The head of the femur articulates with the acetabulum in the pelvic bone forming the hip joint, while the distal part of the femur articulates with the tibia and patella forming the knee joint.
Dusty dies on her Royal day By Tim Cooper. Dusty Springfield has died from breast cancer on the day she should have collected her OBE from the Queen at Buckingham Palace. The 59-year-old singer died at 10.40 last night at her home in Henley-on-Thames, her agent Paul Fenn said today.
Howdy Doody Host Dies. Buffalo Bob Smith, the man who made Howdy Doody Time the right time for baby boomers in the 1940s and 1950s, died today of cancer. He was 80. The iconic kiddie TV-show host passed away in a hospital near his North Carolina home. The Howdy Doody Show ran for 13 years during the Golden Era of the tube.