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- 1311: Death of the Superstars
- ... they're car and looking for someone to help them. They both noticed at the same time that the man behind the counter of the local pub that they were in looked a lot like John Lennon. They also noted the young lady singing in the corner looked and sounded incredibly like Janice Joplin. The book or should I say short story continued on as only King could, people dying , strange ... see a Don King look alike up there promoting all new acts that will be performing soon. I'm sure one of my favorite musician of all time, Stevie Ray Vaughn, should have pulled a John Madden and traveled by bus that fateful night. Instead of part of some crash site from the gods. I wish he was still around. I'm sure he had a couple hundred more songs in ... a lot of very talented, gifted, stupid people. I say stupid because. Their constant drug use and mind expanding experiments cost us all. We never will see the all-time band. Sam Cooke on vocal, John Lennon, Marvin Gaye singing backup, Keith Moon on Drums, Jimi Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughn on guitar. You'll have to put your favorite bass player in there cause I can't think of ...
- 1312: A Brief History of Ledd Zeppelin and Its Musical Impact
- ... tour dates that still needed to be honored in Scandinavia. Page needed to construct a new band in a matter of two months time. In July '68, Page met ex-session guitarist and phenomenal arranger John Paul Jones (b. John Baldwin, June 3, 1946, Sidcup, Kent). Willingly joined in on bass. 19-year old vocalist, Robert Plant (b. August 20, 1948, West Bromwich, W. Midlands.) is asked to perform with The New Yardbirds. Plant accepts and leaves his homeland in the Midlands with only his subway fair in his pocket. The last link to the chain was John Bonham (b. May 20, 1948, Bromwich) on drums. The band finished their ten date tour of Scandinavia with some unexpected success. Everywhere they went people were asking how a band like this could go ...
- 1313: Famous Explorers Of Africa
- ... story is filled with adventure. In 1853 Burton was disguiseeed as a Moslem he made dangerous pilgrammages to Mecca. In 1854 he went to Harar in Ethiopia where capture meant death. Burton and his companion John Speke were the first Europeans to visit Somalialand. In 1856, again with John Speke, Burton returned to East Africa to look for the source of the Nile River. The trip was dangerous from Zanzibar. In 1858 they came upon Lake Tanganika but it wasn't the source of ... James Grant to find the source of the Nile. Six months later they saw a lake as large as a sea. Then they were convinced that Victoria Lake was the source of the Nile River. John Speke had recieved most of the glory for his works on the exploration the source of the Nile. In 1860 James Speke and James Grant had gone for further research of the Nile. On ...
- 1314: Comedy In Shakespeare
- ... an only child, he agrees to let Don Pedro woo Hero in his favor so she would be his wife. When Claudio and Don Pedro put their plan into action at the masked ball, Don John appears. He acts as a blocking figure in this play and causes many problems. He tells Claudio that Don Pedro wants Hero for himself, which is a lie, but Claudio acts like "easy come easy go". He is not very upset that he just lost his soon to be bride. When the truth comes out, the wedding day is set and the planning begins. Don John is once again planning to ruin things. He is a jealous, sour and unhappy person. The greenworld is also used in this play but not for festive activities. It is used for plotting bad things ... Most of the characters are fully developed, except Hero, so we can identify with their grief and then their joy. As the play comes to an end everything is wrapped in a neat package. Don John is captured and brought back to be punished, Claudio and Hero, and Beatrice and Benedick are married and the dance and the feast begin. Measure for Measure is a play that is very different ...
- 1315: Jazz
- ... jazz along its development, and it was usually a performer or composer. This includes Buddy Bolden, Benny Goodman, Louis Armstrong, Art Tatum, Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, and John Coltrane. There are even more jazz greats who have contributed to jazz. The form of music we know as jazz has existed ever since the late 19th century, and is still alive. It consisted of ... created modal jazz by arranging songs so certain parts of each song would be kept in the same key, chord, and mode for up to 16 measures. This allowed the improvisor to have more freedom. John Coltrane, a tenor saxophonist and composer, had participated in the bebop period by composing the complex and famous song "Giant Steps". Later he composed songs which were for modal jazz, such as "My Favorite Things ... influenced with bebop, and he improvised on the trumpet with a "cool" style soon to be copied by many other musicians. Later in his life he was influenced by rock, and he helped develop fusion. John Coltrane was a tenor saxophonist and composer. Appearing famous in the 50s and 60s, Coltrane was known for his awesome soloing on the tenor sax and the complexity of the songs he wrote. He ...
