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Elias and His Zig-Zag Jive Flutes was a kwela band, formed in the mid-1950s by brothers Elias and Jack Lerole, along with David Ramosa and Zeph Nkabinde. The four young men played on the streets of Alexandra, a township in Johannesburg, South Africa. In the early days they called themselves the Alex Shamba Boys. [1]
The title Triumph of the Nerds is a play on the title of the 1984 comedy Revenge of the Nerds. [2] Cringely followed the series with Nerds 2.0.1 (titled Glory of the Geeks in the UK), a history of the Internet to 1998. In 2012, Cringely released the full interview that Steve Jobs gave in 1995 for Triumph of the Nerds as Steve Jobs: The Lost ...
Greg Pattillo (born July 1, 1977) is an American beatboxing flutist originally from Seattle, but now operating in Brooklyn, New York. He was lauded by The New York Times as "the best person in the world at what he does." [1] His performance videos on YouTube, showcasing "beatbox flute," have been viewed more than 70 million times. [2]
Nerds 2.0.1: A Brief History of the Internet – also known as Glory of the Geeks – is a 1998 American PBS television documentary that explores the development of the ARPANET, the Internet, and the World Wide Web from 1969 to 1998.
Actor Brad Renfro stars the music video. The video opens with two girls and a guy in a truck, the guy asking the two if they remember a guy named Shagg. Pharrell and Chad ride around with a bike gang interspersed with scenes of a young man (Brad Renfro) struggling to make ends meet and his pregnant girlfriend (Kelli Garner). She suggests he ...
Steig was a maternal nephew of Margaret Mead and Leo Rosten, [4] and was also the cousin of Mary Catherine Bateson. [ 5 ] Steig also composed the music for animated film adaptations of his father's books for Weston Woods , including The Amazing Bone , Brave Irene and Sylvester and the Magic Pebble .
In episode three the Nerds played the Nerds FC team from Season 1. The original Nerds team won 3:0. In episode four, the team was taken to Bluetongue Stadium to face a team of celebrities. The celebrities won 5:2. In the fifth episode, the Nerds faced off against a team of military servicemen. The score was 2:0 to the military.
To the players of swing music in the 1930s and 1940s, jive was an expression denoting glib or foolish talk. [2] American soldiers brought Lindy Hop/jitterbug to Europe around 1940, where this dance swiftly found a following among the young. In the United States, "swing" became the most common word for the dance, and the term "jive" was adopted ...