The Beats sought the grit and grim of urban life, the poverty and pathos of black existence. Thus, they happened upon, in the sweeped-into-the-cobwebbed corners of American life, the liquor-nursed, Benzedrine-hopped cats of smoky jazz joints. ... Another interpretation of Beat life by Ann Charters synthesizes the attitude that the Beats held towards the abject lifestyle prescript to black jazz musicians. ... I'd like to hear five recordings of Louis Armstrong playing and singing "What Did I Do to Be so Black and Blue"-all at the same time.... ...

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Nations using this method of attempting to destroy the source are playing a never-ending cat and mouse game, for as long as there is a demand, there will always be new players taking the place of those that are caught. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

A group of science divers led by Alberto Nava Blank from Project de Espeleologia de Tulum found the skeleton along with remains of a giant ground sloth, gomphotheres, saber-toothed cats and many other extinct animals deep inside a submerged chamber in the Sac Actun cave system in eastern Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, in 2007. The remains belong to a girl named Naia (Figure 5) and the location where she was found is called "Hojo Negro" (Black Hole). ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate