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1 day ago · Harry Belafonte. Harry Belafonte (born Harold George Bellanfanti Jr.; March 1, 1927 – April 25, 2023) was an American singer, actor, and civil rights activist who popularized calypso music with international audiences in the 1950s and 1960s. Belafonte's career breakthrough album Calypso (1956) was the first million-selling LP by a single artist.
1 day ago · Medieval and early modern era 1st page of the Novgorod Psalter of c. 1000, the oldest survived Slavic book. Scholars typically use the term Old Russian, in addition to the terms medieval Russian literature and early modern Russian literature, or pre-Petrian literature, to refer to Russian literature until the reforms of Peter the Great, tying literary development to historical periodization ...
19 hours ago · Background. The American independent film, prior to the 1980s and first half of the 1990s, was previously associated with Poverty Row b movies (e.g. Republic Pictures) exploitation films, avant-garde underground cinema (when it was known as the New American Cinema), social and political documentaries, experimental animated shorts (since the mid-1930s featuring works by pioneer animators Mary ...
19 hours ago · Madelyn Dunham – grandmother of Barack Obama (did not graduate) Barry Kerzin, B.A. 1972 – professor of medicine, Buddhist monk and teacher, and personal physician to the Dalai Lama; Timothy Leary, Ph.D. 1950 – psychologist and counterculture figure; Brittany Maynard, BA – activist for death with dignity
1 day ago · George Englund (director); Joe Massot, Phil Austin, Peter Bergman, David Ossman, Phil Proctor (screenplay); John Rubinstein, Pat Quinn, Don Johnson, Country Joe and the Fish, Elvin Jones, Doug Kershaw, William Challee, Dick Van Patten, The James Gang, White Lightnin', The New York Rock Ensemble. 24. The Music Lovers.
1 day ago · Stephen Robert Nockolds: britischer Geochemiker und Petrograph vor allem von magmatischen Gesteinen 80 7. Februar Alan J. Perlis: US-amerikanischer Informatiker 67 7. Februar Jimmy Van Heusen: US-amerikanischer Komponist 77 8. Februar François-Nestor Adam: italienisch-schweizerischer Priester, Bischof von Sitten 87 8. Februar Rhys Adrian
1 day ago · The actor, who cemented his leading-man status with the hit romantic comedy Anyone but You, will star in Paramount's The Running Man, a new adaptation of the Stephen King novel that Edgar Wright will direct. Wright, who's been attached to the project since 2021, is also producing along with partner Nira Park and genre mainstay Simon Kinberg.
