Mundo Visto de Cima - USA, Massachusetts (Plymouth Rock a Gloucester)
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Plymouth Rock - Qual é o rock mais visitado na Nova Inglaterra ? É Plymouth Rock em Massachusetts, é claro. Este famoso ponto de referência fica dentro do menor parque estadual em Massachusetts, Pilgrim Memorial State Park , visitado por quase um milhão de pessoas por ano. História de Plymouth Rock - Segundo a lenda, Plymouth Rock é a rocha sobre a qual os peregrinos desembarcaram quando chegaram ao local de seu assentamento permanente em Plymouth, Massachusetts, em 1620. A maioria dos visitantes de primeira viagem ao rock está um pouco assustada com sua pequenez. Como poderia um artefato tão monumental na história americana ser tão, bem insignificante? Continuação...Pesquisar no site: (Fonte de Pesquisa) Mais Informações:
Plimouth Plantation - Foi incorporada em 1947 como um memorial para os Padres Peregrinos e para a educação histórica do público com respeito às lutas dos primeiros colonos, a expansão do assentamento e a influência dos Padres Peregrinos em todo o mundo. Mas desde o começo, Harry Hornblower, o fundador do museu, sabia que a representação abrangente e precisa da colônia de Plymouth, do século XVII, exigiria a exibição e interpretação das culturas inglesa e nativa. Ele entendeu que a transformação da Nova Inglaterra nos anos 1600 foi o resultado das interações cotidianas entre os peregrinos e os povos indígenas - às vezes trabalhando em colaboração e às vezes vivendo em conflito. Continuação...Pesquisar no site: (Fonte de Pesquisa)
Quincy - É a maior cidade do Condado de Norfolk, Massachusetts, Estados Unidos. Faz parte do Metropolitan Boston e um dos subúrbios do sul imediatos de Boston. Conhecida como a Cidade dos Presidentes, Quincy é o berço de dois presidentes dos EUA - John Adams e seu filho John Quincy Adams - bem como John Hancock, umPresidente do Congresso Continental e o primeiro signatário da Declaração de Independência. Estabelecido pela primeira vez em 1625, Quincy foi brevemente parte de Dorchester e Boston antes de se tornar o recinto norte de Braintree em 1640. Em 1792, Quincy foi separado de Braintree; a nova cidade recebeu o nome do coronel John Quincy, avô materno de Abigail Adams e depois de quem John Quincy Adams também foi nomeado. Quincy se tornou uma cidade em 1888. Continuação...Pesquisar no site: (Fonte de Pesquisa) Mais Informações:
Boston - Cidade, capital da comunidade de Massachusetts, e sede do condado de Suffolk, no nordeste dos Estados Unidos. Encontra-se na baía de Massachusetts, um braço do Oceano Atlântico. Continuação...Pesquisar no site: - Quando você visita Boston, realmente tem algo para todos. Fundada em 1630, esta velha senhora não está presa no passado. Casas de estilo georgiano são equilibradas por enormes arranha-céus de vidro e aço e museus veneráveis por galerias contemporâneas. Como nas cidades européias, metade da diversão é explorar os diferentes bairros: o elegante Beacon Hill, o italiano NorthEnd e o Back Bay, com suas lojas e cafés. Continuação...Pesquisar no site: Mais Informações:
Salem - Salem, e seus vizinhos Marblehead, Gloucester e Rockport, estão em Cape Ann, uma faixa de terra formando um arco no Atlântico ao norte de Boston. Salem engloba muitas das atrações que levam as pessoas a Massachusetts: história e literatura americana primitivas, tradições marítimas, um cenário artístico cheio de vida, museus de história e arte, cruzeiros bacanas e bons restaurantes. Em Salem, você pode aprender sobre os infames julgamentos de bruxas de 1692, visitar a verdadeira Casa dos Sete Gables e visitar um parque nacional de vida e comércio marítimo colonial. Continuação...Pesquisar no site:
Gloucester - Estabelecido em 1623 e servindo de lar para o porto mais antigo dos Estados Unidos, Gloucester, com um dos portos mais belos e bonitos de Massachusetts, permanece entre os portos de pesca mais movimentados da costa leste. Atraídos pela rica história e beleza natural de Gloucester, os visitantes se deliciarão com praias imaculadas, frutos do mar frescos e atividades aquáticas como stand-up paddleboarding, caiaque, canoagem, mergulho, pesca e a sempre notável excursão de observação de baleias. Continuação...Pesquisar no site:
Whitetop Mountain Band | Barbican Theatre in Plymouth | Thursday September 13th at 8pm
September 2018
After a 6 month sabbatical I'm pleased to say Americana Night at The B Bar returns when we welcome back old friends from Virginia state The Whitetop Mountain Band.
