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The mission bell is something that once was a regular sound in California. There are many missions throughout the state, especially down the Pacific Coast Highway.
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A mysterious woman stands and greets him at the door like a Homeric siren, luring the weary traveler with her seductive song.
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device
And in the master's chambers
They gathered for the
With all this money and success the Eagles soon found that they had become "prisoners of their own device." Fame, excessive partying, and drug use took its toll on the band members.
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in the distance
I saw a shimmering light
My head
Don Felder, the guitarist for The Eagles who wrote the tune for "Hotel California", has talked about how the song was inspired by driving into Los Angeles filled with high expectations that were later disappointed: "If you drive into la at night you can just see this glow on the horizon of lights and the images that start running through your head of Hollywood and all the dreams that you have".
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The song features some of the main movers of the civil rights movement in the USA. Abraham Lincoln, Dr Martin Luther King Jr., John F Kennedy and Robert F Kennedy. "Abraham, Martin and John" was a way of reminding people that they could aspire to great things, even in the midst of tragedy and confusion.
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I just looked around and he was gone
Kennedy addressed his supporters shortly after midnight on June 5, 1968, in a ballroom at The Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California. In a crowded kitchen passageway, Sirhan Sirhan, a 24-year-old Palestinian, opened fire with a .22-caliber revolver. Kennedy was hit three times and five other people also were wounded.
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You know, he freed a lot of people
But the good, they die young, yeah
Kennedy remained committed to civil rights enforcement to such a degree that he commented, in 1962, that it seemed to envelop almost every area of his public and private life.
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Bobby
Robert Francis "Bobby" Kennedy (November 20, 1925 - June 6, 1968), commonly known by his initials RFK, was an American politician from Massachusetts. He served as a Senator for New York from 1965 until his assassination in 1968.
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But it seems the good die young, yeah.
I just looked around and he was gone
On March 29, 1968, King went to Memphis, Tennessee, in support of the black sanitary public works employees, represented by AFSCME Local 1733, who had been on strike since March 12 for higher wages and better treatment.

Then, at 6:01 pm, April 4, 1968, a shot rang out as King stood on the motel's second-floor balcony. After emergency chest surgery, King died at St. Joseph's Hospital at 7:05 pm.
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He freed a lot of people
I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal. '
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification; one day right there in Alabama, little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.
I have a dream today.
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Martin
Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929 - April 4, 1968), was an American Baptist minister, activist, humanitarian, and leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. He is best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights using nonviolent civil disobedience based on his Christian beliefs.
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But it seems the good die young, yeah.
I just looked around and he was gone
President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, at 12:30 pm Central Standard Time on Friday November 22, 1963, while on a political trip to Texas to smooth over frictions in the Democratic Party.
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he freed a lot of people
Kennedy verbally supported racial integration and civil rights; during the 1960 campaign he telephoned Coretta Scott King, wife of the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., who had been jailed while trying to integrate a department store lunch counter.
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John
John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 - November 22, 1963), commonly known as Jack Kennedy or by his initials JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963.
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But it seems the good die young, yeah.
I just looked around and he was gone
John Wilkes Booth was a well-known actor and a Confederate spy from Maryland formulated a plan with co-conspirators to assassinate Lincoln and Grant at the theater, as well as Vice President Johnson and Secretary of State Seward at their homes. At the last minute, Grant decided to go to New Jersey to visit his children instead of attending the play.

Lincoln's bodyguard, John Parker, left Ford's Theater during intermission to drink at the saloon next door. The now unguarded President sat in his state box in the balcony. Seizing the opportunity, Booth crept up from behind and at about 10:13 pm, aimed at the back of Lincoln's head and fired at point-blank range, mortally wounding the President.
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Abraham
This refers to Abraham Lincoln. The sixteenth President of the United States of America. On June 19, 1862, endorsed by Lincoln, Congress passed an act banning slavery on all federal territory.
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Let's get it on
Let's get naked as two jay birds and have sex. Not much more to say about that is there now?
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