Baseball on TV

Major League Baseball's first televised game occurred at Ebbets Field, Brooklyn on August 26, 1939. The double-header between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Cincinnati Reds was broadcast to about five hundred homes. Dodgers announcer Red Barber did the play by play. Two cameras were used to view the game, one from behind home plate and the other focused on Barber.
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The Great Pyramid

The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World was first compiled by Greek historians around 200 BC. The first Ancient Wonder is The Great Pyramid of Giza. Built in what today is greater Ciaro, the Pyramid was the tallest structure on Earth for more than 43 centuries. Each pyramid side is oriented with the compass point north, south, east, and west. The maximum error between side lengths is less than 0.1%.
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Rap music

The Last Poets 1973 album "Hustler's Convention" is considered by many to be the first original inspiration of Rap music. A mix of funk, rhythm, DJing, and break-dancing evolved into Rap during the late 1970s, and Hip-Hop in the 1980s. The first Hip-Hop record is considered to be Sugar Hill Gang's "Rapper's Delight" released in 1979.
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