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James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix was an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential guitarists of all time. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992 as a part of his band, the Jimi Hendrix Experience; the institution describes him as "arguably the greatest instrumentalist in the history of rock music".
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entertainment · American guitarist (1942–1970) · singer · record producer · vocalist · guitarist · singer-songwriter · composer · rock guitarist · rock musician · songwriter · also Jimi Hendrix, JHX, Hendrix
Born 27 November 1942 · Died 18 September 1970 · Q5928
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Published video “How Jimi Hendrix's sound crew avoided a riot at Berkeley”.
Shepherd Express: Experienced: On the Road with Jimi Hendrix and Beyond, by Eric Barrett with Lawrence Robinson
Published video “An Interview With Jimi Hendrix's Audio Engineer, Abe Jacob”.
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Published video “Jimi Hendrix - Message To Love (LIVE at Woodstock)”.
Published video “Jimi Hendrix - Live at Woodstock: A Second Look”.
Published video “Jimi Hendrix Live Stream”.
Published video “NEW YORK CITY CO-NAMES WEST 8TH STREET “JIMI HENDRIX WAY””.
The New York Times: A Street Called Jimi Hendrix Way
The Guardian: Food orders and phone bills: Jimi Hendrix memorabilia to go on display in London
The Guardian: Jimi Hendrix bandmates’ estates lose court case against record label
Published video “Jimi Hendrix - Bold As Love Recalled & Celebrated: Kenny Wayne Shepherd”.
Published video “Jimi Hendrix - Bold As Love Recalled & Celebrated: Devon Allman”.
Published video “Jimi Hendrix - Bold As Love Recalled & Celebrated: Bootsy Collins”.
Published video “Jimi Hendrix - Bold As Love Recalled & Celebrated: Todd Rundgren”.
Published video “The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Bold As Love Recalled & Celebrated: Bootsy Collins”.
Published video “Jimi Hendrix - Bold As Love Recalled & Celebrated: Stewart Copeland”.
Published video “Jimi Hendrix - Bold As Love Recalled & Celebrated: Paul Rodgers”.
Published video “Jimi Hendrix - Bold As Love Recalled & Celebrated: Steve Vai”.
Published video “Jimi Hendrix - Bold As Love Recalled & Celebrated: Dweezil Zappa”.
The Guardian: TV tonight: Jimi Hendrix gets inside our souls with one of his last gigs
Published video “The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Stone Free / Up From The Skies (Demo - Official Audio)”.
The Guardian: Newly found Jimi Hendrix tapes give fans chance to own song only they can listen to
The Guardian: ‘His spirit is everywhere’: the fascinating story of Jimi Hendrix’s Electric Lady studio
Published video “Jimi Hendrix - Drifting (Alternate Version / November 20, 1970)”.
Published video “Jimi Hendrix - Night Bird Flying with Eddie Kramer”.
Published video “Jimi Hendrix - Electric Lady Studios: A Jimi Hendrix Vision (Unboxing)”.
Published video “Jimi Hendrix - Angel (Take 7) (Official Audio)”.
Published video “Jimi Hendrix - Electric Lady Studios: A Jimi Hendrix Vision (Documentary Trailer)”.
Published video “Jimi Hendrix - Freedom (Official Audio)”.
Published video “Jimi Hendrix - Night Bird Flying (Official Audio)”.
Published video “The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Have You Ever Been (To Electric Ladyland) (Official Audio)”.
Snopes.com rated the claim “A real drawing created by a 12-year-old Jimi Hendrix depicts Elvis Presley, who Hendrix had seen perform live in concert.” Mostly True.
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Snopes rated the claim “A real drawing created by a 12-year-old Jimi Hendrix depicts Elvis Presley, who Hendrix had seen perform live in concert.” Mostly True.
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The Guardian: Estates of Jimi Hendrix bandmates can sue over royalties dispute
Snopes rated the claim “A photo authentically shows Joan Baez holding a bong and smoking marijuana with Jimi Hendrix.” Fake.
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The Guardian: Mo Ostin, US record exec who signed Jimi Hendrix and the Kinks, dies aged 95
The Guardian: Jimi Hendrix, Rolling Stones and Kate Bush: the multimillion-pound deal that could turn them into 3D works of art
Lead Stories rated the claim “Jimi Hendrix Statue In Seattle Was Recently Vandalized” Old Photo.
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Snopes.com rated the claim “Musician Jimi Hendrix faked his death and is now living as actor Morgan Freeman.” False.
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Snopes rated the claim “Musician Jimi Hendrix faked his death and is now living as actor Morgan Freeman.” False.
