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  More info about: WWF : World Wildlife Fund
  WWF : World Wildlife Fund
WWF is a global organization acting locally through a network of family offices. All these offices do all they can to halt the accelerating destruction of our natural wor...
         
  More info about: Amnesty International
  Amnesty International
Amnesty International (AI) is a worldwide movement of people who campaign for internationally recognized human rights. AI's vision is of a world in which every pers...
         
  More info about: Peter Jackson, Director
  Peter Jackson, Director
Born in New Zealand on Halloween in 1961, Jackson began at an early age making movies with his parents' Super 8 camera. At seventeen he left school, and failing to get a...
         
  More info about: Barack Obama, 44th US President
  Barack Obama, 44th US President
Barack Hussein Obama II is the 44th and current President of the United States and the first African American to hold the office. Obama was the junior United States Senat...
         
  More info about: The Beatles
  The Beatles
1961, February 9 - On this date the group makes their first lunchtime debut as The Beatles for a session at the Cavern. March 21 - The Beatles first night-time appearanc...
         
  More info about: The World Factbook, CIA
  The World Factbook, CIA
The Factbook was created as an annual summary and update to the encyclopedic NIS studies. The first classified Factbook was published...
         
  More info about: Campbell's Soup Cans, Warhol
  Campbell's Soup Cans, Warhol
Various people have taken credit for suggesting to Andy Warhol that he paint soup cans. The least believable is Ultra Violet's account. Ultra says that she...
         
  More info about: Portait of Marilyn, Warhol
  Portait of Marilyn, Warhol
In the 1960’s Andy Warhol created several "mass-produced" images of celebrities such as Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, and Jackie Onassis. "In August ’62 I started doing...
         
  More info about: Silent Spring, Carson
  Silent Spring, Carson
First published by Houghton Mifflin in 1962, Silent Spring alerted a large audience to the environmental and human dangers of indiscriminate use of pesticides, spurring r...
         
  More info about: The Rolling Stones
  The Rolling Stones
The World's Greatest Rock n Roll Band, they keep proving it over and over again. The Stones were formed by blues purest, guitarist and harp player Brian Jones in 1962. He...
         
  More info about: Lolita, The film by Kubrick - Nabokov
  Lolita, The film by Kubrick - Nabokov
Lolita is an influential comedy-drama film by Stanley Kubrick based on the classic novel of the same title by Vladimir Nabokov. The film stars James Mason as Humbert Humb...
         
  More info about: A Beatles Recording Timeline
  A Beatles Recording Timeline
This chronology includes both bootleg and legitimate album tracks...
         
  More info about: With the Beatles, CD
  With the Beatles, CD
It's been 40 years to the day that the Beatles made their historic appearance on the Ed Sullivan show, so it's only fitting that I choose this very special day to review...
         
  More info about: Please Please Me, The Beatles
  Please Please Me, The Beatles
Their first-ever album, raw and rough and still very rock & roll. Lennon and McCartney begin to flex their writing muscles and had already scored two UK hits when this ap...
         
  More info about: The Birds, Hitchcock
  The Birds, Hitchcock
Along with "Psycho", this is definitive Hitchcock. With no music score, a terrifying tale is spun around a woman (Tippi Hedrin) who pursues a man to his home on the seaco...
         
         
 
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