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1 day ago · Tori Amos (born Myra Ellen Amos; August 22, 1963) is an American singer-songwriter and pianist.She is a classically trained musician with a mezzo-soprano vocal range. Having already begun composing instrumental pieces on piano, Amos won a full scholarship to the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University at the age of five, the youngest person ever to have been admitted.
1 day ago · 0428803. Website. chicago .gov. Chicago [a] is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States. With a population of 2,746,388, as of the 2020 census, [9] it is the third-most populous city in the United States after New York City and Los Angeles.
1 day ago · Boston University. / 42.34889°N 71.10028°W / 42.34889; -71.10028. Boston University ( BU) is an American private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. BU was founded in 1839 by a group of Boston Methodists with its original campus in Newbury, Vermont, before being chartered in Boston in 1869. It is a member of the Association ...
1 day ago · Etymology Main article: Name of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh was named in 1758, by General John Forbes, in honor of British statesman William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham. As Forbes was a Scotsman, he probably pronounced the name / ˈ p ɪ t s b ər ə / PITS -bər-ə (similar to Edinburgh). Pittsburgh was incorporated as a borough on April 22, 1794, with the following Act: "Be it enacted by the ...
1 day ago · The 1980s (pronounced "nineteen-eighties", shortened to "the '80s" or "the Eighties") was a decade that began on January 1, 1980, and ended on December 31, 1989.. The decade saw a dominance of conservatism and free market economics, and a socioeconomic change due to advances in technology and a worldwide move away from planned economies and towards laissez-faire capitalism compared to the 1970s.
1 day ago · recent European dramatists of the late 19th century: Henrik Ibsen of Norway, August Streindberg of Sweden and Anton Chekhov of Russia-Eugene O'Neill wrote experiemental, nontraditional, and realistic, tradtional plays such as Iceman Cometh (1946) and heartbreaking Long Day's Journey Into Night (1956) about his dysfunctional family (1906-1963)-1930's Lillian Hellman, The Little Foxes, chronicle ...
1 day ago · What person or group of people was actually the first to expend funds to obtain services from a sea service in opposing the British military? George Washington used funds to contract for several schooners to intercept British supply ships.
