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- From: kos@cunyvms1.gc.cuny.edu (Bob Kosovsky)
- Subject: Re: HELP: music quiz
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.221505.11326@timessqr.gc.cuny.edu>
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- References: <1992Dec22.000824.18082@csis.dit.csiro.au>,<1992Dec22.150907.7760@linus.mitre.org>
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 22:15:05 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec22.150907.7760@linus.mitre.org>, rwilmer@carrier.mitre.org (R. Wilmer) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec22.000824.18082@csis.dit.csiro.au> tsui@csis.dit.csiro.au (Kenneth Tsui) writes:
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- >>20. Which castrato:
- >> (a) sang the same song every evening to charm the King of Spain?
- >
- >I don't know, but I suppose the king's apparent short memory span was
- >another example of Spanish Hapsburg feeblemindedness caused by inbreeding.
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- It was Carlo Broschi, better known as Farinelli.
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- Bob Kosovsky
- Graduate Center -- Ph.D. Program in Music(student)/ City University of New York
- New York Public Library -- Music Division
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