The accordion is a reed instrument, but unlike most reed instruments, it's played by pushing and pulling instead of blowing. The force of air through the instrument vibrates a reed and makes sound. Some think that a primitive accordion-like instrument was played in ancient Egypt.

The first modern accordion was invented by Cyrillus Damian in Vienna, circa 1829. It was a simple button accordion that had only 7 notes of a major scale, so it played in only one key, like a harmonica. These are still played today, especially in Cajun music where the accordion contributes greatly to the genre's signature sound.

The popular "piano accordion" was developed in the late 1800s. It consists of a bellows, a piano keyboard on the right and a series of buttons on the left, which are used to play bass notes and chords.

The Vaudeville performer Count Guido Deiro is credited with making the first piano accordion recordings in 1908, being the first to play an accordion on a radio broadcast in 1921 and

U.F.O. stands for "Unidentified Flying Object". The majority of UFOs can be easily explained as weather balloons or flocks of birds, but each year there are many sightings of objects in the sky that cannot be explained. The legend of UFOs has developed it's own unique legion of followers who believe that these unidentified flying objects are spacecraft from distant planets.

Dr. J. Allen Hynek penned the scientifically accepted term for UFO:

"A UFO is the reported perception of an object or light seen in the sky or upon the land the appearance, trajectory, and general dynamic and luminescent behaviour of which do not suggest a logical, conventional explanation and which is not only mystifying to the original percipients but remains unidentified after close scrutiny of all available evidence by persons who are technically capable of making a common sense identification, if one is possible."

UFO sightings appear all through recorded history, Alexander the Great saw two airborne "silver

Musicians, artists and writers have a world-wide reputation for eccentricity. As Oscar Levant so famously said, "there's a fine line between genius and insanity."

In order to create great art the artist must be outside of the norms. So before I get into my top picks for "weirdest musicians" I want to make it quite clear that being "weird" is not in itself a bad thing. Weirdness is just behavior that the majority of the population finds foreign, unnatural or strange.

In some cases weirdness can be a bad thing -- For example, if I ran around a shopping mall slapping old ladies across the face while screaming profanities, you could not only classify my behavior as weird, you could also classify it as a crime. On the other hand, if I spent my days collecting cigarette butts from the ground and gluing them together into sculptures that bring attention to the dangers of smoking, I may be considered weird, but in this case, the end result is positive. Finally, weirdness can also be

There were 6,328,000 car accidents in 2003. These accounted for 2.9 million injuries and 42,643 deaths related to auto crashes. Almost 60 percent of children, age 14 and under, who die in motor vehicle accidents were unrestrained. So buckle yourself and your kids up! This playlist contains songs about car accidents. A tragic theme to be sure, but one that started way back in the 1950's with the popular "teenage tragedy" story.

Many times it was love itself, which drove the teenage lover to their death in these songs as in Ray Peterson's "Tell Laura I Love Her", the tragic love story of Laura and Tommy. His love for Laura is the driving force behind Tommy entering a stock car race for a $1000 prize. Just enough to buy the engagement ring for his beloved Laura. Needless to say Tommy made the wrong decision.

Also, in the classic "Teen Angel" a teenage couple's car stalls on the railroad tracks. The boyfriend returns to the car for school ring and is killed by the oncoming train. So