What was the first full-scale collaboration between George and Ira Gershwin?
The first collaboration between George and Ira Gershwin was the Broadway musical Lady Be Good in 1924.
It included the songs “Fascinating Rhythm” and “Oh Lady, Be Good.”
The first collaboration between George and Ira Gershwin was the Broadway musical Lady Be Good in 1924.
It included the songs “Fascinating Rhythm” and “Oh Lady, Be Good.”
Bananas did not come from South America. Bananas first grew in tropical Asia and were eaten by the ancient Greeks and Romans. Banana plants were transported from the Canary Islands off northwest Africa to the Americas soon after the New World was discovered.
Santa’s reindeer were Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donder, and Blitzen. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, arguably the most famous reindeer of all, was a later creation.
Walter Cronkite anchored “The CBS Evening News” from April 16, 1962, to March 6, 1981.
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The Code Napoleon is the French civil code enacted in 1804 and introduced into areas then under French control. New Orleans, by that time, was under U.S. control, but the Louisiana state civil code of 1825 (still in effect, with modifications) was influenced by the French code. The Napoleonic Code covered everything from civil rights…
Ten-year-old Tatum O’Neal won an Oscar in 1973, for Best Supporting Actress in Peter Bogdanovich’s Paper Moon.