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Brubeck rose to fame in the 1950s and became an international jazz star.Christopher Cruise has more on the life and work of this great American artist.That is "Blue Rondo A La Turk," from Dave Brubeck...

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News of her success in Scandinavia did not mean much to concert hall owners in the United States.They knew black concert singers were not popular.Anderson was back where she began -- singing at church...

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(MUSIC: "der schmied,op.19/4") Marian Anderson was born in Philadelphia,Pennsylvania in the early nineteen hundreds.She began singing in church.Soon, her rich deep voice became widely known in the are...

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A tall black woman is singing in a concert hall.Her eyes are closed.She is not looking at the crowd of peoplesitting silently before her.But she feels their presence.She tries to make the musictouch t...

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It took Kurt Vonnegut about twenty-five years to write his most famous book, "Slaughterhouse-Five." It was published in nineteen sixty-nine. The book remains required reading in high school and colleg...

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It was the morning of March 27, 1985. Clive Wearing woke from sleep. His wife Deborah began talking to him. But Clive did not know what was happening. He could not remember his wife’s name. Deborah ca...

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Wilbur Wright was born in eighteen sixty-seven near Melville, Indiana.His brother Orville was born four years later in Dayton,Ohio.Throughout their lives,they were best friends.As Wilbur once said: "F...

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The name Eleanor Creesy is almost unknown today.But in the middle eighteen hundreds she was a famous woman.Those were the days of wooden sailing ships.It was a time before ships had engines.Cloth sail...