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Adolph Hofner
Adolph Hofner (June 8, 1916 - June 2, 2000) was an American Western Swing bandleader.
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April Stevens
April Stevens (born Carol LoTempio, April 29, 1936, Niagara Falls, New York) is an American singer.
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Billy Briggs
Billy Worth Briggs III (born June 8, 1977) is an American independent musician and songwriter from McKinney, Texas. He has written numerous
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Billy J. Kramer
Billy J. Kramer (born William Howard Ashton, 19 August 1943, Bootle, Liverpool, England) is a former British Invasion/Merseybeat singer. In sharing Brian Epstein as a manager with The Beatles he enjoyed access to the songwriting of Lennon and McCartney, recording several of their original compositions.
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Bo Rhambo
Ewell Goldyn Rhambo, known as Bo Rhambo, (born 1923, Austin, Texas) is an American trumpeter and tenor saxophonist.
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Bob Harrington
Bob Harrington (born 1912) was an American jazz vibraphonist.
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Case (singer)
Case Woodard, stage name Case, is an American R&B; singer who was born in New York City.
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Cher
Cher (; born Cherilyn Sarkisian on May 20, 1946) is an American recording artist, actress, director and record producer. Referred to as the Goddess of Pop, she has won an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, an Emmy Award, three Golden Globes, a Cannes Film Festival Award and a People's Choice Award for her work in film, music and television.
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Clay Cole
Clay Cole is a former host and disk jockey, best known for his eponymous television dance program, The Clay Cole Show, which aired in New York City on WNTA and WPIX-TV from 1959 to 1968. The Clay Cole Show was unique among early television rock 'n' roll studio dance shows; it was witty and stylish with a sophisticated New York point-of-view. It was Clay's youth (21), his dancing ability and his fully integrated studio audience that set him apart.
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Cyssero
Cyssero (born Michael Dowell) is an American rapper from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania who records for Imperial Records. Cyssero was signed to The Black Wall Street Records, but left in 2006 after releasing his second album Protege of the Game.
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Dave Bartholomew
Dave Bartholomew (born December 24, 1920, Edgard, Louisiana, United States) is a musician, band leader, composer, and arranger, prominent in the music of New Orleans throughout the second half of the 20th century. His band consisted of himself, drummers Terces LaBune and Randy Quinson, and guitarists Larry Sands and Samuel Kane.
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Don Ralke
Don Ralke was a prolific music arranger, composer, and producer, working for four decades in the Hollywood studio system in films, television, and pop recordings. He was born on July 13, 1920 in Battle Creek, Michigan. Ralke died January 26, 2000 in Santa Rosa, California.
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Doris Akers
Doris Mae Akers (b. May 21, 1923 Brookfield, Missouri, d. July 26, 1995) was an American composer.
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Duke Henderson
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Elmer Bernstein
Elmer Bernstein (April 4, 1922August 18, 2004) was an American composer and conductor best known for his many film scores. In a career which spanned fifty years, he composed music for hundreds of film and television productions. His most popular works include the scores to The Magnificent Seven, The Ten Commandments, The Great Escape, and To Kill a Mockingbird.
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Ernie Freeman
Ernie Freeman (16 August 1922, Cleveland, Ohio – 16 May 1981, Los Angeles, California) was an American pianist, organist and arranger.
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Evidence (artist)
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Fats Domino
Antoine Dominique "Fats" Domino (born February 26, 1928) is an American R&B; and rock and roll pianist and singer-songwriter. He was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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Frankie Ford
Frankie Ford (born August 4, 1939) is an American rock and roll and rhythm and blues singer.
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Freddy Fender
Freddy Fender (June 4, 1937 – October 14, 2006), born Baldemar Garza Huerta in San Benito, Texas, United States, was an American Tejano, country and rock and roll musician, known for his work as a solo artist and in the groups Los Super Seven and the Texas Tornados. He is best known for his 1975 hits "Before the Next Teardrop Falls" and the subsequent remake of his own "Wasted Days and Wasted Nights".
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Garnet Mimms
Garnet Mimms (born Garrett Mimms, 16 November 1933, Ashland, West Virginia) is an American singer, influential in soul music and rhythm and blues.
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George Liberace
George Liberace (July 31, 1911 – October 16, 1983) was an American musician and television performer.
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Georgie Fame
Georgie Fame (born Clive Powell, 26 June 1943, Leigh, Lancashire) is a British rhythm and blues and jazz singer and keyboard player. The one-time rock and roll tour musician, who had a string of 1960s hits, is still a popular performer; often working with contemporaries such as Van Morrison and Bill Wyman.
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Huey "Piano" Smith
Huey "Piano" Smith (born January 26, 1934, New Orleans, Louisiana) is an American rhythm and blues pianist whose sound was influential in rock and roll.
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Irma Thomas
Irma Thomas (born February 18, 1941, Ponchatoula, Louisiana) is a Grammy Award-winning soul and rhythm and blues singer from New Orleans. She is known as the "Soul Queen of New Orleans".
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Jackie DeShannon
Jackie DeShannon (born Sharon Lee Myers on August 21, 1944 in Hazel, Kentucky), is an American singer-songwriter with a string of hit song credits from the 1960s onwards. She was one of the first female singer-songwriters of the rock 'n' roll period.
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Jeff Alexander
Jeff Alexander (July 2, 1910 – December 23, 1989) was an American conductor, arranger, and composer of film, radio and television scores.
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Jin (rapper)
Jin Au-Yeung (; born June 4, 1982), who performs under the stage name MC Jin, is a Chinese American, Hong Kong hip hop rapper, songwriter and actor. Growing up as an overseas Chinese, he decided to reside permanently in his motherland, Hong Kong. Because of his multicultural background, he is fluent in both Cantonese and English. Back in the United States, he was the first Asian solo rapper to be signed to a major record label.
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Johnny Rivers
