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The First Recording of Scott Joplin's "The Entertainer"

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Are these the first recorded jaguar meows? Fascinating new footage captures big cats making meow-like vocalizations

Footage captured on camera traps in southeastern Brazil may be the first-ever recording of jaguars meowing. It is well known that Panthera species – tigers, lions, jaguars, leopards, and snow leopards ...
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The first recording of computer music was playing at the wrong pitch for decades

In 1951, a BBC outside broadcast unit brought a portable acetate disc cutter to the Manchester Computing Machine Laboratory and recorded three melodies played by Alan Turing's Mark II computer. The ...
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First record of a Little Rock Mardi Gras celebration dates to 1875

The good times were rolling down the streets of Little Rock in the '70s -- but we are not talking the bell-bottomed, disco era. The year we are talking about is 1875 -- Feb. 9 to be exact -- when ...

First Recorded Set of Triplets in North Carolina County Is About to Celebrate Their 86th Birthday

Janet, Janice and Jim Cockerham are believed to be the first recorded set of triplets in Forsyth County, born in 1940 ...
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The First Recording of Scott Joplin’s “The Entertainer”

Chris Ware and Scott Yoo discuss the history behind the first recording of Scott Joplin’s ragtime classic “The Entertainer.” In Chicago again, I met graphic novelist Chris Ware. He's meticulously ...