Franz Gayl, a celebrated whistleblower and former Marine, is being investigated after attacking American policy on Taiwan in a Chinese government mouthpiece.
The U.S. government launched a counterintelligence investigation against Franz Gayl, suspending the 64-year-old’s security clearances while it seeks to determine whether the retired Marine major has been compromised.
Ragtime music, with its syncopated or ragged rhythms, is considered by many observers to be the first purely American form of popular music.
Drawing on a diversity of styles, ragtime emerged from Black communities in cities like St. Louis toward the end of the 1800s, and one of its most famous composer-performers, Scott Joplin, had plenty of ties to both St. Louis and Sedalia. In Sedalia in 1899, Joplin often played piano in a downtown saloon to help pay his way through college. While doing so, Joplin composed and copyrighted a song, Maple Leaf Rag, that became the model for much ragtime music that came afterward.
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