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George Gershwin – An American Composer

George Gershwin, born in 1898, was one of America’s greatest composers. He published his first song when he was eighteen years old. During the next twenty years until his death in 1937 he wrote more than five hundred more songs. He also wrote an opera as well as music for piano and orchestra. Many of […]

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John Glenn – The First American To Orbit The Earth

John Glenn was one of NASA’s first astronauts and the first American to orbit the Earth. He belonged to the “Mercury 7”, a group of astronauts that would be sent into orbit at the beginning of the Space Race. Glenn was born in Ohio in 1921. In his early life he was a fighter pilot […]