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Africa Check rated the claim “You may be cool, but you’ll never be Bruce Lee, Jim Morrison, and Jimi Hendrix all hangin’ at the same freakin’ party” False.
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Snopes rated the claim “A photograph captures a selfie Jimi Hendrix took with Jim Morrison and Bruce Lee.” False.
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Released album “Both Sides of the Sky”.
Snopes.com rated the claim “An image shows Jimi Hendrix covered in tattoos while riding a dune buggy.” False.
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Snopes rated the claim “Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, and Kurt Cobain all died with white Bic lighters in their pockets.” False.
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The editors of Guitar World named his performance of "The Star-Spangled Banner" the greatest performance of all time
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Rolling Stone called the double-platinum LP Hendrix's "epochal debut", and they ranked it the 15th greatest album of all time, noting his "exploitation of amp howl", and characterizing his guitar playing as "incendiary
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Author Peter Doggett wrote: "For pure experimental genius, melodic flair, conceptual vision and instrumental brilliance, Electric Ladyland remains a prime contender for the status of rock's greatest album
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Released album “Jimmy Hendrix”.
Snopes rated the claim “During a "Tonight Show" appearance, Jimi Hendrix proclaimed Phil Keaggy to be the greatest guitarist of all time.” False.
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Snopes.com rated the claim “During a "Tonight Show" appearance, Jimi Hendrix proclaimed Phil Keaggy to be the greatest guitarist of all time.” False.
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Snopes.com rated the claim “Jimi Hendrix was dropped as an opening act from a Monkees tour because the Daughters of the American Revolution complained that his stage act was "too erotic."” False.
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Snopes rated the claim “Jimi Hendrix was dropped as an opening act from a Monkees tour because the Daughters of the American Revolution complained that his stage act was "too erotic."” False.
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“Opis: z wywiadu dla Radiowej Trójki – Warszawa, 7 maja 1998.”
Released album “South Saturn Delta”.
Released album “Experience Hendrix: The Best of Jimi Hendrix”.
Released album “First Rays of the New Rising Sun”.
As First Rays of the New Rising Sun, along with the other tracks that Mitchell and Kramer had wanted to include
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Released album “Best of Jimi Hendrix”.
Released album “Psycho – She’s a Fox – Little Wing – Purple Haze”.
“Opis: z wywiadu dla Radiowej Trójki – marzec 1997.”
Released album “The Authentic PPX Studio Recordings, Volume 3: Ballad of Jimi”.
Released album “The Authentic PPX Studio Recordings, Volume 2: Flashing”.
Released album “The Authentic PPX Studio Recordings, Volume 1: Get That Feeling”.
Released album “White Boy Black Boy Blues”.
Released album “Psycho”.
Released album “Voodoo Soup”.
Released album “Gold Collection”.
Released album “The Very Best”.
Released album “The Legend Live”.
Released album “Sunshine of Your Love”.
Released album “Jimi by Himself: The Home Recordings”.
Released album “The Great Jimi Hendrix”.
Released album “Blues”.
Released album “The Early Years”.
Released album “Before the Experience”.
Released album “Unsurpassed Studio Takes 1966–1970”.
Released album “Welcome to the Electric Circus”.
Released album “Anthology”.
MCA Records delayed a multimillion-dollar sale of Hendrix's publishing copyrights because Al Hendrix was unhappy about the arrangement
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Released album “Collection”.
Released album “Good Times”.
Released album “Voices”.
Released album “The Experience Collection”.
Released album “Gold”.
Released album “Cherokee”.
Awarded Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (1992).
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Released album “The Jimi Hendrix Gold Collection”.
Released album “The Ultimate Experience”.
Released album “Calling Long Distance”.
Released album “The Best Of Jimi Hendrix”.
As a part of his band, the Jimi Hendrix Experience; the institution describes him as "arguably the greatest instrumentalist in the history of rock music"
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Awarded star on Hollywood Walk of Fame (1991).
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Released album “Tomorrow Never Knows”.
Released album “The Jimi Hendrix Story”.
“When I found it taken apart, in 1991, I told my dad I”
Released album “Purple Haze”.
Released album “Lifelines: The Jimi Hendrix Story”.
Released album “Hendrix Inédit : Collector Guitar World”.
Released album “Cornerstones 1967–1970”.
Released album “Night Life”.
Released album “Greatest Hits”.
Released album “Octavia and Univibe”.
Released album “Variations on a Theme – Red House”.
Noe Goldwasser, the founding editor of Guitar World, described Are You Experienced as "the album that shook the world
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Released album “Star Spangled Blues”.
