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Singer/musician Mark Lanegan was born in Ellensburg, WA on November 25, 1964.  Lanegan is known primarily for his role as lead singer for Seattle-based Screaming Trees, a band that became popular during the early 1990s. In 1986, Screaming Trees released their first album Clairvoyance.  Lanegan was joined by brothers Van …

Pearl Jam burst onto the scene in 1991 as part of the Seattle "grunge" revolution with their debut album Ten.  Formed in Seattle by former members of the band Mother Love Bone, Pearl Jam's first lineup included lead singer Eddie Vedder, guitarists Mike McCready and Stone Gossard, bassist Jeff Ament, …

India is the world's largest democracy, and the planet's most populous country after China. The modern state was created in 1948, when the British colonisers left the region, which was split between India, Pakistan, and what later became Bangladesh. It is a country that still suffers from high levels of …

Shakespeare, the Bard, who lived from 1564 to 1616, through the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I of England, was, arguably, the greatest European dramatist. You can find his complete works on the web, follow his life, and debate what he looked like. Bloggers may be writing about modern …

Perez Hilton is the nom de plume of celebrity blogger Mario Lavandeira, who created the wildly popular celebrity tabloid site, PerezHilton.com. Lavandeira, an openly gay man of Cuban ancestry, is as much a celebrity as he is a blogger and uses his status as the top tabloid blogger to mix …

"Letting women know they’re not alone is our prime objective," says Cunningham.

The Smashing Pumpkins have been one of the most successful alternative rock groups of its time, selling well over 30 million records. Its music has ranged from goth-pop and classic rock-inspired heavy metal in the late 1980s, cutting edge hard rock and grandiose compositions in the mid-'90s, electronic-tinged music and …

London, the capital of Great Britain, was founded by the Romans as Londinium in AD 50, then abandoned when they left Britain, but the Saxons set up Ludenwic just north of the old site, and the city has been an important centre continuously since then. At the centre of the …

There is great concern about the current condition of the world's soils, on which the human race depends for most of its food, to filter its water, and to support its very foundations. Soil is often thought of as an inert collection of degraded rock, which does indeed form its …

A highly appropriate way to celebrate the legacy of George Balanchine, who almost single-handedly established classical ballet in North America.