170 résultats pour "star"
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Country Music
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Willie Nelson
Country singer and musician Willie Nelson gained national popularity during the 1970s for a string of country hits,
including the 1978 hits "Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys" and "Georgia On My Mind.
Singer and mandolin player Bill Monroe is known as the father of bluegrass music. A virtuoso mandolin player, Monroe combined traditional folk ballads and gospel songswith string-band music played at very fast tempos. Monroe, with his band The Blue Grass Boys, performed from the mid-1920s until Monroe’s death in 1996. Otherwell-known bluegrass performers include banjo player Earl Scruggs, who played with Monroe during the 1940s; the Osborne Brothers, a duo from Kentucky known forits work during...
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La route devient une star de cinéma
Easy Rider vient au bon moment, car sa carrière d'acteur ne s'était pas déroulée de façon satisfaisante. Les films dans lesquels Hopper a tourné avant de faire ses débuts de metteur en scène, sont des références en matière de rébellion de la jeunesse. Il joue aux côtés de James Dean dans La Fureur de vivre (1955), dans Géant (1955) où il interp rète un jeune homme sensible. De nom breuses altercations sur les tour nages valent à Hopper une pénib...
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Contre la famine en Afrique, le rock se mobilise
Grand concert humanitaire à Philadelphie, en 1985 Contre la famine en Afri que , le rock se mobilise le 13 juill et 1985, le plu s grand concert de rock embrase presque simultanément les stades de We mbley à londres et John Kenned y à Philadelphie. 170 000 fans applaud issent les stars alors que l'évé nemen t, or ganisé par Bob Geldof, est relayé par les chaîn es de télévision. D es milli ons de télé spec tate urs du monde entier su ivent cet impres sion...
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Filmgeschichte.
4 DER STUMMFILM Zwischen 1909 und 1912 wurde der neu entstandene Industriezweig vollständig durch die „Motion Picture Patents Company” kontrolliert, einem Trust, zu dem sich führendeProduzenten zusammengeschlossen hatten. Sie begrenzten die Filmlänge auf einen oder zwei Akte und weigerten sich, die Namen der Darsteller im Vor- oder Abspann zuerwähnen. Im Jahr 1912 bekam dieses Monopol jedoch Konkurrenz; unabhängige Produzenten gründeten in Europa und den USA ihre eigenen Produktions- undVorführ...
- Hortense Schneider La «star» du second Empire.
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Andy Warhol, la star du pop-art
Warhol devient la superstar du pop art, et son atelier, la « Factory », entièrement habillé d'aluminium, est le haut lieu de la scène artistique new yorkaise. Là, des assistants de Warhol fabriquent des sérigraphies suivant ses instructions. Warhol travaille avec d'autres média (surtout le cinéma), orga nise des happenings et des spectacles, notamment avec le groupe Velvet Underground, qui place son nom à côté d'une banane sur la couverture de leur p...
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Astronomy - astronomy.
Telescopes may use either lenses or mirrors to gather visible light, permitting direct observation or photographic recording of distant objects. Those that use lenses arecalled refracting telescopes, since they use the property of refraction, or bending, of light ( see Optics: Reflection and Refraction ). The largest refracting telescope is the 40-in (1-m) telescope at the Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay, Wisconsin, founded in the late 19th century. Lenses bend different colors of light by d...
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Sciencefictionfilm.
2004 I, Robot (I, Robot), Alex Proyas (USA)Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow), KerryConran (USA)Immortel (Immortal), Enki Bilal (Frankreich/Italien/Großbritannien)The Day after Tomorrow (The Day after Tomorrow), Roland Emmerich (USA) 2005 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Per Anhalter durch die Galaxis), Garth Jennings(USA)The Island (Die Insel), Michael Bay (USA)Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (Star Wars: Episode III – Die Rache der Si...
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Redshift - astronomy.
Astronomers can also use redshift to identify the oldest and most distant objects in the observable universe. Astronomers believe that quasars are the most distantobjects in the universe, because they have some of the largest redshifts. Quasars are objects in space that strongly emit radio waves. Astronomers originally namedthese objects quasars, which stands for quas i-stell ar (or starlike) radio source, because they appear as points of light, like stars, in photographs of the sky. When astro...
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Digitis primoribus stare
Digitis primoribus stare Se bisser sur la pointe des pieds Cette expression dérive de Varron (Satires ménippées, 42 Bücheler) et indique le comportement d'une personne qui veut paraître plus grande qu'elle ne l'est en réalité, et qui fait ainsi preuve de sa vanité : cf. de nombreux autres passages (Lucilius, 8, 301 M. [= 8, 7, 2 Charpin]; Sextus Turpi lius, 31 R. 3 ; Sénèque, Ep., 111, 3 ; Martial, 12, 77, 2 et Fronton, Ep.. 2, 19). L'expïession a la même signification chez Sophocle (Ajar,...
- Henri de TOULOUSE-LAUTREC: L'ANGLAISE DU STAR AU HAVRE.
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Gravitation
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Gravitation, the force of attraction between all objects that tends to pull them toward one another.
precise observations possible, and Galileo was one of the first to use a telescope to study astronomy. In 1609 Galileo observed that moons orbited the planet Jupiter, afact that could not reasonably fit into an earth-centered model of the heavens. The new heliocentric theory changed scientists' views about the earth's place in the universe and opened the way for new ideas about the forces behind planetarymotion. However, it was not until the late 17th century that Isaac Newton developed a theory...
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Gravitation - astronomy.
precise observations possible, and Galileo was one of the first to use a telescope to study astronomy. In 1609 Galileo observed that moons orbited the planet Jupiter, afact that could not reasonably fit into an earth-centered model of the heavens. The new heliocentric theory changed scientists' views about the earth's place in the universe and opened the way for new ideas about the forces behind planetarymotion. However, it was not until the late 17th century that Isaac Newton developed a theory...
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One Hundred Years of Olympics.
Getting over the Hurdles The next three Olympics attracted more athletes and saw stronger performances but otherwise did not measure up to Athens. The 1900 Paris Olympics were upstagedby the concurrent Exposition Universelle and were spread out over two months. The 1904 games in remote St. Louis were subordinated to the Louisiana PurchaseExhibition; over three-fourths of the competitors were Americans, and even Coubertin did not attend. The 1908 London Olympics were also overshadowed byanother...
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Physics
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Physics, major science, dealing with the fundamental constituents of the universe, the forces they exert on one another, and the results produced by these forces.
Starting about 1665, at the age of 23, Newton enunciated the principles of mechanics, formulated the law of universal gravitation, separated white light into colors,proposed a theory for the propagation of light, and invented differential and integral calculus. Newton's contributions covered an enormous range of naturalphenomena: He was thus able to show that not only Kepler's laws of planetary motion but also Galileo's discoveries of falling bodies follow a combination of his ownsecond law of m...
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Florenz Ziegfeld, roi de la revue
son idée de base et présente le sketch du golf au beau milieu des décors de yacht. Ziegfeld est proche du désespoir et accepte un compro mi s : Fields a le droit de conserver son sketch, mais doit y intégrer les da nseuses. En 1927, Ziegfeld monte Show Boat de Jerome Kern, sa première comédie musicale. Il conna ît une nouvelle fois le succès, bien que les affaires s'avèrent de plus en plus difficiles dans cette période de crise écon omique de la...
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C apitale du cinéma, « ville mirage », que l'on
leurs continuateurs (Samuel Goldwyn, Louis B. Mayer, les frères Warner), que le cinéma américain doit son essor économique et, par voie de conséquence, son formidable pouvoir de séduction auprès des foules. Huit grandes sociétés de production, les « major companies », virent le jour entre 1912 et 1928 : Paramount, Universal, 20th Century Fox, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Warner Bros, Columbia, RKO et United Artists. Cette dernière, à vocation plus ouvertement « artistique », avait été fondée à l...
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1996 Summer Olympics.
jump, the first African woman ever to win an Olympic field event. In the first Olympic women's soccer competition, the United States returned to world prominence with a 2-1 gold medal victory over China before more than 76,000spectators—believed to be the largest crowd in history for a women's sporting event. The U.S. team won the first women's World Cup in 1991, defeating Norway inthe final match, but had failed to defend the title in 1995 when they lost to the Norwegians in the semifinals...
- Orion Greek Best known as a mighty hunter and as a constellation of stars.
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1995: Le procès d'O.J. Simpson, spectacle médiatique, tourne à la farce juridique
O. J. Simpson : une photo de la police de Los Angeles, en 1995. Le procès d'O. J. Simpson, spectacle mé diatique , tourne à la farce juridique Les poursuites judiciaires contre l'ancienne star du foot ball Orenthal James Simpson, soupçonné de double homicid e, vont fasciner les États -Unis pendant plus d'un an. Le 3 octobre 1995, les jurés la issent tomber leur verdic t : non coupable. U ne Ford Bronco blanche se fa ufi le sur les autoroutes...
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The Summer Games of 1992 - sport.
In the most ambitious undertaking of all, a stretch of rundown warehouses and abandoned factories beside the long-neglected Mediterranean waterfront wastransformed into a sparkling new district of apartments, shopping areas, and palmetto-lined promenades. During the games, the area served as the Olympic athletes'village, where, for the first time at any games, organizers offered accommodations to competitors and their coaches free of charge. After the games the apartmentswere to be sold to help...
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Pan-Africanism.
(in New York City). These congresses were attended by increasing numbers of representatives from the United States, Europe, Africa, and the Caribbean. Severalimportant factors affected the growing popularity of the congresses. First, many delegates were sponsored by international labor movements, which were growing insize and power in the 1920s. A second factor was the growth of the black nationalist movement of Marcus Garvey. The Garvey movement was important in the UnitedStates as a popular ex...
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Native American Religions.
In the worldview of most of the indigenous peoples of North America, there were also spiritual beings to be avoided. Native Americans of the Southwest in particular,such as the Navajo and Apache, dreaded contact with ghosts, who were believed to resent the living. These peoples disposed of the bodies of deceased relativesimmediately and attempted to distance themselves from the spirits of the dead, avoiding their burial sites, never mentioning their names, and even abandoning thedwellings in whi...
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Carbon - chemistry.
Graphite is black and slippery and conducts electricity. In graphite, the atoms form planar, or flat, layers. Each layer is made up of rings containing six carbon atoms.The rings are linked to each other in a structure that resembles the hexagonal mesh of chicken wire. Each atom has three sigma bonds (with 120° between any two ofthe bonds) and belongs to three neighboring rings. The fourth electron of each atom becomes part of an extensive pi bond system. Graphite conducts electricity,because th...
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- Portes de Fer, e n serbe Djerdap, n om donné aux gorges des Cazane, près d'Or? ova, que le Danube franchit entre les Carpates du Sud (Alpes de Transylvanie), en Roumanie, et la Stara Planina, extrémité du massif des Balkans, en Serbie.
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Jazz
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Joshua Redman
Saxophonist Joshua Redman, a graduate of Harvard University, became a fast-rising star in jazz in the 1990s.
performed a highly produced, jazz-inspired form of blues that was popular in traveling minstrel shows and vaudeville. Thisexample is from the song “St. Louis Blues,” written by American composer and trumpet player W. C. Handy in 1914 andrecorded by Smith in 1925."St. Louis Blues" performed by Bessie Smith, from The Riverside History of Classic Jazz (Cat.# Riverside RB-005) Riverside Records under master license to Fantasy, Inc. All rightsreserved./Frank DriggsCollection/Archive Photos Jazz is ro...
- étoiles, guerre des étoiles, guerre des, nom familier donné à l'Initiative de défense stratégique (IDS), programme américain visant à détruire en vol tout missile menaçant les États-Unis ou leurs alliés, d'après le célèbre film Star Wars réalisé en 1977 par George Lucas.
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Augmenter ses notes en math
7 Astuces Pour Augmenter Rapidement Tes Notes En Maths Par Romain Carpentier Star-en-Maths.TV | © 2011-2012 1
- Cynthia Cooper Cynthia Cooper, born in 1963, American professional basketball player who was one of the stars of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) from 1997 to 2000.
- Audrey Hepburn Audrey Hepburn (1929-1993), Belgian-born actor and humanitarian, who became one of Hollywood's best-known stars with her leading roles in films such as Roman Holiday (1953), Funny Face (1957), and Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961).
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West Side Story
West Side Story, motion-picture musical about star-crossed lovers from different cultures in New York City, based on the 1957 stage play by Arthur Laurents and
Jerome Robbins, which was inspired by Romeo and Juliet (1595?
Trivia The actors in the rival gangs were instructed to play pranks on each other off the set to keep tensions high. Quote Riff (singing): “When you're a Jet, you're a Jet all the way!” Microsoft ® Encarta ® 2009. © 1993-2008 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
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L'usine à rêves de Hollywvood dans les années 20: les stars du cinéma muet, les comiques et les magnats
Nanouk l'Esquimau (1922), un film documentaire sur la vie dans le Grand Nord du film documentaire réalise l'œuvre de sa vie. Après le succès de son documen taire Nanouk l'Esquimau (1920-1921), il travaille sur commande de la Paramount et produit Moana (1923-1925) un film sur la vie des insulaires des mers du Sud. Des stars venues d'Europe. La Suédoise Greta Garbo entame sa carrière au même moment que des Américaines telles Mary Pickford et Glor...
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Space Telescope - astronomy.
of its normal companion star and heating it to millions of degrees. See also X-Ray Astronomy; Chandra X-Ray Observatory. D2 Gamma-Ray Space Observatories Studying gamma rays offers scientists answers to some of the most perplexing questions about the explosive and dynamic physical processes in the universe. Gamma-ray observation also provides clues about the structure and dynamics of the Milky Way and other galaxies; the nature of pulsars, quasars, black holes, and neutronstars; and the orig...
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DEFONTENAY : sa vie et son oeuvre
Eldorado, Ëden ( ... ), C'est le monde meilleur. C'est mieux que l'espérance. Car on y vit du cœur, Là, dans ce monde à soi; l'on y est, l'on y pense. Ainsi s'affirme pour Defontenay le primat de la vision sur le réel, fût-il transposition du rêve : Star affirme moins une idéologie qu'une poétique. La même année, Nerval n'écrivait-il pas:« Le rêve est une seconde vie>> (Aurélia)? BIBLIOGRAPHIE Le roman de Def onte nay a fait l'objet d'une réédi...
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Jackie Robinson Breaks the Barrier.
Leagues. The crowd of fans at the Negro Leagues' annual East-West Classic All-Star Game in 1944 outnumbered the major league All-Star Game 46,247 to 29,589. Another barrier to black players fell when baseball commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis, an adamant opponent of desegregation, died in office in 1944 and wasreplaced by A. B. “Happy” Chandler. Chandler was known to support integration, but it took Branch Rickey, who had built the St. Louis Cardinals' farm system intothe finest in baseba...
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Amerikanischer Film.
1943 For Whom the Bell Tolls (Wem die Stunde schlägt), Sam WoodHeaven Can Wait (Ein himmlischer Sünder), Ernst Lubitsch 1944 Cover Girl (Es tanzt die Göttin), Charles VidorLaura (Laura), Otto PremingerTo Have and Have Not (Haben und Nichthaben), Howard Hawks 1945 Mildred Pierce (Solange ein Herz schlägt), Michael CurtizThe Lost Weekend (Das verlorene Wochenende), Billy WilderThe Spiral Staircase (Die Wendeltreppe), Robert Siodmak 1946 Gilda (Gilda), Charles VidorMy Darling Clementine (Tombstone/...
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Badminton.
Once play has started, players tend to hit straight, low-flying shots called drives. When the shuttle remains close to the center of the court, net shots can be a goodoption. Net shots can be hard-hit or delicate. They are aimed at the front area of the opponent’s court, forcing the opponent to play the shot close to the net. If the opponent manages to return a net shot, the return must be hit high to clear the net. This gives the player a chance for a smash—the deadliest attacking stroke inbadm...
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Soccer's Big Show Comes to the United States.
There were many doubters, both overseas and within the United States. Some U.S. sportswriters derided the idea of holding the World Cup in the United States asakin to staging the World Series in India—how could there be any local interest? Foreign critics felt that money was the sole reason for FIFA's decision and that thesport was about to be cheapened to make it acceptable to Americans. The rumors flew: FIFA was going to enlarge the goals, it would allow timeouts (unheard of inthe sport) to ac...
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Populäre Musik - Musik.
5 SCHLAGER UND POPMUSIK IN DEUTSCHLAND Bereits Johann Strauߒ Donauwellen-Walzer von 1857 bekam von der Wiener Presse das handelssprachliche Erfolgsetikett „Schlager” verliehen. Seitdem wurde unter diesem Begriff eine immense Vielfalt unterschiedlicher eingängiger Melodien zusammengefasst. Meilensteine der Unterhaltungskultur waren beispielsweise Johann Strauß’ OperetteDie Fledermaus (1874), Karl Millöckers Bettelstudent (1882), Carl Zellers Vogelhändler (1891), Paul Linkes Frau Luna (1...
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Observatory - astronomy.
Ultraviolet radiation, X rays, and gamma rays have shorter wavelengths than visible light has. These types of radiation tell astronomers about the hottest and mostviolent phenomena in the universe. Earth’s atmosphere blocks most of this radiation, so astronomers must send their observatories above the atmosphere aboardballoons, rockets, or satellites. Ultraviolet telescopes are much like visible light telescopes, but X-ray telescopes must have special nested cylindrical mirrors to prevent Xrays...
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Paige Strikes Out 17.
