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Ring! Goes the Bell)," "Johnny B. Goode," "Rock and Roll Music," "Sweet Little Sixteen," "Brown Eyed Handsome Man" and "Carol." As Mr. Berry’s choice of names for the songs he wrote and performed were more energetic and youthful. Berry recorded his knockouts with Chess Records' in-house band members, for live shows, he nominated two of his Sir John's Trio bandmates: pianist Johnson and drummer Ebby Hardy. Berry's flamboyant stage moves from those days carried over: In 1956, he started doing the crowd-pleasing duck walk, a move where he crouched down while playing guitar and hopped across the stage on one foot.

Full of a passion for airplanes and the newly expanding field of aviation, Charles Lindbergh left college after two years to attend the Lincoln Flight School in Nebraska. when graduated, Lindbergh would spend the next few years performing daredevil stunts and county fairs and carnivals. Charles enlisted in the United States Army in 1924, to be trained as an Army Air Service Reserve pilot. Graduating the following year, Charles Lindbergh was named the best pilot in his class. In 1919, Raymond Orteig, a New York City hotel owner, offered $25,000 to the first aviator who could fly nonstop from New York to Paris.

He found he was more interested in flying, so after two years of college, he dropped out and became a barnstormer, which was a pilot who performed daredevil stunts at fairs, and airshows. Lindbergh was a favorite among the crowds. People would travel from all different places, even Europe, to come see his daredevil tricks. In 1924 Lindbergh enlisted in the U.S. Army so he could be trained to be a pilot. During this time he was given the nickname “Lucky Lindy'; because he would attempt daredevil stunts with his airplane, and always seem to evade punishment from upper officers.

Delta Airlines: Past Present and Future Delta Airlines have transformed over the decades. They started out as a crop dusting company, blossomed into an airline company, fought litigations, went bankrupt, then resurrected it and merged with Northwest Airlines to become one of the biggest airline companies in the world. Their aircraft, operations, and cities and countries that they service have transformed and blossomed as well. In 1924, Huff Daland Dusters, Incorporated as a crop dusting company based in Macon, Georgia. Huff Daland Dusters began due to the enthusiasm about the aerial crop dusting activities in Tallulah, Louisiana that George Post, an airplane manufacturer, witnessed.

Although he was an excellent student, his real interest was in flying. As a result, in 1922 he switched to aviation school. Planes became a center of his life after his first flight. His early flying career involved flying stunt planes at fair and air shows. Later, in 1925 he piloted the U. S. Mail route from St. Louis to Chicago.

The Wright Brothers invented and did their testing of their engine propelled airplane in Kill Devil Hills and Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. By 1903, the brothers built a biplane named through history as the Wright Flyer (Ethell 19). Through the works of the Wright brothers and other equally important contributors we prove that humans can fly. The entire world was abuzz at what the Wright Brothers had achieved. Finally, after all these years of enviously watching birds fly over their... ... middle of paper ... ...is fanciful invention.

He spent his day and nights playing pianos for demanding customers. After three-years of playing tunes for customers, he transformed into a highly skilled and amazing composer. To earn extra cash on the side, Gershwin worked as a rehearsal pianist for Broadway singers. Soon after that Gershwin published his first song “When You Want 'Me, You Can't Get 'Me, When You've Got 'Em, You Don't Want 'Em". At the time it was published, Gershwin was only 17 years of age, the song earned him $5.

Lorne Michaels the creator of Saturday Night Live has oftentimes given credit to Python for setting the standards for sketch television as well as theatre. Though the actual birth of Monty Python’s Flying Circus was up on the sound stage of a television studio the live theatre roots were imbibed into each performance. Leave it Monty Python to find a way to make sketches about the Spanish Inquisition, Death, buying a dead parrot, and a song about Lumberjacks more than just highly amusing. The comedic team was a tight knit netting of brilliance matched with humor, which has in turn kept the troupe going strong still more than thirty years later and still appearing to the new generations with what would be otherwise considered outdated humor. A true indication of permanant influnce is time, and Monty Python’s Fling Circus has certainly got that decades later.

The Lindbergh family was well-known because of fame, the kidnapping of their baby, and the trial. Charles Lindbergh believed that he could fly from New York to Paris non-stop, and he made it. He was in the air for more than thirty three hours. 3,600 miles later, Lindbergh landed at Le Bourget airfield in Paris (Roensch 8-9). Lindbergh attended many parties and parades in his honor.

His return to theatre brought on Pajama Game (1954). This was Fosse’s big break, which catapulted his Broadway choreographic career. Veteran director/playwright George Abbot took a chance on a young man to choreograph his show. Fosse’s ground-breaking choreography and staging in one of... ... middle of paper ... ...ok home an emmy for Liza Minelli’s television special “Liza with a Z” and a Tony for the stage show Pippin. After being shoved out of Hollywood Fosse rose to the top.