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Nu-disco is a 21st-century dance music genre associated with the renewed interest in 1970s and early 1980s disco, [132] mid-1980s Italo disco, and the synthesizer-heavy Euro disco aesthetics. [133] The moniker appeared in print as early as 2002, and by mid-2008 was used by record shops such as the online retailers Juno and Beatport. [ 134 ]
Sabu's grave was discovered on January 19, 1936, by the British archaeologist Walter Bryan Emery.It is a mastaba tomb that consists of seven chambers. In Room E, the central burial chamber, the disk was found in a central location right next to Sabu's skeleton, which was originally buried in a wooden coffin. [4]
In music, the terms Afro/cosmic disco, [1] [2] the cosmic sound, [3] free-style sound, [4] and combinations thereof (Afro, cosmic Afro, [5] Afro-cosmic, [6] Afro-freestyle, [7] etc., as well as Afro-funky [8] and later Afro house) are used somewhat interchangeably to describe various forms of synthesizer-heavy and/or African-influenced dance music and methods of DJing that were originally ...
Two of the "Dixon Relics": a stone sphere and metal hook Construction of the cylinder around Cleopatra's Needle in 1877. Waynman Dixon (1844–1930) [1] was a British engineer, known for his work on the Great Pyramid of Giza and for discovering the only Egyptian artefacts to be found inside that pyramid.
The word "makossa" is originated from the Duala words "m'a" and "kossa". "Kossa" is a term that was a term at the edge of neologism expressed initially as a cry of exhortation, and as "a kind of swear word that has the status of a stimulus, a spur.
The Great Sphinx and the Pyramid of Khafre, both built in the mid-26th century BC. Ancient Egypt was a civilization of ancient Northeast Africa, concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile River in the place that is now the country Egypt. Ancient Egyptian civilization followed prehistoric Egypt and coalesced around 3100 BC. [8]
The idea for the concerts had its origins in an Egyptian vacation taken by band manager Richard Loren. Following some on-the-ground research by Trist's close friend Jonathan Wallace and his meeting with Jehan Sadat, the then-First Lady of Egypt, Loren returned with bassist Phil Lesh and Alan Trist to meet with officials and begin the paperwork and logistics process.
The Great Pyramid of Giza [a] is the largest Egyptian pyramid.It served as the tomb of pharaoh Khufu, who ruled during the Fourth Dynasty of the Old Kingdom.Built c. 2600 BC, [3] over a period of about 26 years, [4] the pyramid is the oldest of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, and the only wonder that has remained largely intact.