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Ethel Besley 1899 - 1979

Ethel Besley was born on August 26, 1899, and died at age 79 years old in January 1979. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Ethel Besley.
Ethel Besley
zip code 32021
August 26, 1899
January 1979
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    1899

    Birthday

    August 26, 1899
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  • 01/dd
    1979

    Death

    January 1979
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    Ethel Besley lived 6 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 79.
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In 1899, in the year that Ethel Besley was born, the meaning of Chinese "oracle bones" was rediscovered. Farmers in China had been turning up the bones in their fields for generations but most often they were ground up and sold as medicine. The chancellor of the Imperial Academy and a friend noticed, before they ground the bones, that they had writing. The bones had been used around the second millennium BC for divination.
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In 1927, at the age of 28 years old, Ethel was alive when the first "talkie" (a movie with music, songs, and talking), The Jazz Singer, was released. Al Jolson starred as a cantor's son who instead of following in his father's footsteps as expected, becomes a singer of popular songs. Banished by his father, they reconcile on his father's deathbed. It was a tear-jerker and audiences went wild - especially when they heard the songs. Thus begun the demise of silent films and the rise of "talkies".
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