From the highest peaks of the Appalachian Mountains The Whitetop Mountain Bans are one of the popular bands throughout their home state and surrounding Kentucky, North Carolina and Tennessee.A family band first formed in the 1940's by Albert Hash in an area rich in the old-time music tradition the band have done much to preserve the region's style of old-time fiddling and banjo picking.
At the same time their shows are well known for their versatility containing everything from fiddle/banjo instrumentals through solos and harmony vocals on blues, classic country, honky tonk, bluegrass and gospel.
Regular performers at The Carter Family Fold in Virginia which was set up in honour of the original Carter family,AP,Sara and Maybelle the Whitetops have played prestigious festivals throughout the USA such as The Smithsonian Folklife Festival,The National Folklife Festival and Merlefest.They are also regular players at our local Cornish Bluegrass Festival.
One of the memorable features of their act is the inclusion of flat foot dancing, a combination of Irish stepdancing,a little polka dancing and perhaps some tap dancing.Its inclusion merely enhances a show of high energy and charisma.
Touring as a four piece all female outfit the band consists of
Martha Spencer-fiddle guitar and vocals
Emily Spencer-banjo and vocals
Kelly Breiding -guitar and vocals
Debbie Bramer- upright double bass
Based on their two previous appearances here tickets go fast and you are guaranteed an unmissable night of high quality old time music.
Come support great live music at an intimate venue.
Tickets : £16.50 including booking fee from The B Bar or 01752 242021 or
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The history of Europeans in America | DW Documentary
Thirty million Europeans emigrated to the USA in the 19th Century to realize their American dream. But the continent was settled at the expense of its original inhabitants.
The United States is always seen as the land of dreams and unlimited possibilities. Our starting point for this account of the settlement of America’s eastern seaboard by European pioneers is Florida, where the Spaniards first settled in the early 16th Century.. Their legacy today is 50 million Americans who speak Spanish as their first language -more than in Spain itself. But it was the largely Protestant British who made up the second wave of immigrants. They founded Jamestown in Virginia and settlements in Massachusetts and pushed northwards into Canada. While the southern states largely lived from the proceeds of slavery, the northern states developed into booming industrial centers that would ultimately defeat them in the civil war. It was here that the American dream of dishwasher to millionaire originated.
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American literature | Wikipedia audio article
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American literature is literature written or produced in the United States and its preceding colonies (for specific discussions of poetry and theater, see Poetry of the United States and Theater in the United States). Before the founding of the United States, the British colonies on the eastern coast of the present-day United States were heavily influenced by English literature. The American literary tradition thus began as part of the broader tradition of English literature.
The revolutionary period is notable for the political writings of Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, and Thomas Paine. Thomas Jefferson's United States Declaration of Independence solidified his status as a key American writer. It was in the late 18th and early 19th centuries that the nation's first novels were published. An early example is William Hill Brown's The Power of Sympathy published in 1791. Brown's novel depicts a tragic love story between siblings who fall in love without knowing they are related.
With an increasing desire to produce uniquely American literature and culture, a number of key new literary figures emerged, perhaps most prominently Washington Irving and Edgar Allan Poe. In 1836, Ralph Waldo Emerson started an influential movement known as Transcendentalism. Inspired by that movement, Henry David Thoreau wrote Walden, which celebrates individualism and nature and urges resistance to the dictates of organized society. The political conflict surrounding abolitionism inspired the writings of William Lloyd Garrison and Harriet Beecher Stowe in her famous novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. These efforts were supported by the continuation of the slave narratives such as Frederick Douglass's Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave.
In the mid-nineteenth century, Nathaniel Hawthorne published his magnum opus The Scarlet Letter, a novel about adultery. Hawthorne influenced Herman Melville, who is notable for the books Moby-Dick and Billy Budd. America's greatest poets of the nineteenth century were Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson. Mark Twain (the pen name used by Samuel Langhorne Clemens) was the first major American writer to be born away from the East Coast. Henry James put American literature on the international map with novels like The Portrait of a Lady. At the turn of the twentieth century a strong naturalist movement emerged that comprised writers such as Edith Wharton, Stephen Crane, Theodore Dreiser, and Jack London.
American writers expressed disillusionment following World War I. The short stories and novels of F. Scott Fitzgerald captured the mood of the 1920s, and John Dos Passos wrote too about the war. Ernest Hemingway became famous with The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms; in 1954, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature. William Faulkner became one of the greatest American writers with novels like The Sound and the Fury. American poetry reached a peak after World War I with such writers as Wallace Stevens, T. S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, and E. E. Cummings. American drama attained international status at the time with the works of Eugene O'Neill, who won four Pulitzer Prizes and the Nobel Prize. In the mid-twentieth century, American drama was dominated by the work of playwrights Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller, as well as by the maturation of the American musical.
