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Billie Holiday (born Eleanora Fagan; April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959) was an American jazz and swing music singer. Nicknamed "Lady Day" by her friend and music partner, Lester Young, Holiday made a significant contribution to jazz music and pop singing.
Unconventional young woman, often from a middle-class background, typically in her late teens or early twenties, defied her parents' wishes by embracing a bold, unconventional lifestyle with short bobbed hair, revealing outfits, lipstick, and a free-spirited attitude; Flappers are associated with the Jazz Age of the 1920s [171]
The panda pair was China’s gift to mark the Nordic nation’s 100 years of independence in 2017, and they were supposed to be on loan until 2033. A zoo in Finland with financial woes is ...
Machito, jazz singer and bandleader; Fats Navarro (1923–1950), American jazz trumpet player; a pioneer of the bebop style of jazz improvisation in the 1940s; of Cuban-Black-Chinese descent [90] Chico O'Farrill, jazz trumpeter; composer, arranger; Arturo Sandoval, jazz trumpeter and pianist; composer; Mongo Santamaría, Latin jazz musician ...
The buildings would house 1,513 residences, from studios to three bedrooms, and include a 287-room hotel, 1,300-seat movie theater, nearly 150,000 square feet of shops and restaurants, and more ...
California Attorney General Rob Bonta filed a lawsuit against ExxonMobil on Monday for what the state calls a “decades-long campaign of deception” in which the oil and gas giant allegedly ...
This is a list of individuals serving in the United States House of Representatives (as of September 23, 2024, the 118th Congress). [1] The membership of the House comprises 435 seats for representatives from the 50 states, apportioned by population, as well as six seats for non-voting delegates from U.S. territories and the District of Columbia.
Peltola was one of only five House Democrats in the 2022 midterm elections who won (or flipped) a district that Donald Trump had carried in the 2020 presidential election. [a] She outran Joe Biden's vote share by more than 20%, the highest overperformance of any House Democrat in the midterms.