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Phonograph record of "Drizzle"

... that the vocals on "Drizzle" (record pictured), one of the earliest Chinese pop songs, were likened to "the cacophony produced by a hanged cat"?
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... that the NFL listed the 4th and 26 game as one of the greatest in the first 100 years of its history?
... that the Yiddish poet David Einhorn levelled criticism at other Jewish writers in Berlin whom he accused of being "bourgeois intellectuals" and out-of-touch with their fellow migrants?
... that the Kokusai Ta-Go aircraft was purposely designed for the kamikaze role?
... that LGBTQ synagogues helped shape the American Jewish response to AIDS in the 1980s, even as the disease killed many of their members?
... that Ali-Hajji of Akusha supported the Bolsheviks because he believed that they would implement sharia?
... that the health of prisoners in Australia is impacted by their lack of access to Medicare, the country's otherwise-universal health care system?
... that during hearings for a new TV station in the state of Washington, an engineer collapsed on the witness stand, a radio station owner suffered food poisoning, and his rival's wife was hospitalized?