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Rosalyn Tureck
Rosalyn Tureck Pianist While classical pianist Rosalyn Tureck has often called "The High Priestess of Bach," the title, richly earned through her lifetime devotion to the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, may be somewhat misleading. To the public, a musician whose career is... Read more |
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Roy Rogers
Roy Rogers Singer, film and television star Restless Family Breaking Into Western Music Into the Movies Remarriage and Personal Tragedy Selected discography Sources The great wellspring of American mythology suggested by the figure of the cowboy may have reached its high watermark with... Read more |
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Ricochet
Ricochet Country group For the Record … Selected discography Sources The six-member, contemporary country music group Ricochet combines seamless ensemble harmonies with irresistible, up beat dance music and delivers a sound with depth and passion. The band achieves its vocal... Read more |
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Shemar Moore
Shemar Moore 1970– Actor At a Glance… Sources Over two million viewers a day tune into to watch Shemar Moore on the CBS daytime drama The Young and the Restless. Cast in 1994 to play a heartthrob photographer on the popular soap, Moore is a lanky, well-built former college... Read more |
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Restless Legs Syndrome
Restless legs syndrome Definition Restless legs syndrome (RLS) is a neurological disorder characterized by uncomfortable sensations in the legs and, less commonly, the arms. These sensations are exacerbated (heightened) when the person with RLS is at rest. The sensations are described as crawly,... Read more |
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LSD
LSD or lysergic acid diethylamide , alkaloid synthesized from lysergic acid, which is found in the fungus ergot ( Claviceps purpurea ). It is a hallucinogenic drug that intensifies sense perceptions and produces hallucinations, mood changes, and changes in the sense of time. It also can... Read more |
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Marguerite Yourcenar
Marguerite Yourcenar French novelist, poet, essayist, dramatist, world traveller, and translator Marguerite Yourcenar (1903-1987) was the first woman elected to the French Academy. Marguerite Yourcenar was born on June 8, 1903, and baptized Marguerite Antoinette Ghislaine. Her father,... Read more |
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Dybbuk
Dybbuk In Jewish folklore, a dybbuk (or dibbuk) is the spirit or soul of a dead person that enters a living body and takes possession of it. Dybbukis a Hebrew word meaning "attachment." According to tradition, the dybbuk is a restless spirit that must wander ... Read more |
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Bix Beiderbecke
Bix Beiderbecke (Leon Bismarck Beiderbecke) , 1903-31, American jazz cornetist, pianist, and composer, b. Davenport, Iowa. Mainly self-taught, he was influenced by recordings of the Original Dixieland Jazz Band and by the music of King Oliver, Louis Armstrong, and Jimmie Noone. His cornet playing,... Read more |
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Wolfram von Eschenbach
Wolfram von Eschenbach , c.1170-c.1220, German poet. Perhaps the greatest of the German minnesingers, and one of the finest poets of medieval Europe. He was a knight who led a restless, roving life. In 1203 he was at the court of Landgrave Hermann von Thüringen. His only complete work is his... Read more |
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