Where was Louis Armstrong born? Where was George Eliot born? Where was Jean-Paul Marat born? Where was Langston Hughes born? Where was Erik the Red born? Where was Hector P. Garcia born? Where was John Tyler born? Where was Ira Hayes born?
At the peak of his careerRobert Louis Stevensoncontracted tuberculosis and fled to the Adirondacks for a cure. Saranac Lake was the home of the pioneering Trudeau clinic which was focusing on a holistic approach to treating the disease. Stevenson holed up in a rooming house in town for a l...
Whether it was Louis Armstrong or Duke Ellington in the thirties, the swing bands in the forties after the war, or Charlie Parker and Bud Powell in the fifties, Dexter Gordon and Eric Dolphy in subsequent years – American jazz musicians could find plenty of skillful and creative European musi...
Charles Mingus was abass player and bandleaderwho grew up in Watts, California, before becoming one of the most influential American jazz musicians of all time. Playing alongside Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong, Mingus carved out a place for himself as a musician and composer. He recorded ov...
Don was born in Omaha and worked for the legendary Don Burden at KOIL in 1973-74. He left KOIL in February of 1974 to join KDAY, which had changed formats to r&b in January of that year, to work with newly appointed pd, Jim Maddox. It was a return to the Southland for Mac, wh...
she persuaded the White House gardener to sell manure from the stables at ten cents a wagonload. It raised more stink than cash. Her spending eventually came to light and became a national scandal. Lincoln was mortified and had to deal with it, all the while referring to it benignly as hi...
is probably the surprise Broadway hit of the year and season. It was a flat-out hilarious hit off-Broadway, but it really hit its stride when it jumped up North to take over a Broadway house with extension after extension. The success and adoration forThe Hills of Californiais no surprise...
The German title of the book was Waffen fur Amerika, or Arms for America, and its subject is the effort of supporters of the American revolution–first the playwright Pierre de Beaumarchais and later the American envoy Benjamin Franklin–to convince King Louis XVI of France to fund arms and ...
In a few minutes, the crew walks over to his car and lifts the hood and he drives out to meet us. Turns out he was in the car talking because he’d gotten boxed in too tightly to get out of the car and so left the key on to listen to the radio – which also left his auto...
the of and to a in that is was he for it with as his on be at by i this had not are but from or have an they which one you were all her she there would their we him been has when who will no more if out so up said what its about than into them can only other time new...