Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Puritans enjoy country and western music? It's one of the most pressing and fascinating questions facing historians today. For many years this question was a no-brainer, as country and western music were thought to have been invented in the hills of Tennessee on June 13, 1834, at around a quarter to five. At this time, a Scotch-Irish immigrant realized in a stroke of backwoods genius that the banjo, up until then a farming implement used to discipline unruly chickens, could also be used to produce a twangy tune. (Historians had agreed that if, at that moment...
...year-old male was apprehended at 7:34 p.m. on the corner of Blackstone and Western Streets by longtime HUPD patrolofficer Brian Lakin, positively identified by the woman and arrested for the unarmed robbery...
Blackstone Street and Western Avenue are located about two blocks south of Peabody Terrace off of Memorial Drive...
McNamara said that patrol officer Lakin finally caught up with one of the suspects about five blocks away from the crime scene on Blackstone Street and Western Avenue, and arrested...
...enormous acquisitions fund, Walsh has bought prudently and selectively. The art world's fear that the Getty would crash the Old Masters market like an 800-lb. gorilla has proved largely groundless. The collection's focus is fairly narrow; it was never, Walsh points out, meant to be a "Western Met," an encyclopedic museum. Its collection of painting and sculpture, entirely European, stops at the threshold of the 20th century--the most recent picture in it is James Ensor's huge, pullulating satire, The Entry of Christ into Brussels...