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- Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
2: ...s. Gifted with a three-octave vocal range, she is noted for her purity of tone and "horn-like" improvi...
6: ...ding fame to both the Apollo and herself. She was noticed by [[Bardu Ali]] of [[Chick Webb]]'s band, w...
10: ...[[bebop]], scat, and performed [[blues]], [[bossa nova]], [[samba (music)|samba]], [[gospel]], [[calyp...
12: ...the few to sing - in her unique way - the little known lyrics.
14: ...spie]], and the [[Tommy Flanagan]] Trio, she also sang together with the "other voice" of jazz, [[Billie... - Aretha Franklin (7875 bytes)
2: ... 8 consecutive awards from 1968-1975) and she is normally ranked as the greatest female vocalist ever...
6: ...n to Franklin's talents. Her greatest and most innovative work was yet to come.
8: ...went to Atlantic, they just sat me down at the piano and the hits started coming."
10: ... notable covers of songs by [[The Beatles]] ("Eleanor Rigby"), [[The Band]] ("[[The Weight]]"), [[Simo...
14: ...1970s, her music mellowed slightly, though losing nothing of its power, and she continued the hugely s... - Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
3: ...est [[jazz]] [[singer]]s of all time. Born '''Eleanora Fagan''', she had a difficult childhood which a...
9: ...ank DeViese]]". Some historians consider this an anomaly, probably inserted by a hospital or governmen...
16: ...had her first successes as a live performer. On [[November 23]], [[1934]], she performed at the [[Apol...
24: ...and contemporaneous sources that she began intravenous use sometime around [[1940]].
28: ...r personal life was as turbulent as the songs she sang. She married trombonist Jimmy Monroe on [[August... - Mahalia Jackson (2345 bytes)
1: .... She moved to [[Chicago]] in [[1927]] where she sang with [[The Johnson Brothers]], one of the earlies...
3: ...e of the best-selling singles in the history of [[Norway]]. She began a radio series on [[CBS]], and ...
5: ...he inauguration of [[John F. Kennedy]]. She also sang at the funeral of her friend, [[Martin Luther Kin...
11: ...women/mahalia-jackson.shtml Biography at FemBio ? Notable Women International] - Alanis Morissette (25762 bytes)
6: ...inger/songwriters. The influence of "You Oughta Know" is readily seen almost a decade later in the so...
16: :''What did you think I'd be doing now''
18: :''Would there be no end to my sorrow''
28: :''You'd like to know, young lady?"''
29: :''You said, "Yes, I'd like to know what kind of people'' - Tori Amos (27672 bytes)
3: ...sically trained, Amos’s voice and mostly piano-based music has frequently been compared to that ...
7: ...y the time she reached high school, she was well known in the DC area. During her years at [[Richard M...
10: ...commercial (for which role she beat out a then-unknown [[Sarah Jessica Parker]]). After playing a bar ...
13: ...e rejected on the grounds that the "girl and a piano thing" wasn't going to sell. Extensively re-worke...
16: ...ich featured the vocal contribution of [[Trent Reznor]] of [[Nine Inch Nails]]. The [[Australia]]n ed... - Hannah Szenes (4490 bytes)
3: ...or '''Chana Senesh''') ([[July 17]], [[1921]] - [[November 7]], [[1944]]) was a [[Hungary|Hungarian]] ...
9: ...ected to the school's literary society, she could not take the office in the [[anti-semitism|anti-Semi...
13: ...y Miklos Prison]] where she was tortured. She did not talk even when the guards threatened to torture ...
17: ...ty. She kept diary entries up until her last day, November 7, 1944. Her remains were brought to [[Isra...
21: ...y exonerated her. Her kin in Israel were informed November 5, 1993. - Marilyn Monroe (30186 bytes)
6: ...rway|Norwegian]] [[Martin Edward Mortensen]], was not her true biological father. The most likely cand...
8: ...riously considered adopting her, which they could not have done without Gladys's consent.
10: ...tal near [[San Bernardino, California|San Bernardino]].
12: ...rwise she would have had to return the orphanage. Norma Jeane had come to think little of herself, yet...
16: No other actor has reached the spectacular heights o... - Georgia (U.S. state) (26579 bytes)
11: Governor = [[Sonny Perdue|Sonny Perdue]] |
36: ...mated 8,829,383 people in 2004. Georgia is also known as the '''Peach State''' or '''Empire State of ...
38: ...legislature voted it the state song. Ray Charles sang it on the legislative floor when the bill passed.
42: ...e been named [[USS Georgia|USS ''Georgia'']] in honor of this state.
50: ...ish colony be called [[Province of Georgia]] in honor of King [[George II of Great Britain|George II]]... - New Jersey (35646 bytes)
11: Governor = [[Richard Codey]] (acting)|
13: OfficialLang = ''None defined'' |
39: ...]] and had its capital at [[New Amsterdam]], now known as [[New York City]]. Some of southwestern New ...
41: ...se of the unpopularity of the Dutch colonial governor, [[Peter Stuyvesant]]. The newly taken lands wer...