- 1316: Dredd Scott Decision
- ... under the Kansas-Nebraska Act, states were allowed to vote on whether they will allow slavery or not, known commonly as popular sovereignty. In St. Louis, Scott was sold to an army surgeon named Dr. John Emerson in 1833. A year later, Emerson, on a tour of duty, took Scott, his slave, to Illinois, a free state. In 1836, Emerson's military career then took the both of them to the ... territory, he was indirectly freed and remained freed. By this time Mrs. Emerson had married, moved to New England with her new husband, and left these affairs and ownership of the Scotts to her brother, John F. A. Sanford. After Scott was declared free by the courts, Sanford sought an appeal from the Missouri Supreme Court. In 1852 in, Scott v. Emerson, the Missouri Supreme Court reversed the decision by the ... which so threatened slavery"[Hall, 797]. His attempt to do this, however, backfired. THE DISSENTERS This case was split 7 to 2, mostly on ideological lines. The two dissenters to Taney's opinion were Justice John McLean of Ohio and Justice Benjamin r. Curtis of Massachusetts. It was Curtis in particular who disagreed with Taney on just about every point. Curtis said that even before the Constitution was written, there ...
- 1317: The Hoa Lo Prison Camp
- ... were beaten for a variety of reasons; for example, a prisoner would be told to sign a paper and if he refused, he was beaten. The papers were usually statements or words quoted from Bobby Kennedy or Senator William Fulbright. The POWs learned to sign the papers using fictitious names; such as, "Ima Bullshitter." The communists didn't like it, but it was better than not signing it at all (Colvin ... be answered. However, if any men remained and died there, they should know they died with dignity, they died for their country-America. Bibliography Colvin, Rod. First Heroes. New York: Irvington Publishers, Inc., 1987. Hubbell, John. P.O.W. New York: Reader's Digest Press, 1976. Blakey, Scott. Prisoner At War. New York: Anchor Press, 1978.
- 1318: Vietnam War - The War We Should Have Won
- ... the United States started sending financial and military aid to South Vietnam, hoping to stop the spread of communism. The flow of 'military advisors' from 700 to over 14,000 1 built up steadily through John Kennedy's presidency, and after he was assassinated, Lyndon B. Johnson escalated the war to the point of no return. Johnson used the ludicrous domino theory to justify the military buildup in Vietnam. American people were ...
- 1319: The Lexus And The Olive Trees
- ... is a lot like a Ouija board sometimes pieces are moved around by the obvious hand of the superpower, and sometimes they are moved around by hidden hands of the supermarkets. Relation s historians Paul Kennedy and John Lewis Gaddis wrote in an essay the fact that particularists are too often, in too many countries, the ones still making and analyzing foreign policy. They go on to say that the dominant trend within ...
- 1320: Like Water for Chocolate: Summary
- ... sorrow of loss of her love and throughout the story appears as a kindly ghost. Pedro and Rosaura move away from the ranch leaving Tita alone. She then discovers her love for a local doctor, John Brown, who cares for her deeply. Tita realizes her love for John could never compare to her suppressed feelings for Pedro. As the story progresses, many tragedies occur, but Tita and Pedro still have undying love for each other. Each of us is born with a box ... fire is its food. If one doesn't find out in time what will set off these explosions, the box of matches dampens, and not a single match will ever be lighted. This theory that John tells to Tita is very symbolic in this tale of losing hope and rekindling the flame that seems to be burning away. Like Water for Chocolate is Laura Esquivel's first novel. Originally she ...
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