Depression era writers included John Steinbeck, notable for his novel The Grapes of Wrath. Henry Miller assumed a distinct place in American Literature in the 1930s when his semi-autobiographical novels were banned from the US. From the end of World War II until the early 1970s many popular works in modern American literature were produced, like Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird. America's involvement in World War II influenced works such as Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead (1948), Joseph Heller's Catch-22 (1961) and Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s Slaughterhouse- ...
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Mundo Visto de Cima - USA, Arkansas (Stamps a Fort Smitth)
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Stamps - É uma pequena cidade localizada no Condado de Lafayette. É a única cidade do país chamada 'Stamps' e fica a cerca de 2,5 horas de Little Rock . A cidade foi nomeada em homenagem a Hardy James Stamps, um dos primeiros colonos da região, e foi o lar de infância da autora Maya Angelou (1928-2014). Maya Angelou escreveu sobre a cidade em seu livro, eu sei por que o pássaro Caged Bird, que recebeu uma indicação ao National Book Award. Angelou passou a maior parte de sua juventude na cidade, na casa de sua avó paterna, que administrava a única loja geral afro-americana na cidade. Após a morte de Angelou, a cidade de Stamps dedicou o parque da cidade e o lago June a Angelou. Continuação...Pesquisar no site: (Fonte de Pesquisa) Mais Informações (Historia):
Hope - É uma pequena cidade no condado de Hempstead, com duas reivindicações para a fama: é o berço do ex-presidente dos EUA Bill Clinton e mostra algumas das maiores melancias do mundo. A cidade é o lar do Presidente William Jefferson Clinton Local de nascimento do Patrimônio Histórico Nacional . A casa branca de dois andares na South Hervey Street foi onde Clinton viveu desde o seu nascimento em 1946 até os quatro anos de idade. O depósito restaurado da Missouri-Pacific Railroad serve como o Hope Visitor Centre & Museum e contém exposições da história local e memorabilia da ferrovia. É também uma parada AMTRAK. Continuação...Pesquisar no site: / Informações: WILLIAM J. CLINTON 42º Presidente dos Estados Unidos, 1993-2001
Diamond State Park - Onde os diamantes podem ser encontrados? A resposta pode surpreender você. O Parque Estadual de Crateras de Diamantes do Arkansas é um dos únicos locais produtores de diamantes no mundo onde o público pode procurar diamantes em sua fonte vulcânica original. A política aqui é finders, keepers, significando que os diamantes que você encontra são seus para manter. / O que saber?
Um dos únicos lugares no mundo onde o público pode procurar diamantes reais em sua fonte vulcânica original, Crater of Diamonds é uma experiência única que leva pessoas de todo o mundo para Murfreesboro, Arkansas.
Lake Hamilton - O Lago Hamilton foi criado em 1932, quando a Arkansas Power and Light Co. concluiu a obra de Carpenter Dam, no rio Ouachita, para gerar eletricidade. Hoje, o reservatório de 7,460 acres é um dos lagos residenciais e recreativos mais populares do Arkansas. Muito do que é rodeado de condomínios, resorts, motéis, restaurantes e casas particulares. State Scenic 7 Byway atravessa o lago. Continuação...Pesquisar no site: (Fonte de Pesquisa)
Ozark National Forest - O Ozark-St. Francis National Forests são realmente duas florestas separadas com muitas diferenças. Eles são distintos em suas próprias diferenças topográficas, geológicas, biológicas, culturais e sociais, ainda que cada um faça parte de todo o sistema nacional de florestas. A Floresta Nacional de Ozark abrange 1,2 milhões de acres, principalmente nas montanhas de Ozark, no norte do Arkansas. Você encontrará a montanha mais alta do estado, a Mount Magazine, e uma incrível caverna subterrânea viva - as Cavernas de Blanchard Springs. A Floresta Nacional de São Francisco abrange 22.600 acres no leste do Arkansas, uma das menores e mais diversas florestas do país. Estas florestas são generosamente dotadas de oportunidades de lazer para acampar, caminhar, nadar, pescar, caçar, passeios de barco, passeios cênicos, locais para piqueniques e oportunidades para observação da vida selvagem também são abundantes. / PASSEIO PELA FLORESTA NACIONAL DE OZARK:
Fort Smith, Arkansas - É uma cidade de convergência. Seu primeiro forte foi construído em Belle Point, onde os rios Arkansas e Poteau se unem. Ao mesmo tempo, os fiscais federais costumavam sair dos Estados Unidos e entrar no território indígena nessa conjuntura. Foras-da-lei colidiram com o Juiz Federal Parker. /
É aqui que o Novo Sul encontra o Velho Oeste! Em Fort Smith, os visitantes podem reviver 200 anos de história, explorar uma paisagem natural diversificada e descobrir as atrações e comodidades modernas dentro da porta original da América para o The Wild West. Reconhecido como “Top Ten True Western Town”, pela revista True West, Fort Smith..
