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18 hours ago · It was modern jazz’s annus mirabilis.As James Kaplan writes in his book about trumpeter Miles Davis, saxophonist John Coltrane and pianist Bill Evans — three mid-century geniuses — 1959 ...
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18 hours ago · 1940–1965: Early life and career Childhood Zappa was born on December 21, 1940, in Baltimore, Maryland. His mother, Rose Marie (née Colimore), was of Italian (Neapolitan and Sicilian) and French ancestry; his father, whose name was anglicized to Francis Vincent Zappa, was an immigrant from Partinico, near Palermo on the Italian island of Sicily, and was of Greek and Arab descent. [nb 2 ...
18 hours ago · The first successful man-made fusion device was the boosted fission weapon tested in 1951 in the Greenhouse Item test. The first true fusion weapon was 1952's Ivy Mike, and the first practical example was 1954's Castle Bravo. In these devices, the energy released by a fission explosion compresses and heats the fuel, starting a fusion reaction.