Clapton described the performance: "He played just about every style you could think of, and not in a flashy way
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Released album “All The Hits”.
Released album “The Best of & the Rest of”.
Noe Goldwasser, the founding editor of Guitar World, described Electric Ladyland as "Hendrix's masterpiece"
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Released album “Early Classics”.
Released album “16 Greatest Classics”.
Released album “Free Spirit”.
Released album “Voodoo Chile”.
Released album “Historic Hendrix”.
Released album “Gangster of Love”.
Released album “Kiss the Sky”.
Released album “Jimi Hendrix / Jerry Wallace / Gladys Knight & the Pips / Bobby Womack (La grande storia del rock)”.
Released album “The History of Rock, Volume Sixteen”.
Released album “The Singles Album”.
Released album “Jimi Hendrix (La grande storia del rock)”.
Released album “Jimi Hendrix / Bob Marley / Percy Sledge (La grande storia del rock)”.
Released album “Get That Feeling / Flashing”.
Released album “Cosmic Turnaround”.
Released album “Historia de la musica rock”.
Released album “Nine to the Universe”.
Released album “My Best Friend”.
Released album “The Essential Jimi Hendrix, Volumes One and Two”.
Released album “The Story of Jimi Hendrix”.
Released album “In Gold”.
Released album “Attention! Jimi Hendrix!”.
Released album “Midnight Lightning”.
Released album “Crash Landing”.
But stated that it did not include copyrights and argued that he had retained veto power of the sale of the catalogue
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Released album “Jimi Hendrix”.
Released album “Loose Ends”.
Released album “Friends From the Beginning”.
Released album “War Heroes”.
Released album “In the Beginning”.
Released album “Roots Of Hendrix”.
Released album “Rainbow Bridge”.
Released album “The Cry of Love”.
Released album “In the Beginning…”.
Released album “That Special Sound”.
Died 1970-09-18.
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Abandoned a performance in Aarhus after three songs, stating: "I've been dead a long time"
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When he jammed with Steve Winwood and Chris Wood of Traffic; the next day, he recorded his first track there, "Night Bird Flying"
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A third and final Band of Gypsys appearance took place; they performed during a music festival at Madison Square Garden benefiting the anti–Vietnam War Moratorium Committee titled the "Winter Festival for Peace"
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“Dziewięćdziesiąt mil na godzinę, dziewczyno, to prędkość, z jaką jeżdżę.”
“Fioletowa mgła, cała w moim mózgu. Ostatnio rzeczy nie wydają się takie same.”
“Özgürsem sürekli koştuğumdandır.”
“Inizia con una pala, finisci con un cucchiaio.”
“Il Blues è facile da suonare, ma difficile da provare.”
“Sorry for the tune up between time, but what the hell, cowboys are the only ones who stay in tune, anyway...”
“Gerçek inananlarsanız, kader size gerçek yolu gösterecektir.”
“Sevginin gücü, güce olan sevgiyi yendiğinde, dünya barışı tanıyacak.”
“Dimenticate ciò che è successo ieri e domani, e oggi. Stasera creeremo un mondo completamente nuovo.”
“Etichetta: Polydor, 1970, prodotto da Jimi Hendrix.”
“Rolling Stone Magazine interview, March 1970”
“Opis: raport armii amerykańskiej.”
“Opis: odpowiedź na pytanie: jak wygląda Bóg?”
“To zabawne, jak większość ludzi kocha zmarłych. Musisz umrzeć, zanim uznają, że jesteś coś wart... Kiedy ja umrę, po prostu słuchajcie dalej moich płyt.”
“Staram się wstawać każdego dnia.”
“Opis: 15-letni Hendrix po śmierci matki.”
“Music makes me high on stage and that's the truth, it's like almost being addicted to music.”
“Nie jestem pewien czy dożyję 28 lat.”
“The time I burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. You sacrifice the things you love. I love my guitar.”
“You have to forget about all these things. You have to go on and be crazy. That's what they call craziness. Craziness is like heaven”
“Moment, w którym spaliłem moją gitarę był jak złożenie ofiary. Ofiary składa się z rzeczy, które się kocha. Ja kocham swoją gitarę.”
“Opis: odpowiedź na pytanie, dlaczego jest taki cichy.”
“Meu objetivo é ser o número 1 com a música. Eu dedico apenas toda a minha vida para esta arte.”
Released album “Battle of Deep Purple & Jimi Hendrix”.
“Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction..”
“If I seem free, it's because I'm always running”
“Start with a shovel, wind up with a spoon.”