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The Quakers, the Dutch, and the Ladies: Crash Course US History #4
In which John Green teaches you about some of the colonies that were not in Virginia or Massachussetts. Old New York was once New Amsterdam. Why they changed it, I can say; ENGLISH people just liked it better that way, and when the English took New Amsterdam in 1643, that's just what they did. Before the English got there though, the colony was full of Dutch people who treated women pretty fairly, and allowed free black people to hold jobs. John also discusses Penn's Woods, also known as Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania was (briefly) a haven of religious freedom, and William Penn dealt relatively fairly with the natives his colony displaced. Of course, as soon as Penn died, the colonist started abusing the natives immediately. We venture as far south as the Carolina colonies, where the slave labor economy was taking shape. John also takes on the idea of the classless society in America, and the beginning of the idea of the American dream. It turns out that in spite of the lofty dream that everyone had an equal shot in the new world, there were elites in the colonies. And these elites tended to be in charge. And then their kids tended to take over when they died. So yeah, not quite an egalitarian paradise. In addition to all this, we get into the Salem Witch Trials, the treatment of women in the colonies, and colonial economics. Oh yeah, one more thing, before you comment about how he says we're talking about the American Revolution next week, but the end screen says Seven Years War, consider that perhaps the Seven Years War laid the groundwork for the revolution to happen.
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Free to Play: The Movie (US)
FREE TO PLAY is a feature-length documentary that follows three professional gamers from around the world as they compete for a million dollar prize in the first Dota 2 International Tournament. In recent years, E Sports has surged in popularity to become one of the most widely-practiced forms of competitive sport today. A million dollar tournament changed the landscape of the gaming world and for those elite players at the top of their craft, nothing would ever be the same again. Produced by Valve, the film documents the challenges and sacrifices required of players to compete at the highest level.
When dolphins laugh | Benjamin Mee | TEDxTotnes
Benjamin tells of his lifelong goal to prove theory of mind in animals and of the effect it could have on animal welfare.
Benjamin Mee is the author of We Bought A Zoo which then became a film featuring Matt Damon and Scarlett Johansson. He is also the CEO of Dartmoor Zoo, and a Journalist. He has an MSc in Science Journalism and was awarded an honorary doctorate by Plymouth University in 2013 in recognition for his passion for research and the communication of science. His areas of research interest include Animal Intelligence, Biophilia, The Aquatic Ape hypotheses and Entomophagy.
Growing up Benjamin Mee had a turbulent relationship with the education system and was expelled from school. Then, after an encounter with a dolphin he became fascinated with the field of animal intelligence and never looked back. He decided to study Psychology at UCL before completing an MSc in Science Journalism at Imperial College. This led to a 15 year career in Journalism, both print and Broadcast. In 2004 his research interests took him and his family to France in order to write a book on the Evolution of of Humour in Man and Animals, and events led to him buying Dartmoor Zoo.
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US History Overview 1: Jamestown to the Civil War
Jamestown to the Civil War. Correction: Jamestown was the first successful ENGLISH settlement in what is now the United States. The Spanish actually settled St. Augustine, Florida in 1595.
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Lynyrd Skynyrd - The Needle And The Spoon - 3/7/1976 - Winterland (Official)
Lynyrd Skynyrd - The Needle And The Spoon
Recorded Live: 3/7/1976 - Winterland - San Francisco, CA
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Personnel:
Ronnie Van Zant - vocals
Gary Rossington - guitar
Allen Collins - guitar
Billy Powell - keyboards
Leon Wilkinson - bass
Artimus Pyle - drums
JoJo Billingsley - backing vocals
Cassie Gaines - backing vocals
Leslie Hawkins - backing vocals
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After years of life on the road and with their role models, the Allman Brothers Band, struggling to survive the deaths of two of its most distinctively talented members, today Lynyrd Skynyrd has become the quintessential Southern Rock band. Under the leadership of frontman and primary songwriter Ronnie Van Zant, the group's melodic lyric driven ballads and power driven hard rockers would catapult the group into one of the most popular touring bands in the world. The group's distinctive guitar attack, combined with an overtly defiant and rebellious attitude, gave them a cultural identity that would help make songs like Sweet Home Alabama and Free Bird into anthems of American rock music and staples of FM radio right up to the present day.
