quarta-feira, maio 15, 2024
Brian Eno faz hoje 76 anos
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Monteverdi nasceu há 457 anos...
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Humberto Delgado nasceu há 118 anos
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Tenzing Norgay nasceu, dizia ele, há 110 anos
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Orlando Zapata, ativista cubano, nasceu há 57 anos...
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Elio de Angelis morreu há 38 anos...
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Marcadores: acidente, automobilismo, Bernie Ecclestone, Brabham, Elio de Angelis, Fórmula 1, morte
June Carter Cash morreu há vinte e um anos...
June Carter Cash (born Valerie June Carter; Maces Spring, Virginia, June 23, 1929 – Nashville, Tennessee, May 15, 2003) was an American singer, songwriter and dancer. A five-time Grammy award-winner, she was a member of the Carter Family and the second wife of singer Johnny Cash. Prior to her marriage to Cash, she was professionally known as June Carter and occasionally was still credited as such after her marriage (as well as on songwriting credits predating it). She played guitar, banjo, harmonica, and autoharp, and acted in several films and television shows. Carter Cash won five Grammy Awards and was inducted into the Christian Music Hall of Fame in 2009.
June Carter Cash was born Valerie June Carter in Maces Spring, Virginia, to Maybelle (née Addington) and Ezra Carter. Her parents were country music performers and she performed with the Carter Family from the age of 10, in 1939. In March 1943, when the Carter Family trio stopped recording together at the end of the WBT contract, Maybelle Carter, with encouragement from her husband Ezra, formed "Mother Maybelle and the Carter Sisters" with her daughters, Helen, Anita, and June. The new group first aired on radio station WRNL in Richmond, Virginia, on June 1. Doc (Addington) and Carl (McConnell) - Maybelle's brother and cousin, respectively, known as "The Virginia Boys", joined them in late 1945. June, then 16, was a co-announcer with Ken Allyn and did the commercials on the radio shows for Red Star Flour, Martha White, and Thalhimers Department Store, just to name a few. For the next year, the Carters and Doc and Carl did show dates within driving range of Richmond, through Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, and Pennsylvania. She attended John Marshall High School during this period.[4] June later said she had to work harder at her music than her sisters, but she had her own special talent —comedy.[5] A highlight of the road shows was her "Aunt Polly" comedy routine. With her thin and lanky frame, June Carter often played a comedic foil during the group's performances alongside other Opry stars Faron Young and Webb Pierce. Carl McConnell wrote in his memoirs that June was "a natural-born clown, if there ever was one". Decades later, Carter revived Aunt Polly for the 1976 TV series Johnny Cash & Friends.
After Doc and Carl dropped out of the music business in late 1946, Maybelle and her daughters moved to Sunshine Sue Workman's "Old Dominion Barn Dance" on the WRVA Richmond station. After a while there, they moved to WNOX in Knoxville, Tennessee, where they met Chet Atkins with Homer and Jethro.
In 1949, Mother Maybelle and the Carter Sisters, with their lead guitarist, Atkins, were living in Springfield, Missouri, and performing regularly at KWTO. Ezra "Eck" Carter, Maybelle's husband and manager of the group, declined numerous offers from the Grand Ole Opry to move the act to Nashville, Tennessee, because the Opry would not permit Atkins to accompany the group onstage. Atkins' reputation as a guitar player had begun to spread, and studio musicians were fearful that he would displace them as a 'first-call' player if he came to Nashville. Finally, in 1950, Opry management relented and the group, along with Atkins, became part of the Opry company. Here the family befriended Hank Williams and Elvis Presley (to whom they were distantly related), and June met Johnny Cash.
June and her sisters, with mother Maybelle and aunt Sara joining in from time to time, reclaimed the name "The Carter Family" for their act during the 1960s and '70s.
While June Carter Cash may be best known for singing and songwriting, she was also an author, dancer, actress, comedian, philanthropist, and humanitarian.[6] Director Elia Kazan saw her perform at the Grand Ole Opry in 1955 and encouraged her to study acting. She studied with Lee Strasberg and Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York. Her acting roles included Mrs. "Momma" Dewey in Robert Duvall's 1998 movie The Apostle, Sister Ruth, wife to Johnny Cash's character Kid Cole, on Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (1993–97), and Clarise on Gunsmoke in 1957. She was notable as Mayhayley Lancaster playing alongside husband Cash in the 1983 television movie Murder in Coweta County. June was also Momma James in The Last Days of Frank and Jesse James. She also acted in occasional comedy skits for various Johnny Cash TV programs.
