FYI January 22, 2020

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On This Day

1889 – Columbia Phonograph is formed in Washington, D.C.
Columbia Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, the North American division of Japanese conglomerate Sony. It was founded in 1887, evolving from the American Graphophone Company, the successor to the Volta Graphophone Company.[1] Columbia is the oldest surviving brand name in the recorded sound business,[2][3][4] and the second major company to produce records.[5] From 1961 to 1990, Columbia recordings were released outside North America under the name CBS Records to avoid confusion with EMI’s Columbia Graphophone Company. Columbia is one of Sony Music’s four flagship record labels, alongside former longtime rival RCA Records, as well as Arista Records and Epic Records.

Artists who have recorded for Columbia include AC/DC, Adele, Aerosmith, Louis Armstrong, Gene Autry, Count Basie, Nora Bayes, Bix Beiderbecke, Tony Bennett, Leonard Bernstein, Beyoncé, Blue Öyster Cult, Dave Brubeck, The Byrds, Mariah Carey, Pablo Casals, Johnny Cash, The Clash, The Cleveland Orchestra, Rosemary Clooney, Leonard Cohen, Ornette Coleman, Elvis Costello, Miles Davis, Neil Diamond, Celine Dion, Bob Dylan, Earth, Wind & Fire, Duke Ellington, 50 Cent, Flatt and Scruggs, Erroll Garner, Benny Goodman, Glenn Gould, Adelaide Hall, Herbie Hancock, Lauryn Hill, Billie Holiday, Vladimir Horowitz, Billy Joel, Blind Willie Johnson, Robert Johnson, Al Jolson, Janis Joplin, Andre Kostelanetz, Yo-Yo Ma, Johnny Mathis, John Mayer, George Michael, Mitch Miller, Charles Mingus, Thelonious Monk, Billy Murray, Willie Nelson, The New York Philharmonic, The Philadelphia Orchestra, Pink Floyd, Santana, Frank Sinatra, Simon and Garfunkel, Bessie Smith, John Philip Sousa, Bruce Springsteen, Igor Stravinsky, Barbra Streisand, System of a Down, James Taylor, Bonnie Tyler, Ethel Waters, Weather Report, Paul Whiteman, Andy Williams, Bert Williams, Pharrell Williams, Bob Wills, and Bill Withers.

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Born On This Day

1867 – Gisela Januszewska, Jewish-Austrian physician (d. 1943)
Gisela Januszewska (also known by surnames Kuhn, Rosenfeld and Roda; 22 January 1867 – 2 March 1943) was an Austrian physician. Having earned her degree in Switzerland, she briefly worked in Germany before becoming the first female physician in the Bosnian town of Banja Luka. She received highest decorations for her service during the First World War and social activism in Austria afterwards, but was deported to a Nazi concentration camp, where she died, during the Second World War.

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FYI

By Morgan Phillips, Fox News: UK woman believed to be oldest female World War II veteran dead at 108
 
 
 
 
By Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian: Monty Python film director Terry Jones: full of fun and innocence – and a very naughty boy
 
 
 
 
By Mona Vajolahi Product Manager, Search, Google: A fresh way to revisit your online finds in Google Search
 
 
 
 

By Amanda Green, Mental Floss: 19 Things You Might Not Know Were Invented by Women Some that save time, some that save lives, and a few that make each day a whole lot easier.
 
 
 
 

By Joshua Benton, NiemanLab: Public infrastructure isn’t just bridges and water mains: Here’s an argument for extending the concept to digital spaces
 
 
 
 

By Carly Stern, Ozy: Harriet Tubman’s Last Great Humanitarian Act
Why you should care
After her Underground Railroad days, Tubman never stopped trying to help people.

 
 
 
 

Today’s email was written by Natasha Frost, edited by Annaliese Griffin, and produced by Tori Smith. Quartz Obsession: Mona Lisa: The invention of an icon
 
 
 
 

Open Culture: How the Female Scientist Who Discovered the Greenhouse Gas Effect Was Forgotten by History and more ->
 
 
 
 
By Elizabeth Blair, NPR: A History Of ‘Pettifogging’ For The Pettifoggers Among You
 
 
By Jason Sheehan, NPR: In ‘Agency,’ William Gibson Builds A Bomb That Doesn’t Boom (And That’s OK)
 
 
 
 
The Passive Voice: Is Jane Austen the Antidote to Social Media Overload? More ->
 
 
 
 

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