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Tito Puente

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Ernesto Antonio "Tito" Puente (April 20, 1923 – May 31, 2000) was an American musician, songwriter and record producer. [1]

96 relations: Afro-Cuban jazz, Alfonso Joseph, AllMusic, Amphitheatre, Armed and Dangerous (1986 film), Arsenio Rodríguez, Audrey Puente, Berklee College of Music, Billboard Latin Music Lifetime Achievement Award, Boroughs of New York City, Bossa nova, Calle 54, Carlos Santana, Celia Cruz, Cha-cha-chá (music), Charles Rangel, Chief Wiggum, Dance Mania (album), Dizzy Gillespie, East Harlem, Eddie Palmieri, El Rey (Tito Puente album), Escort carrier, Fania Records, Fernando Trueba, Foxy (band), G.I. Bill, Gene Krupa, Grammy Award, Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, Harlem Hospital Center, Heart valve, Hilton Ruiz, International Latin Music Hall of Fame, Irakere, John Lindsay, José E. Serrano, Juilliard School, Julio Iglesias, La India, La Lupe, Latin Grammy Award, Latin Grammy Award for Best Traditional Tropical Album, Latin jazz, List of recipients of the National Medal of Arts, Luis Muñoz Marín, Machito, Maggie Simpson, Mambo (music), Manhattan, ..., Maynard Ferguson, Meteorology, Mr. Burns, New York (state), New York City, Oye Como Va, Presidential Unit Citation (United States), Puerto Rico, Quincy Jones, Quincy Plays for Pussycats, Radio Days, RCA Records, Rhythm in the House, Rhythmstick, RMM Records & Video, Roberto Clemente Coliseum, Roberto Rexach Benítez, Roulette Records, San Juan, Puerto Rico, Santos Colón, Senate of Puerto Rico, Sesame Street, Son cubano, Sonny Stitt, Sony Music Latin, Steven Loza, Stripes (film), The Blackout All-Stars, The Hudson Reporter, The Mambo Kings, The Matadors Meet the Bull, The Simpsons, Tico Records, Timbales, Tito Puente Jr., Union City, New Jersey, United States House Committee on Ways and Means, United States Postal Service, University of Illinois Press, USS Santee (CVE-29), Vibraphone, Who Shot Mr. Burns?, WNYW, World War II, WWOR-TV, 1996 Summer Olympics. Expand index (46 more) »

Afro-Cuban jazz

Afro-Cuban jazz is the earliest form of Latin jazz.

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Alfonso Joseph

Alfonso "El Panameno" Joseph was born in the Republic of Panama, and immigrated to New York City at 11 years of age, where he studied music and became one of the forefront bassists of the Cuban bandleader Arsenio Rodríguez.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide or AMG) is an online music guide.

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Amphitheatre

An amphitheatre or amphitheater is an open-air venue used for entertainment, performances, and sports.

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Armed and Dangerous (1986 film)

Armed and Dangerous is a 1986 American action-crime comedy film starring John Candy, Eugene Levy, Robert Loggia and Meg Ryan.

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Arsenio Rodríguez

Arsenio Rodríguez (born Ignacio Arsenio Travieso Scull; 31 August 1911 – 30 December 1970)Giro, Radamés 2007.

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Audrey Puente

Audrey Puente (born March 3, 1970) is an American meteorologist.

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Berklee College of Music

Berklee College of Music, located in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, is the largest independent college of contemporary music in the world.

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Billboard Latin Music Lifetime Achievement Award

The Billboard Latin Music Lifetime Achievement Award is an honor that is presented by ''Billboard'' magazine to an artist or a group "for an exceptional career that has taken Latin music to another level globally".

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Boroughs of New York City

New York City encompasses five county-level administrative divisions called boroughs: Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, The Bronx, and Staten Island.

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Bossa nova

Bossa nova is a genre of Brazilian music, which was developed and popularized in the 1950s and 1960s and is today one of the best-known Brazilian music genres abroad.

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Calle 54

Calle 54 is a 2000 documentary film about Latin jazz by Spanish director Fernando Trueba.

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Carlos Santana

Carlos Santana (born July 20, 1947) is a Mexican and American musician who first became famous in the late 1960s and early 1970s with his band, Santana, which pioneered a fusion of rock and Latin American jazz.

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Celia Cruz

Celia de la Caridad Cruz Alfonso (October 21, 1925 – July 16, 2003) was a Cuban-American singer and the most popular Latin artist of the 20th century, gaining twenty-three gold albums during her career.