As a singer, she had both a solo career and a career singing with first her family and later her husband. As a solo artist, she became somewhat successful with upbeat country tunes of the 1950s such as "Jukebox Blues" and, with her exaggerated breaths, the comedic hit "No Swallerin' Place" by Frank Loesser. June also recorded "The Heel" in the 1960s along with many other songs.
In the early 1960s, June Carter wrote the song "Ring of Fire", which later went on to be a hit for her future husband, Johnny Cash. She co-wrote the song with fellow songwriter Merle Kilgore. June wrote the lyrics about her relationship with Johnny Cash and she offered the song to her sister Anita Carter, who was the first singer to record the song. In 1963, Johnny recorded the song with the Carter Family singing backup, and added mariachi horns. The song became a number-one hit and went on to become one of the most recognizable songs in the world of country music. In her autobiography, “I Walked the Line”, Johnny's first wife Vivian Cash disputes the myth that June Carter co-wrote the song, "Ring of Fire". Vivian relates the story that Johnny told her in 1963 that he wrote the song with Merle Kilgore and Curly while fishing and that he was going to give June half credit because “She needs the money. And I like her.”
Her first notable studio performance with Johnny Cash occurred in 1964 when she duetted with Cash on "It Ain't Me Babe", a Bob Dylan composition, that was released as a single and on Cash's album Orange Blossom Special. In 1967, the two found more substantial success with their recording of "Jackson", which was followed by a collaboration album, Carryin' On with Johnny Cash and June Carter. All these releases antedated her marriage to Cash (upon which event she changed her professional name to June Carter Cash). She continued to work with Cash on record and on stage for the rest of her life, recording a number of duets with Cash for his various albums and being a regular on The Johnny Cash Show from 1969 to 1971 and on Cash's annual Christmas specials. After Carryin' On, June Carter Cash recorded one more direct collaboration album, Johnny Cash and His Woman, released in 1973, and along with her daughters was a featured vocalist on Cash's 1974 album The Junkie and the Juicehead Minus Me. She also shared sleeve credit with her husband on a 2000 small-label gospel release, Return to the Promised Land
Although she provided vocals on many recordings, and shared the billing with Cash on several album releases, June Carter Cash only recorded three solo albums during her lifetime: the first, Appalachian Pride, released in 1975, Press On (1999), and Wildwood Flower, released posthumously in 2003 and produced by her son, John Carter Cash. Appalachian Pride is the only one of the three on which Johnny Cash does not perform, while Press On is notable for featuring June Carter Cash singing her original arrangement of "Ring of Fire".
One of her final appearances was a nonspeaking/nonsinging appearance in the music video for her husband's 2003 single, "Hurt", filmed a few months before her death. One of her last known public appearances was on April 7, 2003, just over a month before her death, when she appeared on the CMT Flameworthy awards program to accept an achievement award on behalf of her husband, who was too ill to attend.
She won a Grammy award in 1999 for, Press On. Her last album, Wildwood Flower, won two additional Grammys. It contains bonus video enhancements showing extracts from the film of the recording sessions, which took place at the Carter Family estate in Hiltons, Virginia, on September 18–20, 2002. The songs on the album include "Big Yellow Peaches", "Sinking in the Lonesome Sea", "Temptation", and the trademark staple "Wildwood Flower". Due to her involvement in providing backing vocals on many of her husband's recordings, a further posthumous release occurred in 2014, when Out Among the Stars was released under Johnny Cash's name. The album consists of previously unreleased recordings from the early 1980s, including two on which June Carter Cash provides duet vocals.
