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≡ Category: History, Music, Television | ≅ 1 Comment
On August 1, 1981, MTV took to the U.S. airwaves, forever changing the landscape of American music and pop culture. A recording of the very first broadcast now lives on YouTube, giving you a chance to relive the station’s very first moments. If you were around then, you’ll remember the Apollo 11 moon landing, the [...]
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Jerry Garcia – it would have been his 69th birthday today. But he exited far too soon. At only 53. Here we have him a short year before his death singing a soulful version of Peggy-O. Lyrics here. More Jerry goodness awaits you at the Free Grateful Dead Concert Archive. Enjoy…
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Wendy MacNaughton, an artist and illustrator living in San Francisco, wondered what snacks fueled some of our greatest writers. F. Scott Fitzgerald turned to apples and canned meats, and Kafka to milk, during their daily writing routines. How about Lord Byron, Emily Dickinson, Marcel Proust, John Steinbeck, Truman Capote or food writer Michael Pollan? MacNaughton tells [...]
≡ Category: History, Science | ≅ 4 Comments
Jean-Pierre Houdin spent a couple of decades working as an independent architect around Paris. Then, his career took a big turn. Working with his father, Houdin tried to crack an ancient mystery — how were the great pyramids of Egypt built? Throughout the centuries, various theories have been put forth. Herodotus, who visited Egypt around [...]
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Klaus Sperber was born in Immenstadt, southern Germany, in 1944. As a teenager, he discovered his love for opera and also pop music. In the early 1970s, he moved to New York and soon found many friends among the East Village artists there. Around this time, he started using the pseudonym Klaus Nomi, an allusion [...]
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