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22 hours ago · The Academy Award for Best Sound is an Academy Award that recognizes the finest or most euphonic sound mixing, recording, sound design, and sound editing.The award used to go to the studio sound departments until a rule change in 1969 said it should be awarded to the specific technicians, the first of which were Murray Spivack and Jack Solomon for Hello, Dolly!.
22 hours ago · Rock. Rock is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s, developing into a range of different styles from the mid-1960s, particularly in the United States and the United Kingdom. [3] It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, a style that drew directly from ...
22 hours ago · James Byron Dean (February 8, 1931 – September 30, 1955) was an American actor with a career that lasted five years. His roles typified teenage disillusionment and social estrangement of his time. He had several uncredited roles from 1951 to 1953 before starring as a rebellious son attempting to win his father's approval in East of Eden (1955).
22 hours ago · W ( 1963, 1968, 1969, 1970) Arthur Robert Ashe Jr. (July 10, 1943 – February 6, 1993) was an American professional tennis player. He won three Grand Slam titles in singles and two in doubles. Ashe was the first black player selected to the United States Davis Cup team, and the only black man ever to win the singles titles at Wimbledon, the US ...
22 hours ago · Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle was born on 22 November 1890 in Lille, the third of five children. [2] He was raised in a devoutly Catholic and traditional family. His father, Henri de Gaulle, was a professor of history and literature at a Jesuit college and eventually founded his own school. [3] : 42–47.
22 hours ago · Ben-Hur is a 1959 American religious epic film [1] directed by William Wyler, produced by Sam Zimbalist, and starring Charlton Heston as the title character. A remake of the 1925 silent film with a similar title, it was adapted from Lew Wallace 's 1880 novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ. The screenplay is credited to Karl Tunberg, but includes ...
22 hours ago · Civil Rights leader John Lewis was asked to remove the question "Which side is the federal government on?" from his speech at the March on Washington in 1963 to avoid offending the Kennedy administration. Why was Lewis questioning national leaders?
