…..In Cremona, Italy Antonio de Lorenzi played the prelude from Bach’s Partita No. 3 on a Stradivarius violin….Cremona is the town where Antonio Stradivari crafted his instruments three centuries ago….this happened because of an idea…..deejay Leonardo Tedeschi came up with….he wanted to mix the analog sounds of a Stradivarius violins in some of his own electronic recordings….so he reached out to the violin museum in Cremona….the museum was already concerned about preserving these sounds for future generations and agreed to his project….the problem was trying to record every possible note that could be played on the instrument…..right before they were to begin recording, Leonardo approached the city mayor for help…..who also happens to be the president of the museum….and the mayor asked the people of Cremona to please keep the noise down and he blocked the traffic around a concert hall during the recording from January 7th until February 9th…..after playing for eight hours a day, six days a week, for five straight weeks……the musicians finally wrapped up the project this month.
THE GIRL WHO EXECUTED NAZIS AFTER SEDUCING THEM IN BARS DIES AT AGE 92….Damn…..this woman had big game…..Freddie Oversteegen was born in Haarlem near Amsterdam on September 6, 1925….and was raised by her communist mother….she was only 14 when she joined the Dutch resistance…..together with her older sister….Truus…and their friend Hannie Schaft….they blew up bridges, railway tracks, smuggled children out of concentration camps and executed as many Nazis as she could…..ol’ girl was packing a hidden gun in the basket of her bike….Freddie and her home-girls had a plan…..they would approach the men in a bar….run their game on them….ask them if they wanted to go for a stroll in the forest….now normally any man would think he’s gonna get some…..after spending a few drinks on a woman who’s flirting with him….and Freddie would bust a cap in his head…..or what she called it…. “They would be liquidated”….she told an interviewer once; “We had to do it. It was a necessary evil, killing those who betrayed the good people”….she passed away on the 5th of September….one day before her 93th birthday…..she was the last surviving member of the Netherlands most famous female resistance cell…..who dedicated their lives to fighting Nazi occupiers and Dutch traitors just outside of Amsterdam….she and her sister survived the war but their friend Hannie…..who was a onetime law student was captured and executed just weeks before the Germany army surrendered…..you should read about these women…..Truss found work as an artist…..and wrote a memoir based on her experiences in the resistance…..she passed away in 2016.
EX-WIFE OF $273M LOTTO WINNER SAYS SHE STILL DOESN’T WANT HIM BACK…..Talk about a woman who is tired of Tyrone’s shit….if you don’t know Tyrone….Erykah Badu will tell you all about him…..anyway,…..Eileen Murray is my kind of woman…..strong…..she said; “He’s not appealing to me all of a sudden because he has this money. I’m not going after anything. I have morals. I know what I’ve worked for and it’s everything I have.”…..they were married for 15 years and divorced last October…..and she had to pay spousal support and continues to make payments…..she doesn’t think her ex will reach out to offer her any of the cash….but she hopes he does the right thing….she supported him and had to give him a lot of money after the divorce….her ex said he was looking for a job over the past year and never received any interviews….so far, her ex has been looking for the good Samaritan who turned in the two tickets he purchased….and forgot about and turned them over to the store owner….because he wants to give him something….she was right to get rid of his sorry ass.
DID ANYONE KNOW ABOUT THIS WOMAN…..BECAUSE I DIDN’T…..THANKS FOR THE INFO NICOLE……..I found this on Wiki-leaky…….
“Coachman Davis was born on November 9, 1923, in Albany, Georgia. She was the fifth of Fred and Evelyn Coachman’s ten children. Coachman was unable to access athletic training facilities or participate in organized sports because of the color of her skin.[ Added to the list of training barriers was her status as a female athlete during a time of widespread opposition to women in sports. She trained using what was available to her, running shoeless along the dirt roads near her home and using homemade equipment to practice her jumping.
Coachman attended Monroe Street Elementary School where she was encouraged by her fifth-grade teacher Cora Bailey and by her aunt, Carrie Spry, despite the reservations of her parents. Upon enrolling at Madison High School in 1938, she joined the track team, working with Harry E. Lash to develop her skill as an athlete. Within a year she drew the attention of the Tuskegee Institute in Tuskegee, Alabama.
In 1939 she joined the Tuskegee Preparatory School at the age of 16 after being offered a scholarship. The scholarship required her to work while studying and training, which included cleaning and maintaining sports facilities as well as mending uniforms.
Coachman went on to graduate with a degree in dressmaking from the Tuskegee Institute in 1946. The following year she continued her studies at Albany State College, receiving a B.S. in Home Economics with a minor in science in 1949. She became a teacher and track-and-field instructor.
Prior to arriving at the Tuskegee Preparatory School, Coachman competed in the Amateur Athletic Union’s (AAU) Women’s National Championships breaking the college and National high jump records while competing barefoot. Her unusual jumping style was a combination of straight jumping and western roll techniques.
Coachman dominated the AAU outdoor high jump championship from 1939 through 1948, winning ten national championships in a row. In addition to her high jump accomplishments, she won national championships in the 50-meter dash, the 100-meter dash and with the 400-meter relay team as a student at the Tuskegee Institute. During the same period, Coachman won three conference championships playing as a guard on the Tuskegee women’s basketball team. Despite being in her prime, Coachman was unable to compete in the 1940 and 1944 Olympic Games as they were canceled because of World War II. In the opinion of sportswriter Eric Williams, “Had she competed in those canceled Olympics, we would probably be talking about her as the No. 1 female athlete of all time.”
Coachman’s first opportunity to compete on a global stage was during the 1948 Olympic Games in London. She qualified for the US Olympic team with a high jump of 5 feet 4 inches breaking the previous 16-year-old record by ¾ of an inch. In the high jump finals of the 1948 Summer Olympics, Coachman leaped 1.68 m (5 ft 6⅛ in) on her first try. Her nearest rival, Great Britain’s Dorothy Tyler, matched Coachman’s jump, but only on her second try. Coachman was the only American woman to win an Olympic gold medal in athletics in 1948. Her medal was presented by King George VI.
Upon her return to the United States after the Olympics, Coachman had become a celebrity. Soon after meeting President Harry Truman and former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, she was honored with parades from Atlanta to Albany and was thrown a party by Count Basie. In 1952 she became the first African-American woman to endorse an international product when she was signed as a spokesperson by the Coca-Cola Company who featured her prominently on billboards alongside 1936 Olympic winner Jesse Owens. In her hometown, Alice Avenue, and Coachman Elementary School were named in her honor.”