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Composers & Their Music
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the Beatles. Publicity still from Help! (1965) directed by Richard Lester starring The Beatles (John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr) a British musical quartet. film rock music movie
What's the Difference Between Tempo and Rhythm?
Woman Playing a Theorbo to Two Men, oil on canvas by Gerard Terborch, 1667-1668. (Baroque Art)
What’s That Sound?: 8 Intriguing Early Musical Instruments
The last big concert of Jimi Hendrix before he died in London was in Germany on the isle of Fehmarn 6th of September 1970. The festival was called Love-and-Peace-Festival.
Is 27 an Especially Deadly Age for Musicians?
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Remarkable new details of Pluto's largest moon Charon are revealed in this image from New Horizons' Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI), taken late on July 13, 2015 from a distance of 289,000 miles
Why Is Pluto No Longer a Planet?
Ice Sledge Hockey, Hockey Canada Cup, USA (left) vs Canada, 2009. UBC Thunderbird Arena, Vancouver, BC, competition site for Olympic ice hockey and Paralympic ice sledge hockey. Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, Vancouver Olympics
10 Best Hockey Players of All Time
Small, white rat (genus Rattus) on a glass table. (rodent, laboratory, experiment)
Cruel and Unusual Punishments: 15 Types of Torture
In this aerial photo, structures are damaged and destroyed October 15, 2005 in Balakot, Pakistan. It is estimated that 90% of the city of Balakot was leveled by the earthquake. The death toll in the 7.6 magnitude earthquake that struck northern Pakistan on October 8, 2005 is believed to be 38,000 with at least 1,300 more dead in Indian Kashmir. SEE CONTENT NOTES.
6 of the World’s Deadliest Natural Disasters
King Cobra snake in Malaysia. (reptile)
9 of the World’s Deadliest Snakes
Horses. Equus caballus. Horse stable. A brown horse looks out from his stall through the window.
Horsing Around: 7 of the Weirdest Racehorse Names in History
Chapter 4 pg 42 - Chapter header of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain. Published in 1884 by The American Publishing Company
Periods of American Literature

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Born April 22, 1912 • England
Died October 8, 1953 (aged 41) • London • England

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Ralph Vaughan Williams
Ralph Vaughan Williams
English composer
Thomas Arne, engraving (1782) after an illustration by Francesco Bartolozzi.
Thomas Arne
British composer
Dame Maggie Teyte
English singer
Butt, Dame Clara
Dame Clara Butt
British singer
Hector Berlioz
Hector Berlioz
French composer
Marian Anderson, 1940.
Marian Anderson
American singer
Bryn Terfel
Bryn Terfel
Welsh singer
Annie Louise Cary
American singer
Jenny Lind
Jenny Lind
Swedish singer
Ernestine Schumann-Heink
Ernestine Schumann-Heink
American singer
Marietta Alboni
Marietta Alboni
Italian opera singer
Alma Gluck.
Alma Gluck
American singer
Sir Frederic Hymen Cowen
British conductor and composer
Homer, Louise
Louise Homer
American singer
George Frideric Handel
George Frideric Handel
German-English composer
Purcell, Henry
Henry Purcell
English composer
Anastasia Robinson
English singer
Benjamin Britten
Benjamin Britten
British composer
Damon Albarn
Damon Albarn
British musician
portrait of Arthur Sullivan by John Everett Millais
Arthur Sullivan
British composer

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