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Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou
A Song Flung Up to Heaven is the sixth book in a series of autobiographies by
author Maya Angelou (pictured). Set between 1965 and 1968, it begins where her
previous book All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes ends, with her return to the
United States from Accra, Ghana, where she had lived for four years. The
assassinations of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. frame the beginning and end
of the book. Angelou describes how she dealt with these events and the sweeping
changes both in the country and in her personal life, and how she coped with her
return home. The book ends with Angelou writing the opening lines to her first
autobiography, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Angelou wrote Song in 2002, sixteen
years after All God's Children. By that time she had received recognition as an
author, poet and spokesperson. A recorded version of the book received the Grammy
Award for Best Spoken Word Album in 2003. (This article is part of a featured
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... that La Parka Jr. (pictured) won the Mexican National Cruiserweight
Championship, relinquished the title when he changed his ring name, then won it
again under his new name?
... that the hymn "Praise, my soul, the King of heaven", sung at the wedding of
Princess Elizabeth, now Queen Elizabeth II, was written by Henry Francis Lyte, who
also wrote the well-known "Abide with Me"?
... that Hungarian �migr� Frank Varga followed in his father's footsteps to become
a noted sculptor?
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the risk of animals such as Sunda pangolins and leopard cats becoming roadkill?
... that Arlington State College left the Texas A&M University System after 48
years to join the University of Texas System?
... that the annual film festival in Kigali is known as "Hillywood"?
... that William Jefferson Hardin was the first black member of the Wyoming House
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... that the small frog Cochranella nola has yellow intestines, a green tongue, and
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June 15

Memorial of the Duluth lynchings

Memorial of the Duluth lynchings
1215 � Magna Carta, an influential charter of rights, was agreed to and sealed by
King John of England at Runnymede.
1520 � Pope Leo X issued the papal bull Exsurge Domine, censuring 41 propositions
from Martin Luther's Ninety-five Theses and subsequent writings, and threatening
him with excommunication unless he recanted.
1920 � Three African-American circus workers were lynched by a mob in Duluth,
Minnesota (memorial pictured), a crime that shocked the country for having taken
place in the Northern United States.
1996 � The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army detonated a truck bomb
in the commercial centre of Manchester, England, injuring more than 200 people and
causing widespread damage to buildings.
2012 � American acrobat Nik Wallenda became the first person to walk a tightrope
stretched directly over Niagara Falls.
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Santana, an American rock band, has received several awards and nominations
throughout its career. Its first nomination for a major award when its fourth album
Caravanserai (1972) was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental
Performance with Vocal Coloring in 1973. The band was nominated for further Grammys
in 1993 and 1996. In 2000, following the success of the previous year's album
Supernatural, the band was nominated for nine Grammys and won eight, tying the
record held by Michael Jackson for the most awards at a single Grammy ceremony. The
album won the awards for Album of the Year and Best Rock Album and the single
"Smooth" received two Grammys for Record of the Year and Best Pop Collaboration
with Vocals. Four other songs from the album also won Grammys. In the same year,
the band received three awards at the Latin Grammy Awards, including Record of the
Year. (Full list...)

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Baselios Cleemis
Baselios Cleemis (born 15 June 1959) is the current major archbishop of the Syro-
Malankara Catholic Church. He was elevated to the College of Cardinals by Pope
Benedict XVI on 24 November 2012. Cleemis is the first bishop of the Syro-Malankara
Church, and the fifth Keralite, to be created a cardinal. He said it was a sign of
the Pope's appreciation of Indian Catholics' "unity in diversity", and cited the
witness, the defence of human life, and the example of authentic prayer given by
Mother Teresa.

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