Johnny Rivers (born John Henry Ramistella, November 7, 1942, New York) is an American rock and roll singer, songwriter, guitarist, and record producer. His styles include folk songs, blues, and revivals of old-time rock 'n' roll songs and some original material. Rivers's greatest success came in the mid and late 1960s with a string of hit songs (including "Seventh Son", "Poor Side of Town", "Summer Rain", and "Secret Agent Man"), but he has continued to record and perform to the present.
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Kenneth Copeland
Kenneth Copeland (born December 6, 1936 in Lubbock, Texas) is an American author, speaker, televangelist, Word of Faith proponent, and the founder of the prosperity gospel organization Kenneth Copeland Ministries.
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Leonard Rosenman
Leonard Rosenman (September 7, 1924 – March 4, 2008) was an American film, television and concert composer.
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Lew Williams
Lew Williams (b. Jan. 12, 1934, Chillicothe, Texas) is an American rockabilly singer and songwriter, known as the "Cab Calloway of rockabilly".
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Mel Carter
Mel Carter (born April 22, 1943, Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American singer and actor. He is best known for his 1965 million selling recording, "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me".
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Peppermint Harris
Harrison Nelson Jr. (July 17, 1925 – March 19, 1999) known as Peppermint Harris, was an American rhythm and blues singer and guitarist.
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Petula Clark
Petula Clark, CBE (born 15 November 1932) is an English singer, actress, and composer whose career has spanned seven decades.
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Ralph Flanagan
Ralph Flanagan (born Ralph Elias Flenniken), (April 7, 1914 in Lorain, Ohio – December 30, 1995 in Miami, Florida) was a famed big band leader, conductor, pianist, composer, and arranger for the orchestras of Hal McIntyre, Sammy Kaye, Blue Barron, Charlie Barnet, and Alvino Rey.
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Rasheeda
Rasheeda LaToria Frost-Longsman (born Rasheeda Buckner on May 25, 1981), better known by her stage name Rasheeda is a female rapper and hip-hop singer. Frost was born on May 25, 1981 in Illinois. Rasheeda was a member of the teenage hip-hop trio Da Kaperz until 2000 when she launched a solo career. Her fifth album, Certified Hot Chick was released on August 18, 2009. She is also part of the R&B;/hip-hop duo Peach Candy with R&B; singer-songwriter Kandi Burruss. She got married on 15th of Septebember 2004 to her long time boyfriend.
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Rick Nelson
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Ricky Nelson
Ricky Nelson, or Rick Nelson (born Eric Hilliard Nelson; May 8, 1940 – December 31, 1985), was an American singer-songwriter, instrumentalist, and actor. He placed fifty-three songs on the Billboard Hot 100 between 1957 and 1973, including nineteen top-ten hits, and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on January 21, 1987.
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Sandy Nelson
Sandy Nelson (born Sander L Nelson, December 1, 1938, Santa Monica, California) is an American drummer. Nelson, one of the best-known rock drummers of the early 1960s, had several solo instrumental Top 40 hits and was a session drummer on many other well-known hits, and released over 30 albums.
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Slim Whitman
Ottis "Slim" Dewey Whitman, Jr. (born January 20, 1924), known professionally as Slim Whitman, is an American country music singer and songwriter, known for his yodeling abilities, highnotes, and crystal-clear vocals. He has sold in excess of 100 million albums in unit sales , with a career spanning seven decades,with numerous successful recordings.He is consistently more popular throughout Europe, and In Particular Britian then his native America.
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Smiley Lewis
Smiley Lewis (July 5, 1913 – October 7, 1966) was an American New Orleans rhythm and blues musician. The journalist, Tony Russell, in his book The Blues - From Robert Johnson to Robert Cray, stated "Lewis was the unluckiest man in New Orleans. He hit on a formula for slow-rocking, small-band numbers like "The Bells Are Ringing" and "I Hear You Knocking" only to have Fats Domino come up behind him with similar music more ingratiatingly delivered. Lewis was practically drowned in Domino's backwash".
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Sonny Criss
William "Sonny" Criss (23 October 1927 – 19 November 1977) was an American jazz musician.
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Sonny Curtis
Sonny Curtis (born May 9, 1937, Meadow, Texas) is an American singer and songwriter. Most of his work falls into the Pop and Country genres. He was a teenage pal and band member with Buddy Holly in Lubbock, Texas. Sonny is his actual first name, not a nickname. His song "The Real Buddy Holly Story" was written in response to the inaccuracies in the movie "The Buddy Holly Story."
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T-Bone Walker
T-Bone Walker (May 28, 1910 — March 16, 1975) was an American blues guitarist, singer, pianist, and songwriter who was one of the most important pioneers of the electric guitar. He was the first blues musician to use an electric guitar. In September 2003, he was ranked #47 in Rolling Stone magazine's[http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/;kw=%5B4541,14728,14947%5D http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/;kw=[4541,14728,14947]] list of "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time".
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The O'Jays
'''The O'Jays''' are a Canton, Ohio based soul and R&B; group, originally consisting of Walter Williams (born August 25, 1942), Bill Isles, Bobby Massey, William Powell (January 20, 1942–May 26, 1977) and Eddie Levert (b. June 16, 1942). The O'Jays were inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 2004, and The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2005. The O'Jays (now a trio after the departure of Isles and Massey) had their first hit with "Lonely Drifter", in 1963. In spite of the record's success, the group was considering quitting the music business until Gamble & Huff, a team of producers and songwriters, took an interest in the group. With Gamble & Huff, the O'Jays emerged at the forefront of Philadelphia soul with "Back Stabbers" (1972), a pop hit, and topped the U.S. singles charts the following year with "Love Train".
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Tim Whitsett
Tim Whitsett (born 1943) is an American music publisher, musician, songwriter, producer, author, and consultant. He was born in Jackson, Mississippi.
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Warne Marsh
Warne Marion Marsh (26 October 1927 – 17 December 1987) was an American tenor saxophonist born in Los Angeles.
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Yukmouth
Jerold Dwight Ellis, III, (born October 18, 1974 in Oakland, California) better known by his stage name Yukmouth, is an Grammy-nominated American rapper from East Oakland, Oakland, California. He is the founder of The Regime, Smoke-A-Lot Records and Godzilla Entertainment.
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Wooden toilet paper from the Nara period (710 to 784) in Japan. The modern rolls in the background are for size comparison

