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On This Day, April 13: White supremacists kill dozens in Colfax massacre
George Frideric Handel's "Messiah" made its world premiere. In 1873, a mob of former Confederate soldiers and Ku Klux Klan members killed dozens of Black militia men occupying the Grant Parish ...
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The Glorious History of Handel’s Messiah
George Frideric Handel (at age 64 in 1749) produced works, including Messiah that dazzled even the musical titans who would succeed him. AGE Fotostock George Frideric Handel's Messiah was ...