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- Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
1: ...:Billie_Holiday.jpg|right|thumb|<small>Billie Holiday photographed by [[Carl Van Vechten]], 1949</smal...
3: ...]], [[1959]]), also called '''[[Jazz royalty|Lady Day]]''' is generally considered one of the greatest...
7: ...r [[Fletcher Henderson]], was fifteen. Billie Holiday's parents married when she was three, but they s...
9: ... to tell his then-girlfriend that Holiday was his daughter.
14: Settling in [[Harlem]], Holiday began singing informally in numerous clubs. Arou... - Patti Smith (6059 bytes)
2: ...], [[Illinois]] and raised in [[New Jersey]], the daughter of an [[Atheism|atheist]] father and a devo...
6: ...rsey, with the flipside a version of the rock standard with the addition of a spoken piece about fugit...
10: ...5 feet into a concrete orchestra pit and severely damaging a number of neck vertebrae. The injury requ...
12: ..." – co-written with [[Bruce Springsteen]] – which rose to #13 on the [[Billboard Hot 100]]... - Sheryl Crow (8611 bytes)
3: ...SA]]) is an American [[blues rock]] [[singer]], [[guitarist]] and song writer.
9: ...other musicians to form what they called "The Tuesday Night Music Club." They would get together and i...
11: ...entually creating her debut album, called ''[[Tuesday Night Music Club]]''. The album featured many of...
13: ...ed "A Change Would Do You Good", "Home" and "Everyday is a Winding Road".
17: ...[[soundtrack]] of the [[Adam Sandler]] film ''Big Daddy''. This song won the 1999 Grammy for Best Fema... - Musician (3042 bytes)
8: Musicians may also [[dance]] or produce [[choreography]]. The concept of...
26: ** [[Guitarist]] - Harmonica (21752 bytes)
35: note) in a three octave range. The standard diatonic harmonica is
38: ...monicas are available in all keys. Here is a standard
49: ... the tonic triad, is given the blow, and the secondary notes: D-G-B-F-A, the draw.
56: called "bending", a term borrowed from guitarists, who literally "bend" a string in order to creat...
120: ...n the first place). Rather than providing the standard C major and G dominant chords, the Mixolydian p... - Berimbau (11944 bytes)
2: ...ct matter of a popular song by Brazilian [[guitar|guitarist]] [[Baden Powell (musician)| Baden Powell]], wit...
10: ...colors, following local Bahian/Brazilian taste; today, most makers follow the tourist consumer's quest...
11: ... there. A small stone or coin ("dobr㯦quot;, "moeda", "pedra") is held between the index and thumb of...
36: ...he length of the bows in the 1940's and 1950's. Today, many berimbaus are overgrown to 5 feet and more...
56: ...e plays, and adds a means to his control of the roda. - New Jersey (35646 bytes)
16: LandArea = 19,231 |
24: AdmittanceDate = [[December 18]], [[1787]] |
25: ...Eastern Standard Time Zone|Eastern]]: [[UTC]]-5/[[Daylight saving time|-4]] |
39: ...w York State]] and had its capital at [[New Amsterdam]], now known as [[New York City]]. Some of south...
41: ...Colonel [[Richard Nicolls]] sailed into what is today [[New York Harbor]] and took over the colony. Th... - List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
5: *[[Laloo Prasad Yadav|Yadav, Laloo Prasad]] (born 1948), [[India]]n politici...
6: *[[Genrikh Yagoda|Yagoda, Genrikh Grigor'evich]] (1891-1938)
42: *[[Yasunori Mitsuda|Yasunori, Mitsuda]], (born [[1972]]), [[Japan|Japanese]] [[video ga...
73: ...Stephen Yenser|Yenser, Stephen]], Whitman winner–''The Fire In All Things''
121: *[[Paramahansa Yogananda|Yogananda, Paramahansa]], ([[1893]]-[[1952]]) - Mellotron (7426 bytes)
10: ...et]], [[Peter Sellers]], [[King Hussein]] of [[Jordan]] and [[Scientology]] founder [[L. Ron Hubbard]]...
12: ...lyphonic]] electronically generated sounds in the days before polyphonic synthesizers.
20: ...rs during the [[psychedelic]] era. Rolling Stones guitarist [[Brian Jones]] was supposedly the first musician...
24: ...se its sounds were [[Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark]], who featured it heavily on their platinum-se... - San Francisco, California (55022 bytes)
22: timezone = [[Pacific Standard Time Zone|PST]] |
24: timezone_DST = [[Pacific Daylight Time|PDT]] |
31: ...ates]], in terms of population. It is a [[consolidated city-county]] (the only one in California) sit...
33: ... whose population is over 7 million. U.S. census data show that San Francisco has the highest populat...
51: ...ervice the growing population are still present today, notably [[Levi Strauss & Co.]] clothing, [[Ghir... - March 19 (9902 bytes)
1: ...alendar]] (79th in [[leap year]]s). There are 287 days remaining.
