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Hace 19 horas · Rock is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s, developing into a range of different styles from the mid-1960s, particularly in the United States and the United Kingdom. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, a style that drew directly from the blues and rhythm and blues genres of African-American ...
Hace 19 horas · In Ireland, the Wolfe Tones is perhaps the best known band in the folk protest/rebel music tradition, recording political material since the late 1960s including songs by Dominic Behan on albums such as Let the People Sing and Rifles of the I.R.A. Christy Moore has also recorded much political material, including on debut solo album Paddy on the Road, produced by and featuring songs by Dominic ...
Hace 19 horas · Bruce Conner (1933–2008), multimedia artist, lived in San Francisco in the mid-1960s; Pam DeLuco (born 1968), textile and fiber artist, papermaker and book arts, based in San Francisco; Jo Hanson (1918–2007), environmental artist and activist; David Ireland (1930–2009), American sculptor, conceptual artist and Minimalist architect
Hace 19 horas · Elvis Presley was the best-selling musical artist of the decade. He is considered as the leading figure of the rock and roll and rockabilly movement of the 1950s. Popular music in the early 1950s was essentially a continuation of the crooner sound of the previous decade, with less emphasis on the jazz-influenced big band style and more emphasis on a conservative, operatic, symphonic style of ...
Hace 19 horas · The 1960 United States presidential election was the 44th quadrennial presidential election.It was held on Tuesday, November 8, 1960. In a closely contested election, Democratic Senator John F. Kennedy defeated the incumbent Republican Vice President Richard Nixon.This was the first election in which 50 states participated, marking the first participation of Alaska and Hawaii, and the last in ...
Hace 19 horas · Following life forms examined in the 1960s documentary The Rare Ones. Narrator IMAX – "Survival Island" 1x42 min: Various animal populations of South Georgia island. Writer and narrator 1998: The Life of Birds: 10x50 min: Various species of birds and their ways of life. Writer and presenter The Origin of Species: An Illustrated Guide: 1x30 min
Hace 19 horas · 2,000,000–4,500,000 displaced, [13] 500,000 of whom fled abroad [14] The Nigerian Civil War (6 July 1967 – 15 January 1970), also known as the Biafran War, was a civil war fought between Nigeria and the Republic of Biafra, a secessionist state which had declared its independence from Nigeria in 1967. Nigeria was led by General Yakubu Gowon ...
