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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (48660)	6/23/2005 1:56:42 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Respond to of 50167

Katherine Dunham - "I used to want the words ‘She tried' on my tombstone. Now I want ‘She did it.' We weren't pushing Black is beautiful. We just showed it." Katherine Dunham Katherine Dunham, an African American dancer, choreographer, and anthropologist noted for her innovative interpretations of primitive, ritualistic, and ethnic dances, was born this day in 1910 in Joliet, Illinois. The first person to organize a black dance troupe of concert calibre, she was both a popular entertainer who toured the United States and Europe with a spectacularly colourful program of dance forms and a serious artist intent on tracing the roots of black culture. "I used to want the words ‘She tried' on my tombstone. Now I want ‘She did it.' We weren't pushing Black is beautiful. We just showed it." Katherine Dunham

To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (48660)	6/24/2005 12:28:27 AM
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June 24: 1128 - Alfonso I of Portugal fought the Battle of São Mamede, the first step toward Portuguese independence. 1314 - Scotland regained independence as forces led by Robert the Bruce defeated Edward II of England in the Battle of Bannockburn. 1441 - Eton College in Berkshire, England, was founded by King Henry VI to provide free education to poor students who would then go on to King's College, Cambridge. 1535 - The Anabaptist state of Münster was conquered and subsequently disbanded. 1597 - The first Dutch voyage to the East Indies reached Bantam on Java. 1947 - First known sighting of UFOs: Kenneth Arnold saw nine luminous disks in the form of saucers flying above the U.S. state of Washington.