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When playing an instrument, being able to see is definitely helpful, right? For anyone who has fumbled about with a guitar, learned their first chord, their second, even a third and then given up when it came time to put all three together, imagine doing all that again, only without the help of the sense [...]
Posted by Kevin Forde on Monday, November 14, 2011 at 12:01 am
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After winning an Oscar, an actor’s career is usually marked by the question: Did they live up to the award or not? Here are 10 Oscar-winning actors who have gone in completely different directions. 10. Donna Reed-Riding the Highs and Lows of Television Best Supporting Actress for From Here to Eternity (1953) Reed’s career after [...]
Posted by Orrin Konheim on Monday, July 25, 2011 at 12:01 am
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Usually when thinking about disabilities, most people assume that someone with a disability is limited in one way or another. Who would ever think that a blind person could still play an instrument? Or that someone who doesn’t have perfect hearing is still able to sing as if that disability doesn’t even exist? Not many [...]
Posted by Ash Grant on Friday, July 10, 2009 at 12:12 am
Filed under Music, People · Tagged artists, brian wilson, curtis mayfield, death, Disabled, disabled muscians, ian drury, Ludwig van Beethoven, ludwig van beethovenm, michael bolton, Music, musician, piano, Ray Charles, rick allen, songwriters, Stevie Wonder, teddy pendergrass, tony iommi
A disability is defined as a physical or mental handicap that prevents a person from living a full, normal life or from holding a gainful job. However, there are people across the world who live on and thrive despite whatever disability they possess. In fact, quite a few of them have been great contributors throughout [...]
Posted by William O'Dell on Tuesday, July 8, 2008 at 5:06 am
Filed under People · Tagged Albert Einstein, Christopher Reeve, claude monet, Disabled, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Handicap, Helen Keller, Ludwig van Beethoven, Marlee Matlin, michael j fox, Ray Charles, stephen hawking, Stevie Wonder, Superman, top 10 list