“When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace”
“I realize that I've been hypnotized. I love your gypsy eyes. (ang.)”
“I've been dead a long time”
“Hey Joe, where you goin' with that gun in your hand? (ang.)”
“Purple haze, all in my brain. Lately things they don't seem the same. (ang.)”
“Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.”
“Ninety miles an hour, girl, is the speed I drive. (ang.)”
Guitar Player named him the Rock Guitarist of the Year
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Told Rolling Stone that he was a fan of western swing artist Bob Wills and while he lived in Nashville, the television show the Grand Ole Opry
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“I heard one of his records when I was a little boy and it scared me to death because I heard all of these sounds.”
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At Barry Fey's Denver Pop Festival, a three-day event held at Denver's Mile High Stadium that was marked by police using tear gas to control the audience
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When authorities found a small amount of heroin and hashish in his luggage, and charged him with drug possession
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Released album “Record Plant Sessions”.
Hendrix rented a house in Benedict Canyon, California, that was burglarized
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Released album “Shokan: Jammin’ Back at the House”.
“Rolling Stone Magazine interview, November 1969”
“Quotes from The Dick Cavett Show (9 September 1969)”
Released album “Flashing”.
Told Guitar Player magazine that electric blues artists Muddy Waters, Elmore James, and B
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The City of Seattle gave him the keys to the city
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Hendrix and Jeffery jointly invested in the purchase of the Generation Club in Greenwich Village
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But in April 1970 he told Keith Altham that the project had been abandoned
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“Etichetta: MCA, 1968, prodotto da Jimi Hendrix.”
Released album “Strange Things”.
Rolling Stone declared him the Performer of the Year
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Hendrix and Manager Michael Jeffery jointly invested in the purchase of the Generation Club in Greenwich Village
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Where it peaked at number five, spending 16 weeks on the charts
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Introduced by Brian Jones as "the most exciting performer [he had] ever heard", Hendrix opened with a fast arrangement of Howlin' Wolf's song "Killing Floor", wearing what Shadwick described as "clothes as exotic as any
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Hendrix opened a show at the Saville Theatre in London with his rendition of Sgt
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Are You Experienced spent 33 weeks on the charts, peaking at number two
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While the Experience waited to perform at the London Astoria, Hendrix and Chandler discussed ways in which they could increase the band's media exposure
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Performed at the Troutbeck Hotel, Ilkley, West Yorkshire, where, after about 900 people turned up (the hotel was licensed for 250) the local police stopped the gig due to safety concerns
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Readers of Melody Maker voted him the Pop Musician of the Year
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Described the Stratocaster as "the best all-around guitar for the stuff we're doing"; he praised its "bright treble and deep bass"
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“Etichetta: MCA, 1967, prodotto da Chas Chandler.”
“Etichetta: Track Records, 1967, prodotto da Chas Chandler.”
Readers of Melody Maker voted him the Pop Musician of the Year and in 1968, Billboard named him the Artist of the Year and Rolling Stone declared him the Performer of the Year
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And the Experience used it during their first tour
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Chandler brought Hendrix to the London Polytechnic at Regent Street, where Cream was scheduled to perform, and where Hendrix and guitarist Eric Clapton met
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And signed him to a management and production contract with himself and ex-Animals manager Michael Jeffery
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When a girlfriend loaned him enough money to purchase a used Stratocaster built around 1964
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To New York City's Greenwich Village, which had a vibrant and diverse music scene
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Regarding a record contract that Hendrix had entered into the previous year with producer Ed Chalpin
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Were often re-mixed between their repeated reissues, and licensed to record companies such as Decca and Capitol
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Hendrix was granted a general discharge under honorable conditions
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Enlisted in the US Army, but was discharged the following year
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Attending a concert by Hank Ballard & The Midnighters in Seattle, Hendrix met the group's guitarist Billy Davis
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Hendrix completed his studies at Washington Junior High School and began attending, but did not graduate from, Garfield High School
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While helping his father with a side-job, Hendrix found a ukulele among the garbage they were removing from an older woman's home
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When Hendrix was nine years old, his parents divorced; the court granted Al custody of him and Leon
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Kathy in 1950, and Pamela in 1951, all of whom Al and Lucille gave up to foster care and adoption
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Johnny's parents changed his name to James Marshall Hendrix, in honor of Al and his late brother Leon Marshall
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Born 1942-11-27.
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In Seattle; he was the first of Lucille's five children
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After moving to Seattle, Washington, Al met Lucille Jeter at a dance; they married on March 31, 1942
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From an extramarital affair between a woman named Fanny and a wealthy grain merchant
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