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...purpose of it was to salute Amateur Night at The Apollo as part of Black History month. Our purpose was not to make money," said BSA President Erica E. Marsh...
Amateur Night was a tradition at the Harlem nightclub, the Apollo, and was at its height during and shortly after the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. It was a weekly talent show that featured Black artists, jazz and dance...
...bunch of Harvard football players watching the Italian Stallion slug it out with Apollo Creed. Now that's a memory...
...magnificent frescoes in the Sistine Chapel. What could an electronic filing system in some Vatican basement contribute to the painstaking, labor-intensive task of liberating one of the world's largest and most famous paintings from nearly 500 years of accumulated grime and murky glue? But the computer -- an Apollo workstation programmed to map every curve and crack down to the last millimeter -- proved so indispensable that it was installed 20 meters (65 ft.) above the ground, on the main scaffold, where it put a wealth of data about the frescoes at the master restorer's fingertips. Today...
...greatest benefits of the Apollo space program was the image in the rearview mirror as the astronauts rocketed to the moon. It was the first time earthlings could see their home as a whole, and NASA's pictures said with stunning force what neither words nor theories could adequately convey: life has radically transformed this numinous sphere. The heart-stopping beauty of the earth set against the dark void of space earned inventor-scientist James Lovelock the first adherents to a theory that appears to reconcile science and religion in the study of life on earth. Lovelock's idea, named...