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Today in History for September 16Th Highlights of this day in history: Vietnam War deserters and draft evaders receive conditional amnesty; Palestinian refugees massacred in Lebanon; Mexico pushes for independence; Opera star Maria Callas dies; Blues great B.B. King born. (Sept. 16) Sep 16, 2012 7:01 AM

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Apple's Think Different Ad, 1997

Apple's Think Different Ad, 1997 The one-minute commercial featured black-and-white footage of 17 iconic 20th century personalities. In order of appearance they were: Albert Einstein, Bob Dylan, Martin Luther King, Jr., Richard Branson, John Lennon (with Yoko Ono), Buckminster Fuller, Thomas Edison, Muhammad Ali, Ted Turner, Maria Callas, Mahatma Gandhi, Amelia Earhart, Alfred Hitchcock, Martha Graham, Jim Henson (with Kermit the Frog), Frank Lloyd Wright and Pablo Picasso. Dec 4, 2011 11:22 PM

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Today in History for September 16Th

Today in History for September 16Th Highlights of this day in history: Vietnam War deserters and draft evaders receive conditional amnesty; Palestinian refugees massacred in Lebanon; Mexico pushes for independence; Opera star Maria Callas dies; Blues great B.B. King born. (Sept. 16) Sep 16, 2011 12:01 AM

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Philadelphia: Do You Like Opera?

Philadelphia: Do You Like Opera? Tom Hanks explains opera to Denzel Washington, and in that the lawyer will understand how it feels when you know you're about to die. From Jonathan Demme's movie from 1993. User: IAmDeK Oct 1, 2007 11:38 AM

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Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso A Spanish painter, draughtsman, and sculptor. Commonly known simply as Picasso, he is one of the most recognized figures in 20th-century art. He is best known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for the wide variety of styles embodied in his work.

Denzel Washington

Denzel Washington An American actor and director. He has garnered much critical acclaim for his portrayals of several real-life figures, such as Steve Biko, Malcolm X, Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, Frank Lucas, and Herman Boone.

Muhammad Ali

Muhammad Ali An American former professional boxer, philanthropist and social activist. Considered a cultural icon, Ali has both been idolized and vilified.

Alfred Hitchcock

Alfred Hitchcock An iconic and highly influential British-born film director and producer who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and thriller genres.

Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein A German-born theoretical physicist best known for his theory of relativity and specifically mass-energy equivalence, E = mc2.

B B King

B B King An American blues guitarist and singer-songwriter, widely considered one of the best and most respected blues musicians of all time.

Apple Inc

Apple Inc An American multinational corporation headquartered in Cupertino, California that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software and personal computers.

Martin Luther King Jr

Martin Luther King Jr An American clergyman, activist, and prominent leader in the African American civil rights movement. He is best known in the advancement of civil rights in the US and around the world, using nonviolent methods following Mahatma Gandhi.

Associated Press

Associated Press An American news cooperative owned by its contributing newspapers, radio and television stations, which both contribute stories to the AP and use material written by its staff journalists.

Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs An American computer entrepreneur and inventor. He was co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Apple Inc. After leaving Apple, Jobs founded NeXT Computer. Jobs also served as chief executive of Pixar Animation Studios.

Kermit the Frog

Kermit the Frog A Muppet who was first introduced in 1955 and is one of puppeteer Jim Henson's most famous and beloved creations. Kermit was performed by Henson until his death in 1990. Since then, he has been performed by Steve Whitmire.

Tom Hanks

Tom Hanks Thomas Jeffrey "Tom" Hanks is an American actor, producer, writer, and director.

Vietnam

Vietnam The easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea to the east.

John Lennon

John Lennon An English songwriter, singer, musician, graphic artist, author and peace activist who gained worldwide fame as one of the founders of The Beatles. In his solo career, Lennon wrote and recorded songs such as Give Peace a Chance and Imagine.

Racism

Racism Views, practices and actions reflecting the belief that humanity is divided into distinct biological groups called races and that members of a certain race share certain attributes which make that group as a whole inferior or superior.

Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan An American singer-songwriter, author, musician, and poet who has been a major figure in popular music since the 1960s, when he became an informal documentarian and a reluctant figurehead of American unrest.

Muppets

Muppets A group of puppets and costume characters, and the company created by Jim Henson. Individually, a Muppet is properly one of the puppets made by Jim Henson or his Creature Shop.

Highbrow

Highbrow The intellectual pursuits of the elite.

Pop Culture

Pop Culture The recursive, self-referential, commercial totality of socially transmitted behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, and all other products of human work and thought.

Tech Geeks

Tech Geeks Practical implementations of disparate technological advancements.

Science

Science A body of techniques for investigating phenomena and acquiring new knowledge -- as well as for correcting and integrating previous knowledge -- based on gathering observable, empirical, measurable evidence, subject to specific principles of reasoning.

Cinema

Cinema Cinema encompases individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the motion picture industry. It is considered to be an important art form, a source of popular entertainment, and a powerful method of educatiion and indoctrination.

News

News Current events, present-time news events concerning important people, places, things, and ideas.

Music

Music An art form consisting of sound and silence expressed through time. Elements of sound as used in music are pitch (including melody and harmony), rhythm (including tempo and meter), and sonic qualities of timbre, articulation, dynamics, and texture.

Celebrities

Celebrities Widely-recognized or famous people who command a high degree of public and media attention.

Humor

Humor The tendency of particular cognitive experiences to provoke laughter and provide amusement.

Television

Television Audiovisual media, including television, is the second most effective means of communication available to the psychological operator. These media are an excellent means of transmitting persuasive messages and eliciting a high degree of recall. -- US Army

Video Clips

Video Clips The technology of electronically capturing, recording, processing, storing, transmitting, and reconstructing a sequence of still images representing scenes in motion.

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