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Lucy Catalog no. AL 288-1 Common name Lucy Species Australopithecus afarensis Age 3.2 million years Place discovered Afar Depression, Ethiopia Date discovered November 24, 1974 ; 50 years ago (1974-11-24) Discovered by Donald Johanson Maurice Taieb Yves Coppens Tom Gray AL 288-1, commonly known as Lucy or Dinkʼinesh, is a collection of several hundred pieces of fossilized bone comprising 40 ...
Lucy’s discovery transformed our understanding of human origins. Don Johanson, who unearthed the Australopithecus afarensis remains in 1974, recalls the moment he found the iconic fossil.
According to Doggett, the song's title has multiple "precursors": including a 1949 Robert A. Heinlein science fiction novella The Man Who Sold the Moon; [14] a 1954 DC comic, "The Man Who Sold the Earth"; and a 1968 Brazilian political satire, The Man Who Bought the World. [8] However, none have a thematic link to Bowie's song.
Lucy and the Diamonds, antagonists in the film Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band based around the song; Lucy Carrigan, a main character in the film Across the Universe based loosely around the song; Lucy the Diamond Fairy, a character in the Rainbow Magic book franchise named after the song; Lucy Adams, a character in the TV series Not ...
Lennon contacted his childhood friend Lucy later in life, and learned she had contracted the auto-immune disease lupus which she eventually died from. A portion of the proceeds from sales of the song and the EP release went to two lupus charities, St. Thomas' Lupus Trust (www.lupus.org.uk) in the United Kingdom and the Lupus Foundation of ...
The song starts with "I travelled among unknown men", in which the poet tells us of his two-fold love for England and for an Englishwoman called Lucy. The second poem, " She dwelt among the untrodden ways ", is about a woman the poet loved called Lucy, who is now dead.
Woman of the World may refer to: Woman of the World/To Make a Man, 1969 album by Loretta Lynn "Woman of the World (Leave My World Alone)", song by Loretta Lynn "Woman of the World" (Aerosmith song), 1974; A Woman of the World, 1925 silent film starring Pola Negri; Woman of the World (The Best of 2007–2018), compilation album by Amy Macdonald
"The Ballad of Lucy Jordan" is a song by American poet and songwriter Shel Silverstein. It was originally recorded in 1974 by Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show, with the name spelled "Jordon". The song describes the disillusionment and mental deterioration of a suburban housewife, who climbs to a rooftop "when the laughter grew too loud".