The first Academy Award ceremony took place on May 16, 1929 at a dinner held in the Blossom Room at the Roosevelt Hotel. Two hundred and seventy people attended at a cost of $5 a ticket. At that time the ceremony was taken up the long speeches, the statuettes were handed out quickly thanks to its President Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

Departing from Ghazi Air Base in Pakistan, modified MH-60 helicopters made their way to the Abbottabad which is about 30 miles from Islamabad, the capital.

Navy SEALs, flown in from Afghanistan, among others, were aboard the, using highly classified hyperspectral imagers.

In 40 minutes, 22 people were killed or captured. One of the dead, Osama bin Laden, shot twice in the left side of his face.

His body was aboard the choppers that made the trip back.

"The Gunslinger" - lots of folks think of music and musicians in terms of who is the best, but is there really a "best?"

While it can certainly and clearly be stated how it is that "so and so" is a better guitarist than I am, things change quite a bit when you get into the realm of the super virtuoso musicians.