Headlining a bill that also featured the Outlaws, this Winterland recording captures Lynyrd Skynyrd following the release of their fourth album, Gimme Back My Bullets. This was during a transitional phase for the band, following the departure of guitarist Ed King, but prior to his replacement, Steve Gaines, coming on board. The band was carrying on as a six-piece unit, augmented by the Honkettes on backing vocals.
This is an interesting time to hear the band live, as their trademark three-guitar attack was reduced by one guitar, leaving more room for keyboardist Billy Powell. On the ballads, like Tuesdays Gone and the pre-jam verses of Freebird, Powell displays great creativity and expands the keyboard's role in these songs.
Otherwise, the band rocks as hard as ever, with a good selection of their most popular songs, sampling a bit from all four of their studio albums. The group's defiant Southern swagger, combined with an infectious guitar and piano driven groove, creates an irresistible combination that resonated far beyond the Southern states. Two of the standouts on this show are both well chosen covers, which the band redefines as their own; J.J. Cale's Call Me The Breeze and Jimmy Rogers' T For Texas. Both of these are rearranged in classic Skynyrd style, with the latter closing the set and clearly displaying the root sound of the band at its best.
The audience demands an encore and the band obliges with a monumental Free Bird. It begins as a plaintive slow ballad, with Van Zant's distinctively sad vocals over the melodic keyboard playing of Powell and delicate slide guitar ornamentation from Rossington. However, it is the second section, which becomes an up-tempo guitar boogie, that really hits home. Here the guitarists cut loose to create one of the most distinctive solos of all time. Rossington and Collins turn this section into a soaring jam that also features impressive melodic bass playing from Wilkeson and furious keyboards from Powell. Following a brief reprise of the song, they turn on a dime back into the groove of the jam before bringing it to a climactic close.
Free Bird, more often than not, sarcastically, would become the most requested song of all time. For musicians, this inevitable request has become so tiresome, that the act of requesting it has become universally known as the mantra of the moron. Still, this only goes to prove just how deeply this song has permeated American culture and is a testament to its enduring popularity, making it one of the true landmark rock songs of twentieth century music.
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United States | Wikipedia audio article
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United States
00:04:39 1 Etymology
00:08:02 2 History
00:08:11 2.1 Indigenous peoples and pre-Columbian history
00:10:36 2.2 European settlements
00:15:56 2.2.1 Effects on and interaction with native populations
00:17:45 2.3 Independence and expansion (1776–1865)
00:22:27 2.4 Civil War and Reconstruction era
00:25:50 2.5 Further immigration, expansion, and industrialization
00:28:11 2.6 World War I, Great Depression, and World War II
00:31:01 2.7 Cold War and civil rights era
00:34:34 2.8 Contemporary history
00:39:02 3 Geography, climate, and environment
00:43:37 3.1 Wildlife
00:45:29 4 Demographics
00:45:38 4.1 Population
00:51:40 4.2 Language
00:53:39 4.3 Religion
00:58:01 4.4 Family structure
00:59:41 4.5 Health
01:03:08 4.6 Education
01:05:10 5 Government and politics
01:09:03 5.1 Political divisions
01:10:53 5.2 Parties and elections
01:13:08 5.3 Foreign relations
01:15:45 5.4 Government finance
01:20:00 5.5 Military
01:22:44 6 Law enforcement and crime
01:28:25 7 Economy
01:33:58 7.1 Science and technology
01:37:06 7.2 Income, poverty and wealth
01:41:57 8 Infrastructure
01:42:06 8.1 Transportation
01:44:31 8.2 Energy
01:45:34 8.3 Water supply and sanitation
01:46:12 9 Culture
01:48:32 9.1 Food
01:50:40 9.2 Literature, philosophy, and visual art
01:54:39 9.3 Music
01:56:19 9.4 Cinema
01:59:09 9.5 Sports
02:01:28 9.6 Mass media
02:04:34 10 See also
Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago.
Learning by listening is a great way to:
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The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions. At 3.8 million square miles (9.8 million km2), the United States is the world's third- or fourth-largest country by total area and slightly smaller than the entire continent of Europe's 3.9 million square miles (10.1 million km2). With a population of over 325 million people, the U.S. is the third most populous country. The capital is Washington, D.C., and the largest city by population is New York City. Forty-eight states and the capital's federal district are contiguous in North America between Canada and Mexico. The State of Alaska is in the northwest corner of North America, bordered by Canada to the east and across the Bering Strait from Russia to the west. The State of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific Ocean. The U.S. territories are scattered about the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, stretching across nine official time zones. The extremely diverse geography, climate, and wildlife of the United States make it one of the world's 17 megadiverse countries.Paleo-Indians migrated from Siberia to the North American mainland at least 15,000 years ago. European colonization began in the 16th century. The United States emerged from the thirteen British colonies established along the East Coast. Numerous disputes between Great Britain and the colonies following the French and Indian War led to the American Revolution, which began in 1775, and the subsequent Declaration of Independence in 1776. The war ended in 1783 with the United States becoming the first country to gain independence from a European power. The current constitution was adopted in 1788, with the first ten amendments, collectively named the Bill of Rights, being ratified in 1791 to guarantee many fundamental civil liberties. The United States embarked on a vigorous expansion across North America throughout the 19th century, acquiring new territories, displacing Native American tribes, and gradually admitting new states until it spanned the continent by 1848. During the second half of the 19th century, the Civil War led to the abolition of slavery. By the end of the century, the United States had extended into the Pacific Ocean, and its economy, driven in large part by the Industrial Revolution, began to soar. The Spanish–American War and World War I confirmed the country's status as a global military power. The United States emer ...
