South African musical legend Miriam Makeba dies

[Rasputin]

Miriam Makeba, the South African singer who for more than half a century brought the intricate rhythms of her native land to millions of listeners and whose role as a spokeswoman against apartheid subjected her to 31 years of exile, died early Monday after a concert in Italy. She was 76.
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Oscar-winning director Sydney Pollack died of cancer Monday. He was 73.

Pollack, who was also an actor and producer, was surrounded by family at his home in Pacific Palisades when he passed, according to his publicist Leslee Dart. He was diagnosed with cancer ten months ago and had been...

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Richard Widmark, who shot to Hollywood stardom and a 40-movie career with his first screen role – as a giggling killer in the 1947 film noir Kiss of Death – has died after a lengthy illness.


He was 93.

Widmark's wife, Susan Blanchard, said the Midwestern-born...

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Discovering that the tooth fairy and Santa are not real can be a downer, and I hate to see a fairy tale demolished.

But for years people believed that the Shiraz grape (known to many of us as Syrah) originated in ancient Iran. The city of Shiraz is about 900 miles from Tehran and home...

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The controversial former world chess champion, Bobby Fischer, has died in Iceland at the age of 64.

The US-born player, who became famous for beating Cold War Soviet rival Boris Spassky in 1972, died of an unspecified illness, his spokesman said.

He was granted Icelandic...

[Rasputin]

شهپر خواننده مردمی ایرانی درگذشت


در کارنامه فعالیت

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[donsaeid]

پروفسور ايرج احرابي فرد

يك ايراني كه افسانه واليبال

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[mike435]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prwg3YQHzRo"]YouTube - Khatereh Yazdanshenas: A Persian Singing Legend[/ame]

had no idea she excist
next googoosh

[shazz]

پس از ۶ سال درگير بودن با آلزايمر

«پوشكاش بزرگ» درگذشت...

[IQ]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZrMpU-QEoo...