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Imperial War Museum

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Imperial War Museum

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A Grumman Martlet/Wildcat preserved at the Imperial War Museum Duxford

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Imperial War Museum Exhibit The Film and Video Archive is one of the oldest film archives in Britain[40] and preserves a range of historically significant film and video material

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A Flak 18 barrel on a Flak 36 cruciform mount. At the Imperial War Museum London The Film and Video Archive is one of the oldest film archives in Britain[40] and preserves a range of historically significant film and video material .

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Radical SR8

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The entrance to the prison records the tradition that it is the place where Saint Peter and Saint Paul were imprisoned

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Prunksaal (formerly the Hofbibliothek)

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This is the American fighter SR71 "Blackbird". Seen at Imperial War Museum at Duxford, UK. This fighter is the faster plane to date and hold the record of altitude. Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird -962. The roof weighs 6000 tonnes and is able to support suspended aircraft weighing up to 10 tonnes.

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Kaiten Type 1 torpedo.

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Kõpu Lighthouse is one of the best-known landmarks.

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Kõpu Lighthouse is one of the best-known landmarks.

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A wild Prussian carp showing yellow coloration. Some of the first goldfish may have looked like this.

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The Hippodrome

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The Grand Vezier in an audience, painting from the series by Jean-Baptiste van Mour in 1724

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Rome Pantheon.

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The Vijayanagara Empire (Kannada: ವಿಜಯನಗರ ಸಾಮ್ರಾಜ್ಯ Vijayānagara Sāmrājya, Telugu: విజయనగర సామ్రాజ్యము Vijayānagara Sāmrājyamu) refered as the Kingdom of Bisnaga by the Portuguese, was a South Indian empire based in the Deccan Plateau.

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Small shawls

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Citroën Bijou

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The Barberini ivory, a late Theodosian Byzantine ivory leaf from an imperial diptych, from an imperial workshop in Constantinople in the first half of the sixth century (Louvre Museum)

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The Forbidden City as depicted in a Ming Dynasty painting

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The Usa Shrine (宇佐神宮, Usa Jingū?) is a Shinto shrine in the city of Usa in Ōita Prefecture in Japan. Emperor Ojin, who was deified as Hachiman-jin (the god of military power), is said to be enshrined in all the sites dedicated to him; and the first and earliest of these was at Usa in the early 8th century.[1] The Usa Shrine has long been the recipient of Imperial patronage; and its prestige is considered second only to the Ise Shrine.