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Pop Culture Trivia Quiz: What Happened In 1934?

Pop Culture Trivia Quiz: What Happened In 1934?34 Trivia Questions for 1934 History(answers)1. Created by Alex Raymond, what space adventure comic strip debuted on January 7, 1934?2. How many people lived in the United States in 1934?3. On December 27, 1934, Persia changed its name to what?4. Who won the Stanley Cup in 1934?5. What […]

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1934 Music: Popular Music, Songs and Artists

1934 Popular Music: Movie Musicals, Broadway Standards, Swing, Jazz, Blues, Cowboy Songs, and the Great American Songbook1934 popular music was filled with movie-musical songs, Broadway standards, early swing, jazz classics, blues, cowboy music, novelty records, and romantic ballads that kept returning for decades. Songs like I Only Have Eyes for You, Smoke Gets in Your

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Opera “Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District” by Dmitri Shostakovich

“Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District” by Dmitri Shostakovich“Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District” is an opera in four acts composed by Dmitri Shostakovich, with a libretto by the composer Alexander Preis. The opera is based on an 1865 novella of the same name by Russian writer Nikolai Leskov. The story revolves around the tragic

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