Sounds like Bill Gates
Ilari Valbonesi @ June 27, 2008 # No Comment Yet
“We’ve really achieved the ideal of what I wanted Microsoft to become.”
-Bill Gates, June 2008
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Media Against Rock ‘N Roll (It’s the beat, the beat, the beat)
Ilari Valbonesi @ June 2, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Rock And Roll - The Early Days - Media Against Rock ‘N Roll
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5th May: Napoleon Died
Luca @ May 5, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Napoleon I (born Napoleone di Buonaparte, later Napoléon Bonaparte)[1] (15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821) was a French military and political leader who had significant impact on modern European history. He was a general during the French Revolution, the ruler of France as Premier Consul of the French Republic, Empereur des Français, King of […]
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Grande Torino
Luca @ May 4, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The Superga air disaster took place on Wednesday, May 4, 1949, when a plane carrying almost the entire Torino A.C. football squad, popularly known as Il Grande Torino, crashed into the hill of Superga near Turin killing all 31 aboard including 18 players, club officials, journalists accompanying the team, and the plane’s crew. The team […]
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Edward Lorenz: Does the Flap of a Butterfly’s Wings in Brazil Set Off a Tornado in Texas
Ilari Valbonesi @ April 17, 2008 # No Comment Yet
A professor at MIT, Edward Lorenz was the first to recognize what is now called chaotic behavior in the mathematical modeling of weather systems. In the early 1960s, Lorenz realized that small differences in a dynamic system such as the atmosphere–or a model of the atmosphere–could trigger vast and often unsuspected results.
These observations ultimately […]
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Bernie Boston ‘Flower Power’
Ilari Valbonesi @ January 24, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Bernie Boston, a newspaper photographer best known for his iconic 1960s picture of a Vietnam War protester placing flowers in soldiers’ gun barrels at a rally, has died last tuesday. Boston’s photograph, “Flower Power,” took the picture at an anti-war protest in Washington on Oct. 22, 1967. He was also a Pulitzer Prize finalist for […]
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La Tosca di Giacomo Puccini
Ilari Valbonesi @ January 15, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Giacomo Puccini ( Lucca, 22 december 1858; Bruxelles 29 november 1924) - Tosca is an Opera in three act. The Libretto was written by Victorien Sardou, Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa based on the play La Tosca by Victorien Sardou. First performance: Rome, Teatro Costanzi, 14th January 1900.
Characters:
Floria Tosca (soprano), singer
Mario Cavaradossi (tenor), painter
Baron Scarpia […]
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Happy Birthday Elvis!
Ilari Valbonesi @ January 8, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Elvis Presley I Got Stung
Written by Aaron Schroeder and David Hill. Elvis recorded it June 11, 1958 at RCA’s Nashville studios.
It was the last song Elvis would record until March 20, 1960. The single had a 16 week stay on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart, peaking at #8. It was #1 in England for 3 weeks. […]
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