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What made Sammy Davis, Jr., the world's greatest entertainer?
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Isadora Duncan, ink on paper by Edmond van Saanen Algi, 1917; in the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.
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An ancient egyptian hieroglyphic painted carving showing the falcon headed god Horus seated on a throne and holding a golden fly whisk. Before him are the Pharoah Seti and the goddess Isis. Interior wall of the temple to Osiris at Abydos, Egypt.
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Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744-1855), founder of the house of Rothschild; lithograph by Friedrich Lieder, c. 1830.
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The Cheshire Cat is a fictional cat from Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. (Alice in Wonderland)
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A Factory Interior, watercolor, pen and gray ink, graphite, and white goache on wove paper by unknown artist, c. 1871-91; in the Yale Center for British Art. Industrial Revolution England
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What made Sammy Davis, Jr., the world's greatest entertainer?
Davis recorded more than 50 albums and starred in three Broadway shows.
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Nicholas Brothers
The Nicholas Brothers in Orchestra Wives (1942).
Twentieth Century Fox/The Kobal Collection
Jimmy Doyle and Harland Dixon
Jimmy Doyle (left) and Harland Dixon, performers known for a dance style called buck-and-wing,...
Courtesy of the Dance Collection, the New York Public Library at Lincoln Center, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations
Bill Robinson
Bill Robinson in director Walter Lang's film Hooray for Love (1935).
Hulton Archive/Getty Images
The Little Colonel
Bill (“Bojangles”) Robinson and Shirley Temple egging each other on in The Little...
© 1935 Fox Film Corporation; all rights reserved
42nd Street
Ruby Keeler as ingenue Peggy Sawyer, with others of the cast, in the backstage musical...
Warner Brothers/The Kobal Collection
Gregory Hines and Savion Glover
Gregory Hines (left) and Savion Glover facing off at the American Tap Dance Foundation's...
Mario Tama/Getty Images
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