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Eartha Kitt on the first color episode of Ed Sullivan's Talk of the Town variety show (aka: The Ed Sullivan Show), originally broadcast by CBS on August 22nd, 1954. Only 10,000 color television sets existed in America at the time and the program was a "special event", viewable in color by very few households (though black and white sets still displayed the show in grayscale). The Sullivan show reverted to black and white broadcasts immediately after this episode aired and didn't switch to color full-time until eleven years later on September 19th, 1965. The color version of the episode Eartha appeared on sadly no longer exists and only the black and white version was archived. A rare color "behind the scenes" short film made during production (as seen below) is the only surviving color footage of the show, capturing one of Eartha's performances for posterity. Note: The title of the video attached below is inaccurate. The first five-city color television broadcast was a CBS variety program entitled Premiere on June 25th, 1951, and the first coast-to-coast color television broadcast was NBC's Pasadena Tournament of Roses Parade on January 1st, 1954.

Have you ever seen one of these critters at the beach? Also known as “sand crabs” or “sand fleas,” Pacific mole crabs (Emerita analoga) can be found across the western coasts of North and South America. East Coast residents might encounter their relatives, the Atlantic sand crabs (Emerita talpoida), during summertime beach trips. Mole crabs migrate with the tides, keeping up with breaking waves to filter feed on plankton brought in by the crashing waters. These critters use their back legs to get around, and they burrow backwards, too.

A pair of patinated copper and opal glass "Pigeon" lamps by François-Xavier Lalanne, stamped, numbered and monogrammed - model designed in 1991

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- Due to storms, they had to evacuate the National Mall grounds. But the MAGA crowd didn't want to leave. They just stood around chanting "USA! USA!" They were convinced liberals were messing with the weather. Reportedly, one of the security guards got so fed up that he threw a chair at them.

- Fox News didn't have anything to share while they were waiting for Trump's delayed speech, so they just showed a feed of him staring at the TV. And he was watching Fox News.

- A bunch of the crowd that was evacuated wasn't even let back in, and they were raging about it on social media. Some of them waited 10 to 12 hours in record-setting heat (102°F) and never got to see anything. All special passes were canceled. So much for money privilege.

- Because the program was running so far behind, several performers were cancelled.

- Trump's speech began at 11:15 p.m., after a sizeable amount of his followers had abandoned the event. It was unremarkable in just like all of his other ones- a bunch of "America is the greatest nation," blaming Democrats for everything bad, and general gibberish.

- The fireworks didn't begin until almost midnight, so they ended on July 5th.

- They wanted to have more fireworks than ever before, but they set off so many that the sky was covered in light, and it just looked like everything was on fire. The finale was not visible due to the smoke.

- Trump appeared to fall asleep during the show.

- The immense amount of pyrotechnics fucked up the air in DC