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Global Music Diplomacy Initiative, Music Icon and Former U.S. Jazz Ambassador Music Director Quincy Jones Receives Inaugural Peace Through Music Award"

the most prominent jazz composers and musicians of his time, was born and raised in Washington, and began his music career in the city. The center of the

by the health care, music, finance, automotive, chemical, electronics, and tourism sectors, and cattle, soybeans, poultry, corn, and cotton are its primary

noted for its mountains and rolling hills, its historically significant coal mining and logging industries, and its political and labor history. It is also

Mexico to the west, and an international border with the Mexican states of Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, and Tamaulipas to the south and southwest. Texas

lumber, scientific and technological research, tourism, and the arts; major sectors include mining, oil and gas, aerospace, media, and film. Its total gross

Americans and whites. Blacks and whites in Mississippi generated rich, quintessentially American music traditions: gospel music, country music, jazz, blues

settlers and European immigrants to Wisconsin Territory. Yankees from New England and upstate New York seized a dominant position in law and politics, enacting

cultural content, music, and political analysis, Martí seeks to promote democratic values and human rights awareness among Cubans. Radio and TV Martí are operated

Virginia and (vaguely) part of southwestern Pennsylvania. Notable expeditions were Batts and Fallam 1671, Needham and Arthur 1673. Dr. Thomas Walker and surveyor

productive and valuable farmland, attracting immigrant farmers from Germany and Sweden. In the mid-19th century, the Illinois and Michigan Canal and a sprawling

Virginia Public Broadcasting). World Cafe, a 2-hour music program featuring both recorded music and interviews and live in-studio performances, hosted by Raina

newspaper and neighborhood, killed an estimated 60 to 300 people, and ran off the white Republican mayor and aldermen. They installed their own people and elected

Texas, California, and Montana combined, and is the seventh-largest subnational division in the world. It is the third-least populous and most sparsely populated

Games contenders and medalists, collegiate teams in major and small-school conferences and associations, and active amateur teams and individual sports

at the Cabo Rojo, Desecheo, Culebra and Vieques National Wildlife Refuges, and in the Caja de Muertos and Mona and Monito Islands Nature Reserves. Examples

(500–1000 CE), tribes coalesced, and farming, first of corn and squash, began, with beans and tobacco arriving from the southwest and Mexico by the end of the

world center of the entertainment and music industries, of technology, engineering, and the aerospace industry, and as the US center of agricultural production

Peninsula and northern and central Michigan. Bands also inhabited Ontario and southern Manitoba, Canada; and northern Wisconsin, and northern and north-central

File:HOF-Guitars - Guitars outside the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.jpg The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Rhythm and Blues Music Hall of Fame are both located in