17-05-2010, 06:21 PM
Newport's Touro Synagogue is indeed North America's oldest.
As for the Dunkin Donuts Center -- formerly the Providence Civic Center -- I can offer the following:
A few years ago, I'm told, Bette Midler played the venue to which we less-than-fondly refer as "The Dunk."
At one point she raised her eyes heavenward and reverently intoned, "The Dunkin Donuts Center ... who says dreams don't come true!"
As for the Dunkin Donuts Center -- formerly the Providence Civic Center -- I can offer the following:
A few years ago, I'm told, Bette Midler played the venue to which we less-than-fondly refer as "The Dunk."
At one point she raised her eyes heavenward and reverently intoned, "The Dunkin Donuts Center ... who says dreams don't come true!"
Charles Drago
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene