TRUMAN CAPOTE HAROLD HALMA PROFESSIONAL
is a professional baseball player from a famous baseballing family. She also found out that chimpanzees are vegetarians.Ħ1. She was the first to see chimps constructing and using tools, an activity thought to be limited to the human species. Working at Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania, Goodall made many discoveries. Jane Goodall is a British anthropologist, famous for studying wild chimpanzees in Africa for 45 years. “Rubric” comes from the Latin “rubrica”, the red ocher used in making the red pigment used in ink. Often a rubric would be seen at the top of a page, and we tend to use the term “rubric” for a title or a name. In Medieval illuminated manuscripts, sections of text that are highlighted in red ink are known as rubrics. “Hi-fi” of course stands for “high fidelity”. Hi-fi systems were introduced in the late forties, audio equipment designed to give a much higher quality reproduction of sound than cheaper systems available up to that point. Adams is also a very accomplished photographer and his images have been widely published. In the dance, men and women line up opposite each other, and then each couple processes down between the two lines, making their own unique moves.īryan Adams is a Canadian singer-songwriter. “The Stroll” is a slow dance in a rock ‘n’ roll style. “The Stroll” was both a song and a dance in the late fifties. 1950s “American Bandstand” dance : THE STROLL In 1884, Charles Dow started reporting the average dollar value of the stock of eleven companies, an index which spawned a whole host of metrics that carry the Dow Jones name to this day, including the renowned Dow Jones Industrials.Ĥ7. Today, the company’s most famous publication has to be “The Wall Street Journal”. The word comes into English from Spanish where it has the same meaning.ĭow Jones & Company was founded as a publishing house in 1882 by three newspaper reporters, Charles Dow, Edward Jones and Charles Bergstresser. Hooke spent part of his working life as assistant to the 17th century scientist Robert Boyle.Ī peon is a lowly worker with no real control over his/her working conditions. Robert Hooke was an Englishman, very much an expert in a number of disciplines ranging from science and architecture to philosophy. He published a famous treatise on astronomy called “Almagest” which included a list of 48 constellations in a star catalogue. Ptolemy was, among other things, a mathematician and astronomer. The constellation of Ara takes its name from the Latin word for “altar”.Ĭlaudius Ptolemy was an Egyptian of Greek ethnicity who lived in the days when Egypt was ruled by Ancient Rome. There John Lennon put his signature to official documents couriered to him by Apple’s lawyers (Apple being the Beatles record label).Ĥ0. The partnership was officially dissolved in December 1974, in the Polynesian Resort in Walt Disney World, Florida. Regardless, the Lennon-McCartney attribution was used for all the songs they wrote either individually or together right up to 1974. Soon they would write songs individually, with one giving the other limited input. In the early days, the duo wrote their songs together, working alongside each other.
John Lennon and Paul McCartney made an agreement before they became famous that they would always give joint credit for their songs. Names on some Apple products : LENNON-MCCARTNEY
Reportedly, he was even having trouble walking …ģ7. At 31 years of age, Orr concluded that he just couldn’t skate anymore. By the time he retired in 1978, Orr had undergone over a dozen knee surgeries. The Fleer Corporation was founded in 1885 and was the first company to successfully manufacture bubblegum (how I wish they hadn’t!).īobby Orr is regarded as one of the greatest hockey players who ever played the game. Former big player in trading cards : FLEER Andy Warhol saw this image and was greatly impressed, and as a result wrote many fan letters to Capote.ģ3. Harold Halma took a famous photograph of Capote that was used to publicize “Other Voices, Other Rooms”, a picture with the young author reclined on a sofa and staring into the camera.
Truman Capote wrote a very successful novel called “Other Voices, Other Rooms” that was published in 1947. When the drum is struck, the snares vibrate against the bottom drumhead producing a unique sound. Snare drums are so called because they have a set of wire strands (called snares) stretched across the bottom surface of the drum. Dinero is the Spanish word for money, as well as a slang term for money here in the US.
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