

Bill “Bojangles” Robinson (May 25, 1877 – November 25, 1949 Richmond, VA) was an American tap dancer and actor, the best known and most highly paid African-American entertainer in the first half of the twentieth century. His long career mirrored changes in American entertainment tastes and technology. He started in the age of minstrel shows…

Pepe & I in Bridgman, Michigan Scamp hunting. In the middle of nowhere!

3,000 galaxies, large and small, shapely and amorphous, burning in the depths of space. The stunning image was called the Hubble Deep Field. In subsequent years, Hubble teamed with other observatories to examine small patches of the sky in high resolution, long exposures, and multiple wavelengths. The deeper Hubble sees into space, the farther it…

Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman on May 24, 1941 Duluth, MN) is an American singer-songwriter, author, and visual artist who has been a major figure in popular culture for six decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s, when songs such as “Blowin’ in the Wind” (1963) and “The Times They…