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1 day ago · Frank Vincent Zappa (/ ˈ z æ p ə / ZAP-ə; December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American musician, composer, and bandleader.In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa composed rock, pop, jazz, jazz fusion, orchestral and musique concrète works; he also produced almost all of the 60-plus albums that he released with his band the Mothers of Invention and as a solo artist.
6 hours ago · Wilhelm Richard Wagner ( / ˈvɑːɡnər / VAHG-nər; [1] [2] German: [ˈʁɪçaʁt ˈvaːɡnɐ] ⓘ; 22 May 1813 – 13 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas (or, as some of his mature works were later known, "music dramas"). Unlike most opera composers, Wagner ...
6 hours ago · The Curse of the Bambino was a superstitious sports curse in Major League Baseball (MLB) derived from the 86-year championship drought of the Boston Red Sox between 1918 and 2004. The superstition was named after Babe Ruth, colloquially known as "The Bambino", who played for the Red Sox until he was sold to the New York Yankees in 1920. [1]
1 day ago · Early life Gehrig was born June 19, 1903, at 1994 Second Avenue (according to his birth certificate) in the Yorkville neighborhood of Manhattan ; he weighed almost 14 pounds (6.4 kg) at birth. He was the second of four children of German immigrants Christina Foch (1881–1954) and Heinrich Gehrig (1867–1946). Christina was born in 1881 in Wilster, Schleswig-Holstein, a province of pre-World ...
1 day ago · David B. Goldstein: Ph.D. physics: 2002: energy conservation specialist, co–director of the Energy Program at the Natural Resources Defense Council: Linda Griffith: Ph.D. 1988: 2006: professor of bioengineering at MIT: David Gross: Ph.D. physics 1966: 1987: Nobel laureate (Physics, 2004) (also listed in Nobel laureates section) Eva Harris: Ph ...
1 day ago · Early life External audio Country Music Legend Merle Haggard, interviewed by Terry Gross on Fresh Air, 42:14, August 14, 1995. Haggard's parents were Flossie Mae (née Harp; 1902–1984) and James Francis Haggard (1899–1946). The family moved to California from their home in Checotah, Oklahoma, during the Great Depression, after their barn burned in 1934. They settled with their two elder ...
