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- Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
2: '''Ella Fitzgerald''' ([[April 25]], [[1917]] – [[June 15]], [[1996]]), also known as '''[[Jaz...
14: ...ther with the "other voice" of jazz, [[Billie Holiday]] ([[1957]]).
47: *1958 ''[[Ella in Rome: The Birthday Concert]]''
90: *1970 ''[[Ella in Budapest, Hungary]]''
100: *1978 ''[[Dream Dancing]]'' - Aretha Franklin (7875 bytes)
6: ...Columbia Records]] after being discovered by legendary A&R man [[John Hammond]]. In the early [[1960s...
10: ...p Ten hits in the late 1960s and early [[1970s]], dabbling in [[gospel music]], [[blues music]], [[pop...
16: ...ost-Atlantic material as far inferior to the legendary recordings of the mid to late sixties.
18: ...erviews for several years after that. She lives today in Detroit.
55: *[[1970]] ''[[Spirit in the Dark]]'' - 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... - Mahalia Jackson (2345 bytes)
1: .... She moved to [[Chicago]] in [[1927]] where she sang with [[The Johnson Brothers]], one of the earlies...
5: ...he inauguration of [[John F. Kennedy]]. She also sang at the funeral of her friend, [[Martin Luther Kin... - Alanis Morissette (25762 bytes)
2: ...(born [[June 1]], [[1974]]) is a successful [[Canada|Canadian]] [[singer-songwriter]] and occasional [...
10: ... 1]], [[1974]], in [[Ottawa]], [[Ontario]], [[Canada]], to schoolteachers Alan and Georgia Morissette....
12: ... gates: ''"Hi, I'm Alanis. I want to meet you one day and I want to be famous, just like you."''
36: ...is" to avoid possible confusion with fellow [[Canada|Canadian]] singer [[Alannah Myles]]. The album we...
38: ...ed to move Morissette away from her debut album's dance-pop sound. However, ''Now Is The Time'' sold l... - Tori Amos (27672 bytes)
3: ...s probably best known to the wider public for a [[dance]] [[remix]] of "[[Professional Widow]]", her s...
7: ...ture was published in a local paper. The song she sang was called ''More than Just a Friend.'' By the ti...
10: ...nd her difficulty with playing from sheet music – with Caton, [[Matt Sorum]] (later of [[the Cul...
13: ...se]], [[Will MacGregor]], [[Carlo Nuccio]], and [[Dan Nebenzal]], the record ended up full of raw, emo...
33: ...rgirl Hotel'', but like that album featured overt dance music influences and a relatively subdued pian... - Hannah Szenes (4490 bytes)
17: ... guilty. She kept diary entries up until her last day, November 7, 1944. Her remains were brought to [...
28: ...as ''Eili, Eili'' ("My God, My God") many singers sang it and this song ends some versions of the film '...
68: :''In the dare game I stood on a number,''
71: ::(*) (maybe danced, skipped or diddled?) - Marilyn Monroe (30186 bytes)
2: '''Marilyn Monroe''' ([[June 1]], [[1926]] – [[August 5]], [[1962]]) was an [[United States...
6: ... her true biological father. The most likely candidate for a while seemed to be [[Charles Stanley Giff...
8: ...r cruelly, corrected her. After Marilyn's death, Ida claimed that she and Wayne had seriously consider...
10: ...t never hugged or kissed her, or even smiled. One day, Gladys announced that she had bought a house fo...
12: ...herty, who would become her first husband. The Goddard family was moving to the [[East Coast of the Un... - Georgia (U.S. state) (26579 bytes)
16: LandArea = 150,132 |
24: AdmittanceDate = [[January 2]], [[1788]] |
25: ...Eastern Standard Time Zone|Eastern]]: [[UTC]]-5/[[Daylight saving time|-4]] |
38: ...legislature voted it the state song. Ray Charles sang it on the legislative floor when the bill passed.
50: ... the Spanish moving north from their base in Florida. In [[1724]], it was first suggested that what wa... - 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... - Medieval music (31843 bytes)
17: ...e treatise which defined and most completely elucidated the [[rhythmic modes]], a notational system fo...
21: ...Johannes Gallicus), [[Anonymous IV]], [[Marchetto da Padova]] (Marchettus of Padua), [[Jacques of Li&e...
27: ...ian chant]], named after St. Ambrose, was the standard. Celtic chant was used in Ireland.
29: ...ope, and Paris was the political center. The standardization effort consisted mainly of combining the...
32: ...ificate of Gregory the Great himself (c. [[590]]–[[604]]). Many of them were probably written i... - Josquin Des Prez (6810 bytes)
2: ...ween [[Guillaume Dufay]] and [[Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina|Palestrina]], and is usually considere...
