Zuzana Růžičková In Memoriam (14. 01.1927 - 27. 09.2017)
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Zuzana Ruzickova harpsichordist and Holocaust survivor, dies
Ruzickova survived persecution from the Nazis and Soviet communists before becoming one of the world's most acclaimed harpsichordists. She died in a Prague hospital after battling a short illness.
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Zuzana Ruzickova suffered decades of persecution on her journey to becoming an award-winning musician and world-famous harpsichordist.
"She was a woman with incredibly tough experiences and traumas suffered during the Holocaust," music journalist Petr Veber told the Czech CTK news agency. "Fortunately, she survived and she was able to get over it."
Born on January 14, 1927, Ruzickova was expelled from school for being Jewish shortly after Nazi Germany's occupation of Czechoslovakia at the beginning of the Second World War.
In 1942, she and her family were interned at the Czech concentration camp at Theresienstad, where her father later died.
Following her father's death, Ruzickova and her mother where sent by the Nazis to the death camps at Auschwitz, and later at Bergen-Belsen.
Already a keen lover of music, Ruzickova told DW in an interview this year that her love of Bach's music gave her the strength and hope in the bleakest of moments.
After surviving the war, Ruzickova went on to study the harpsichord in Prague and Paris. Then, in 1956, she won a Munich music competition, which launched her career as a professional musician.
However, she still faced major obstacles in making it as a performer and teacher in Czechoslovakia, where the communist regime had condemned the harpsichord for being a feudal and religious instrument.
That forced Ruzickova to focus much of her career as a professional pianist. At concerts, she used to first play the same tunes on the piano and only then on the harpsichord.
However, it was also within those decades, between the 1960s and 70s, that she became the first musician to record Johann Sebastian Bach's complete collection on the harpsichord, a collection spanning 35 records.
It wasn't the 1980s that Ruzickova persuaded Prague's Academy of Performing Arts to accept the harpsichord as part of its recognized instruments.
Ruzickova was bestowed with numerous awards, including the Order of Arts and Letters, one of France's most prestigious cultural honors.
She was married to Czech composer Viktor Kalabis, who died in 2006 at the age of 83.
dm/rc (AP, AFP)
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Born: April 9, 1926, Chicago, Illinois, United States
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花花公子公司(Playboy Enterprises)發表聲明稱，《花花公子》(Playboy)雜誌創辦者休•赫夫納(Hugh Hefner)在家中無疾而終，享年91歲。
這位古怪的媒體創業家向親朋好友借錢，並把家具作為抵押獲得一筆貸款，然後在1953年12月，從他的餐桌上發行了第一期《花花公子》。瑪麗蓮•夢露(Marilyn Monroe)上了第一期雜誌的中間插頁。
他的兒子庫珀•赫夫納(Cooper Hefner)說：
我父親作為一名傳媒和文化先驅，度過了非同凡響、影響深遠的一生，他是我們這個時代一些最重要的社會與文化運動背後的主要支持者——他倡導言論自由、公民權利和性自由。他定義了一種處於花花公子品牌核心的生活方式和精神氣質，這是歷史上最可辨識、最持久的生活方式和精神氣質之一。
《花花公子》(Playboy)雜誌創始人休·海夫納(Hugh Hefner)週三在加利福尼亞州貝弗利山莊附近花花公子大廈的家中過世，享年91歲。他把《花花公子》發展壯大成媒體和娛樂業巨頭，而與此同時，就像該品牌的公眾化身一樣，他一直到80多歲時身邊都圍繞著魅力四射的年輕女性（有時會娶她們）。
海夫納先是在上世紀50年代遭到社會秩序衛道士的斥責，後來又被女權主義者所詬病，但《花花公子》的發行量在1960年達到100萬冊，在1970年代達到巔峰，為700萬冊。
他的公司進軍電影、有線電視和數字製作領域，還銷售自己的服裝和珠寶系列，並開設了俱樂部、度假村和賭場。
但是隨著時間推移，這個品牌逐漸失去光澤，到2015年，該雜誌的發行量已經減少到約80萬冊。