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Cha-cha-chá (music)

Cha-cha-chá is a genre of Cuban music.

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Charles Rangel

Charles Bernard Rangel (born June 11, 1930) is an American politician who was a U.S. Representative for districts in New York from 1971 to 2017.

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Chief Wiggum

Chief Clarence "Clancy" Wiggum is a fictional character from the animated television series The Simpsons, voiced by Hank Azaria.

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Dance Mania (album)

Dance Mania is an studio album by Latin musician Tito Puente.

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Dizzy Gillespie

John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie (October 21, 1917 – January 6, 1993) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, and singer.

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East Harlem

East Harlem, also known as Spanish Harlem or El Barrio, is a neighborhood of Upper Manhattan, New York City roughly encompassing the area north of the Upper East Side and East 96th Street up to about the 140s, east of Fifth Avenue to the East and Harlem Rivers.

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Eddie Palmieri

Eduardo "Eddie" Palmieri (born December 15, 1936) is a Grammy Award-winning pianist, bandleader, musician, and composer of Puerto Rican ancestry.

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El Rey (Tito Puente album)

El Rey is a 1984 Latin jazz album by 6-time Grammy Award-winning musician, band and orchestra leader, Tito Puente.

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Escort carrier

The escort carrier or escort aircraft carrier (US hull classification symbol CVE), also called a "jeep carrier" or "baby flattop" in the United States Navy (USN) or "Woolworth Carrier" by the Royal Navy, was a small and slow type of aircraft carrier used by the Royal Navy, the Imperial Japanese Navy and Imperial Japanese Army Air Force, and the United States Navy in World War II.

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Fania Records

Fania Records is a New York based record label founded by Dominican-born composer and bandleader Johnny Pacheco and Italian-American lawyer Jerry Masucci in 1964.

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Fernando Trueba

Fernando Rodríguez Trueba, known as Fernando Trueba, (born 18 January 1955) is a book editor, screenwriter, film director and producer.

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Foxy (band)

Foxy is a Latin dance/disco group formed in 1976 in Hialeah, Florida.

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G.I. Bill

The Serviceman's Readjustment Act of 1944, also known as the G.I. Bill, was a law that provided a range of benefits for returning World War II veterans (commonly referred to as G.I.s).

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Gene Krupa

Eugene Bertram Krupa (January 15, 1909 – October 16, 1973) was an American jazz and big band drummer, band leader, actor, and composer.

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Grammy Award

A Grammy Award (stylized as GRAMMY, originally called Gramophone Award), or Grammy, is an award presented by The Recording Academy to recognize achievement in the music industry.

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Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award

The Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award is awarded by The Recording Academy to "performers who, during their lifetimes, have made creative contributions of outstanding artistic significance to the field of recording." This award is distinct from the Grammy Hall of Fame Award, which honors specific recordings rather than individuals, and the Grammy Trustees Award, which honors non-performers.

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Harlem Hospital Center

Harlem Hospital Center, branded as NYC Health + Hospitals/Harlem, is a 272-bed, public teaching hospital affiliated with Columbia University.

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Heart valve

A heart valve normally allows blood to flow in only one direction through the heart.

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Hilton Ruiz

Hilton Ruiz (May 29, 1952 – June 6, 2006) was an American jazz pianist in the Afro-Cuban jazz mold, but was also a talented bebop player.

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International Latin Music Hall of Fame

The International Latin Music Hall of Fame (ILMHF) was an annual event established in 1999 and held in New York City to honor artists who have largely contributed to the Latin music genre.

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Irakere

Irakere (faux-Yoruba for 'forest') is a Cuban band founded by pianist Chucho Valdés (son of Bebo Valdés) in 1973.

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John Lindsay

John Vliet Lindsay (November 24, 1921 – December 19, 2000) was an American politician, lawyer, and broadcaster.

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José E. Serrano

José Enrique Serrano (born October 24, 1943) is an American politician who has been a member of the United States House of Representatives since 1990.

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Juilliard School

The Juilliard School, informally referred to as Juilliard and located in the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, New York City, is a performing arts conservatory established in 1905.

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Julio Iglesias

Julio José Iglesias de la Cueva (born 23 September 1943) is a Spanish singer and songwriter.

