Ella Fitzgerald is certainly one of the most famous Ellas on this list. One of the famous singers named Ella, she started her career with the Chick Webb Orchestra. “Dream a Little Dream of Me,”“Cheek to Cheek,” and “It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)” are...
He duetted with some of the biggest solo singing stars of his time, including Bing Crosby, Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong. Jordan was also an actor and a film personality—he appeared in dozens of "soundies" (promotional film clips), made numerous cameos in mainstream features and short...
In her first major photographic essay entitled Carnival Strippers (1972-1975), she showcased the working conditions of women who earned a living working as strippers at fairs in New England. She combined her photographs with audio recordings of the women, their clients, and their managers. In ...
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To bring a baby into the world, women go through incredible pain. In this poem, Edgar Guest (1881-1959) shares how the experience of becoming a father is also painful. He goes through his own pain by not being able to do anything to help with labor and delivery. He frets and paces ...
She was one of four African American women who would serve in the Nurse Corps. General: Benjamin O. Davis, Sr. served as a general in the army from 1940 to 1948. Davis’s military career went back a bit further than that, however; he also served during the Spanish Civil War (1898 ...
And the women her neighbors gave it a name, saying, There is a son born to Naomi; and they called his name Obed: he is the father of Jesse, the father of David. Ruth 4:17 Now there was a certain man of Ramathaimzophim, of mount Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah, the son of...
Though not the first to use scat singing, Ella Fitzgerald put it on the map. Her ability to use her voice as an instrument, improvising with syllables much like a saxophonist or trumpeter, showcased the depth of her musicality and understanding of the jazz idiom. ...
Christian Pondella / Red Bull Content Pool 13 Kristin Harila, mountaineer (born 1986) She is a role model for equality and that women can achieve the same as men. Even though the Norwegian woman had to abandon her attempt to climb all 14 eight-thousanders within six months in 2022, she...
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