6: ...[[Milan]] from [[1459]] to [[1474]], and his birthdate was long considered to be around [[1440]]: mor...
10: ...n of Condé¬ southeast of [[Lille]] on the present-day border between Belgium and France, becoming prov...
14: ...and was much in demand. Duke Ercole I sent an (undated) letter to his secretary with the interesting ...
16: ...towards or away from perfection but as trends of adaptation and influence; as such Josquin is seen as ... - John F. Kennedy (36524 bytes)
5: | date1=[[January 20]], [[1961]]
6: | date2=[[November 22]], [[1963]]
9: | date of birth=[[May 29]], [[1917]]
12: | date of death=[[November 22]], [[1963]]
13: | place of death=[[Dallas]], [[Texas]] - Nero (23127 bytes)
4: ...ius Domitius Ahenobarbus''', also called ([[50]]–[[54]] AD) '''Nero Claudius Drusus Germanicus''...
14: Born in [[Antium]] (modern day [[Anzio]]), he was the only son of [[Gnaeus Domi...
16: ... to [[Mark Antony]] and [[Octavia]] through their daughter [[Antonia Major]].
18: ...gustus]] and his wife [[Scribonia]] through their daughter [[Julia Caesaris]] and her husband [[Marcus...
27: ...r would soon apparently improve. A prominent scandal early in the new reign was Caligula's particular... - The Star-Spangled Banner (15265 bytes)
11: ...lag, with fifteen stars and fifteen stripes, is today on display in the [[National Museum of American ...
13: The next day, Key wrote a poem aboard the ship on the back of...
15: ...ted anonymously in Baltimore on [[September 17]]—of these, two known copies still exist.
17: ...in October, when Baltimore actor Ferdinand Durang sang the song at Captain McCauley's [[tavern]].
19: ...ery professional baseball game in United States today, though it is now performed prior to the first p... - Celtic mythology (25486 bytes)
4: ...ed that the pagan Celts were not widely literate—although a written form of Gaulish using the [[...
6: ...ormerly (or presently) Celtic-speaking areas post-date the Roman conquest. And although early Gaels in...
12: ... restrictions, his short list is a helpful and fundamentally precise observation. In balancing his des...
43: ...is]], [[Contrebis]], [[Coventina]], [[Damara]], [[Damona]], [[Dea Matrona]], [[Dea Sequana]], [[Dis]],...
47: ...[Murigen]], [[Neit]], [[Nemain]], [[Niamh]], [[Nuada]], [[Ogma]], [[Plor na mBan]], [[Sheila-na-gig]],... - Attila the Hun (23655 bytes)
3: ...rope]] to the [[Black Sea]] and from the [[Danube|Danube River]] to the [[Baltic Sea|Baltic]]. During ...
5: ...e left no remarkable legacy, he has become a legendary figure in the [[history of Europe]]. In much of...
14: ...of Central Asia into modern Germany, and from the Danube river to the Baltic Sea]]
15: ...]], and to build up his border defenses along the Danube.
17: ...aves on the Danube's north bank. They crossed the Danube and laid waste Illyrian cities and forts on t... - Johann Sebastian Bach (31106 bytes)
5: ...sh; [[July 28]], [[1750]] <small>[[Gregorian calendar|(N.S.)]]</small>){{an|birthanddeath}} was a Germ...
19: ...en]]. Some of Bach's earliest extant compositions date to this period (including, according to some sc...
22: ...ble by their slight differences from each other — available to keyboard musicians when their ins...
24: ...otables as [[Johann Friedrich Agricola]]. Still today, students of nearly every instrument encounter B...
28: ...for Solo Violin'', and the ''Orchestral Suites'', date from this period. - Music history of the United States (35788 bytes)
12: ...; this became known as [[hip hop music]]. By the dawn of the [[21st century]], hip hop had become a p...
24: ...ual (music)|spiritual]]s which became a major foundation for music in the 20th century.
28: ...ican folk styles. An African American variety of dance music called the [[cakewalk]] also became popu...
35: ...lph Peer]] (Barraclough and Wolff, 537). Rodgers sang often morbid lyrical themes that drew on the blue...
43: ...20th century. People like [[Harry Kandel]] and [[Dave Tarras]] become stars within their niche, and m... - Korean art (25186 bytes)
1: ...ts or performers. Early so-called "stone age art" dates back to [[3000 BCE]], mostly consisting of [[v...
8: ...rs of temples and shrines, clothes, furniture and daily objects such as fans and spoons.
21: ...arts of Korea grew out of ancient rituals that predate history. Depicted on petroglyphs and in pottery...
23: ... the performing arts, with in some cases specific dances themselves being defined as important cultura...
25: ...arts done almost exclusively by women in costume, danceworks; and those done exclusively by men in cos...
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