Geishas are not necessarily prostitutes.
A geisha is a member of a professional class of Japanese women who provide entertaining company for men, particularly businessmen.
Some geishas sing, dance, or play instruments; most are skilled only at conversation.
The Keystone Company was the movie studio formed by Mack Sennett in 1912. The Kops appeared in a number of the studio’s more than 1,000 comedy shorts.
Erle Stanley Gardner wrote 75 “case of the” books, beginning with The Case of the Velvet Claws in 1933 and ending with The Case of the Troubled Trustee in 1965. Erle Stanley Gardner died in 1970.
In the caves of France, archaeologists have found carved bones that appear to be wind and percussion instruments. These instruments date from about 25,000 to 20,000 B.C.
The original cheese comes from the city of Gouda in the western Netherlands, chartered in 1272.
Spock’s parents in Star Trek were Sarek, a Vulcan ambassador, and Amanda, a human being.
The 12-tone theory is music based on the serial ordering of all 12 pitches on the chromatic scale. the scale that includes both the black and white keys on the piano. (The diatonic scale of seven pitches includes only the white keys.) In the 12-tone system, developed by Austro-Hungarian composer Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) in the…