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Jack Palance, born Volodymyr Palahniuk on 18th February 1919 to Anna and Ivan Palahniuk, Ukrainian immigrants, in Lattimer Mines, Pennsylvania. Palance was one of six children. Prior to becoming a screen legend Jack Palance was a professional boxer fighting under the name of Jack Brazzo.

In the mid-sixties, the world saw the birth of hippies. A counterculture which questioned so much about society, and was not afraid to suggest an alternative lifestyle to the norm. A spectacular movement, with colourful clothes, magnificent music in the guise of The Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix and many more, with mind-bending drugs and free love. An ethos that went way beyond being a bored teenager and got the entire world thinking.

Those two dungeons could have been underground grain storage pits. There is no underground water up high on that mountain so water would not have endangered the stored grain of food there. Not every dark room is a torture chamber, folks! 2 hours ago. Vlad was raised by Turks and he developed his taste for blood ...

“Being in the right place, at the right time,” is how Brian Jones, then of The Rolling Stones,   described the discovery of the band. Certainly there is more depth to Brian Jones’s statement. Nevertheless what is true with his train of thought is the essence and spirit of the 60’s. An era where new ideas and new acts, seemed to be an everyday occurrence.