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.
52 mins ago. Buddy Greco, a best-selling jazz and pop singer and pianist, has died at the age of 90, according to KNPR 88.9 Nevada Public Radio. KNPR cited Las Vegas Review-Journal columnist Norm Clarke, who tweeted that the singer had passed away today. Buddy Greco was born Armando Greco in Philadelphia in 1926. He started playing the piano at the age of 4 and he was performing on the radio and in clubs at an early age. Jazz legend Benny Goodman hired Greco to sing in his band when he was 16 years old.