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Beethoven’s “Fur Elise,” With a Twist (End w/Music from Titanic)

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Via The Blaze:

Hearing the same song over and over again can get grating. Add having to be in an airport on top of that and you might just get pushed over the edge.

But while this would likely prove to be an unpleasant experience in most cases, one musician tackled the situation in such a way that he actually provided entertainment for travelers waiting for a flight in Prague.

Maan Hamadeh might have tickled the ivories to the tune of Beethoven’s Fur Elise for more than two minutes, but he kept changing up the style, showing that the song doesn’t always have to carry its typically classic tune….

(Video) Firefighters Save Construction Worker In Knick-Of-Time

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(More at The Blaze) A fire has raged through the AIG Campus in Houston, Texas, with a YouTube video shot by an onlooker capturing the daring rescue of a construction worker by firefighters as the complex burned around them.

The clip, uploaded by user Karen Jones, was shot from a nearby building where horrified workers watched as the man sought refuge from the blaze on a top floor balcony.

As the fire spread his situation grew increasingly desperate, with the flames drawing closer to his location and plastic doors melting and peeling off the building.

The as yet unnamed man dropped down to a lower floor as firefighters rushed in with a mounted ladder to rescue him – the worker taking a leap of faith onto the ladder just moments before the fire ripped away half of the building.

The Houston Fire Department said the fire was “under control” by mid-afternoon Tuesday, two hours after it started, with all workers accounted for and no injuries reported.

More than 200 emergency personal responded to the apartment complex fire, the cause of which is now under investigation.