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Hyde Athletic Industries Inc
Hyde Athletic Industries, Inc. Centennial Industrial ParkCentennial Drive, P.O. Box 6046Peabody, Massachusetts 01961U.S.A.(508) 532-9000Fax: (508) 532-6105 Public Company Incorporated: 1912 as A.R. Hyde and SonsEmployees: 362Sales: $102.56 million (1995)Stock Exchanges: NASDAQSICs: 3149... Read more |
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Sir Henry John Newbolt
Sir Henry John Newbolt 1862-1938, English poet and historian. He is best remembered for his vigorous and imperialistic poems of the sea, collections of which include Admirals All (1897), The Sailing of the Long Ships (1902), and Drake's Drum and Other Songs of the Sea (1914). The centennial... Read more |
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Bicentennial
BICENTENNIAL BICENTENNIAL. The 200th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence was the country's most broadly celebrated anniversary. Like the 1876 centennial, it followed a period of social tension that created an ominous backdrop for the event. The bicentennial represented,... Read more |
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Sidney Lanier
Sidney Lanier , 1842-81, American poet and musician, b. Macon, Ga., grad. Oglethorpe College 1860. His first work, the novel Tiger-Lilies (1867), was based on his experiences as a Confederate soldier in the Civil War. An accomplished musician, Lanier was first flutist of the Peabody Orchestra,... Read more |
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James Albert Michener
James Albert Michener , 1907-97, American author, b. New York City, grad. Swarthmore, 1929. His short-story collection Tales of the South Pacific (1947; Pulitzer) was adapted into the successful Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific (1948). His more than 40 novels, many best sellers and... Read more |
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Gentex Corp
Gentex Corporation 600 N. Centennial St.Zeeland, Michigan 49464U.S.A.(616) 772-1800(800) 444-GNTX; (800) 444-4689Fax: (616) 772-7348Web site: http://www.gentex.com Public Company Incorporated: 1974Employees: 1400Sales: $186.32 million (1997)Stock Exchanges: NASDAQTicker Symbol: GNTXSICs: 3231... Read more |
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Rock Bottom Restaurants Inc
Rock Bottom Restaurants, Inc. 248 Centennial Parkway, Suite 100 Louisville, Colorado 80027-1675 U.S.A. Telephone: (303) 664-4000 Fax: (303) 664-4199 Web site: http://www.rockbottomrestaurantsinc.com Private Company Incorporated: 1994 Employees: 6,500 Sales: $264 million... Read more |
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Analogic Corp
Analogic Corporation 8 Centennial DrivePeabody, Massachusetts 01960U.S.A.(978) 977-3000Fax: (978) 977-6811Web site: http://www.analogic.com Public Company Incorporated: 1964 as Gordon EngineeringEmployees: 1,500Sales: $256.7 million (1997)Stock Exchanges: NASDAQSICs: 3823 Process Control... Read more |
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Trane
Trane One Centennial AvenuePiscataway, New Jersey 08855-6820U.S.A.Telephone: (732) 980-6000Fax: (732) 980-3340Web site: http://www.trane.com Business Segment of American Standard Companies Inc.Incorporated: 1913 as The Trane CompanyEmployees: 27,100Sales: $6.02 billion (2005)NAIC: 333415... Read more |
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Jelly Roll Morton
Jelly Roll Morton 1890-1941, American jazz musician, composer, and band leader, originally named Ferdinand Joseph Lamothe, b. Gulfport, La. He began studying piano as a child and in his youth was a pianist in the colorful Storyville district of New Orleans. Later he played with Johnny Dodds, Baby... Read more |
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OPT FOR WORD PROCESSOR RATHER THAN COMPUTER.(Preview)
...ago, RCA released two retrospectives - but they're limited to the artists' work for RCA labels. "The Jelly Roll Morton Centennial: The Complete Victor Recordings," a five-CD set, is a glorious accounting of the work of a pivotal jazz... |
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Ammons' star is once again shining, thanks to a centennial showing: Ammons'...
...giants such as Louis Armstrong and Jelly Roll Morton still hold a significant place...will convene an "Albert Ammons Centennial Concert," a day before the exact...people to it." Albert Ammons Centennial Concert A boogie-woogie virtuoso... |
 "The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)")
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A FLURRY OF BOX SETS THAT CELEBRATE LEGENDS AT THEIR BEST
...Gentleman of Swing: Centennial Collection," Bluebird...chronological order. Jelly Roll Morton , "The Complete Library...complete set of Jelly Roll Morton's famous 1938 interviews...Besides the seven discs of ... |
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Coronation by Cornet.(Louis Armstrong)
...version of a classic composition Jelly Roll Morton had made famous, "Twelfth Street...live. And now, in time for his centennial--he claimed he was born in...self-proclaimed inventor, "Jelly Roll [Morton] ... |
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Of jazz and anniversaries
...that year as the jazz centennial, although there was...Keppard's Creole Band and Jelly Roll Morton, had taken New Orleans...Johnson and Jelly Roll Morton apparently did." Ory...Johnson and ... |
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Bamboula! The Life and Times of Louis Moreau Gottschalk.
...definitive biography, but his Centennial Catalogue knew York: n...murder an author who drags Jelly Roll Morton into the account, then reminds us of Morton's real name, and then that of Morton's piano teacher. Like... |
 "The Record (Bergen County, NJ)")
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Jazz musicians find fast friends in 'trad' circles
...on banjo, and you've got the Centennial Jazz Band, an outfit that has...jazz pioneers like Buddy Bolden, Jelly Roll Morton, King Oliver, and a young hotshot...the Goodtime Jazz Babies.The Centennial Jazz Band plays every Saturday... |
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Storyville
...on a Basin Street traffic island to commemorate the centennial of Storyville, the notorious red-light district...bordellos serving as jazz workshops for such legends as Jelly Roll Morton, Tony Jackson, Clarence Williams, and King Oliver... |
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MORE FROM ONE OF YEAR'S BEST
...quarter- century later; a favorite stomping ground of Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, and Art Tatum; the center of the...Ellingtoverkill? - For those who have not succumbed to centennial cynicism, or those who have and need reassurance that... |
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American rhapsody // Tributes galore for George Gershwin
...country's marches. Scott Joplin invented ragtime. Jelly Roll Morton and W.C. Handy made major innovations in jazz and...voice, piano, jazz band and orchestra - over this centennial year. Andrew Patner is a free-lance writer and critic... |
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