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Hace 1 día · Billie Holiday (born Eleanora Fagan; April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959) was an American jazz and swing music singer. Nicknamed "Lady Day" by her friend and music partner, Lester Young, Holiday made a significant contribution to jazz music and pop singing.Her vocal style, strongly influenced by jazz instrumentalists, inspired a new way of manipulating phrasing and tempo.
Hace 1 día · Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907). This proto-cubist work is considered a seminal influence on subsequent trends in modernist painting.. Modernism was an early 20th-century movement in literature, visual arts, and music that emphasized experimentation, abstraction, and subjective experience. Philosophy, politics, architecture, and social issues were also aspects of the movement ...
Hace 1 día · Bruce Arena (* 1951), Fußballtrainer. Darren Aronofsky (* 1969), Filmregisseur und Drehbuchautor. Donald Joel Aronow (1927–1987), Designer, Konstrukteur, Betreiber und Rennfahrer von Rennbooten. Beatrice Arthur (1922–2009), Schauspielerin. Joe Ascione (1961–2016), Jazz-Schlagzeuger.
Hace 1 día · Soweto (/ s ə ˈ w ɛ t oʊ,-ˈ w eɪ t-,-ˈ w iː t-/) is a township of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality in Gauteng, South Africa, bordering the city's mining belt in the south.Its name is an English syllabic abbreviation for South Western Townships. Formerly a separate municipality, it is now incorporated in the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality, and one of ...
Hace 1 día · 1986 Die Reaktorkatastrophe von Tschernobyl: Am 28. Januar kommt es kurz nach dem Start zum Auseinanderbrechen der Challenger und damit dem zu diesem Zeitpunkt schwersten Unglück in der Raumfahrtgeschichte der USA : Am 10. Oktober kommt es zum tödlichsten Erdbeben in der Geschichte von El Salvador mit über 1.000 Toten, die Erschütterung verursacht erhebliche Schäden in der Hauptstadt San ...
Hace 6 horas · Pan-African advocates include leaders such as Toussaint Louverture, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Henri Christophe, François Duvalier, Aimé Césaire, Haile Selassie, Edward Wilmot Blyden, Nnamdi Azikiwe, Patrice Lumumba, Julius Nyerere, Robert Sobukwe, Ahmed Sékou Touré, Kwame Nkrumah, King Sobhuza II, Robert Mugabe, Thomas Sankara, Kwame Ture, Dr. John Pombe Magufuli, Muammar Gaddafi, Walter ...
Hace 1 día · Monroe County is a county in the U.S. state of New York, located along Lake Ontario's southern shore. As of 2022, the population was 752,035, according to Census Bureau estimates. Its county seat and largest city is Rochester. The county is named after James Monroe, the fifth president of the United States. Monroe County is part of the Rochester, NY Metropolitan Statistical Area.
