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unusual facts about Indispensable: The Best of Michael Franks


Indispensable: The Best of Michael Franks

Franks has since released seven more studio albums, rendering this compilation a fairly representative sample of his earlier work; of note his collaborations with the Tommy LiPuma and Al Schmitt production team, and later with Rob Mounsey.


Arthur Coke Burnell

In 1874, Burnell published a Handbook of South Indian Palaeography, characterized by Max Müller as indispensable to every student of Indian literature, and in 1880 issued for the Madras government his greatest work, the Classified Index to the Sanskrit Manuscripts in the Palace at Tanjore.

Arthur Kampf

In 1944, Kampf was one of 24 artists, architects, authors, composers, actors, and singers added to the "Special list" of the Gottbegnadeten list, meaning he was considered absolutely indispensable.

Fantasia on British Sea Songs

It is a medley of British sea songs and for many years was seen as an indispensable item at the BBC's Last Night of the Proms concert.

Indispensable Reefs

During the Battle of the Coral Sea on May 7, 1942 a two Japanese carrier attack planes B5N2 (EI-306 and probably EI-302) flying reconnaissance mission from the carrier Shokaku ditched on Indispensable Reef due to lack of fuel.

Leo Allatius

His Drammaturgia (1666), a catalogue of Italian musical dramas produced up to that year, is indispensable for the early history of opera.

Stanley Moskowitz

Former CIA directors Michael V. Hayden and George Tenet issued statements praising him as "truly exceptional" and "indispensable."

T. K. Seung

In a comparative examination of the thematic content of Goethe’s Faust, Nietzsche’s Zarathustra, and Wagner’s Ring, Seung elucidates how the understanding of Spinoza’s pantheistic naturalism, its inspirational background and influences on European philosophy and literature, is indispensable for the understanding of the development and conditions of modern times.

Tone River

The Tone River was an indispensable inland water link between the capitol at Edo, and later Tokyo, to the Pacific Ocean.


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