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Ankhesenamun

From Wikipedia: " Ankhesenamen (b. Ankhesenpaaten, ca. 1348 – after 1324 B.C), which means She who lives through the Amun , was the third of six known daughters of the Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten and his Great Royal Wife Nefertiti . [1] Her youth is well documented in the ancient reliefs and paintings of the reign of her parents. She was probably born in year 4 of Akhenaten's reign and by year 12 of her father's reign she was joined by her three younger sisters. He made his wife his co-regent and had his family portrayed in a realistic style in all official artwork. She was the Great Royal Wife of at least two kings, her brother (or half-brother) Tutankhamum and his successor Ay . [2] She may have been the great royal wife of her father, Akhenaten , after the possible death of her mother and of his immediate successor, Smenkhkare who might have been her mother according to some scholars." For my part, I always have a sympathy towards this princess. The deat

Johann Sebastian Bach

From Wikipedia: " Johann Sebastian Bach ( pronounced [joˈhan/ˈjoːhan zeˈbastjan ˈbax] ) ( March 21 , 1685 O.S. – July 28 , 1750 N.S. ) was a prolific German composer and organist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity. Although he introduced no new forms, he enriched the prevailing German style with a robust contrapuntal technique, a control of harmonic and motivic organisation from the smallest to the largest scales, and the adaptation of rhythms and textures from abroad, particularly Italy and France. Revered for their intellectual depth and technical and artistic beauty, Bach's works include the Brandenburg concertos ; the Goldberg Variations ; the English Suites , French Suites , Partitas , and Well-Tempered Clavier ; the Mass in B Minor ; the St Matthew Passion ; the St. John Passion ; The Musical Offering ; The Art of Fugue ; the Sonatas an