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Barry White was an American rhythm and blues singer. The peak of his popularity was in the middle of 70s. During White’s career in the music business, 106 of his albums became gold, 41 of them received platinum status. 20 singles became gold, 10 – platinum, their sales exceeded 100 million copies. He is one of the best-selling performers of all time. Barry was a winner of two Grammy Awards. His music was influenced by Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin and Elvis Presley.
Barry Eugene Carter (his real name) was born on September 12, 1944 in Galveston. The adult life of White began in a very original way: at the age of 15 he was sentenced to prison for 4 months for stealing Cadillac tires. At the same time, Barry early began to show interest in music. He learned to play the piano, and also sang in a children’s church choir (the usual beginning of a career for most American soul and jazz performers). At school, he formed a group called The Upfronts. Their first release was a song called Little Girl in 1960, released immediately after White’s return from prison.
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Queen Hatshepsut, along with Cleopatra and Nefertiti, is among the great rulers of Ancient Egypt. It was largely thanks to her that Egypt became the world power of her time. Her parents were King Thutmose I and Queen Ahmose. Hatshepsut married her half-brother Thutmose II.
Her father died in about 1482 BC and Hatshepsut came to power. During Thutmose II’s lifetime Hatshepsut was merely a principal queen bearing the titles King’s Daughter, King’s Sister, God’s Wife, and King’s Great Wife. In 1479 BC her husband died in the eighth year of his reign. Some historians later suggested that Hatshepsut had him poisoned to become the ruler herself. Thutmose III, her stepson, then became king, but he was too young to rule and she had begun to rule Egypt as regent.
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Pixee Fox, 26-year-old Swede who lives in the US, has always admired the heroines of cartoons, which in her opinion, have just perfect appearance. The girl also wanted to become perfect, and one day she decided to change her appearance with the help of plastic surgery.
Inspired by the animated cartoon characters Jessica Rabbit and Holli Wood, the young Swede began to change her appearance in November 2015. The girl trains a lot in the gym, focusing on the lower body part. Despite the extremely thin waist, Pixie wears a corset.
She transformed from a very charming young girl into a real wife of the rabbit Roger.
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Franz Liszt (1811-1886) was a Hungarian composer, known primarily as one of the first virtuoso performers on the modern piano. He was an innovator in style and harmony.
Franz Liszt was born on October 22, 1811 at Raiding. He received his first instruction from his father. At the age of 9 he played in public for the first time. Shortly thereafter his family moved to Vienna, where he began his studies with Carl Czerny and Antonio Salieri.
In 1823 Liszt left for Paris. The following year he gave his first concert there. Paris was Liszt’s home for 2 decades. He became friendly with Frederic Chopin, Felix Mendelssohn, A. M. L. de Lamartine, Victor Hugo, Heinrich Heine, and eventually Richard Wagner.
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Arthur Lee was a leader, vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter of the legendary Los Angeles psychedelic musical group Love. He is known as the “first black hippie”.
Arthur Taylor (his real name) was born on March 7, 1945 in Memphis, Tennessee. He was the son of jazz cornetist Chester Taylor and schoolteacher Agnes Taylor. The Taylors moved to Los Angeles when Arthur was five years old. In 1953, his mother married Clinton Lee, whose name was taken by Arthur and he became Arthur Taylor Lee. Arthur spent his childhood and adolescence in the historic area of Los Angeles, West Adams. He studied at Susan Miller Dorsey High School, where he was good at basketball and broke the record for points in a game. In his school years, he teamed up with a friend of the family, John Echols (also from Tennessee), and created various musical groups.
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Edgar Allan Poe is the founder of the genre of the detective fiction. It was he who came up with the main component of a criminal story – the image of a brilliant detective. But he created at least two more genres of literature: fiction story and a horror novel. What we now call Gothic literature.
His life was hard – orphanhood, separation from his beloved sister, cruel guardian, jealousy and betrayal of friends, work for ridiculous fees, the death of his wife, alcoholism, drug addiction, madness… His death was even worse. But it gave special mystique to writer’s gothic. There is written “truthful testimony” that one of the admirers, three years after his death met him and had a long conversation. There are mediums who claim that the spirit of the writer “got in touch and told how he had been buried alive”.
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Viktor Schauberger was a genius, self-taught scientist who tried to unravel the secrets of nature. He knew how to purify water in a natural way and use its power for the benefit of man – as the ancients did.
Viktor Schauberger was born in 1885 in the Austrian outback. He was the fifth of nine children in the family of hereditary foresters and grew up a real son of the forest. As a child, he and his father spent days in the forest. Viktor was in love with the forest. When his father decided to send his son to the university to study forestry, Viktor refused, sincerely believing that the best teacher was the forest itself. Teachers, he thought, would distort his unbiased vision of nature, as happened with his brother. Viktor chose a regular school and learned to be a forester.
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Kristin Scott Thomas is a British actress, nominated for Oscar for the film The English Patient. She is one of the most famous actresses in modern British history. This pretty woman performed many wonderful roles in her career. For many years she has worked with young directors and recognized classics.
Kristin Scott Thomas was born on May 24, 1960 in Redruth, Cornwall, UK. Her father, who served in the British air forces, died when she was only five years old. Then Kristin and four other children of the family were brought up by their mother. Soon their mother remarried, however, the stepfather also died in a plane crash.
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Jean Reno is a French actor of Spanish origin, who began his career in 1979.
Juan Moreno y Herrera Jimenez (his real name) was born on July 30, 1948 in Casablanca. In 1960, Moreno family returned to Europe and settled in France (they had fled to Morocco from Andalusia to escape the regime of General Franco). Jean had to serve in the French army, to obtain citizenship. In 1970, he took acting classes at Rene Simon studio, in 1974 he debuted in TV shows, then on the stage of Ecce Homo and in 1978 in the movie L’Hypothese du tableau vole, but his film career did not develop.
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Ian Stuart Donaldson was a British musician and known supporter of neo-Nazism. He was the founder of the rock group Skrewdriver, influenced the appearance of NS skinheads movement.
Ian Stuart Donaldson was born on August 11, 1957 in Poulton-le-Fylde, Lancashire. He grew up in Blackpool. In the early seventies, he joined the skinheads. His friend started playing in a local band and Ian decided to create his own band. The first band was called Tumbling Dice and they played mainly cover versions of the Rolling Stones and The Who, but after receiving an invitation from the London Record Studios rest of the band refused to move to the capital, and the group disbanded. In 1976 he formed the group Skrewdriver inspired by the performances of Sex Pistols in Manchester. Initially, the band played punk music, but gradually reoriented to NS skinhead theme.
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