Carter was married three times and had one child with each husband. All three of her children went on to have successful careers in country music. She was married first to country singer Carl Smith from July 9, 1952, until their divorce in 1956. Together, they wrote "Time's A-Wastin". They had a daughter, Rebecca Carlene Smith, professionally known as Carlene Carter, a country musician. June's second marriage was to Edwin "Rip" Nix, a former football player and police officer on November 11, 1957. They had a daughter, Rosie Nix Adams, on July 13, 1958. The couple divorced in 1966. Rosie was a country/rock singer. On October 24, 2003, Rosie, aged 45, died from accidental carbon monoxide poisoning. She and bluegrass musician Jimmy Campbell were on a school bus, which had been converted for travel. Several propane heaters were being used to heat the bus.
Carter and the entire Carter Family had performed with Johnny Cash for a number of years. In 1968, Cash proposed to Carter during a live performance at the London Ice House in London, Ontario. They married on March 1 in Franklin, Kentucky, and remained married until her death in May 2003, just four months before Cash died. The couple's son, John Carter Cash, is a musician, songwriter, and producer.
She also gained four stepdaughters from her third husband’s previous marriage to Vivian Liberto; including Cindy and Rosanne.
Carter's distant cousin, the 39th U.S. president Jimmy Carter, became closely acquainted with Cash and Carter and maintained their friendship throughout their lifetimes. In a June 1977 speech, Jimmy Carter acknowledged that June Carter was his distant cousin.
Carter was a longtime supporter of SOS Children's Villages. In 1974, the Cashes donated money to help build a village near their home in Barrett Town, Jamaica, which they visited frequently, playing the guitar and singing songs to the children in the village.
June Carter Cash also had close relationships with a number of entertainers, including Audrey Williams, James Dean, Patsy Cline, Loretta Lynn, Jessi Colter, Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson, Elvis Presley, Robert Duvall and Roy Orbison.
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Marcadores: Americana, Appalachian, country, country folk, folk, gospel, Johnny Cash, June Carter Cash, música, rockabilly
O pintor Viktor Vasnetsov nasceu há 176 anos
Tendo estudado num seminário em Viatka desde os dez anos de idade, durante a época do verão Viktor e a sua família deslocavam-se para a cidade mercantil de Riabovo. Durante os seus anos de seminário Viktor teria trabalhado para um criador local de ícones e também auxiliado um artista exilado da Polonia, Michał Elwiro Andriolli, a executar afrescos para a catedral de Alexander Nevski em Viatka.
Após ter terminado o seminário, Viktor decidiu mudar-se para São Petersburgo para estudar arte, tendo vendido os seus quadros "Mulher na Colheita" e "Entregadora de Leite (ambos de 1867) de modo a poder juntar dinheiro para a viagem em direção à capital russa.
Esta sepultado no Cemitério Vvedenskoye.
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Marcadores: pintura, Rússia, Viktor Vasnetsov
Cauby Peixoto morreu há oito anos...
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O Cantinho do Morais foi há sessenta anos...!
- “Virei-me para o banco e confirmei se era eu. O técnico acenou-me que sim. Lá fui. Peguei na bola com jeitinho, disse-lhe umas palavrinhas amigas, dei-lhe um beijinho… Depois, mal senti o pé a bater nela fiquei logo com a sensação de que seria golo. Parece que o tempo parou ali. Observei a trajetória do esférico, vi o Figueiredo a correr para o primeiro poste e o guarda-redes atrás dele para intercetar a eventual cabeçada do desvio, mas o destino estava traçado. A bola passou por cima dos dois e acabou por entrar junto ao segundo poste. Foi a euforia total, ainda para mais porque foi o golo que ditou a vitória e permitiu-nos trazer a taça. Não foi um golo de sorte. Ao longo da minha carreira marquei mais uns quantos da mesma maneira…”
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terça-feira, maio 14, 2024
Notícia macabra da pré-história europeia...
Uma criança Neandertal polaca foi comida por um gigantesco pássaro pré-histórico

Minúsculos ossos com 115 mil anos encontrados na Polónia revelam o trágico destino de uma criança Neandertal. Os investigadores perceberam que a porosidade invulgar dos ossos tinha uma explicação: passaram pelo sistema digestivo de uma ave enorme.
Há alguns anos, uma equipa de investigadores na Polónia encontrou um par de ossos de Neandertal que guardavam um segredo macabro: o seu proprietário tinha sido comido por uma ave gigante.
