Django Reinis one of the most influential jazz guitarists of all time. Lived in Europe in the 1930s-40s, played with two fingers on one hand because he was burned in a fire. See Wikipedia, though it's tough to appreciate him without hearing it live. The Modern Jazz Quartet's best-known tune was titled Django.
Reference: _Longitude_ (Was Re:Shame the book...)
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_Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem Of His Time_ by Dava Sobel (New York: Penguin, 1995), 185pp. Click here to get it.
_Longitude_ is an excellent book about John Harrison, the inventor of a seagoing clock and basically father of the pocketwatch. The need for accurate timekeeping was central to the problem of measuring longitude.
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Django Reinis one of the most influential jazz guitarists of all time. Lived in Europe in the 1930s-40s, played with two fingers on one hand because he was burned in a fire. See Wikipedia, though it's tough to appreciate him without hearing it live. The Modern Jazz Quartet's best-known tune was titled Django.
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_Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem Of His Time_ by Dava Sobel (New York: Penguin, 1995), 185pp. Click here to get it.
_Longitude_ is an excellent book about John Harrison, the inventor of a seagoing clock and basically father of the pocketwatch. The need for accurate timekeeping was central to the problem of measuring longitude.
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