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The Jazz Legend Amy Winehouse Said Taught Her How to Sing (opens the original)
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Considering her originality and inimitability as a performer, it should come as no surprise that Amy Winehouse was selective about the musical influences that shaped her short but hugely successful career. Of course, some of these influences were stronger than others. Born in Enfield, London, England in 1983, Winehouse was first introduced to music via her family, including her father, brother, and grandmother. Her grandmother Cynthia had been an accomplished jazz singer in her own right, perfor
The Beatles Movie That Helped Inspire 'The Monkees' (opens the original)
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During the 1960s, then-aspiring filmmaker Bob Rafelson spent years trying to pitch a television sitcom about an American pop band, but network executives couldn’t see the concept working—until The Beatles proved them wrong. In 1964—at the same time they released their third studio album A Hard Day’s Night—the Fab Four starred in a musical comedy of the same name. Written by Welsh playwright Alun Owen and directed by Richard Lester, the film followed a fictional day in the band’s lives in which t
The Beautiful Reason Roses Appear on Names at the 9/11 Memorial (opens the original)
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If you've ever visited the 9/11 Memorial in New York City, you've surely noticed flowers sticking out of the engraved names of some of the victims. They’re brought by visiting loved ones, except for the white roses. Those are placed there by the National September 11 Memorial & Museum. Every morning, a member of the museum's Visitor Services staff consults a document that contains the birthdays of all 2,983 victims in chronological order. They then take a single white rose for every victim whose
The Beatles Album That Helped Inspire Otis Redding's Biggest Hit (opens the original)
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After an exhausting touring season, the Georgia-born singer-songwriter Otis Redding spent a week in August 1967 living on a houseboat in Sausalito, California, overlooking the Bay of San Francisco. It was here that he composed what would prove the biggest and most celebrated song of his career, "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay." The houseboat, which Redding rented along with his promoter, Bill Graham, was an obvious inspiration for the song—but not the only one. The story goes that Redding spen
The Medieval Court Cases That Put Animals on Trial (opens the original)
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In 2008, a bear in North Macedonia was convicted for stealing honey from a beekeeper, who in turn received financial compensation from the state. Once upon a time, such court cases were not uncommon. Legal records show that between the late Middle Ages and early Enlightenment, various European countries prosecuted and punished animals just as they would human culprits. But why? The most comprehensive overview of this topic, E.P. Evans’ Chronological List of the Prosecution of Animals from the Ni
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