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The Rolling Stones on ‘The Dick Cavett Show,’ 1972 The Rolling Stones’ U.S. tour of 1972 was a big fucking deal. Let us count the ways: The Stones had not played live shows in America since the infamous final show of their 1969 tour, at Altamont. The album they were supporting was one of the most epochal in all of rock and roll history, Exile on Main Street—which was released in America just a couple of weeks before the tour. (None of the Beatles’ late albums were supported by touring, keep in mind.

Mapping London's 'Tube Tongues' An interactive map shows what languages—apart from English—are most spoken at each underground stop. Step out at the Oxford Circus stop in London and your ears are immediately assaulted by several different languages at once. That's understandable, considering Oxford street is usually quite crowded—tourists and Londoners alike buzz in and out of the shops and restaurants the street is known for. One of the languages I heard most in that region was French. Bob Dylan Performs at Gerde’s Folk City – Feb. 8, 1963 Forty-nine years ago, on February 8, 1963, Bob Dylan played a set at Gerde’s Folk City in Greenwich Village. It was two years after Dylan had arrived in New York, nearly two years since he got one of his first breaks playing at Gerde’s, which was probably the most important folk club in the country at that time. Poster for Dylan’s first gig at Gerde’s Folk City in 1961. It was a review in the New York Times by Robert Shelton of Dylan opening for the Greenbriar Boys at Gerde’s that helped Dylan to get the attention of Columbia Records’ legendary A&R man John Hammond.

Feast Your Eyes on This Beautiful Linguistic Family Tree 552K 18.4KShare337 When linguists talk about the historical relationship between languages, they use a tree metaphor. An ancient source (say, Indo-European) has various branches (e.g., Romance, Germanic), which themselves have branches (West Germanic, North Germanic), which feed into specific languages (Swedish, Danish, Norwegian). Lessons on language families are often illustrated with a simple tree diagram that has all the information but lacks imagination. There’s no reason linguistics has to be so visually uninspiring.

Bob Dylan's 'Lay Lady Lay' In 10 Different Disguises Recorded on Valentine’s Day 1969, and released that summer, ‘Lay Lady Lay’ became one of Bob Dylan‘s biggest hits, checking in at No. 7 on the Billboard charts, and hitting No. 5 in the U.K. Aside from the warm and inviting melody, and somewhat racy lyric, the record was also notable for a change in Dylan’s singing style. It would help push the ‘Nashville Skyline’ album into the Top 10. Over the years, the song has become a standard of sorts, and one of Dylan’s most recognizable songs. Photographs taken by J.C. Burrow show Cornish miners digging for tin in 1890s Photographs taken by J.C. Burrow use early flash techniques to capture life undergroundMr Burrow was commissioned by mine owners to capture the once-thriving industryBut the frank photographs show the precarious constructions of the mines - which were prone to collapseThe collection of photographs will go on sale at auction this weekend and could fetch £2,000 By Kieran Corcoran

Billie Holiday With One Of Her Most Powerful And Emotional Performances Ever Captured On Film Though it was originally written by someone else as a protest song of sorts, this is one of those gems that a singer just totally owns from the start. “Strange Fruit” was shocking to many people when it came out in 1939. Even Ms. Digital Storytelling June 24, 2014 Here is a great interactive Thinglink image on the process of digital storytelling I want to share with you today. This graphic is created by Tonia and features a wide variety of iPad apps that go with each of the stages of the digital storytelling process. Tonia used the concept of process writing (popularized by Donal Murray) to design this digital storytelling process visual.

Beatlemania Begins: The Beatles First U.S. Visit to Play Ed Sullivan It seems impossible to recall a time when the Beatles weren’t part of Americans’ collective consciousness. Yet exactly 50 years ago, on Feb. 7, 1964, as John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr boarded Pan Am Flight 101 in London for their first U.S. visit, they had little idea what lay in store for them. John calculated the Beatles’ odds as the plane began its descent. Mindmapping April 30, 2014 There is nothing that beats mind maps when it comes to increasing one's retention rates. Mind maps enable our minds to visually process information creating thus strong neural pathways to hold the learned information for an extended period of time. I have always used the power of mind mapping both in my personal studies and also with my students in class. With the proliferation of web 2.0 technologies, you no longer have to depend on pen and paper to draw your mind minds, there are now a number of great web tools and iPad apps that you can use to create mind maps. Also the benefits of using mind maps are multifarious.

Nina Simone plays Bob Dylan Eunice Kathleen Waymon aka. Nina Simone was the sixth of eight children, she grew up in poverty in Tryon, North Carolina. Her family wished for her was that she should be the world’s finest classical pianist. She did not get into the schools she wanted and always blamed racism. Shakespeare First Folio found in French library A rare and valuable William Shakespeare First Folio has been discovered in a provincial town in France. The book – one of only 230 believed to still exist - had lain undisturbed in the library at Saint-Omer in the north of France for 200 years. Medieval literature expert Rémy Cordonnier was searching for books to use in a planned exhibition of “Anglo-Saxon” authors when he stumbled across the 1623 tome in September. Cordonnier, a librarian, said that at first he had no idea that the battered book in his hands was a treasure. “It had been wrongly identified in our catalogue as a book of Shakespeare plays most likely dating from the 18th century,” he said on Tuesday.