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- Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
9: ...own for money by threatening to tell his then-girlfriend that Holiday was his daughter.
20: ...k entrance and forced to wait in a dark room away from the audience before appearing on stage. Once be...
24: ...duced Holiday to the drug, but there is consensus from historians and contemporaneous sources that she...
30: ...d [[Lester Young]]; both were less than two years from death.
34: ...s well [http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/strangefruit/]. - Aimee Semple McPherson (13395 bytes)
13: ...mple, a [[Pentecostalism|Pentecostal]] missionary from [[Ireland]], in December 1907 while attending a...
19: After the birth of her son, McPherson suffered from [[postpartum depression]] and several serious h...
25: ...join her on her religious travels, he soon became frustrated with the situation, and by 1918 had filed...
45: ...erce Department]] for deviating from its assigned frequency. Many broadcast histories claim McPherson...
53: ...one parishioner drowning, and another diver dying from exposure. - Ellen MacArthur (3652 bytes)
2: ...976]]) is a [[United Kingdom|British]] [[sailor]] from [[Whatstandwell]] near [[Matlock, England|Matlo...
6: ...ited Kingdom|UK]] and "Sailing's Young Hope" in [[France]].
12: ... was specially designed by Nigel Irens and Benoit Cabaret for her to break solo records. The 75-[[foot (uni...
16: ...eating the previous record set by French sailor [[Francis Joyon]] by 1 day, 8 hours, 35 minutes, 49 se...
18: ...-> conferred upon [[Sir Francis Drake]] and [[Sir Francis Chichester]] upon arrival home after their r... - Balalaika (5108 bytes)
18: ...ique is the use of the [[left]]-hand [[thumb]] to fret notes on the bottom string, particularly on the...
24: ...om [[Central Asia]], from whence several kinds of fretted long-necked [[chordophone]]s stem, including...
26: ... Asian instruments described above. Similarly, [[fret]]s on earlier balalaikas were made of animal gu...
28: ...particularly with the ''[[skomorokh]]s'', sort of free-lance musical [[jester]]s whose tunes ridiculed...
30: ...l, is quite difficult to reconcile when one is confronted with the fact that at various times in Russi... - Musical genre (24851 bytes)
33: ...band]], [[bebop]], [[hard bop]], [[cool jazz]], [[free jazz]], [[jazz fusion]] and [[smooth jazz]].
37: ...h degree of technical skill and musical knowledge from the performers.
39: ...rm today is a widely varied one, using influences from all of the past styles, although the root of mo...
45: ... the early 1960s rhythm 'n' blues took influences from [[gospel music|gospel]] and [[rock and roll]] a...
49: ...[1950s]]. Its earliest form, rock and roll, arose from multiple genres in the late [[1940s]], most imp...
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