Jeff Goldblum plays poignant jazz piano solo ‘As Time Goes By’ at BAFTA film awards 10 most romantic movie scores of all time Did you know Jeff Goldblum is actually a world-class jazz pianist? Meet the man who invented the Nocturne – and no, it wasn’t Chopin......
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William C Speidel (1912–1988), known as Bill Speidel, was a columnist for The Seattle Times and a self-made historian who wrote the books Sons of the Profits and Doc Maynard, The Man Who Invented Seattle about the people who settled and built Seattle, Washington. Speidel is also credited...
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If you have ever paddled acanoe, napped in ahammock, savored abarbecue, smokedtobaccoor tracked ahurricaneacrossCuba, you have paid tribute to the Taíno, the Native people who invented those words long before Christopher Columbus arrived in the New World in 1492. ...
Lewiston: Hustler's Tavern: "Barkeep Catherine Hustler Invented the Cocktail Here in 1813" So why not just cut to the chase. Lewiston, NY (Niagara County) is the birthplace of the American cocktail. And what a story it is. From their website: "Hustler's Tavern is a famous historic si...
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