June 27, 2025
Rather than leaving garbage out on the curb to be picked up, people in Taiwan hand-deliver their trash bags to garbage trucks making their rounds. The garbage trucks play a tune (often Ludwig van Beethoven’s Für Elise) to notify residents it’s time to take out the trash.
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10 Classical Music Composers to Know
They differed in style, skill, innovation, and popularity, and nothing incites more heated debate among classical music scholars and fans than determining which of these composers of Western classical music are the most essential. The three composers that consistently appear in the top spots are
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