FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS Harry Belafonte (born Harold George Bellanfanti Jr.; March 1, 1927 – April 25, 2023) was an American singer, actor and activist, who popularized calypso music with international audiences in the 1950s. His breakthrough album Calypso (1956) was the first million-selling LP by a single artist. Belafonte was best known for […]

FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS Leonard Gordon Goodman (25 April 1944 – 22 April 2023) was an English professional ballroom dancer, dance teacher, and dance competition adjudicator. He appeared as head judge on the UK television programme Strictly Come Dancing, where various celebrities compete for the glitter ball trophy, from its […]

FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS John Barry Humphries AO CBE (17 February 1934 – 22 April 2023) was an Australian comedian, actor, author, satirist and drag artist. He was best known for writing and playing his stage and television characters Dame Edna Everage and Sir Les Patterson. For his delivery of Dadaist and absurdist humour to millions, his biographer […]

FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS Scrabble is a word game in which two to four players score points by placing tiles, each bearing a single letter, onto a game board divided into a 15×15 grid of squares. The tiles must form words that, in crossword fashion, read left to right in rows or downward […]

FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS “La Marseillaise” is the national anthem of France. The song was written in 1792 by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle in Strasbourg after the declaration of war by France against Austria, and was originally titled “Chant de guerre pour l’Armée du Rhin” (“War Song for the Army of the Rhine“). The French National […]

FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS Natalie Wood (née Zacharenko; July 20, 1938 – November 29, 1981) was an American actress who began her career in film as a child and successfully transitioned to young adult roles. Wood started acting at age four and was given a co-starring role at […]

FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS The Blues Brothers are an American blues and soul revivalist band founded in 1978 by comedians Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi as part of a musical sketch on Saturday Night Live. Belushi and Aykroyd fronted the band, in character, respectively, as lead vocalist ‘Joliet‘ Jake Blues and harmonica player/vocalist Elwood Blues, donning black suits with matching fedoras and sunglasses. […]

FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS Earth Day is an annual event on April 22 to demonstrate support for environmental protection. First held on April 22, 1970, it now includes a wide range of events coordinated globally by EARTHDAY.ORG (formerly Earth Day Network) including 1 billion people in more than 193 […]

FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS Eugene Wesley Roddenberry Sr. (August 19, 1921 – October 24, 1991) was an American television screenwriter, producer, and creator of Star Trek: The Original Series, its sequel spin-off series Star Trek: The Animated Series, and Star Trek: The Next Generation. Born in El Paso, Texas, Roddenberry grew up […]

FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS Anthony Felix Gemignani (born August 23, 1973) is an American chef, restaurateur, and author. In 2009, Gemignani opened Tony’s Pizza Napoletana in the North Beach neighborhood of San Francisco, California. Gemignani is a pizzaiolo and chef, having won 13 world titles in pizza making and opening numerous restaurants. He has appeared on multiple […]

FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS Charles Frazier Stanley (September 25, 1932 – April 18, 2023) was an American Baptist pastor and writer. He was senior pastor of First Baptist Church in Atlanta for 49 years and took on emeritus status in 2020.He founded and was president of In Touch Ministries, which widely broadcast his sermons […]

FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS A fishing rod is a long, thin rod used by anglers to catch fish by manipulating a line ending in a hook (formerly known as an angle, hence the term “angling”). At its most basic form, a fishing rod is a straight rigid stick/pole with a line attached to one end (as seen in […]

FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS John Harvey Kellogg (February 26, 1852 – December 14, 1943) was an American businessman, inventor, and physician who was an advocate of theological modernism and the Progressive Movement. He was the director of the Battle Creek Sanitarium in Battle Creek, Michigan, founded by members of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church. It combined aspects of a […]

FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS The Jefferson Memorial is a presidential memorial built in Washington, D.C. between 1939 and 1943 in honor of Thomas Jefferson, the principal author of the United States Declaration of Independence, a central intellectual force behind the American Revolution, founder of the Democratic-Republican Party, and the nation’s third president. The memorial features multiple quotes […]

FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS The 5th Dimension is an American popular music vocal group. Their music encompasses sunshine pop,[1] pop soul[1] and psychedelic soul.[2] Formed as the Versatiles in late 1965, the group changed its name to “the 5th Dimension” by 1966.[3] Between 1967 and 1973 they charted with 20 top 40 hits on Billboard’s Hot 100, […]

FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (RRHOF), sometimes simply referred to as the Rock Hall, is a museum and hall of fame located in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, United States, on the shore of Lake Erie. The museum documents the history of rock music and the artists, producers, engineers, and other notable figures and personnel […]

FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS Robert Blake (born Michael James Vijencio Gubitosi; September 18, 1933 – March 9, 2023) was an American actor known for his roles in the 1967 film In Cold Blood and the 1970s U.S. television series Baretta. Blake began acting as a child, with a lead role in the […]

FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun. It is named after Greek sky deity Uranus (Caelus), who in Greek mythology is the father of Cronus (Saturn), a grandfather of Zeus (Jupiter) and great-grandfather of Ares (Mars). Uranus has the third-largest planetary radius and fourth-largest planetary mass in the Solar System. The planet is similar in composition to Neptune, […]

FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS The majority of the United States observes daylight saving time, the practice of setting the clock forward by one hour when there is longer daylight during the day, so that evenings have more daylight and mornings have less. Exceptions include Arizona (except for the Navajo, who do observe […]

FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS The Anschluss (German: [ˈʔanʃlʊs] (listen), or Anschluß,[1][a] lit. ’joining’ or ‘connection’), also known as the Anschluß Österreichs (pronunciation (help·info), English: Annexation of Austria), was the annexation of the Federal State of Austria into the German Reich on 13 March 1938. The idea of an Anschluss (a united Austria and Germany that would form a “Greater Germany“)[b] began after the unification of Germany excluded Austria […]