Alfred Drake was a major musical star in the 40's on Broadway. A mini Biography is here: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0236848/bio. You might also be able to hear him perform here: http://www.rhapsody.com/alfreddrake/morechannels.html Quite why this font is named after him is unclear is it does not have a theatrical feel to it, looking almost Oriental in its style.But if you want to hear Mr. Drake you could click here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cz3QxwAQ4HA and hear him sing the song that was then immortalised in Young Frankenstein by Madeline Kahn. Although by recommending this link to you I might lose a bit of my bandwidth in the future for every person who clicks on the link, rather than the multi-billion dollar company YouTube having to pay. Bless. And thank you Microsoft for pointing this out this week: http://technology.newscientist.com/article/dn12625-web-users-could-slash-cost-of-putting-video-online.html. Bastards...
Another Alfred, Alfred Russel Wallace has been named Fellow of the Month this month at the Royal Society. In true recognition of British greats (i.e. the people who almost did something), Wallace was the guy who almost beat Darwin to grabbing the Natural Selection mantle. Oh well, he sounds like a bright chap anyway: http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/page.asp?id=7020
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