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This user is a translator from Hebrew to English on Wikipedia:Translation.

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This user is a translator and proofreader from Hebrew to English on Wikipedia:Translation.

Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/October 13

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Santa singing at the 2024 Paralympics closing ceremony

... that Santa opened the 2024 Summer Paralympics closing ceremony (pictured)?
... that researchers speculate that cocoa butter forms crystals on sugar while chocolate is tempered?
... that the noken system used for voting in parts of Indonesia can produce turnouts of 100%?
... that for 19 years Tonya Burns had the only retired jersey number in Iowa State women's basketball history?
... that Northamptonshire has had ninety-two railway stations, but now has only six?
... that Joe Wirkkunen coached the Finland men's national ice hockey team after receiving a recommendation from Canada?
... that the music video for "...Well, Better Than the Alternative" uses software to render handmade paintings over live-action footage of musician Will Wood?
... that British conscientious objector Henry Firth died in 1918 while being held at a work camp in Dartmoor?
... that the ongoing premiere of Gregory Markopoulos's Eniaios started 20 years ago?

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Art Tatum (October 13, 1909 – November 5, 1956) was an American pianist, widely regarded as one of the greatest jazz performers in history. Born in Toledo, Ohio, he began playing the piano professionally and hosting a nationwide radio program while in his teens. He left Toledo in 1932 and had residencies as a solo pianist at clubs in major urban centers including New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles. In that decade, he settled into a pattern he followed for most of his career – paid performances followed by long after-hours playing, all accompanied by prodigious consumption of alcohol. In the 1940s, Tatum led a commercially successful trio for a short time and began playing in more formal jazz concert settings, including at Norman Granz-produced Jazz at the Philharmonic events. His popularity diminished towards the end of the decade, as he continued to play in his own style, ignoring the rise of bebop. Granz recorded Tatum extensively in solo and small group formats in the mid-1950s, with the last session only two months before Tatum's death from uremia at the age of 47. This photograph by William P. Gottlieb shows Tatum playing the piano in the Vogue Room in New York City sometime in the late 1940s.Photograph credit: William P. Gottlieb

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