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How did Hungary’s leader turn football into a political machine? The strange story of the Pancho Arena.
You can read about the Amazon forest for years and still not come close to grasping how strange its wildlife really is. The ...
The late, great Billie Holiday was last in Tampa on the Chitlin Circuit at least 65 years ago. But Stageworks Theatre is bringing her music and spirit back to town in the last show of its 2024-2025 ...
Even when previously introduced to cocaine, Rothenfluh’s team noted that the insects routinely opted for pure sugar water ...
Devil Fruits took a backseat in One Piece after the time skip, with Haki becoming more powerful. The Advanced Forms of Haki are now the most desirable powers, with Conqueror's Haki seen as the ...
What comes to mind is the 1939 song “Strange Fruit,” made famous by Billie Holiday, which is a haunting metaphor that refers to the victims of racial violence against African Americans in the US.
Inspired by the 1937 poem “Strange Fruit” (written by Abel Meeropol and turned into the cult favorite song of the same name made famous by Billie Holiday) and Joan of Arc’s historic martyrdom, Plaisir ...
Time magazine named her 1939 recording of Strange Fruit the song of the 20th century. “In this sad, shadowy song about lynching in the South”, Time wrote in 1999, “history’s greatest jazz ...
John Jiler, who wrote and is the sole speaking performer in “The Rosenberg/Strange Fruit Project,” is far less well-known, but he has been prolific — particularly as a writer, winning awards and ...