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Born for Hard Luck - --- Arthur "Peg Leg Sam" Jackson As seen in Jean-Pierre Jeunet's romantic Gallic comedy Amelie which swept the European Film Awards for 2001 winning the Best Film, Best Director, and the Best Cinematographer Awards. A portrait of the last Black medicine-show performer, Arthur "Peg Leg Sam" Jackson, with brilliant harmonica songs, tales of hoboing, buck dances, and an authentic live medicine-show performance filmed at a North Carolina county fair in 1972. Between the Civil War and World War II, many such gifted and restless young black musicians found careers in the traveling patent-medicine shows, a favorite entertainment in the rural and small-town South. They sang and recited comic routines and danced to attract a crowd for the pitchman and his sales of wonder-cure "snake oil."

The Web Museum - French Impressionist Painting Since 1996, the web museum has been documenting art and art history in an authoritative manner - come take a stroll through the light-filled French countryside , theaters and nightlife. French Impressionnisme, a major movement, first in painting and later in music, that developed chiefly in France during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Impressionist painting comprises the work produced between about 1867 and 1886 by a group of artists who shared a set of related approaches and techniques. The most conspicuous characteristic of Impressionism was an attempt to accurately and objectively record visual reality in terms of transient effects of light and colour. Claude Monet Pierre Auguste Renoir Camille Pissarro Alfred Sisley Berthe Morisot Mary Cassatt Armand Guillaumin Frédéric Bazille, Edgar Degas Paul Cézanne Édouard Manet, Medical News (in French and English) thera.info (therapeutique & informations) imedecin.org (medical news) imedecin.net (medical search engine) thera.info provides the latest medical and therapeutic news stories updated constantly - in French and English. imedecin.org Headlines from the best known medical publications, in various english and french speaking countries. iMedecin.org est un site américain de langue française qui regroupe sous une forme facilement lisible l'actualité médicale des pays francophones les plus importants. L'actualité médicale anglophone est aussi indexée, vue son importance dans la littérature médicale de nos jours. Libre, indépendant et gratuit, le site offre l'accès à toutes les sources d'actualité médicale en ligne. imedecin.net Les moteurs de recherches médicaux. Recherche bibliographique en médecine; Pharmacologie et biochimie médicales; Rechercher les sites médicaux. An online French language medical search engines - searches major medical indexes and related resources.