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{{*}} ... that jazz singer '''[[Ilse Huizinga]]''' ''(pictured, right)'' is known in the [[Netherlands]] as the '''First Lady of Jazz'''?<br> |
{{*}} ... that jazz singer '''[[Ilse Huizinga]]''' ''(pictured, right)'' is known in the [[Netherlands]] as the '''First Lady of Jazz'''?<br> |
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{{*}} ... that the [[1934 in music|1934]] [[jazz standard]] "'''[[Stars Fell on Alabama]]'''" was inspired by the [[Leonids|Leonid meteor shower]] that was observed in [[Alabama]] a century earlier, in [[1833]]? ''(Alabama license plate pictured)''<br> |
{{*}} ... that the [[1934 in music|1934]] [[jazz standard]] "'''[[Stars Fell on Alabama]]'''" was inspired by the [[Leonids|Leonid meteor shower]] that was observed in [[Alabama]] a century earlier, in [[1833]]? ''(Alabama license plate pictured)''<br> |
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Latest revision as of 00:31, 9 September 2017
• ... that jazz singer Ilse Huizinga (pictured, right) is known in the Netherlands as the First Lady of Jazz?
• ... that the 1934 jazz standard "Stars Fell on Alabama" was inspired by the Leonid meteor shower that was observed in Alabama a century earlier, in 1833? (Alabama license plate pictured)
• ... that Katie Melua (pictured, left) agreed to re-record her song "Nine Million Bicycles" (2005) in response to criticisms from physicist Simon Singh, who described its lyrics as "an insult to a century of astronomical progress"?
January - May 2006