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Post by ARENA on Jun 28, 2019 7:09:50 GMT
Sarah Ward (born 28 June 1951) known as Lalla Ward, is an English actor, author and illustrator. As an actor, she is known for playing the part of Romana in the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who. She is married to evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins. Ward's stage name, "Lalla", comes from her attempts as a toddler to pronounce her own name.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2019 8:47:37 GMT
Henry VIII (28 June 1491 – 28 January 1547) was King of England from 1509 until his death in 1547. Henry was the second Tudor monarch, succeeding his father, Henry VII. Henry is best known for his six marriages, in particular his efforts to have his first marriage, to Catherine of Aragon, annulled. His disagreement with the Pope on the question of such an annulment led Henry to initiate the English Reformation, separating the Church of England from papal authority. He appointed himself the Supreme Head of the Church of England and dissolved convents and monasteries, for which he was excommunicated. Henry is also known as "the father of the Royal Navy"; he invested heavily in the Navy, increasing its size greatly from a few to more than 50 ships.
Domestically, Henry is known for his radical changes to the English Constitution, ushering into England the theory of the divine right of kings. Besides asserting the sovereign's supremacy over the Church of England, he greatly expanded royal power during his reign. Charges of treason and heresy were commonly used to quell dissent, and those accused were often executed without a formal trial, by means of bills of attainder. He achieved many of his political aims through the work of his chief ministers, some of whom were banished or executed when they fell out of his favour. Thomas Wolsey, Thomas More, Thomas Cromwell, Richard Rich, and Thomas Cranmer all figured prominently in Henry's administration.
He was an extravagant spender and used the proceeds from the Dissolution of the Monasteries and acts of the Reformation Parliament to convert into royal revenue the money that was formerly paid to Rome. Despite the influx of money from these sources, Henry was continually on the verge of financial ruin due to his personal extravagance as well as his numerous costly and largely unsuccessful continental wars, particularly with King Francis I of France and the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V. At home, he oversaw the legal union of England and Wales with the Laws in Wales Acts 1535 and 1542 and following the Crown of Ireland Act 1542 he was the first English monarch to rule as King of Ireland.
His contemporaries considered Henry in his prime to be an attractive, educated and accomplished king. He has been described as "one of the most charismatic rulers to sit on the English throne". He was an author and composer. As he aged, Henry became severely obese and his health suffered, contributing to his death in 1547. He is frequently characterised in his later life as a lustful, egotistical, harsh, and insecure king. He was succeeded by his son Edward VI.
But for his lust we might all still be Roman Catholics. His suits of armour are in the Tower of London and show how big he was, they even have massive cod pieces !
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Post by ARENA on Jun 29, 2019 6:56:54 GMT
Thomas Kelman Fleming, CVO, OBE, FRSAMD (29 June 1927 – 18 April 2010) was a Scottish actor, director, and poet, and a television and radio commentator for the BBC. Fleming was born in Edinburgh and attended Daniel Stewart's College, where the performing arts centre was renamed in his honour shortly after his death. His acting career began in 1945. He turned increasingly to television and radio, and from 1966 commentated every year on the Military Tattoo at the Edinburgh Festival and, between 1965 and 1999, on the Remembrance Sunday service at the Cenotaph in London. He gave many poetry readings in the 1980s with his colleague from the Gateway days, Edith MacArthur.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 29, 2019 8:25:13 GMT
Thomas Kelman Fleming, CVO, OBE, FRSAMD (29 June 1927 – 18 April 2010) was a Scottish actor, director, and poet, and a television and radio commentator for the BBC. Fleming was born in Edinburgh and attended Daniel Stewart's College, where the performing arts centre was renamed in his honour shortly after his death. His acting career began in 1945. He turned increasingly to television and radio, and from 1966 commentated every year on the Military Tattoo at the Edinburgh Festival and, between 1965 and 1999, on the Remembrance Sunday service at the Cenotaph in London. He gave many poetry readings in the 1980s with his colleague from the Gateway days, Edith MacArthur. Lovely voice, so appropriate for the occasions he commentated on. Equal to Richard Dimbleby
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Post by ARENA on Jun 30, 2019 6:45:19 GMT
Winston Mawdsley Graham OBE (30 June 1908 – 10 July 2003) was an English novelist, best known for the Poldark novels series of historical fiction. Graham was born at 66 Langdale Road, Victoria Park, Manchester, England. When he was 17 years old he relocated to Perranporth, Cornwall. His first novel, The House with the Stained Glass Windows was published in 1934.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2019 9:48:17 GMT
Lena Mary Calhoun Horne (June 30, 1917 – May 9, 2010) was an American singer, dancer, actress, and civil rights activist. Horne's career spanned over 70 years appearing in film, television, and theater. Horne joined the chorus of the Cotton Club at the age of 16 and became a nightclub performer before moving to Hollywood.
Returning to her roots as a nightclub performer, Horne took part in the March on Washington in August 1963 and continued to work as a performer, both in nightclubs and on television while releasing well-received record albums. She announced her retirement in March 1980, but the next year starred in a one-woman show, Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music, which ran for more than three hundred performances on Broadway. She then toured the country in the show, earning numerous awards and accolades. Horne continued recording and performing sporadically into the 1990s, disappearing from the public eye in 2000. Horne died of congestive heart failure on May 9, 2010, at the age of 92.
