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Frank Sinatra, 80 and retired, may yet surprise us again.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
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As an 80th birthday tribute to Frank Sinatra wound down, Bruce Springsteen and Tony Bennett approached the guest of honor to escort him onstage.
Bennett took Sinatra's arm to help him up. But Sinatra in a moment pulled out of Bennett's grip. To be sure, after taking a step or two, Sinatra reached out for a hand up onto the stage, but the message had been sent. He still expected to do some things under his own power, in his own way.
We're in a sentimental period for Sinatra, who turned 80 on Tuesday, Dec. 12. There's a birthday album, a new assemblage of classic ...
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Towards a new imperialism in eighteenth-century India: Dupleix, La Bourdonnais and the French compagnie des Indes.
Magazine article from: Portuguese Studies
; ...of this examination stand two Frenchmen, Joseph Francois Dupleix and Bertrand Francois Mahe de la Bourdonnais, and their dispute...affairs of native princes'. (2) It was Joseph Francois Dupleix who was to incorporate these territorial...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...TODAY Births: Lorenzo de Medici, statesman, 1449; Joseph-Francois Dupleix, administrator, 1697; Paul Revere, silversmith...Clough, poet, 1819; Sandor Petofi, poet, 1823; Joseph Pasquale Goldberg, singing teacher and composer...
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PEOPLE BORN ON NEW YEARS EVE AND DAY
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...Younger and St Silvester I, pope. New Year's Day Born on this day: Lorenzo de Medici, statesman, 1449; Joseph-Francois Dupleix, administrator, 1697; Paul Revere, silversmith and American hero, 1735; Maria Edgeworth, novelist, 1767...
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