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La India

Linda Viera Caballero (born March 9, 1969), better known as India (or La India in Latin America and some Spanish speakers), is a Puerto Rican singer and songwriter of salsa, House music and Latin pop.

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La Lupe

Lupe Victoria Yolí Raymond (23 December 1939 – 29 February 1992), better known as La Lupe, was a Cuban singer of boleros, guarachas and Latin soul, known for her energetic, sometimes controversial performances.

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Latin Grammy Award

A Latin Grammy Award is an award by The Latin Recording Academy to recognize outstanding achievement in the Latin music industry.

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Latin Grammy Award for Best Traditional Tropical Album

The Latin Grammy Award for Best Traditional Tropical Album is an honor presented annually at the Latin Grammy Awards, a ceremony that recognizes excellence and creates a wider awareness of cultural diversity and contributions of Latin recording artists in the United States and internationally.

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Latin jazz

Latin jazz is a genre of jazz with Latin American rhythms.

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List of recipients of the National Medal of Arts

The National Medal of Arts is an award and title created by the United States Congress in 1984, for the purpose of honoring artists and patrons of the arts.

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Luis Muñoz Marín

José Luis Alberto Muñoz Marín (February 18, 1898April 30, 1980) was the first elected governor of Puerto Rico, journalist, politician, and statesman, regarded as the "Father of Modern Puerto Rico" and the "Architect of the Commonwealth." In 1948 he was the first democratically elected Governor of Puerto Rico, spearheading an administration that engineered profound economic, political and social reforms; accomplishments that were internationally lauded by many politicians, statesmen, political scientists and economists of the period.

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Machito

Machito (born Francisco Raúl Gutiérrez Grillo, December 3, 1908?–April 19, 1984) was a Latin jazz musician who helped refine Afro-Cuban jazz and create both Cubop and salsa music.

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Maggie Simpson

Margaret Evelyn "Maggie" Simpson is a fictional character in the animated television series The Simpsons.

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Mambo (music)

Mambo is a musical genre and dance style that developed originally in Cuba.

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Manhattan

Manhattan is the most densely populated borough of New York City, its economic and administrative center, and its historical birthplace.

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Maynard Ferguson

Walter Maynard Ferguson C.M. (May 4, 1928 – August 23, 2006) was a Canadian jazz trumpeter and bandleader.

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Meteorology

Meteorology is a branch of the atmospheric sciences which includes atmospheric chemistry and atmospheric physics, with a major focus on weather forecasting.

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Mr. Burns

Charles Montgomery Burns, a.k.a. Monty Burns, commonly referred to simply as Mr.

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New York (state)

New York is a state in the northeastern United States.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Oye Como Va

"Oye Como Va" is a song written by Latin jazz and mambo musician Tito Puente in 1963.

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Presidential Unit Citation (United States)

The Presidential Unit Citation (PUC), originally called the Distinguished Unit Citation, is awarded to units of the Uniformed services of the United States, and those of allied countries, for extraordinary heroism in action against an armed enemy on or after 7 December 1941 (the date of the Attack on Pearl Harbor and the start of American involvement in World War II).

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Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico (Spanish for "Rich Port"), officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, "Free Associated State of Puerto Rico") and briefly called Porto Rico, is an unincorporated territory of the United States located in the northeast Caribbean Sea.

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Quincy Jones

Quincy Delight Jones Jr. (born March 14, 1933), also known as "Q", is an American musician and record producer.

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Quincy Plays for Pussycats

Quincy Plays for Pussycats is an album by Quincy Jones featuring sessions recorded between 1959 and 1965 which was released on the Mercury label.

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Radio Days

Radio Days is a 1987 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Woody Allen, who also narrates.

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RCA Records

RCA Records (formerly legally traded as the RCA Records Label) is an American record label owned by Sony Music, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America.

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Rhythm in the House

Rhythm in the House is an album by pianist Hilton Ruiz with special guest Tito Puente recorded in 1976 and released on the Latin music label, RMM in 1998.

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Rhythmstick

Rhythmstick is a 1990 album and video by Dizzy Gillespie and CTI Records All-Stars.

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RMM Records & Video

RMM Records, also known as RMM Records & Video Corp, was an independent Latin music record label established in 1987 and based in New York City.

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Roberto Clemente Coliseum

Roberto Clemente Coliseum (Spanish: Coliseo Roberto Clemente) is a sports and concert arena located in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

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Roberto Rexach Benítez

Roberto Rexach Benítez (December 18, 1929 – April 4, 2012) also known as his stage name Bobby, was a Puerto Rican politician, and former Senator and Representative.