Typically like all coloured American performers despite playing to white audiences she was not allowed to enter of leave the concert venue by the same entrance the audience used, she had to go through the kitchen
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Post by aubrey on Jun 30, 2019 10:10:00 GMT
I forgot - the woman in my sig, Lina Romay, 25th of June 1954.
She was an actor, mostly in films made by Jess Franco. She made dozens of films with him, also working as writer, co-director, editor, muse, anything that was needed. She and Jess married not long before her death in 2012.
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Post by ARENA on Jul 1, 2019 6:32:01 GMT
Susan Maughan (born Marian Maughan, 1 July 1938, Consett, County Durham, England) is an English singer who released successful singles in the 1960s. Her most famous and successful song, "Bobby's Girl" (a cover of the Marcie Blane single), reached number three in the UK Singles Chart at Christmas time in 1962. It also reached number six in Norwegian chart in that year.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2019 8:29:20 GMT
Charles Laughton (1 July 1899 – 15 December 1962) was an English stage and film actor. Laughton was trained in London at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and first appeared professionally on the stage in 1926. In 1927, he was cast in a play with his future wife Elsa Lanchester, with whom he lived and worked until his death.
He played a wide range of classical and modern parts, making an impact in Shakespeare at the Old Vic. His film career took him to Broadway and then Hollywood, but he also collaborated with Alexander Korda on notable British films of the era, including The Private Life of Henry VIII, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of the title character. He portrayed everything from monsters and misfits to kings] Among Laughton's biggest film hits were The Barretts of Wimpole Street, Mutiny on the Bounty, Ruggles of Red Gap, Jamaica Inn, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and The Big Clock. In his later career, he took up stage directing, notably in The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, and George Bernard Shaw's Don Juan in Hell, in which he also starred. He directed one film, the thriller The Night of the Hunter.
Daniel Day-Lewis cited Laughton as one of his inspirations, saying: "He was probably the greatest film actor who came from that period of time. He had something quite remarkable. His generosity as an actor, he fed himself into that work. As an actor, you cannot take your eyes off him."
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Post by ARENA on Jul 2, 2019 6:36:16 GMT
Tom Springfield (born Dionysius P. A. O'Brien, 2 July 1934,) is the brother of Dusty Springfield and an important figure in the 1960s folk and pop music scene. He attended the Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe from 1944 to 1950. Springfield was born in Hampstead, London. Initially, he performed in The Springfields (a vocal group) with his sister and a friend before becoming a record producer. Tom is on the right
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Post by ARENA on Jul 3, 2019 6:34:11 GMT
Robert Adam FRSE FRS FSA(Scot) FSA (3 July 1728 – 3 March 1792) was a Scottish neoclassical architect, interior designer and furniture designer. He was the son of William Adam (1689–1748), the country's foremost architect of the time, and trained under him. With his older brother John, Robert took on the family business, which included lucrative work for the Board of Ordnance.
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Post by ARENA on Jul 4, 2019 5:54:45 GMT
Stephen Boyd (4 July 1931 – 2 June 1977) was a British actor from Ballyrobert, Ballyclare, County Antrim, Northern Ireland. He appeared in some 60 films, most notably as "Messala" in Ben-Hur. Boyd was born in 1931, one of nine siblings, as William Millar. He attended Ballyclare High School. He starred in a radio play in Belfast and worked in a cinema in London.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 4, 2019 10:13:24 GMT
Luigina "Gina" Lollobrigida (born July 4, 1927) is an Italian actress, photojournalist and sculptor. She was one of the highest profile European actresses of the 1950s and early 1960s, a period in which she was an international sex symbol.
As her film career slowed, she established second careers as a photojournalist and sculptor. In the 1970s, she achieved a scoop by gaining access to Fidel Castro for an exclusive interview.
She has continued as an active supporter of Italian and Italian American causes, particularly the National Italian American Foundation (NIAF). In 2008, she received the NIAF Lifetime Achievement Award at the Foundation's Anniversary Gala. In 2013, she sold her jewelry collection, and donated the nearly $5 million from the sale to benefit stem cell therapy research.
Both her and Sophia Loren were the Italian sex goddesses of the 60s, fantasy for many young men
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Post by ARENA on Jul 5, 2019 6:14:19 GMT
Mark Cox (born 5 July 1943 in Leicester) is a former tennis player from England, who played professional and amateur tennis in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. He was ranked as high as World No. 13 on the ATP rankings (achieving that ranking on August 23, 1977). Cox was educated at Wyggeston Boys' School in Leicester and Millfield School in Somerset.
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Post by ARENA on Jul 6, 2019 7:09:49 GMT
John Paul Jones ((1747-07-06)July 6, 1747 – July 18, 1792(1792-07-18)) was a Scottish sailor and the United States' first well-known naval fighter in the American Revolution. Although he made enemies among America's political elites, his actions in British waters during the Revolution earned him an international reputation which persists to this day.
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