甚至在2015年同意該雜誌不再刊發裸照的驚人決定後，他仍然擔任著該雜誌的主編。直到去年，他才把《花花公子》的創意控制權交給了兒子庫珀·海夫納(Cooper Hefner)（該雜誌今年重新開始刊登裸照）。
該雜誌做過很多嚴肅的採訪，受訪者包括吉米·卡特（Jimmy Carter，他承認「在心裡，我曾多次犯下通姦罪」，這番話很出名）、貝特朗·羅素(Bertrand Russell)、讓·保羅·薩特(Jean-Paul Sartre)和馬爾科姆·X(Malcolm X)。
休·馬斯頓·海夫納生於1926年4月9日，他的父母格倫和格雷絲·海夫納(Glenn and Grace Hefner)是衛理公會派教徒，出生於內布拉斯加州，後來搬到了芝加哥。幾十年後，休·海夫納在多個採訪中提到，他的成長過程「非常壓抑」，他經常提到他父親是普利茅斯殖民地的清教徒總督威廉·布拉德福德(William Bradford)的後裔。
他和高中同學米莉·威廉斯(Millie Williams)結了婚，並在一家紙箱製造商的人事部門工作。他為一家百貨公司撰寫廣告文案，然後為《君子》雜誌(Esquire)寫文案。後來，他成為了《兒童活動》雜誌的發行促銷經理。
與此同時，他也在計劃自己做雜誌。1953年12月，《花花公子》開始在報攤上售賣，5.1萬冊銷售一空。
1959年與妻子和兩個孩子克里斯蒂(Christie)和戴維(David)分開之後，他自己那種公開的花花公子個性也開始顯露出來。1959年他的新辛迪加劇集《花花公子的閣樓》(Playboy\'s Penthouse)讓他手拿煙斗的形象出現在了全美的客廳中（後來又有一部《天黑後的花花公子》[Playboy After Dark]於1969年和1970年通過辛迪加播放）。
繼雜誌之後，1960年他又在芝加哥創辦了風靡一時的花花公子俱樂部(Playboy Club)。那裡的女服務員被稱為「兔女郎」，身上束以清涼的緞面制服，臀部系著棉花團。
紐約花花公子俱樂部曾短暫僱傭過的兔女郎格洛麗亞·斯泰納姆(Gloria Steinem)是名卧底，她到那裡是為了給《Show》雜誌寫稿。文章在1963年發表，描述了這份工作如何令人精疲力竭，兔女郎制服緊繃得難受，以及顧客有多麼低俗。
海夫納離開了芝加哥，在洛杉磯安家，那是霍爾姆比希爾斯的一座仿都鐸式大房子，他在那裡指揮公司進軍電影界。......
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Born: September 27, 1792, London, United Kingdom
Died: February 1, 1878, London, United Kingdom
Spouse: Eliza Widdison (m. 1851), Mary Ann Walker (m. 1827–1849)
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歷史已經過去，將來往往未知。有說三年為一代，那麼當年仍是初中生、小學生的香港下一代，究竟如何看待這場運動？近年香港社會的風風火火，又對他們遺下什麼影響？
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GOOGLE was created in a garage by two students and is now the world's most used search engine.
Its creators are celebrating the phenomenon's 19th birthday with a series of surprises for users. Here's all you need to know.
How is Google celebrating its 19th birthday?
Search engine Google is celebrating its 19th birthday on September 27.
In 1997 Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, met at Stanford University and decided to come up with a system to organise the world's information.
Setting up office in a garage they got to work.
The search engine is now has 4.5billion users in 160 countries.
Its birthday will be celebrated with a fun search spinner Google Doodle that will link to 19 surprises the search engine has launched over the years - as well as the new snake game.
How can you play the Google snake game?
As part of its birthday celebrations the search engine is launching a version of the classic game snake.
The game will be available through its birthday surprise spinner.
The spinner will be shown as a Google Doodle on the search engine's homepage.
What is a Google Doodle?
In 1998, the search engine founders Larry and Sergey drew a stick figure behind the second 'o' of Google as a message to that they were out of office at the Burning Man festival and with that, Google Doodles were born.
The company decided that they should decorate the logo to mark cultural moments and it soon became clear that users really enjoyed the change to the Google homepage.
In that same year, a turkey was added to Thanksgiving and two pumpkins appeared as the 'o's for Halloween the following year.
Now, there is a full team of doodlers, illustrators, graphic designers, animators and classically trained artists who help create what you see on those days.
This week a Google Doodle also celebrated the 2017 Autumn Equinox, which marked the official ending of summer and the coming of autumn.
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