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- ... that at the
2014 Olympic Games
,
Yulia Lipnitskaya
(pictured)
became Russia's youngest-ever Winter Olympic gold medalist?
- ... that
a Utah radio station
read books to listeners, a
Chapter a Day
?
- ... that Italian pianist and composer
Maria Luigia Pizzoli
posthumously received the title of
Maestro di Contrappunto
(master of
counterpoint
)?
- ... that because
Larrabee County
was not established, Iowa remains a state with 99 counties?
- ... that
Yazathingyan Nga Mauk
betrayed his brother, Commander
Nga Nu
, after being promised Nu's wife, Queen
Saw Omma
, in marriage?
- ... that
climate change in Asia
is expected to increase already-high flood risks in Asian cities, potentially affecting 932 million people?
- ... that the
SkyBridge Alternatives Conference
has been called the "
Super Bowl
of hedge funds"?
- ... that after performing
a tour
, football club
Santa Cruz Futebol Clube
had four fewer players, two of them being dead?
- ... that according to
one creationist journal
,
HIV
has its origins in the
Fall
?
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Long Tack Sam
(1884?1961) was a Chinese-born American magician, acrobat, and
vaudeville
performer. Little is known about his early years, although he is known to have joined a group of acrobats around 1900 called the Tian-Kwai, with whom he toured the world. Several years later, amid unrest in China, he brought his troupe of entertainers to the United States, where he performed extensively for several decades. This colour
lithograph
poster featuring Long was printed in Hamburg, Germany, in 1919. It illustrates his conscious use of luxurious embroidered costumes and elaborate scenery to enhance his mystique and capitalise on Western notions of "
the mysterious Orient
".
Poster credit: Studio of Adolph Friedlander; restored by
Adam Cuerden
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