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The group Kasabian named themselves after Linda Kasabian, one of the infamous Charles Manson "family" that murdered at least 7 people in the 60s.... including a beautiful 8 month pregnant woman.
Why would anyone choose that name :wacko:
Very topical given today's news.
 

Dave7

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Very topical given today's news.
Sorry, what have I missed there ?
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Ahh yes, the singer packing in.
Thats what got me looking.
 
OP
OP
Blue Hills
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London
Continental USA was only bombed once in WW2.

By the US Air Force.

Boise City, Oklahoma.

(it's not as big as it sounds - basically because it owes its birth to fraudsters who lied about its merits and facilities)
 

Chris S

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Birmingham
The group Kasabian named themselves after Linda Kasabian, one of the infamous Charles Manson "family" that murdered at least 7 people in the 60s.... including a beautiful 8 month pregnant woman.
Why would anyone choose that name :wacko:
It's not as bad as Joy Division, they were named after a forced prostitution unit in the German Army. Their first EP also featured a member of the Hitler Youth on the front cover.
 
Pink Floyd were named after Pink Anderson and Floyd Counsel, two American blues singers.
 

Beebo

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Hexleybeef
The group Kasabian named themselves after Linda Kasabian, one of the infamous Charles Manson "family" that murdered at least 7 people in the 60s.... including a beautiful 8 month pregnant woman.
Why would anyone choose that name :wacko:

It’s provocative.
Marlyn Manson is the same.

How about Napalm Death?
 

classic33

Leg End Member
Continental USA was only bombed once in WW2.

By the US Air Force.

Boise City, Oklahoma.

(it's not as big as it sounds - basically because it owes its birth to fraudsters who lied about its merits and facilities)
USAF founded after WWII.
 

craigwend

Grimpeur des terrains plats
It's not as bad as Joy Division, they were named after a forced prostitution unit in the German Army. Their first EP also featured a member of the Hitler Youth on the front cover.
actually ... To avoid confusion with the London punk band Warsaw Pakt, the band renamed themselves Joy Division in early 1978, borrowing the name from the sexual slavery wing of a Nazi concentration camp mentioned in the 1955 novel House of Dolls.
 

roley poley

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the japanese Fu-Go balloon bombs released into the jet stream to end up in USA carried four incendiaries and one 30 lb high explosive bomb
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534576 "japan's world war II balloon bomb attacks on North america" by Robert .C .Mikesh ..from the smithsonian annals of flight no.9 They kept this secret for years
 
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