The red and black leather jacket worn by Michael Jackson in his "Thriller" video went under the hammer for $1.8 million on Sunday, a day after the second anniversary of the pop icon's death. The jacket, which fetched several times its estimate of between $200,000 and $400,000, has "Love Michael Jackson" written on the sleeve, and a dedication in the lining to his long-time costume designers, to whom he gave it. The buyer was identified as Milton Verret, a commodities trader from Austin Texas
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My paper is going to be comparing the Rock Art of the Southwest from the Shay Canyon Collection and the Ohwejagehka Hadegaenage Earth Song titled Moccasin Dance. Rock art or “pictographs are an ancient or prehistoric drawing or painting on a rock wall.” My drawing portrays to me a feeling of sadness and fear. This image has a tonality that shows dreary dark brown tones that makes me feel sadness. A beige spot above the last two figures appears to be the sun setting after a long tiresome day. It
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Building a Micromouse Michael Todd, Steven Sanchez, Marcus Leslie, Michael Williams GS1140 A. Carpe 7/27/15 We have chosen IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers) to sponsor our micromouse. IEEE was founded in 1980 and its headquarters is in Piscataway, New Jersey. IEEE's core purpose is to foster technological innovation and excellence for the benefit of humanity. The membership cost for IEEE is 32 dollars per year for students and 193 dollars per year for members. As
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You can see a perfect example of this if you look at the situation in Ferguson, Missouri when the hacking community known as Anonymous recently threated to release the personal info on the officer involved in the shooting of the unarmed teenager Michael Brown if the violence on the protesters was not stopped. To answer this question someone has to taking into consideration is the reason morally acceptable, the responsibility behind the power, and if it is socially acceptable. To begin with is it
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Aussie Band Jakubi Premiers 1st Music Video Couch Potato There must be something in the water down under, because we've seen wave after wave of talented new artists emerging from Australia lately. Jakubi is an Aussie bred 5-piece band that has the ability to create infectious 'pop-spinned' r&b jams. They've set their sights on the U.S. for their first tour, and released their very first music video, 'Couch Potato' three days ago to preview their upcoming EP, Can't Afford It All. 'Couch Potato' blends
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between our firm, the Acme Manufacturing Company (the company) and the United Machine Workers Union (the union). The parties in question in the dispute are Mrs. Kyla Martin, a machine operator working in the company and her immediate supervisor Mr. Joe Jackson. Mrs. Martin and other production workers at the company are represented by the union based on the pre-determined labor agreement between the union and the company. The labor agreement officially establishes particular provisions that generally describe
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Starting with its iconic introduction, where Neil Armstrong lands on the moon and plants a fictional MTV flag in the ground, MTV makes history as a “deeper dimension to everything” and introduces viewers to an out-of-this-world program (Tannenbaum 1). It is a sudden, “unheralded, unannounced, un-anything” appearance that crept into the daily lives of young American adults (Tannenbaum 1). MTV Music videos took the world by storm, just like the “prophetic” opening music video for MTV by The Buggles
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“When you touch and change people's lives with a song, that's when you've made it as an artist” says Tim McGraw, a successful country artist. He grew up in the country and was always very passionate about what he believed in. He never thought that he would make it where he is now. Create Tim McGraw has made songs that create a kind of music others want to listen to. He created a name for himself in country music by producing songs like “Humble and Kind” and “Highway Don’t Care.” Tim McGraw’s song
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NORMAL- In little more than eight years, Adele has established herself as one of the world’s biggest entertainment brands. The albums 19 and 21 earned her critical praise and a level of commercial success, with the artist selling millions of albums worldwide. Twenty-one spent 23 weeks at number one and has sold 4,751,000 copies in the U.K. “When I listened to the Ettas and the Ellas, it was like an awakening. I was so inspired that as a 15-year old I was listening to music that had been made
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(-- removed HTML --) Home Alone Sure, any realistic version of Home Alone would see Macaulay Culkin dragged away by child services at the end of every film, but regardless of any plot holes, it's a classic. The main character Kevin is basically Michael from Prison Break at age 10. (-- removed HTML --) Space Jam It's not often
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