Stooges guitarist (b. 1948) Dizzy Gillespie Dizzy Gillespie Dizzy Gillespie in 1955 Background information Birth name John Birks Gillespie Born October 21, 1917 ( 1917-10-21 ) Cheraw, South Carolina , U.S. ] He was also crowned a traditional chief in Nigeria, received the Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres -- France's most prestigious cultural award—was named regent professor

magazine's 100 most influential people in 2005. However, I had no idea he had Jamaican roots until my dentist told me yesterday. He just read Gladwell's Outliers . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_Gladwell Gladwell's British father, Graham, is a civil engineering professor emeritus at the University of Waterloo ; his mother, Joyce, is a Jamaican -born psychotherapist . Gladwell has said that his mother,

prohibition became a failure in North America and elsewhere, as smuggling and bootlegging (rum-running) became widespread and organized crime took control of the distribution of alcohol. Distilleries and breweries in Canada , Mexico , and the Caribbean flourished as their products were either consumed by visiting Americans or illegally imported to the U.S. Chicago became notorious as a haven for

IN MEMORY 1946 – Kitty Cheatham , American singer (b. 1864) 1979 – Charles Mingus , American musician (b. 1922) 1997 – Burton Lane , American composer and lyricist (b. 1912)

i skolan: börja med 1 och sluta med 10. Noll finns överhuvudtaget inte, och i tideräkningen gick man direkt från år 1 före Kristus, till år 1 efter Kristus. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year _zero ) The third millennium of the Gregorian calendar began on 1 January 2001, rather than the popularly-celebrated 1 January 2000. This is a direct consequence of the absence of

for those curious as to what the wiki page says: QUOTE (wiki) A decade is a period of ten years. The word is derived (via French) from the Late Latin decadem which actually stands for ten days. The other words for spans of years also come from Latin: lustrum (5 years), century (100 years), millennium (1000 years). Although any period

How do you figure they regenerated? Think like Einstein, think relatively!!! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Largest_cities_in_the _United_States_by_population_by_decade# 1950 1 New York New York 7,891,957 2 Chicago Illinois 3,620,962 5 Detroit Michigan 1,849,568 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Largest_cities_in_the _United_States_by_population_by_decade# 2000 1 New York New York 8,008,278 ( and still gaining!) 3 Chicago Illinois 2,896,016 ( it gained population in the 1990s ) 10 Detroit Michigan 951,270 (Since 2000 Detroit has slipped further

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