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.
Country Music Memorials: Remembering the life, death and legacy of Buddy Greco. Buddy Greco, a best-selling jazz and pop singer and pianist, died Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2017, according to KNPR 88.9 Nevada Public Radio. He was 90. KNPR cited the Las Vegas Review-Journal columnist Norm Clarke, who announced the entertainer's death in a tweet. Greco was born Armando Greco Aug. 14, 1926, in Philadelphia.