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Julius Henry Groucho Marx (October 2, 1890 -- August 19, 1977) was an American comedian and film and television star. He is known as a master of quick wit and widely considered one of the best comedians of the modern era. His rapid-fire, often impromptu delivery of innuendo-laden patter earned him many admirers and imitators. He made 13 feature films with his siblings the Marx Brothers, of whom he was the third-born. He also had a successful solo career, most notably as the host of the radio and television game show You Bet Your Life. His distinctive appearance, carried over from his days in vaudeville, included quirks such as an exaggerated stooped posture, glasses, cigar, and a thick greasepaint mustache and eyebrows. These exaggerated features resulted in the creation of one of the world's most ubiquitous and recognizable novelty disguises, known as Groucho glasses, a one-piece mask consisting of horn-rimmed glasses, large plastic nose, bushy eyebrows and mustache.
Groucho Marx was, and is, the most recognizable and well-known of the Marx Brothers. Groucho-like characters and references have appeared in popular culture both during and after his life, some aimed at audiences who may never have seen a Marx Brothers movie. Groucho's trademark eye glasses, nose, mustache, and cigar have become icons of comedy—glasses with fake noses and mustaches (referred to as Groucho glasses, nose-glasses, and other names) are sold by novelty and costume shops around the world.
Nat Perrin, close friend of Groucho Marx and writer of several Marx Brothers films, inspired John Astin's portrayal of Gomez Addams on the 1960s TV series The Addams Family with similarly thick mustache, eyebrows, sardonic remarks, backward logic, and ever-present cigar (pulled from his breast pocket already lit).
Alan Alda often vamped in the manner of Groucho on M*A*S*H. In one episode, Yankee Doodle Doctor, Hawkeye and Trapper put on a Marx Brothers act at the 4077, with Hawkeye playing Groucho and Trapper playing Harpo. In three other episodes, a character appeared who was named Captain Calvin Spalding (played by Loudon Wainwright III). Groucho's character in Animal Crackers was Captain Geoffrey T. Spaulding.
On many occasions, on the 1970s television sitcom All In The Family, Michael Stivic (Rob Reiner), would briefly imitate Groucho Marx and his mannerisms.
Two albums by British rock band Queen, A Night at the Opera (1975) and A Day at the Races (1976), are named after Marx Brothers films. In March 1977, Groucho invited Queen to visit him in his Los Angeles home; there they performed '39 a capella. A long-running ad campaign for Vlasic Pickles features an animated stork that imitates Groucho's mannerisms and voice. On the famous Hollywood Sign in California, one of the Os is dedicated to Groucho. Alice Cooper contributed over $27,000 to remodel the sign, in memory of his friend.
In 1982, Gabe Kaplan portrayed Marx in the film Groucho, in a one-man stage production. He also imitated Marx occasionally on his previous TV sitcom Welcome Back, Kotter.
Actor Frank Ferrante has performed as Groucho Marx on stage for more than two decades. He continues to tour under rights granted by the Marx family in a one-man show entitled An Evening With Groucho in theaters throughout the United States and Canada with piano accompanist Jim Furmston. In the late 1980s Ferrante starred as Groucho in the off-Broadway and London show Groucho: A Life in Revue penned by Groucho's son Arthur. Ferrante portrayed the comedian from age 15 to 85. The show was later filmed for PBS in 2001. Woody Allen's 1996 musical Everyone Says I Love You, in addition to being named for one of Groucho's signature songs, ends with a Groucho-themed New Year's Eve party in Paris, which some of the stars, including Allen and Goldie Hawn, attend in full Groucho costume. The highlight of the scene is an ensemble song-and-dance performance of Hooray for Captain Spaulding—done entirely in French.
In the last of the Tintin comics, Tintin and the Picaros, a balloon shaped like the face of Groucho could be seen in the Annual Carnival.
