Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata

If this doesn’t move you someway, somehow, then you are probably an exhibit in the British History Museum. This is Beethoven at his best. This illustrates perfectly what genius really is but also reveals how a talent such as that displayed here by Wilhelm Kempff can best interpret it..
Kempf lived a long life. He was born in 1895 and died in 1991. He was highy regarded for his work on Bach, Liszt and Chopin but it is for his incredible empathatic performances on Beethoven that he is remembered.

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Pimped-Up Quotes from Pumped-up People

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"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”

Terry Pratchett

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The early Olympic Games were celebrated as a religious festival from 776 B.C intil 393 A.D, when the games were banned for being a Pagan festival. Then, in 1894, Pierre de Coubertin, proposed a revival of the anceinet tradition and bingo! the modern day Olympic Games were born.
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Fuzzy Old Facts From a Fuzzy Old World

The Olympic flag has a white background with five interlaced rings in the centre. They are blue, yellow, black, green and red. This design symbolises the five continents of the world united by the Olympic ideal. These self same colours are those to be found on all the national flags of the world at the present time.
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"Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?"

Douglas Adams

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Funny Old Facts From a Funny Old World

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Poland's Stella Walsh (Stanislawa Walaiewicz) won the women's 100 meter race at the 1932 Olympics in Los Angeles, becoming the first woman to break the 12 second barrier. After she was killed in 1980 as an innocent victim in a robbery attempt, an autopsy declared her to be a male.

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Facts from a Funny Old World

The very first recorded Ancient Olympic Games took place in 776 BC. The event was a stadion race (a foot race equivalent to 190metre or 208 yard dash). The winner was a humble baker from the Greek city state of Elis named Coroebus.
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Who Says Satire Is Dead?

Flash animation by my son. He's working his way through the government.

Proper Quotes From the Upper Crusties

"I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned."

Lord Byron

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