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BladeD
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Or not...
----------------------------------------He later said he was again riled by a move the computer made that was so surprising, so un-machine-like, that he was sure the IBM team had cheated. What it may have been, in fact, was a glitch in Deep Blue’s programming: Faced with too many options and no clear preference, the computer chose a move at random. According to Wired, the move that threw Kasparov off his game and changed the momentum of the match was not a feature, but a bug. |
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Former Member
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GeraldRube do you like Irving Berlin and the other evergreen composers as much as I do?
1911 Irving Berlin copyrights the biggest pop song of the early 20th century A century ago, even before the phonograph had become a common household item, there was already a burgeoning music industry in the United States based not on the sale of recorded musical performances, but on the sale of sheet music. It was in the medium of printed paper, and not grooved lacquer or vinyl discs, that songs gained popularity in the first two decades of the 20th century, and no song gained greater popularity in that era than Irving Berlin’s “Alexander’s Ragtime Band” Copyrighted on March 18, 1911, “Alexander’s Ragtime Band” was the multimillion-selling smash hit that helped turn American popular music into a major international phenomenon, both culturally and economically. It may seem like a rather grand claim to make about a simple, catchy tune, but then as now, simple and catchy were great virtues in the realm of pop music. Most people first encountered “Alexander’s Ragtime Band” when it was played on the piano by a friend or family member. This was the way that songs caught on in the era before radio, and part of what helped “Alexander” catch on was its relative lack of complexity. Though nominally a ragtime tune, anyone who plays the piano would quickly recognize the differences between it and a true rag like Scott Joplin’s “The Entertainer” which places some fairly significant demands on both the left and right hand. “Alexander’s Ragtime Band” is a vastly simpler piece for an amateur to master, and this greatly encouraged sheet music sales, which topped 1.5 million copies in the first 18 months after its publication. Though it gained worldwide popularity purely as a piece of printed sheet music, innumerable recorded versions of “Alexander’s Ragtime Band” would soon follow, particularly after lyrics were added to what was originally an instrumental tune. Those lyrics—”Come on and hear, Come on and hear…”—and that tune are still familiar a century after they were written. Some of Irving Berlin’s later contributions to the American popular music canon—songs like “White Christmas”, “God Bless America” and “There’s No Business Like Show Business” - eclipsed even the massive success of “Alexander’s Ragtime Band.” It’s entirely possible, however, that those 20th-century classics would never have been written were it not for the commercial success that Irving Berlin achieved with the song he copyrighted on this day in 1911.  |
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alged
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Thks very much for yr well documented chronique.
----------------------------------------Last year was the anniversary of the first jazz record ever made 26th Feb 1917 . Here a reminder:100 years of jazz and it was:Livery Stable Blues (1917) thks again  |
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 alged, I have to be honest:The article is 'lifted' from a website called This day in History It's you who is the well documented one, alged  Your link reminds me of the good luck I had on my very first trip to the USA in 1984 - to visit a jazz place on Bourbon Street, New Orleans. The musicians were rather old and very unimpressed, and they played so you got tears in your eyes. As I remember it there was very few chairs - I sat on the floor.  |
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KLiK
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----------------------------------------On this day 28 years ago, March 18, 1990, in Benkovac, local Serb Boško Čubrilović tried to assassinate with a gun on the CDU president and future Croatian president Dr. Franjo Tuđman on the CDU election rally. This unfortunate event, as well as earlier disputes in Knin and the "rallying of the truth" at Petrova Gora, were a clear announcement that Greater Serbian politics would not be overwhelmed by the war. But neither the assassination nor the threat of weapons did not intimidate Dr. Tuđman and the CDU in May to achieve a great victory in the first multiparty elections, confirming the determination of the Croatian people to freedom and the price of bloody aggression. The news of the attempt of the assassination of Dr. Franjo Tudjman resounded among the Croatian people in the homeland and the world, and Dr. Franjo Tudjman soon became the president of Croatia who brought the Croatian people into a decisive war for freedom that ended in 1998 with the integration of Eastern Slavonia and the hero-city of Vukovar in Croatia. |
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KLiK, I hope the breakup of your artificial Yugoslavia will lead to debalkanization, peace, prosperity and happiness for your region
