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whitney houston’s deathplace
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Whitney Houston, 48, died on the 4th floor of the Beverly Hilton hotel on February 11, 2012. Houston and her entourage were at the location for the Grammys on Sunday, February 12. Paramedics were on the scene for a separate Grammy party, and received a call at 3:43 pm. Their attempts to resuscitate the pop icon failed, and Houston was pronounced dead at the scene at 3:55 pm.
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Etta James (a.k.a Jamesetta Hawkins, a.k.a. Miss Peaches, a.k.a. The he Matriarch of R&B) died of complications related to leukemia at the Riverside Community Hospital on January 20, 2012. She had been diagnosed with the disease in early 2011.
Etta James had received numerous awards throughout her career, including six Grammy Awards, induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1993), the Rockabilly Hall of Fame (2001), and the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (2003).
Etta James was 73 years old when she died.
The Obamas slow-danced to James' signature song, "At Last," during one of their inaugural balls on January 21, 2009.
view full location details...château de fontainebleau
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The opulent and palatial setting for Lana Del Rey's 2011 video "Born to Die" is actually a palace- The Palace of Fontainebleau.
The grounds for the palace date back as far as the 12th century, with much of the work done in the 16th century. A bunch of King Louises stayed here, as did Napoleon, and now Lana Del Rey with a couple of tigers.
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Bob Marley was born on February 6, 1945 in the Nine Mile area of St. Ann's Parish, Jamaica.
He died in Miami, Florida on the morning of May 11, 1981, at the age of 36.
Bob Marley is buried in a chapel near his birthplace in the Nine Mile area of St. Ann's Parish, Jamaica, with his red Gibson Les Paul (some accounts say it is a Fender Stratocaster).
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When Bob Dylan was nineteen years old, he would visit his idol Woody Guthrie at the Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital. Woody was suffering from Huntington's disease and it was the near the end of his storied life.
Of Woody Guthrie's body of work, Bob Dylan said, "The songs themselves were really beyond category. They had the infinite sweep of humanity in them."
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