The earliest known American sampler was made by Loara Standish of the Plymouth Colony about 1645. By the 1700s, samplers depicting alphabets and numerals were worked by young women to learn the basic ...

“We were human samplers.” No one recalls precisely when the jam that became Once In A Lifetime first surfaced, although the one element that certainly kicked it into life was Tina Weymouth’s ...

“We'd listen to the tapes, isolate the best bits, then learn how to play them over and over again,” said Byrne in Uncut magazine. “We were human samplers.” No one recalls precisely when the jam that ...