On this day in 2007, an around-the-world relay celebrating Italian sports car maker Ferrari’s 60th anniversary passes through Los Angeles, California. The relay began earlier that year, on January 28, in Abu Dhabi and continued on through 50 countries including Saudi Arabia, China, Japan, Australia, Mexico, America, Canada and Russia, before ending on June 23, 2007 at Ferrari headquarters in Maranello, Italy. Thousands of Ferrari owners and their cars participated at various points of the relay, serving as symbolic bearers of a relay baton featuring 60 badges representing key innovations in the luxury automaker’s history. The relay was officially kicked off in January 2007 by Piero Ferrari, an executive at the company founded by his father Enzo. The elder Ferrari was born in Modena, Italy, on February 18, 1898 (although his birth wasn’t registered until two days later due to bad weather). Starting in 1920, he began racing cars for Alfa Romeo and later became head of the company’s racing division. After leaving Alfa Romeo in 1939, Ferrari went on to found his own manufacturing firm; during its early years, which coincided with World War II, the company built machine tools, not race cars. In 1947, the first Ferrari sports car, the 125 S, which featured a 1.5 liter, V-12 engine and a prancing stallion logo, made its debut. In the decades that followed, Ferrari earned a reputation for producing powerful, pricey sports cars and high-performance racing vehicles. The company experienced one of its first major racing victories in 1949, when a Ferrari driven by Luigi Chinetti won the 24 Hours of Le Mans 24 Hour race. In 1951, Ferrari collected its inaugural Formula One win at the British Grand Prix. The next year, Ferrari driver Alberto Ascari won the Formula One World Championship. Ferrari would eventually become Formula One’s oldest and most successful team: As of 2009, Ferrari had collected 15 driver championships and 16 constructor championships, along with numerous other records. The list of drivers who have competed for Ferrari over the years includes Juan Manuel Fangio, Phil Hill, Mario Andretti, Nigel Mansell, Alain Prost and Michael Schumacher (who won a record-setting seven driver world championships). The final car to be developed under Enzo Ferrari’s leadership was the F40, which was introduced in 1987. Enzo Ferrari died on August 14, 1988, at the age of 90. The Ferrari brand continues to be a compelling one. In May 2009, at an auction held at Ferrari’s headquarters in Maranello, a black 1957 Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa sold for $12,402,500, setting a record for the most money ever paid for a car at a public auction. Battle of some beauties |
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KLiK
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KLiK, I hope the breakup of your artificial Yugoslavia will lead to debalkanization, peace, prosperity and happiness for your region Well, Slovenians & Croats have for a long time been a part of Habsburg monarchy & Austro-Hungarian empire. So Slovenians are essentially "wanna be Austrians", which you can see by driving through their country. Croats were the "military front for the Turks (muslims)" for the same part. So we're very proud people, firm attitude & all that heritage got us to confront & be victorious in '90. against 3rd Army in the World (rating from '80., before separation). Some of us are in EU. Rest is struggling to become a part of the EU. So, can't say which ones do aspire to NATO & EU, as a Goals. While others have achieved it! p.s. Didn't know you were into cars & Ferraris.  |
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Thank you for your comments, KLiK.
I think you have to live there to fully understand what the background of your history is. I have heard about what Google translates into the Blackbird Plain. From my trip to Hungary and reading in preparation for it, I also learned that there is more to the attitude that is condemned by the EU than meets the eye. Ferraris, Lamborghinis, Maseratis, Vikings, soft ice, mackerel in tomato sauce ... there is much you don't know about this mermaid, KLiK.  I would like to see one of your beautiful cars live. You showed us pictures once. Do you manufacture for export? Where do you sell them  |
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KLiK
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Thank you for your comments, KLiK. I think you have to live there to fully understand what the background of your history is. I have heard about what Google translates into the Blackbird Plain. From my trip to Hungary and reading in preparation for it, I also learned that there is more to the attitude that is condemned by the EU than meets the eye. Ferraris, Lamborghinis, Maseratis, Vikings, soft ice, mackerel in tomato sauce ... there is much you don't know about this mermaid, KLiK. I would like to see one of your beautiful cars live. You showed us pictures once. Do you manufacture for export? Where do you sell them Sure you do...& I try to be as objective as I can, as I don't like Slovenians (except girls - which are mostly easy) & Serbs (except girls, also). If you like bolded part, you would Love Northern Italy (check Toscani).  You mean this one?  Yes, for export mostly. Not many people have money for the car in Croatia. Expect when we lend one of these to Richard Hammond:  We also make battery for export for this one:  & this ugly duck:  ---------------------------------------- [Edit 5 times, last edit by KLiK at Mar 25, 2018 6:29:43 AM] |
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Former Member
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Beautiful ways to bend tin plates - unless they are fibre glass.
----------------------------------------Toscana would be nice. You showed amazing pictures of Croatia not long ago. Everything is tempting. So your preferences and attitudes are objective and kind of gender specific My across-the-hallway neighbors are Bosnians and my downstairs neighbors are Serbs. 40% former Yugoslavia 60% ethnic Vikings  - kind of. Upstairs Yvonne is of Polish descent some generations back.  Bon appetit, KLiK EDIT: Yugosalvia -> Yugoslavia - if you make a headcount where I live we are 7 former Yugoslavs and 5 Danes in the six apartments of my door. [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Mar 26, 2018 11:42:03 AM] |
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