3: {{MarchCalendar}}
10: ...entonville]] begins. By the end of the battle two days later the Confederate forces have retreated fro...
14: ...gress]] establishes [[time zone]]s and approves [[daylight saving time]].
29: ... Representatives]] begins broadcasting its day-to-day business via the cable television network [[C-SP... - March 20 (10075 bytes)
1: ...alendar]] (80th in [[Leap year]]s). There are 286 days remaining.
3: {{MarchCalendar}}
7: *[[1413]] – [[Henry V of England|Henry V]] becomes King of...
8: *[[1602]] – The [[Dutch East India Company]] is establishe...
9: *[[1739]] – [[Nadir Shah]] occupies [[Delhi]] in [[India]]... - Richmond, Virginia (20197 bytes)
29: ...px; border-bottom:3px solid gray;" |[[Eastern Standard Time Zone|Eastern]]: [[UTC]]-5
46: ...up the [[James River (Virginia)|James River]] ten days after landing at [[Jamestown, Virginia|Jamestow...
48: ...o the family of Confederate President [[Jefferson Davis]]. In April of [[1865]], Richmond was burned b...
50: ...[[1910]], Manchester agreed to a political consolidation with the much larger independent city of Rich...
84: ...hmond, Virginia)|West End]] and [[Church Hill]] – site of Patrick Henery's famous speech. - Indianapolis, Indiana (25903 bytes)
33: ...olumbus, Indiana|Columbus]] and [[St. Louis]]. Today, four interstate roads intersect in Indianapolis...
37: ...claimed membership in the Klan. Klan-backed candidates took over the City Council, the Board of Schoo...
39: ...nation of [[Martin Luther King Jr.]] earlier that day. Kennedy would deliver an impromptu speech on r...
41: ...ff's Department, and theoretically permits consolidation of the Indianapolis Fire Department with town...
45: ...uded" communities). The total area of the Consolidated City of Indianapolis, which does not count the... - Sweden (27111 bytes)
3: ...extended to a [[Great Power]] of twice its size – subsequently lost within a century. Since [[18...
5: ...] in the early [[20th century]]. The country is today defined by liberal tendencies and a strong natio...
26: ...vereignty_type = [[Consolidation of Sweden|Consolidation]] |
28: established_dates = [[10th century|10th]] - [[13th century|13th]...
63: ...following the recession of the last [[ice age]] – the [[Weichsel glaciation]]. The region develo... - Air guitar (2190 bytes)
3: ... guitar can be considered a specialised form of [[dance]].
12: *[[list of dances]] - Guitar (36953 bytes)
15: ...estor of the Guitar. Excavated in Susa, [[Iran]]. Dated 3rd Millennium BC.]]
18: ...Persian lute which indeed had three strings but today has four. The Chitra Veena is depicted in Indian...
20: ..., the name moved into the English language. And today the guitar, or what it has evolved into, is used...
24: ...t produced electric guitars for the wider public. Danelectro also pioneered [[Tube Amp]] technology.
48: ...russ rod allows the neck to be adjusted to accommodate these changes -- tightening it will curve the n... - Cherokee (38956 bytes)
27: ...[20th century]]. Today there are seven ceremonial dance grounds in Oklahoma and these either belong to...
39: ...ow believed that a more ancient Syllabary that predated Sequoyah and may have inspired his great work ...
46: ...m/news/nation/census/2002-02-13-indians.htm USA Today news story], which explains that the 2000 popula...
85: ...herokee Reservation located in Arkansas, with boundaries from north of the Arkansas River up to the so...
87: ...ibe. The US Government has ignored their pleas. Today, there are thousands of Cherokee living in Arkan... - Vibraphone (4143 bytes)
4: ... of the [[wood]]en bars on the xylophone. The standard modern instrument has a range of three [[octave...
8: ...ll sound for several seconds, so frequent rapid pedalling is common when playing a vibraphone.
16: ... instrument. Often the vibes can substitute for a guitarist or pianist in this respect. The most common four-...
18: .... To do this, the vibist holds the pedal down and dampens the previous note in a melody with the head ...
29: *Vibraphone Technique: Dampening and Pedaling; by David Friedman; [[Berklee Press Publications]]; 1973... - Culture of Spain (17671 bytes)
4: ...those that least identify themselves as Spanish — have contributed greatly to many aspects of ma...
8: ... there is a great sense of regional identity: [[Andalusia]], [[Galicia (Spain)|Galicia]] and [[Navarre...
17: ... distinct dialects around the country, with the Andaluz dialect being closer to the Spanish of the Ame...
19: ...ort for other regional languages, some of them in danger of extinction. These include [[Asturian langu...
33: *[[Ladino language|Ladino]] (Judaeo-Spanish, Sefardi, etc.)
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