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Roulette Records

Roulette Records was an American record company and label founded in 1957 by George Goldner, Joe Kolsky, Morris Levy and Phil Kahl, with creative control given to producers and songwriters Hugo Peretti and Luigi Creatore.

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San Juan, Puerto Rico

San Juan (Saint John) is the capital and most populous municipality in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of the United States.

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Santos Colón

Ángel Santos Vega Colon (November 1, 1922 – February 21, 1998), aka Santitos Colón, was a Puerto Rican bolero and mambo singer, born in Sabana Grande, Puerto Rico and raised in Mayagüez.

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Senate of Puerto Rico

The Senate of Puerto Rico (Senado de Puerto Rico) is the upper house of the Legislative Assembly of Puerto Rico, the territorial legislature of Puerto Rico.

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Sesame Street

Sesame Street is an American educational children's television series that combines live action, sketch comedy, animation and puppetry.

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Son cubano

Son cubano is a genre of music and dance that originated in the highlands of eastern Cuba during the late 19th century.

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Sonny Stitt

Edward Hammond Boatner Jr. (February 2, 1924 – July 22, 1982), known professionally as Sonny Stitt, was an American jazz saxophonist of the bebop/hard bop idiom.

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Sony Music Latin

Sony Music Latin is a record label owned by Sony Music.

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Steven Loza

Steven Joseph "Steve" Loza (born August 9, 1952) is professor of ethnomusicology at UCLA and Lecturer III in music at the University of New Mexico.

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Stripes (film)

Stripes is a 1981 American buddy military comedy film directed by Ivan Reitman and starring Bill Murray, Harold Ramis, Warren Oates, P. J. Soles, Sean Young, and John Candy.

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The Blackout All-Stars

The Blackout All-Stars was a one-off 1994 Latin supergroup consisting of Ray Barretto, Sheila E., Tito Puente, Tito Nieves, Paquito D'Rivera, Dave Valentin, Grover Washington, Jr., and Tony Pabon.

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The Hudson Reporter

The Hudson Reporter is a newspaper chain based in Hudson County, New Jersey.

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The Mambo Kings

The Mambo Kings is a 1992 French–American drama film directed by Arne Glimcher, and based on Oscar Hijuelos's 1989 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love.

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The Matadors Meet the Bull

The Matadors Meet the Bull is an album by saxophonist Sonny Stitt recorded in 1965 and released on the Roulette label.

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The Simpsons

The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company.

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Tico Records

Tico Records was a New York City record label that was founded in 1948.

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Timbales

Timbales or pailas are shallow single-headed drums with metal casing.

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Tito Puente Jr.

Tito Puente Jr. (born June 2, 1971) is a bandleader.

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Union City, New Jersey

Union City is a city in Hudson County, New Jersey, United States.

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United States House Committee on Ways and Means

The Committee on Ways and Means is the chief tax-writing committee of the United States House of Representatives.

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United States Postal Service

The United States Postal Service (USPS; also known as the Post Office, U.S. Mail, or Postal Service) is an independent agency of the United States federal government responsible for providing postal service in the United States, including its insular areas and associated states.

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University of Illinois Press

The University of Illinois Press (UIP) is a major American university press and is part of the University of Illinois system.

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USS Santee (CVE-29)

The second USS Santee (CVE-29) (originally launched as AO-29, following reclassification as an escort carrier, was originally ACV-29) was launched on 4 March 1939 as Esso Seakay under a Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 3) by the Sun Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company at Chester, Pennsylvania, sponsored by Mrs.

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Vibraphone

The vibraphone (also known as the vibraharp or simply the vibes) is a musical instrument in the struck idiophone subfamily of the percussion family.

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Who Shot Mr. Burns?

"Who Shot Mr.

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WNYW

WNYW, channel 5 (UHF digital channel 44), is the flagship station of Fox Television, licensed to New York City and serving the New York City metropolitan area.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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WWOR-TV

WWOR-TV, virtual channel 9 (UHF digital channel 25), is the flagship station of the MyNetworkTV programming service, licensed to Secaucus, New Jersey and serving the New York City television market.

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1996 Summer Olympics

The 1996 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXVI Olympiad and unofficially referred to as the Centennial Olympic Games, was an international multi-sport event that was celebrated from July 19 to August 4, 1996, in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tito_Puente

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