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16 hours ago · Awilo Longomba was born Louis Albert William Longomba on 5 May 1962, in Kinshasa (formerly Léopoldville) to a Mongo father and a Ngombe mother from Équateur Province. [6] [3] [4] Longomba hailed from a well-known musical family: his father, Vicky Longomba, was the lead vocalist and founding member of Tout Puissant OK Jazz.
16 hours ago · The 442nd Infantry Regiment (Japanese: 第442歩兵連隊) was an infantry regiment of the United States Army.The regiment including the 100th Infantry Battalion is best known as the most decorated in U.S. military history, [4] and as a fighting unit composed almost entirely of second-generation American soldiers of Japanese ancestry who fought in World War II.
16 hours ago · National language. Swahili. Climate. Aw. Goma is the capital and largest city of the North Kivu Province in the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is located on the northern shore of Lake Kivu and shares borders with Bukumu Chiefdom to the north, Rwanda to the east and Masisi Territory to the west.
16 hours ago · The Kazakhs (also spelled Qazaqs; Kazakh: sg. қазақ, qazaq, قازاق, ⓘ, pl. қазақтар, qazaqtar, قازاقتار, [qɑzɑqˈtɑr] ⓘ) are a Turkic ethnic group native to Central Asia and Eastern Europe, mainly Kazakhstan but also parts of northern Uzbekistan, the border regions with Russia, northwestern China (Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture) and western Mongolia (Bayan ...
16 hours ago · m. Billie Holiday (born Eleanora Fagan; April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959) was an American jazz and swing music singer. Nicknamed " Lady Day " by her friend and music partner, Lester Young, Holiday made a significant contribution to jazz music and pop singing. Her vocal style, strongly influenced by jazz instrumentalists, inspired a new way of ...
16 hours ago · Redlands (/ ˈrɛdləndz / RED-ləndz) is a city in San Bernardino County, California, United States. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 73,168, [ 7 ] up from 68,747 at the 2010 census. The city is located approximately 45 miles (72 km) northwest of Palm Springs and 63 miles (101 km) east of Los Angeles.
16 hours ago · Edward Elgar, c.1900. Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet, OM, GCVO(/ˈɛlɡɑːr/ ⓘ;[1]2 June 1857 – 23 February 1934) was an English composer, many of whose works have entered the British and international classical concert repertoire. Among his best-known compositions are orchestral works including the Enigma Variations, the Pomp and ...
