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Chico Science Biography

Chico Science Brazilian musician Credited with creating the “mangue beat,” an artistic movement named for the mangrove swamps in Recife, a poor Brazilian city, Science was considered the…

George Schaefer 1997 Deaths

George Schaeferproducer, director In his career that spanned six decades, Schaefer directed almost 100 television productions, including more than 50 “Hallmark Hall of Fame” presentations.…

Doc Cheatham Biography

Doc Cheatham(Adolphus Anthony Cheatham)musicianBorn: 6/13/1905Birthplace: Nashville, Tennessee Having played early on in Vaudeville theaters backing blues/jazz great Bessie Smith and others,…

Will ROGERS, Congress, OK (1898-1983)

ROGERS Will , a Representative from Oklahoma; born on a farm near Bessie, Washita County, Oklahoma Territory (now Oklahoma), December 12, 1898; attended the public schools, and Southwestern…

American Music Timeline - The Twenties

Part IV: The Twenties by David Johnson 1900 1920 1922 1924 1925 1927 1928 Next: 1930-1960 Circa 1920 West 28th St. in New York City becomes center of popular music industry, through 1950s,…

African literature

(Encyclopedia) African literature, literary works of the African continent. African literature consists of a body of work in different languages and various genres, ranging from oral literature to…

1920 – 1929 World History

Benito Mussolini(1883–1945)National Archives and Records Admin.Bessie Smith(1894–1937)The Library of Congress Picture CollectionWilliam Butler Yeats(1865–1939)Archive PhotosJoseph Stalin (…