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  2. Louie Louie - Wikipedia

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    A Minnesota girl group, the Shaggs, released a version as a 1965 single (Concert 1-78-65), and Honey Ltd. covered the song on a 1968 album and as a single (LHI 1216); however, the distinction of first girl group participation on a version of "Louie Louie" would go to the Shalimars, an Olympia girl group who provided overdubbed backing vocals in ...

  3. RCA Records - Wikipedia

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    By the end of the fiscal year 1988, RCA Records had gross revenue of $236 million in the United States, the most profitable year in the label's history. The album The Way It Is by Bruce Hornsby and the Range , sold more than three million copies, and the soundtrack album from the film Dirty Dancing , which cost RCA $200,000 to produce, sold 15. ...

  4. List of English inventions and discoveries - Wikipedia

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    1941: Codebreaker Bill Tutte (1917–2002) developed the Cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher, which Hitler used to communicate with his generals in World War II. 1973: Clifford Cocks (born 1950) first developed what came to be known as the RSA cipher at GCHQ, approximately three years before it was rediscovered by Rivest, Shamir, and Adleman at ...

  5. Cassette tape - Wikipedia

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    British record labels began releasing compact cassettes in October 1967, and they exploded as a mass-market medium after the first Walkman, the TPS-L2, went on sale on 1 July 1979, as cassettes provided portability, which vinyl records could not. While portable radios and boom boxes had been around for some time, the Walkman was the first truly ...

  6. Orientalism - Wikipedia

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    In opera and song, nega often simply denotes S-E-X a la russe, desired or achieved. Orientalism is also traceable in music that is considered to have effects of exoticism , including the influence of Javanese gamelan [ 70 ] in Claude Debussy 's piano music all the way to the sitar being used in recordings by the Beatles .

  7. United States dollar - Wikipedia

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    The U.S. dollar was originally defined under a bimetallic standard of 371.25 grains (24.057 g) (0.7734375 troy ounces) fine silver or, from 1834, [2] 23.22 grains (1.505 g) fine gold, or $20.67 per troy ounce. The Gold Standard Act of 1900 linked the dollar solely to gold. From 1934, its equivalence to gold was revised to $35 per troy ounce.

  8. Maximilien Robespierre - Wikipedia

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    On 24 April, Robespierre presented his version with four articles on the right of property. [ s ] He was in effect questioning the individual right of ownership, [ 247 ] and advocated a progressive tax and fraternity between the people of all the nations. [ 240 ]