43: ... large tract of land in North America henceforth known as New Jersey. - Medieval music (31843 bytes)
9: ...port. The notation system is weak, and rhythm cannot be specified. The simplicity of chant, with uni...
11: ...fifths, and octaves, begins to be seen. Rhythmic notation allows for complex interactions between mul...
14: ... music has survived, and since [[musical notation|notation]] was a relatively late development, recons...
16: === Theory and notation ===
17: ... history of European music. Most of the surviving notated music of the 13th century uses the rhythmic ... - Josquin Des Prez (6810 bytes)
6: ...in was a member of the papal choir under [[Pope Innocent VIII]]. In the later [[1490s]] he was in [[F...
8: ...[Miserere]], Psalm 50, for five voices, widely acknowledged to be one of his masterpieces.
10: ...s court and his works were often performed there, no direct connection to them has been discovered by ...
14: ...ted long after his death; [[Gioseffo Zarlino|Zarlino]], writing in the [[1580s]], was still using exam...
16: ... was also able to express intense emotion with economy of means. - John F. Kennedy (36524 bytes)
6: | date2=[[November 22]], [[1963]]
12: | date of death=[[November 22]], [[1963]]
20: ...ohn F. Kennedy assassination|assassination]] on [[November 22]], [[1963]] are remembered in vivid deta...
22: ...ted States)|Democratic Party]] candidate from the North to be elected president, and the last presiden...
27: ... of Economics]] for a year, studying political economy. In the fall of [[1935]], he enrolled in [[Pri... - Nero (23127 bytes)
4: ...sh;[[9 June]] [[68]]), born '''Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus''', also called ([[50]]–[[54]] AD) ''...
8: ...he limits of the remote, ill-documented past, but not by the general public. There is a strong desire ...
14: ...Ahenobarbus (1st century AD) | Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus]] and [[Agrippina the younger]], sister and...
16: ...a Lepida]] through their son [[Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus]]. He was also great-grandson to [[Mark Ant...
18: ...dius Drusus|Drusus]] through his wife [[Antonia Minor]] (sister to Antonia Major) and brother to [[Cla... - The Star-Spangled Banner (15265 bytes)
1: ...of its writing. Of the five copies made, two are known to still exist.]]
4: ...more]]. Currently this is one of only ten copies known to exist, and is housed in the [[Library of Con...
11: ...red by the American victory and the sight of the enormous [[Flag of the United States|American flag]] ...
15: ...altimore 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]]. - Celtic mythology (25486 bytes)
1: ...rary Roman and Christian sources that what we do know of their beliefs has come down to us. In contra...
4: ...ulish]], it is surmised that the pagan Celts were not widely literate—although a written form of...
6: ...cated literacy was not introduced to Celtic areas not conquered by Rome until the advent of [[Christia...
12: ...-Celtic). The apparent array of divine names may, nonetheless, be justified differently: many may be m...
43: ...ns]], [[Ogmios]], [[Robur]], [[Rosmerta]], [[Rudianos]], [[Sabrina]], [[Segomo]], [[Sequanna]], [[Siro... - Attila the Hun (23655 bytes)
3: ...nvaded the Balkans twice and encircled [[Constantinople]] in the second invasion. He marched through F...
5: ...d noble king, and he plays major roles in three [[Norse saga]]s.
9: ...proto-[[Turkic peoples|Turkic]] nomad tribes from north-eastern [[China]] and [[Central Asia]]. These ...
11: ...leader and a capable warrior is reasonable but unknowable.
15: ...opportunity to strengthen the [[walls of Constantinople]], building the city's first [[sea wall]], and... - Johann Sebastian Bach (31106 bytes)
5: ...avier]], the [[Mass in B Minor (Bach)|Mass in B Minor]] and the [[St. Matthew Passion]].
13: ...ry, at which point the elder brother demanded to know how Sebastian had come to learn them.
17: ...s instrument, it seems, was in constant need of minor repairs, and he was often sent into the belly of...
19: ...scholars, his famous ''[[Toccata and Fugue in D Minor]]''), but much of the music Bach wrote during th...
22: ... key|major]] and [[minor key]], a monumental work not only for its masterful use of [[counterpoint]] b... - Music history of the United States (35788 bytes)
2: ... music|classical]] music. Some of the most well-known genres of American music are [[blues]], [[rock ...
4: ...ative American]]s, the first people to populate [[North America]]. These included a number of [[tribe...
6: ... [[Christianity|Christian]] [[choir]]s, [[musical notation]], [[broadside]]s, as well as large numbers...
8: ...Hawaii]] and [[Tex-Mex and Tejano|Tex-Mex and Tejano music]]. Immigrants brought with them the [[East...
10: ...ion. At the time, black performers typically did not perform their own material, instead using songs ... - Korean art (25186 bytes)
4: ...ated across traditional western borders, and does not fit into specific categories, this article aims ...
6: ...st, there are no simple categories of art that do not obtrude directly into other arts. All Korean art...
8: ...vals and concentric circles. It is interesting to note that most of these geometric patterns have thei...
21: ... of art in combination with other arts. There was no "pure art", but always arts in assemblage. This a...
23: ...ind the plays, ornaments woven or embroidered or knotted to indicate rank, position, or as shamanistic...
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