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This Day in Music History for Aug. 27: Elvis Meets the Beatles, and Pearl Jam Releases 'Ten'

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This Day in Music History: Aug. 27 On Aug. 27, 1965, the two biggest forces in popular music met privately at Elvis Presley’s Bel Air home: Elvis and the Beatles. The gathering was not a concert, a recording session or a publicity event. It was a guarded meeting between the performer who helped make rock ’n’ roll a mass phenomenon in the 1950s and the Liverpool group that had become its global standard-bearer a decade later. Its importance lies in that handoff of eras. The

August 27 in History: Kellogg-Briand Pact, Krakatoa, Mars and Other Defining Moments

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On August 27, one of the most consequential events in world history took place in 1928, when the Kellogg-Briand Pact was signed in Paris. The agreement brought together many of the world’s major powers in a formal promise to renounce war as a tool of national policy. At the time, it reflected the deep desire for peace after the destruction of World War I. Although it did not prevent future conflicts, it still mattered in a lasting way: it helped shape the idea that aggressive war should

Some states raise pay for home caregivers as shortage looms

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WILMINGTON, Ohio — From her recliner in her tidy townhouse, Donna Logan offers advice to the first baby boomers to hit the big ‘8-0’ this year: Life can be good, especially with someone like Helen Aponte helping with laundry and housekeeping and the drive to the doctor’s office. “I do most things on my own,” […]
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