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Hace 1 día · West Side Story is a musical conceived by Jerome Robbins with music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and a book by Arthur Laurents.. Inspired by William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet, the story is set in the mid-1950s in the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City, then a multiracial, blue-collar neighborhood. The musical explores the rivalry between the Jets and ...
Hace 1 hora · Good Morning America welcomes the winner of American Idol, alongside actress Anya Taylor-Joy and journalist Elizabeth Beller as guests on the show. Abi Carter was crowned the winner of American Idol Season 22, marking the first female winner in four years. The 21-year-old from Indio, California, beat out fellow finalists Jack Blocker and Will Moseley.
Hace 1 día · Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted.The individual episodes were (with a few exceptions noted below) between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.
Hace 1 día · Sofia Danova (1879–1946), Bulgarian teacher and philanthropist, first Bulgarian woman to graduate in mathematics. Christine Darden (born 1942), American aeronautical engineer who researches sonic booms. Geraldine Claudette Darden (born 1936), one of the first African-American women to earn a PhD in mathematics.
Hace 1 día · This list of people executed in New York gives the names of some of the people executed in New York, both before and after statehood in the United States (including as New Amsterdam), as well as the person's date of execution, method of execution, and the name of the Governor of New York at the date of execution. 1963 marked the last execution in New York State.
Hace 1 día · Early life and vocal training. Julia Elizabeth Wells was born on 1 October 1935 in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, England. Her mother, Barbara Ward Wells (née Morris; 25 July 1910 –1984) was born in Chertsey and married Edward Charles "Ted" Wells (1908–1990), a teacher of metalwork and woodwork, in 1932. Andrews was conceived as a result of an affair her mother had with a family friend.
Hace 1 día · Zachary Taylor Davis, architect, Comiskey Park, Archbishop Quigley Preparatory Seminary; Clinton Davisson, Nobel Prize-winning physicist who discovered electron diffraction; Charles G. Dawes, Vice President of United States 1925–29, winner of Nobel Peace Prize (born in Ohio) Jimmy Dawkins, blues musician (born in Mississippi)
