Salt and flat are apposite words. The Salar de Uyuni is mostly regular old sodium chlorideâten billion tons of it, packed into a crust several feet thick. It is so uniformly flat that itâs where NASA goes to calibrate laser altimeters.
Singer Freddy Fender Dead at 69. Singer-songwriter Freddy Fender, acclaimed for his work as a solo artist and with the Texas Tornados, died Saturday (Oct. 14) at his home in Corpus Christi, Texas, following a lengthy battle with lung cancer. He was 69.
Redbone singer and guitarist Lolly Vegas dies at 70. March 5, 2010 | 4:46 pm. Lolly Vegas, 70, the lead singer and guitarist for Redbone, a Native American rock band that had a million-selling hit in 1974 with the bouncy Come and Get Your Love, died in his sleep Thursday at his home in Reseda.