In the Italian horror comic Dylan Dog, the protagonist's sidekick is a Groucho impersonator whose character became his permanent personality.
The BBC remade the radio sitcom Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel, with contemporary actors playing the parts of the original cast. The series was repeated on digital radio station BBC7. Scottish playwright Louise Oliver wrote a play named Waiting For Groucho about Chico and Harpo waiting for Groucho to turn up for the filming of their last project together. This was performed by Glasgow theatre company Rhymes with Purple Productions at the Edinburgh Fringe and in Glasgow and Hamilton in 2007-08. Groucho was played by Scottish actor Frodo McDaniel.
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Julius Henry Groucho Marx (October 2, 1890 -- August 19, 1977) was an American comedian and film and television star. He is known as a master of quick wit and widely considered one of the best comedians of the modern era. His rapid-fire, often impromptu delivery of innuendo-laden patter earned him many admirers and imitators. He made 13 feature films with his siblings the Marx Brothers, of whom he was the third-born. He also had a successful solo career, most notably as the host of the radio and television game show You Bet Your Life. His distinctive appearance, carried over from his days in vaudeville, included quirks such as an exaggerated stooped posture, glasses, cigar, and a thick greasepaint mustache and eyebrows. These exaggerated features resulted in the creation of one of the world's most ubiquitous and recognizable novelty disguises, known as Groucho glasses, a one-piece mask consisting of horn-rimmed glasses, large plastic nose, bushy eyebrows and mustache.
Groucho Marx was, and is, the most recognizable and well-known of the Marx Brothers. Groucho-like characters and references have appeared in popular culture both during and after his life, some aimed at audiences who may never have seen a Marx Brothers movie. Groucho's trademark eye glasses, nose, mustache, and cigar have become icons of comedy—glasses with fake noses and mustaches (referred to as Groucho glasses, nose-glasses, and other names) are sold by novelty and costume shops around the world.
Nat Perrin, close friend of Groucho Marx and writer of several Marx Brothers films, inspired John Astin's portrayal of Gomez Addams on the 1960s TV series The Addams Family with similarly thick mustache, eyebrows, sardonic remarks, backward logic, and ever-present cigar (pulled from his breast pocket already lit).
Alan Alda often vamped in the manner of Groucho on M*A*S*H. In one episode, Yankee Doodle Doctor, Hawkeye and Trapper put on a Marx Brothers act at the 4077, with Hawkeye playing Groucho and Trapper playing Harpo. In three other episodes, a character appeared who was named Captain Calvin Spalding (played by Loudon Wainwright III). Groucho's character in Animal Crackers was Captain Geoffrey T. Spaulding.
On many occasions, on the 1970s television sitcom All In The Family, Michael Stivic (Rob Reiner), would briefly imitate Groucho Marx and his mannerisms.
Two albums by British rock band Queen, A Night at the Opera (1975) and A Day at the Races (1976), are named after Marx Brothers films. In March 1977, Groucho invited Queen to visit him in his Los Angeles home; there they performed '39 a capella. A long-running ad campaign for Vlasic Pickles features an animated stork that imitates Groucho's mannerisms and voice. On the famous Hollywood Sign in California, one of the Os is dedicated to Groucho. Alice Cooper contributed over $27,000 to remodel the sign, in memory of his friend.
In 1982, Gabe Kaplan portrayed Marx in the film Groucho, in a one-man stage production. He also imitated Marx occasionally on his previous TV sitcom Welcome Back, Kotter.
Actor Frank Ferrante has performed as Groucho Marx on stage for more than two decades. He continues to tour under rights granted by the Marx family in a one-man show entitled An Evening With Groucho in theaters throughout the United States and Canada with piano accompanist Jim Furmston. In the late 1980s Ferrante starred as Groucho in the off-Broadway and London show Groucho: A Life in Revue penned by Groucho's son Arthur. Ferrante portrayed the comedian from age 15 to 85. The show was later filmed for PBS in 2001. Woody Allen's 1996 musical Everyone Says I Love You, in addition to being named for one of Groucho's signature songs, ends with a Groucho-themed New Year's Eve party in Paris, which some of the stars, including Allen and Goldie Hawn, attend in full Groucho costume. The highlight of the scene is an ensemble song-and-dance performance of Hooray for Captain Spaulding—done entirely in French.
In the last of the Tintin comics, Tintin and the Picaros, a balloon shaped like the face of Groucho could be seen in the Annual Carnival.
In the Italian horror comic Dylan Dog, the protagonist's sidekick is a Groucho impersonator whose character became his permanent personality.
