1985 Music Hits: MTV Pop, Dance Hits, Album Rock, New Wave, R&B, Movie Songs, Charity Singles, and Mid-1980s Favorites 1985 music was peak mid-1980s: big videos, big choruses, big hair, big movie soundtracks, and enough synthesizers to make the future sound slightly shiny. MTV was a major tastemaker, radio still had huge power, and pop […]
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2013 Music Hits: Top Songs, Radio Favorites, and Pop Classics 2013 music was a wild mix of pop, EDM, hip-hop, country crossover, alternative rock, viral novelty songs, and big emotional ballads. Robin Thicke, Pitbull, Kesha, Icona Pop, OneRepublic, Daft Punk, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Imagine Dragons, Katy Perry, Taylor Swift, Miley Cyrus, Avicii, Lorde, and
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George W. Bush’s Letter to Barack Obama January 20, 2009 Dear Barack, Congratulations on becoming our President. You have just begun a fantastic chapter in your life. Very few have had the honor of knowing the responsibility you now feel. Very few know the excitement of the moment and the challenges you will face. There
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Bobby Henderson’s (founder of Pastafarianism) Open Letter to Kansas School Board May, 2005 I am writing you with much concern after having read of your hearing to decide whether the alternative theory of Intelligent Design should be taught along with the theory of Evolution. I think we can all agree that it is important for
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2003 Music Hits: Top Songs, Radio Favorites, and Pop Classics 2003 music was a busy mix of hip-hop, R&B, pop, pop-punk, alternative rock, country crossover, dancehall, and early-2000s soundtrack favorites. Beyoncé, Jay-Z, OutKast, 50 Cent, Justin Timberlake, Christina Aguilera, Sean Paul, Kelly Clarkson, Missy Elliott, Coldplay, Evanescence, Good Charlotte, and Michelle Branch helped define a
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George H.W. Bush’s Letter to Bill Clinton January 20, 1993 Dear Bill, When I walked into this office just now I felt the same sense of wonder and respect that I felt four years ago. I know you will feel that, too. I wish you great happiness here. I never felt the loneliness some Presidents
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Boris Yeltsin’s Eye-Opening Visit To a Texas Supermarket in 1989Boris Yeltsin, during his visit to the United States in 1989 as the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR. On September 16, 1989, visited a supermarket in Houston, Texas. The main reason for this visit was to see firsthand the abundance
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1988 Music Hits: Hair Metal, Hip-Hop, Dance-Pop, and Big Movie Ballads 1988 music hits were loud, glossy, catchy, and all over the place in the best possible way. Rock bands still ruled arenas, hip-hop was pushing harder into mainstream pop culture, dance tracks were filling clubs, and movie soundtracks were still minting hits like Hollywood
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The Jewel Voice BroadcastThe Jewel Voice Broadcast was the radio broadcast in which Japanese Emperor Hirohito read out the Imperial Rescript on the Termination of the Greater East Asia War, announcing to the Japanese people that the Japanese Government had accepted the Potsdam Declaration demanding the unconditional surrender of the Japanese military to the Allied
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Abraham Lincoln’s Letter to the King of Siam, declining the offer of Elephants to help with the civil war.February 3, 1862Abraham Lincoln,President of the United States of America.To His Majesty Somdetch Phra Paramendr Maha Mongut,King of Siam,Great and Good Friend:I have received Your Majesty’s two letters of the date of February 14th., 1861.I have also
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11 year-old Grace Bedell’s letter to Abraham Lincoln, advising him to grow a beardOctober 18, 1860Dear SirMy father has just home from the fair and brought home your picture and Mr. Hamlin’s. I am a little girl only eleven years old, but want you should be President of the United States very much so I
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