Dean fared almost as well against such Negro League stars as James “Cool Papa” Bell and Willie Wells. Dean shut down the team of talented black players for 12innings until he gave up a run in the 13th inning. Paige earned an impressive and satisfying win, going 13 innings without a run. It seemed he could have pitchedforever. Paige's team won, 1-0. Microsoft ® Encarta ® 2009. © 1993-2008 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
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Maria Callas: LA DIVINA (Exposé – Art – Collège/Lycée)
à jouer de son personnage : ce sera l'un de ses talents que d'apparaître, très v�e. dans son propre rôle. UNE RÉVOLUTION DANS L'ART LYRIQUE • le mythe ne se tisse pas seulement d'anecdotes et de médiatisation. La Callas est d'abord une très grande cantatrice, une voix comme l'on n'en rencontre qu'une par siècle. • Non qu'elle soit parfaite, cette voix. e� dès 1957, la cantatrice se plaint de ses cordes vocales. C'est sur un cc couac» célèbre,...
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Michael Jordan.
playoffs the Bulls pushed the Pistons to seven games in the Eastern Conference Finals before losing again. As he grew older, Jordan made a concerted effort to help his teammates reach their own potential. The result of his renewed commitment to team-oriented play was theBulls’ first NBA championship title. After the 1990-91 season the Bulls swept the Pistons in the Eastern Conference Finals and then defeated the Los Angeles Lakers inthe NBA Finals. Jordan won the league MVP award for the second...
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Michael Jordan
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Michael Jordan, born in 1963, American professional basketball player, considered by many to be the greatest player in basketball history.
playoffs the Bulls pushed the Pistons to seven games in the Eastern Conference Finals before losing again. As he grew older, Jordan made a concerted effort to help his teammates reach their own potential. The result of his renewed commitment to team-oriented play was theBulls’ first NBA championship title. After the 1990-91 season the Bulls swept the Pistons in the Eastern Conference Finals and then defeated the Los Angeles Lakers inthe NBA Finals. Jordan won the league MVP award for the second...
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Rock Music
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Carlos Santana
Mexican-born guitarist Carlos Santana became a superstar in the late 1960s with a string of hits and an appearance at the
famous Woodstock rock festival in 1969.
point (a single pitch sustained through a progression of chords), and the parallel movement of chords, derived from a technique on the electric guitar known as bar-chording. Many elements of African American music have been a continuing source of influence on rock music. These characteristics include riffs (repeated patterns), backbeats (emphasizing the second and fourth beats of each measure; see Musical Rhythm: Pulse and Meter ), call-and-response patterns, blue notes (the use of certain...
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Illinois - geography.
the state before joining the Mississippi River at Grafton. The Illinois has been deepened and straightened and forms part of the Illinois Waterway. The watershed between rivers that flow into the Mississippi river system and rivers that flow into the Great Lakes is low and in many places is not easily discernible. Inwhat is now the Chicago area, explorers had little difficulty portaging, or carrying, their canoes over the low watershed between the Des Plaines River, which flows intothe Illinois,...
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Illinois - USA History.
the state before joining the Mississippi River at Grafton. The Illinois has been deepened and straightened and forms part of the Illinois Waterway. The watershed between rivers that flow into the Mississippi river system and rivers that flow into the Great Lakes is low and in many places is not easily discernible. Inwhat is now the Chicago area, explorers had little difficulty portaging, or carrying, their canoes over the low watershed between the Des Plaines River, which flows intothe Illinois,...
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« ÊTRE OU NE PAS ÊTRE PEOPLE ! »
Pour illustrer cette différence avec la célébrité telle qu'on la connaissait auparavant on peux prendre cet exemple : les Beatles sont devenus célèbres grâce à leurs talents de musiciens et sont devenus des stars grâce à ça, seulement le people qui devient une « star » grâce à la télé-réalité (donc en ne faisant rien qui justifie la célébrité) va pouvoir par la suite faire de la chanson par exemple, le résultat étant bien souvent médiocre (on peut par exemple penser à l'album de musique sorti p...
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LA MUSIQUE COUNTRY
La musique country Toutefois, dans un premier temps, bien que ces nouvelles influences musicales fassent partie de la culture américaine, elles restent encore très cir conscrites. Ainsi, il est clair que le blues, par exemple, n'a pas franchi les Appalaches. La naissance de l'industrie du disque et la multiplication des stations de radio mettent peu à peu fin à cet isolement géographique. Les communautés rurales du sud des Etats-Unis res tent toutefois...
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Winning One for the Gipper.
Gipp had a swagger off the field as well. A noted pool shark and gambler, he frequented South Bend's less savory establishments and kept hours that would haveearned any other player a swift dismissal from the team. In an era when gambling and college football seemed congenial bedfellows, Gipp often served as the teambookie—for wagers on Notre Dame games. Accused by Rockne of lacking interest in the 1920 Notre Dame-Army clash, Gipp reportedly replied, “You're wrongthere,” according to Wake Up th...