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The piano was founded on earlier technological innovations in keyboard instruments. Pipe organs have been used since antiquity, and as such, the development of pipe organs enabled instrument builders to learn about creating keyboard mechanisms for sounding pitches.
Hedy Lamarr (/ ˈ h ɛ d i /; born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler; November 9, 1914 [a] – January 19, 2000) was an Austrian-born American actress and inventor. After a brief early film career in Czechoslovakia, including the controversial erotic romantic drama Ecstasy (1933), she fled from her first husband, Friedrich Mandl, and secretly moved to Paris.
The album contained the hit love song "Layla", inspired by the classical poet of Persian literature, Nizami Ganjavi's The Story of Layla and Majnun, a copy of which Ian Dallas had given to Clapton. The book moved Clapton profoundly, as it was the tale of a young man who fell hopelessly in love with a beautiful, unavailable woman and went crazy ...
Brooke Christa Shields (born May 31, 1965) is an American actress. A child model starting at the age of 11 months, [2] Shields gained widespread notoriety at age 12 for her leading role in Louis Malle's film Pretty Baby (1978), in which she appeared in nude scenes shot when she was 11 years old. [3]
Gosling contributed vocals, piano, guitar, bass guitar and cello to the record. [191] The album was released through ANTI- Records on October 6, 2009. [192] Pitchfork Media was won over by the "unique, catchy and lovably weird record" [193] while Prefix felt the album was "rarely kitschy and never inappropriate". [194]
I think he tried very hard, but eventually one’s nature cannot change. —Sondra Locke on Eastwood (2013) [ 77 ] Eastwood and Locke reteamed onscreen for The Gauntlet , Every Which Way but Loose , Bronco Billy , Any Which Way You Can and Sudden Impact .
Adam and Eve, according to the creation myth [Note 1] of the Abrahamic religions, [1] [2] were the first man and woman. They are central to the belief that humanity is in essence a single family, with everyone descended from a single pair of original ancestors. [3]
The Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18, is a concerto for piano and orchestra composed by Sergei Rachmaninoff between June 1900 and April 1901. The piece established his fame as a concerto composer and is one of his most enduringly popular pieces.