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POPSThe Animal Notorious One Mumba was very famous. He was a silverback gorilla who lived most of his life in captivity and recently died, 48 years old, i.e. 90 years in human years.
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POPSLeaky Plumbing Reveals a Rainbow There was nothing in the hotel archives to document what had been found. But this 1927 photograph, which originally appeared in Architecture magazine, proved to be a visual Rosetta stone. Mr. Littler found it in "Grand Hotels of the Jazz Age: The Architecture of Schultze & Weaver," published four years ago by Princeton Architectural Press.
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POPSOscar Peterson Portrait - Limited Edition Print The recent passing of Oscar Peterson has greatly saddened his followers. Peterson, whose early talent and speedy fingers made him one of the world’s best known jazz pianists, died at age 82 on November 25. 2007. Peterson’s illustrious career spanned seven decades. Peterson played with some of the biggest names in jazz, including Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie and Dizzy Gillespie. This portrait print of Oscar Peterson was done in 2005 and is one of the musicians featured by the artist Frederick Brown.
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POPSTributes For Healey Amazing musician. I once saw him play at Terra Blues in NYC and just blowing the place apart. Will be sadly missed. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqU9RZqvFKY
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POPSViktor Schreckengost Vicktor Schreckengost (1906-2008) died on January 26, 2008 at age 101. Schreckengost taught industrial design at the Cleveland Institute of Art (CIA) for more than 50 years, and was a professor emeritus at CIA until his death. He was also the youngest faculty member ever at CIA (then known as the Cleveland School of the Arts). He founded CIA's school of industrial design, the first of its kind in the country. He also enlisted in the Navy at age 37 to help the Allies in World War II. He was flown on secret missions to Europe where he used his modeling knowledge to help improve the radar used in the Battle of the Bulge. Later he helped design prosthetics for wounded soldiers. He retired from the Naval Reserves as a Captain. Schreckengost was also good friends with Cleveland's famed safety director Eliot Ness.
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POPS"Will these guys catch you?", "Sure Honey, they're kids" More: "At 82 she was cartwheeling across the stage and being tossed from the arms of a 60-year-old male dancer to another who was 70," Le Maire recalled of her mother. "I said, 'Mom, are you sure these guys are going to catch you?' She said, 'Sure, honey. They're kids.' "
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POPSWestern Standards Of Beauty: A Timeline Hard to believe as it seems, thin wasn't always in. There are centuries of documentation of female beauty, and except for ours, the trend is fairly consistant: beautiful women are shapely, soft, and rounded. What a contrast is that idea to our current ideal - the waif-like figure introduced by Twiggy and popularized by the likes of Kate Moss! This timeline is an illustrated journey through the last 600 years, from the portraits of the European Renaissance to red-carpet photos of modern celebrities. Take time to study each picture as you scroll. What would our society today say to these women about their bodies? And, perhaps more importantly, what would these women have to say to us?
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POPSIbrahim Ferrer-Homage to a Gran Cantor-with Love "His latest European tour, showcasing boleros Ferrer planned to release in 2006, took him to the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland, Britain, the Netherlands, Austria, France and Spain." "Two of his fellow Buena Vista stars, pianist Ruben Gonzalez and guitarist Compay Segundo, died in 2003. Ferrer leaves a widow, Caridad Diaz."
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