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- that A Date With Luyu is a popular Chinese television talk show whose host, Chen Luyu, has been called "China's Oprah"?
- that Aaron Scotus was an 11th century Scottish music theorist who served as abbot of St Martin in Cologne and St Pantaleon at the same time?
- that Abramino dall'Arpa was an Italian harpist who, in 1587, accompanied the dying Guglielmo I Gonzaga on a trip to Goito and comforted the Duke with his playing?
- that Abramo dall'Arpa was a 16th century Italian harpist who instructed Ferdinand I's children in music?
- that Alan Golder, an American burglar who specialized in stealing jewelry from mansions, was arrested in Antwerp, Belgium in December 2006?
- that Chappell & Co. was a music publishing and piano manufacturing firm founded in London in 1810 and sold to Warner Bros. in 1987?
- that Giovanni Battista Abbatessa was a 17th century Italian composer and guitarist whose works included instructions for fingering and tuning of the guitar?
- that Jinguashi is a Taiwanese town whose historic gold and copper mines led it to be named a potential World Heritage site in 2002?
- that Les Anges Exterminateurs (Exterminating Angels) is a French film that screened at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival?
- that Luigi Zenobi was a virtuoso Italian cornet player who, in 1583, became the most highly paid musician in the Este Court of Ferrara at the time?
- that Nabnitu is an ancient encyclopedic work of the Old Babylonian period and contains one of the oldest extant documented examples of musical notation?
- that in psychology, flaming is referred to by its technical name, the online disinhibition effect?
- that Paul Secon (
) was an unemployed writer and musician living in New York City when he founded Pottery Barn in 1950? - that Pietro Abbà Cornaglia was a 19th century Italian composer, organist, and concert pianist who founded a music school in Alessandria?
- that Ralph "Petey" Greene overcame a drug addiction and prison sentence to become an Emmy Award-winning radio and television talk show host and a guest at the White House?
- that the Spartak Tennis Club is an elite tennis academy in Moscow, Russia, which, despite having only one indoor tennis court, has succeeded in grooming professional tennis players such as Yevgeny Kafelnikov, Marat Safin, Elena Dementieva, Dinara Safina, Anastasia Myskina, and Anna Kournikova?
- that by the age of 16, violinist Stefan Milenkovich had performed over 1000 concerts?
- that many street cries, the short lyrical calls of merchants hawking their products and services, have been cataloged and incorporated into larger musical works?
- that Truid Aagesen was a Danish composer who was appointed organist of the Church of Our Lady in Copenhagen on 23 June 1593?
- that Vincentio Bastini was a 16th century Italian composer who lived his entire life in Lucca, where he was employed by the city as a cornettist and given a monthly salary of three scudi?
- that the Wa-Wan Press ( ) was founded in 1901 by composer Arthur Farwell to publish works that incorporated traditional Native American music into new compositions?
- that William Clowes Ltd.'s ( ) installation of noisy, steam-powered printing presses in 1823 irked the Duke of Northumberland so much that he brought its owner William Clowes to court?
- that the Woodstock of physics ( ) refers to the marathon session of the American Physical Society’s March 1987 meeting that lasted until 3:15 AM and featured 51 presentations on superconductors?
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