The BBC remade the radio sitcom Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel, with contemporary actors playing the parts of the original cast. The series was repeated on digital radio station BBC7. Scottish playwright Louise Oliver wrote a play named Waiting For Groucho about Chico and Harpo waiting for Groucho to turn up for the filming of their last project together. This was performed by Glasgow theatre company Rhymes with Purple Productions at the Edinburgh Fringe and in Glasgow and Hamilton in 2007-08. Groucho was played by Scottish actor Frodo McDaniel.
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Julius Henry Groucho Marx (October 2, 1890 -- August 19, 1977) was an American comedian and film and television star. He is known as a master of quick wit and widely considered one of the best comedians of the modern era. His rapid-fire, often impromptu delivery of innuendo-laden patter earned him many admirers and imitators. He made 13 feature films with his siblings the Marx Brothers, of whom he was the third-born. He also had a successful solo career, most notably as the host of the radio and television game show You Bet Your Life. His distinctive appearance, carried over from his days in vaudeville, included quirks such as an exaggerated stooped posture, glasses, cigar, and a thick greasepaint mustache and eyebrows. These exaggerated features resulted in the creation of one of the world's most ubiquitous and recognizable novelty disguises, known as Groucho glasses, a one-piece mask consisting of horn-rimmed glasses, large plastic nose, bushy eyebrows and mustache.
Groucho Marx was, and is, the most recognizable and well-known of the Marx Brothers. Groucho-like characters and references have appeared in popular culture both during and after his life, some aimed at audiences who may never have seen a Marx Brothers movie. Groucho's trademark eye glasses, nose, mustache, and cigar have become icons of comedy—glasses with fake noses and mustaches (referred to as Groucho glasses, nose-glasses, and other names) are sold by novelty and costume shops around the world.
Nat Perrin, close friend of Groucho Marx and writer of several Marx Brothers films, inspired John Astin's portrayal of Gomez Addams on the 1960s TV series The Addams Family with similarly thick mustache, eyebrows, sardonic remarks, backward logic, and ever-present cigar (pulled from his breast pocket already lit).
Alan Alda often vamped in the manner of Groucho on M*A*S*H. In one episode, Yankee Doodle Doctor, Hawkeye and Trapper put on a Marx Brothers act at the 4077, with Hawkeye playing Groucho and Trapper playing Harpo. In three other episodes, a character appeared who was named Captain Calvin Spalding (played by Loudon Wainwright III). Groucho's character in Animal Crackers was Captain Geoffrey T. Spaulding.
On many occasions, on the 1970s television sitcom All In The Family, Michael Stivic (Rob Reiner), would briefly imitate Groucho Marx and his mannerisms.
Two albums by British rock band Queen, A Night at the Opera (1975) and A Day at the Races (1976), are named after Marx Brothers films. In March 1977, Groucho invited Queen to visit him in his Los Angeles home; there they performed '39 a capella. A long-running ad campaign for Vlasic Pickles features an animated stork that imitates Groucho's mannerisms and voice. On the famous Hollywood Sign in California, one of the Os is dedicated to Groucho. Alice Cooper contributed over $27,000 to remodel the sign, in memory of his friend.
In 1982, Gabe Kaplan portrayed Marx in the film Groucho, in a one-man stage production. He also imitated Marx occasionally on his previous TV sitcom Welcome Back, Kotter.
Actor Frank Ferrante has performed as Groucho Marx on stage for more than two decades. He continues to tour under rights granted by the Marx family in a one-man show entitled An Evening With Groucho in theaters throughout the United States and Canada with piano accompanist Jim Furmston. In the late 1980s Ferrante starred as Groucho in the off-Broadway and London show Groucho: A Life in Revue penned by Groucho's son Arthur. Ferrante portrayed the comedian from age 15 to 85. The show was later filmed for PBS in 2001. Woody Allen's 1996 musical Everyone Says I Love You, in addition to being named for one of Groucho's signature songs, ends with a Groucho-themed New Year's Eve party in Paris, which some of the stars, including Allen and Goldie Hawn, attend in full Groucho costume. The highlight of the scene is an ensemble song-and-dance performance of Hooray for Captain Spaulding—done entirely in French.
In the last of the Tintin comics, Tintin and the Picaros, a balloon shaped like the face of Groucho could be seen in the Annual Carnival.
In the Italian horror comic Dylan Dog, the protagonist's sidekick is a Groucho impersonator whose character became his permanent personality.
The BBC remade the radio sitcom Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel, with contemporary actors playing the parts of the original cast. The series was repeated on digital radio station BBC7. Scottish playwright Louise Oliver wrote a play named Waiting For Groucho about Chico and Harpo waiting for Groucho to turn up for the filming of their last project together. This was performed by Glasgow theatre company Rhymes with Purple Productions at the Edinburgh Fringe and in Glasgow and Hamilton in 2007-08. Groucho was played by Scottish actor Frodo McDaniel.