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Post by ARENA on Mar 10, 2019 7:29:25 GMT
William Etty (York 10 March 1787 – 13 November 1849) was an English painter, best known for his paintings of nudes. In accordance with the wishes of his father, Etty served seven years of apprenticeship to a printer in Hull. He was, however, enabled to pursue his studies in painting through the generosity of his uncle, William Etty, who in 1806 invited him to London. In 1807 he entered the Royal Academy.
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Post by ARENA on Mar 11, 2019 7:11:29 GMT
Jessie Matthews, OBE (11 March 1907 – 19 August 1981) was an English actress, dancer and singer of the 1930s, whose career continued into the post-war period. Jessie Margaret Matthews was born in Soho, London, in relative poverty, the seventh of sixteen children (of whom eleven survived) of a fruit-and-vegetable seller. She debuted on stage on 29 December 1919, aged 12, in Bluebell in Fairyland. She had a long career on stage and film and played Mrs Dale on radio.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 11, 2019 10:00:39 GMT
James Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx, KG, OBE, PC, FRS, FSS (11 March 1916 – 24 May 1995) was a British Labour politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1964 to 1970 and 1974 to 1976. Skilled manipulator who managed to keep the right and left of the Labour party united and rumoured to be the Queen's favourite PM
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Post by ARENA on Mar 12, 2019 7:48:40 GMT
Charles Cunningham Boycott (12 March 1832 – 19 June 1897) was a British land agent whose ostracism by his local community in Ireland as part of a campaign for agrarian tenants' rights in 1880 gave the English language the verb to boycott, meaning "to ostracise". Boycott had served in the British Army 39th Foot, which brought him to Ireland.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2019 9:35:03 GMT
Liza May Minnelli (born March 12, 1946) is an American actress and singer. Best known for her Academy Award-winning performance in Cabaret (1972), she is known for her energetic stage presence and her powerful mezzo-soprano singing voice. She is the daughter of Judy Garland and Vincente Minnelli. She is of Italian and mixed European descent.
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Post by ARENA on Mar 13, 2019 7:27:38 GMT
József Kreul "Joe" Bugner (born 13 March 1950) is a Hungarian-born British-Australian former heavyweight boxer and actor. He holds triple nationality, being a citizen of Hungary and a naturalized citizen of both Australia and the United Kingdom. As an actor he is best known for his role in the 1994 action film Street Fighter, along side Jean-Claude Van Damme and Raul Julia.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2019 10:06:10 GMT
Neil Sedaka (born March 13, 1939) is an American pop singer, pianist, composer and record producer. Since his music career began in 1957 as a short-lived founding member of the Tokens, he has sold millions of records as an artist and has written or co-written over 500 songs for himself and others, collaborating mostly with lyricists Howard Greenfield and Phil Cody. I did it "My Way"
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Post by ARENA on Mar 14, 2019 7:12:05 GMT
Algernon Henry Blackwood, CBE (14 March 1869 – 10 December 1951) was an English short story writer and novelist, one of the most prolific writers of ghost stories in the history of the genre.
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Post by ARENA on Mar 15, 2019 8:20:49 GMT
John Gregson (15 March 1919 – 8 January 1975) was an English actor. He was born Harold Thomas Gregson, of Irish descent, and grew up in Wavertree, Liverpool, Lancashire, where he was educated at Greenbank Road Primary School and later at St Francis Xavier School. He left school at 16, working first for a telephone company, then for Liverpool Corporation, as the city council was then known. Don't forget , today is John Gregson day on Talking Pictures...
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Post by themanwhoknewnothing on Mar 15, 2019 9:09:36 GMT
John Gregson (15 March 1919 – 8 January 1975) was an English actor. He was born Harold Thomas Gregson, of Irish descent, and grew up in Wavertree, Liverpool, Lancashire, where he was educated at Greenbank Road Primary School and later at St Francis Xavier School. He left school at 16, working first for a telephone company, then for Liverpool Corporation, as the city council was then known. Don't forget , today is John Gregson day on Talking Pictures... I'll be recording some of those.
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Post by ARENA on Mar 16, 2019 7:28:40 GMT
Peter Cleall (born 16 March 1944 in Finchley, Middlesex) is an actors' agent and former actor who is probably best known for his performance as Eric Duffy in the London Weekend Television comedy series Please Sir! which ran from 1968 to 1972. Cleall's father was a draughtsman. He was educated at Brighton College and trained as an actor at the E15 Acting School.
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Post by ARENA on Mar 17, 2019 6:59:25 GMT
Catherine Greenaway (17 March 1846 – 6 November 1901), known as Kate Greenaway, was an English children's book illustrator and writer. Greenaway spent much of her childhood at Rolleston, Nottinghamshire. She studied at what is now the Royal College of Art in London, which at that time had a separate section for women, and was headed by Richard Burchett.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2019 11:11:18 GMT
Nathaniel Adams Coles (March 17, 1919 – February 15, 1965), known professionally as Nat King Cole, was an American jazz pianist and vocalist. He recorded over one hundred songs that became hits on the pop charts. His trio was the model for small jazz ensembles that followed. Cole also acted in films and on television and performed on Broadway. He was the first African American man to host an American television series. A black artist who like his fellow performers was adored by his white audience but was not allowed to use the same door as them when performing. Often entering and leaving by the kitchen door, it's a wonder they ate the food!
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Post by ARENA on Mar 18, 2019 6:58:13 GMT
David Lloyd (born 18 March 1947) is a former English cricketer who played county cricket for Lancashire and Test and One Day International cricket for England. He also played semi-professional football for Accrington Stanley. He is known through the cricketing world as "Bumble" due to the similarity between his facial profile and "Bumblies", characters of Michael Bentine's children's television.
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Post by aubrey on Mar 18, 2019 8:27:45 GMT
David Lloyd (born 18 March 1947) is a former English cricketer who played county cricket for Lancashire and Test and One Day International cricket for England. He also played semi-professional football for Accrington Stanley. He is known through the cricketing world as "Bumble" due to the similarity between his facial profile and "Bumblies", characters of Michael Bentine's children's television.
And a big Fall fan - really.
He once enlivened a 20/20 match by trying to work Fall song titles into his commentary. He's even a member of the Fall Online Forum, though he doesn't post much.
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