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Jorge Ben (center) with Trio Mocotó
Jorge Ben (center) with Trio Mocotó
Fôrça Bruta (Brute Force) is the seventh studio album by Brazilian singer-
songwriter and guitarist Jorge Ben, recorded with the Trio Mocotó band (pictured)
and released by Philips Records in September 1970. It introduced an acoustic samba-
based music that was mellower, moodier, and less ornate than Ben's preceding work.
In a largely unrehearsed nighttime recording session, the singer improvised and
experimented with unconventional rhythmic arrangements, musical techniques, and
elements of soul, funk, and rock. Ben's lyrics explored themes of romantic passion,
melancholy, sensuality, and—in a departure from the carefree sensibility of past
releases—identity politics and elements of postmodernism. A commercial and critical
success, Fôrça Bruta established Ben as a leading artist in Brazil's Tropicália
movement and pioneered a sound later known as samba rock. The album's first
American release came in 2007, the same year that Rolling Stone Brasil named it the
61st greatest Brazilian music record. (Full article...)

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United States 24-cent stamps with inverted center from 1869
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States 1869 24-cent stamps with an inverted center (pictured) showing the signing
of the U.S. Declaration of Independence?
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cue tip in his semifinal match?
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... that Artur Schnabel's recordings of Beethoven's piano sonatas were the first
complete recordings ever made of all of the composer's 32 piano sonatas?
... that Jon Teske posted a double-double in his first collegiate start and the
first collegiate basketball game played at Little Caesars Arena?
... that Tobago's Main Ridge is one of the oldest protected areas in the world set
aside for conservation, having been created by the British Parliament in 1776?
... that a gay former British prince died fighting on the side of Nazi Germany
despite loathing Hitler and the Nazi Party?
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Alexander H. Stephens
Alexander H. Stephens
1814 – War of the Sixth Coalition: At the Battle of Arcis-sur-Aube, Napoleon
suddenly realized his army was vastly outnumbered and hurriedly ordered a retreat.
1861 – Vice President of the Confederate States of America Alexander H. Stephens
(pictured) extemporaneously gave the "Cornerstone Speech", in which he laid out the
Confederacy's causes for declaring secession.
1937 – A police squad, acting under orders from Governor of Puerto Rico Blanton
Winship, opened fire on demonstrators protesting the arrest of Puerto Rican
Nationalist leader Pedro Albizu Campos, killing 21 people and injuring 235 others.
1983 – In the West Bank, a number of Palestinian girls complained of breathing
difficulties due to strange odors, leading to accusations of poison gas.
2006 – A man using a hammer smashed the statue of Phra Phrom in the Erawan Shrine
in Bangkok, Thailand, and was subsequently beaten to death by bystanders.
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Plum Brandy
Plum Brandy, also known as The Plum (French: La Prune), is an oil-on-canvas
painting by the French modernist artist Édouard Manet. It is undated but thought to
have been painted about 1877. It depicts a woman seated alone at a table in a cafe,
in a lethargic pose similar to that of the woman in Degas' L'Absinthe. The woman
may be a prostitute, but unlike the subject of Degas' work she appears more dreamy
than depressed. She holds an unlit cigarette and her plum brandy appears untouched.
Plum Brandy is now in the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Art in
Washington, DC.

Painting: Édouard Manet

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