As a young woman during World War II, Joan Hinton worked on the Manhattan Project, the crash program to design and build an atomic bomb. But after the bomb was used twice on the Japanese, she was heartsick, and in 1948 she left the U.S. for China, to join the revolutionary brigades of Mao Tse-tung.
Ronnie James Dio, the legendary vocalist for Black Sabbath, Heaven & Hell and Dio, has passed away Sunday morning, according to his wife, Wendy Dio. Ronnie was 67 years old.
How many rock stars can brag about recording and touring consistently in six different decades? That's just one of the many claims to fame enjoyed by Ronnie James Dio.
Mercedes Sosa, a lady whose music inspired opponents of South America's
brutal military regimes, which led to her exile in Europe, has died on
Sunday at the age of 74 according to her family. Mercedes Sosa was known as "voice of Latin America."
