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BEBEL GILBERTO "Tanto Tempo" Six Degrees Records
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Think of Bebel Gilberto as Brazilian music royalty. Her father is
Joao Gilberto, the key architect of bossa nova; her mom is pop star
Miucha; Astrud Gilberto is step-mom; and Bebel calls famed singer-
songwriter Chico Buarque uncle. Such genes prove form-fitting on
"Tanto Tempo," a collection that fuses the supple melancholy of
classic bossa nova with contemporary electronic flourishes. What's
cool and consistent is Gilberto's voice--breezy yet assured, it's a
warm, feathery murmur recalling both her father and stepmother's
elegant phrasing.
Gilberto, who sings mostly in Portuguese with a few ...
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Gertrude Bell, a Masterful Spy and Diplomat
Transcript from: NPR All Things Considered
; ...Things Considered 07-12-2006 Gertrude Bell, a Masterful Spy and Diplomat...of modern Iraq. Her name is Gertrude Bell, and she died in Iraq...And on one side the words: Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell, Oriental Secretary to...
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Echo Memories - North lass who knew Lawrence of Arabia
Newspaper article from: The Northern Echo
; ...notable industrialist called Isaac Lowthian Bell came to Washington, on Wearside...claim to fame is through Isaac Lowthian Bell's granddaughter, the...time administrator of Arabia, Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell, who was born at Washington...
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Queen of the desert.(Features)
Newspaper article from: Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England)
; ...the "queen of the desert". Gertrude Bell, whose home in Redcar, Red...looting earlier this month. Gertrude Bell, who died mysteriously...still is in the Middle East? Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell was born on July 14, 1868...
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Grandes Viajeros / La Reina de Iraq.(De Viaje)
Newspaper article from: Reforma (México D.F., México)
; ...Escalante Gertrude Bell (1868-1926...la desilusin, Gertrude viaj por el desierto...poltica y espa. Gertrude Bell pis lugares...profesionales, Gertrude vivi largos y duros...breve - Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell naci en Durham...
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Finding 'The Lady' of Iraq's Past
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...of the cemetery that contains the grave of Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell. In January 2004 we visited Bell's well-marked grave at one of the two...the article. The cemetery that contains Bell's grave is behind the Ministry of Higher...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...Emperor, St Mildred, St Silas or Silvanus. TOMORROW: Births: Emmeline Pankhurst, suffragist, 1858; Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell, traveller and archaeologist, 1868. Deaths: Mme de Stael, writer, 1817; Adlai Ewing Stevenson, statesman...
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Millennium women
Newspaper article from: The Northern Echo
; ...Court, Newton Aycliffe. ANOTHER reader who wrote in but declined to give their name and address nominated Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell, born at Washington in 1868. "Energetic, courageous traveller, mountaineer, multi-linguist, writer...
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