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2 days 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.
Apr 19, 2024 · House of Mirth. “House of Mirth” is Edith Wharton’s brilliant critique of the glittering but shallow world of New York society at the turn of the 20th century, seen through the eyes of the captivating but doomed Lily Bart. Lily, a woman of beauty and charm, navigates the precarious social landscape, seeking marriage to secure her place ...
Apr 28, 2024 · In February or March 1945, a German-born Jewish girl named Anne Frank died inside the Nazis’ Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. The 15-year-old, who likely succumbed to typhus, was one of about 50,000 Holocaust victims who died in Bergen-Belsen. Because of this, few people, aside from her fellow prisoners, took note of Anne Frank’s death ...
3 days ago · The Burning Child is a 2019 American-Austrian feature documentary film directed by Joseph Leo Koerner and Christian D. Bruun. [1] Created by Harvard art historian Joseph Koerner, the film explores Viennese architectural Modernism through the story of Koerner's father, painter Henry Koerner, who escaped Vienna after Adolf Hitler 's annexation of ...
4 days ago · Kate Aitken's Cook Book: The All-Time Favourite Canadian Cook Book: Kelley Aitken: 1954 short stories Love in a Warm Climate: Will Aitken: 1949 novelist, journalist Terre Haute, Realia: Donald Akenson: 1941 novelist, historian Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm: 1965 poet My Heart is a Stray Bullet: Omar El Akkad: 1982 novelist American War, What Strange ...
2 days ago · Frank Russell Capra (born Francesco Rosario Capra; May 18, 1897 – September 3, 1991) was an Italian-born American film director, producer, and screenwriter who was the creative force behind some of the major award-winning films of the 1930s and 1940s. Born in Italy and raised in Los Angeles from the age of five, his rags-to-riches story has ...
May 1, 2024 · Batman is an ongoing American comic book series featuring the DC Comics superhero Batman as its main protagonist. The character, created by Bill Finger and Bob Kane, [2] first appeared in Detective Comics #27 ( cover dated May 1939).
