3. Considered to be one of the greatest
‘scat’ singers in jazz history. Ella was
known by her purity of tone,
impeccable diction, and timing.
Her rendition of ‘A-Tiskit, A-Tasket”
helped boost her to national fame.
Fitzgerald collaborated with Louis
Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and The
Ink Spots. Those associations led to
songs such as Dream a Little Dream
of Me, Cheek to Cheek and It Don’t
Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got That
‘Scat’ Singing is
vocal improvisation
with wordless
vocables, nonsense
syllables or without
words at all. The
singer improvises
melodies and
rhythm using the
voice as an
instrument.
5. Born Jean-Jacques Rabin, Audubon was an
American ornithologist, naturalist, woodsman,
storyteller, myth maker and painter!
His Book, “Birds of America” was printed between
1827 and 1838. It contains 435 life size watercolors
of North American birds. All pictures were
reproduced from hand engraved plates. The book is
considered the architype of wildlife illustration.
7. - A scale of numbers used to tell the power (or
magnitude) of earthquakes. Charles Richter (born
4/26/1900) developed the scale in 1935, it worked like
a seismogram, measuring at a distance of 100
kilometers (62 miles) from the earthquake.
8. A French painter, muralist and
lithographer, leader of the French
Romantic school.
Period: Romanticism, Romanesque art
Delacroix was inspired by the classical
models of Greek and Roman art and by a
trip to North Africa (in search of the
exotic). Also inspired by the writer, Lord
Byron.
9. Women of Algiers
-1834
Liberty Leading the
People –1830
commemorates the
July Revolution of
1830, which
toppled King
Charles X of
France
10. An American inventor and painter.
A co-developer of the Morse code and it’s transmission
over a single wire telegraph system (based on the
European telegraph)
Educated at Yale College
Morse received a patent for the telegraph in 1847, in
Istanbul when Sultan Abdülmecid personally tested the
new invention.
In time, the Morse code that he developed would
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13. The current emperor of Japan is
Hironomiya Naruhito. He’s the 126th
emperor of Japan. His lineage traces
directly to Jimmu, the legendary first
emperor of Japan.
14. Capital: Tokyo
Population: 126,476,461
Currency: yen
Major Language: Japanese
Major Exports: electronic equipment, cars, textiles,
steel
Major Imports: Petro (crude/gas/refined), coal
briquettes,
copper ore
16. Whitcomb L. Judson, a Chicago inventor may have
invented the original zipper in 1893, but it was used for
footwear, not clothing. The idea was based on
interlocking teeth, a ‘hookless’ fastener.
A zipper consists of two rows of protruding teeth made to
link the rows. The teeth (also called elements) can be
either individual or shaped from a continuous coil.
The slider, operated by hand, moves along the rows of
teeth. Inside the slider is a Y-shaped channel that
meshes together or separates the opposing row of teeth.
The word ‘zipper’ was named for the sound the device
makes when used, a high-pitched zip!
17. Inventor Judson launched The Universal Fastener
Company to manufacture his “clasp locker”, hooking
device. The Company moved to Hoboken, NJ, then
later to Meadville, PA where it became Talon, Inc. An
electrical engineer, Gideon Sundback was hired in
1906. Sunback became head designer, perfected
the design and patented the ‘separable fastener’.
The term “zipper” came from the B.F. Goodrich
Company in 1923. The company used Sundback’s
fastener on a new type of rubber boots (galoshes)
and referred to it as the zipper and the name stuck.
The Zipper’s Background
18. Known for his signature greeting,
“What’s up Doc”. Bugs bunny is a
famous animated cartoon character
created by Ben Hardaway and Tex
Avery.
Bugs starred in more than 160 cartoon
shorts produced between 1940 and
1964.
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