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Abdul “Duke” Fakir, a founding member of the Motown group the Four Tops, has died, according to his family. He was 88. Fakir died of heart failure in Detroit on Monday, surrounded by his wife ...
Fakir was born on December 26, 1935, in Detroit, Michigan. His father was a factory worker who came from what is now Bangladesh. [1] His mother was an African American from Sparta, Georgia. [2] [3] Fakir attended Detroit's Pershing High School, [4] where he played basketball and football, and ran track. [5]
Abdul "Duke" Fakir, the last founding member of the Four Tops, has died. He was 88.Fakir died of heart failure surrounded by his wife and loved ones early Monday in Detroit, Michigan, according to ...
Abdul “Duke” Fakir, the last surviving original member of the beloved Motown group the Four Tops that was known for such hits as “Reach Out, I’ll Be There” and “Standing in the Shadows ...
In its mystical usage, the word fakir refers to man's spiritual need for God, who alone is regarded as self-sufficient in the Islamic religion. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] [ 16 ] Although of Muslim origin, the term has come to be applied in the Indian subcontinent to Hindu ascetics and mystics as well, alongside Indian terms such as gosvamin , sadhu , bhikku ...
Victoria & Abdul was first published in 2010, then in 2011 and 2017, by The History Press, based in Gloucester.The book has 334 pages, beginning with a contents page, author's note, acknowledgements, a forward, a diagram of Queen Victoria's family tree, a mid-19th century map of British India territories, a map of the United Kingdom showing the locations of the Queen's palaces, and a dramatis ...
Abdul “Duke” Fakir, the last surviving original member of the beloved Motown group Four Tops, died on Monday aged 88. He died at his home in Detroit from heart failure, his family said.
Alam Ara (transl. Ornament of the World) is a 1931 Indian Hindustani-language historical fantasy film directed and produced by Ardeshir Irani.It revolves around a king and his two wives, Navbahaar and Dilbahaar, who are childless; soon, a fakir (Muhammad Wazir Khan) tells the king that the former wife will give birth to a boy, later named Qamar (Master Vithal), but the child will die following ...