Segundo a Science In Poland, os dois ossos dos dedos pertenciam a uma criança Neandertal que tinha morrido há cerca de 115 mil anos, o que torna estes ossos os restos humanos mais antigos conhecidos da Polónia.
Os investigadores que analisaram os dois ossos da mão concluíram que a sua porosidade era maior do que o habitual porque, infelizmente para a criança a que pertenciam, tinham passado pelo sistema digestivo de uma ave de grandes dimensões.
Não está claro se a ave matou a criança e depois a comeu ou se o animal simplesmente se alimentou do corpo já morto da criança, mas os investigadores dizem que “nenhuma das opções pode ser excluída neste momento”.
Independentemente do que aconteceu, estes ossos são uma descoberta notável. Este é o primeiro exemplo conhecido de ossos da Idade do Gelo que passaram pelo sistema digestivo de uma ave.
Os Neandertais, que são parentes muito próximos dos humanos contemporâneos, terão aparecido na Polónia há cerca de 300.000 anos e extinguiram-se há cerca de 35.000.
Segundo Paweł Valde-Nowak, investigador da Universidade Jaguelónica, em Cracóvia, podemos contar pelos dedos de uma mão o número de restos Neandertais descobertos, incluindo os ossos dos dedos desta criança.
Esta descoberta inovadora foi quase ignorada porque, quando os ossos das falanges foram encontrados pela primeira vez na caverna, foram acidentalmente misturados com ossos de animais. Só após uma análise laboratorial posterior aos ossos é que os cientistas perceberam a sua importância.

A porosidade pouco habitual dos ossos sugere que tinham passado pelo sistema digestivo de uma ave de grandes dimensões
As análises aos ossos mostraram que a criança tinha entre cinco e sete anos quando morreu. Os ossos são minúsculos, com menos de um centímetro de comprimento, e estão mal preservados, pelo que, infelizmente, os cientistas não conseguem realizar análises de ADN.
Apesar deste contratempo, os cientistas estão seguros de que se trata de um Neandertal. “Não temos dúvidas de que estes são restos de Neandertais porque vêm de uma camada muito profunda da caverna, a alguns metros abaixo da superfície atual,” explica Valde-Nowak. “Esta camada também contém ferramentas de pedra tipicamente usadas pelos Neandertais”.
Segundo o investigador, o facto de os ossos terem sido descobertos na caverna, não significa necessariamente que os Neandertais a usassem como residência permanente. “É possível que a usassem apenas sazonalmente”, diz Valde-Nowak.
“É notável pensar que uma pobre criança, que pode ter sido morta por uma ave gigante há milhares de anos, deu à Polónia uma das suas maiores descobertas arqueológicas de todos os tempos”, conclui o arqueólogo.
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B. B. King morreu há nove anos...
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O filho da mais jovem mãe humana conhecida nasceu há 85 anos...
Lina Vanessa Medina (Pauranga, 27 de setembro de 1933) é uma peruana e a mãe mais jovem já confirmada na história da medicina. Teve um filho aos cinco anos de idade, sete meses e 21 dias. Além do feito, a menina ficou conhecida por também nunca revelar o nome do pai da criança e também por passar a sua vida em pobreza, sem qualquer assistência do governo peruano. Casou-se em 1972 e chegou a ter outro filho aos 38 anos de idade. Hoje vive em um bairro pobre em Lima. Era uma de entre nove filhos.
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Marcadores: gravidez, Lina Vanessa Medina, Maternidades, Medicina, Peru
O baixista Jack Bruce nasceu há 81 anos...
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Marcadores: acid rock, baixo, blues-rock, Cream, hard rock, Jack Bruce, jazz fusion, Mothers of Invention, música, rock psicadélico, Sunshine Of Your Love
Bobby Darin nasceu há 88 anos...
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Marcadores: Big Band, Bobby Darin, Dream Lover, folk, música, pop, Rock and Roll
David Byrne comemora hoje 72 anos
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07:20
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Marcadores: David Byrne, música, música experimental, new wave, pop, Psycho Killer, Rock alternativo, Talking Heads, worldbeat







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