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The horror host character of Count Gore de Vol (whose name was either a play on author and native Washingtonian Gore Vidal or the name of a prominent Washington D.C. funeral home, "De Vol") originated as a character called "M.T. Graves" on the Bozo show. He stayed on as the Count until 1987 when the station ceased local production.
The choice of Gore de Vol as the character's name was either a pun involving the name of acerbic author Gore Vidal or the name of a prominent Washington, D.C. funeral home, "de Vol". [2] Gore de Vol became the Washington/Baltimore area's longest-running horror host, broadcast every Saturday night on WDCA from March 1973 to May 1987. [3]
Rockville Cemetery is located on the eastern edge of Rockville [1] at 1350 Baltimore Road, adjacent to the Rockville Civic Center.It occupies 26.64 acres (10.78 ha) in two sections, an older, western or upper section of 7.7 acres (3.1 ha) and a newer, eastern or lower section of almost 16.9 acres (6.8 ha).
In the blink of an eye, on December 28, 1964, 12-year-old Carol Jarosz Bartos’ life changed forever. That’s the day her 16-year-old sister, Beverly Jarosz, was murdered. Sixty years later ...
A woman has been charged with attempted murder after a knife attack in Dover. Emergency services were called after a woman in her 50s was attacked with a large kitchen knife as she was walking in ...
U.S. President Joe Biden pardoned five people on Sunday, including the late civil rights leader Marcus Garvey, and commuted the sentences of two, the White House said in a statement. Garvey, who ...
Sometimes the prewritten obituary's subject outlives its author. One example is The New York Times' obituary of Taylor, written by the newspaper's theater critic Mel Gussow, who died in 2005. [7] The 2023 obituary of Henry Kissinger featured reporting by Michael T. Kaufman, who died almost 14 years earlier in 2010. [8]
Two U.S. senators introduced bipartisan legislation on Friday that would impose sanctions on Turkey, citing concerns over military action by that country or groups that it backs, in northern Syria.