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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2019 9:14:40 GMT
Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu (born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, Albanian: [26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997), commonly known as Mother Teresa and honoured in the Roman Catholic Church as Saint Teresa of Calcutta, was an Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary She was born in Skopje (now the capital of North Macedonia), then part of the Kosovo Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire. After living in Skopje for eighteen years, she moved to Ireland and then to India, where she lived for most of her life.
In 1950, Teresa founded the Missionaries of Charity, a Roman Catholic religious congregation that had over 4,500 nuns and was active in 133 countries in 2012. The congregation manages homes for people who are dying of HIV/AIDS, leprosy and tuberculosis. It also runs soup kitchens, dispensaries, mobile clinics, children's and family counselling programmes, as well as orphanages and schools. Members take vows of chastity, poverty, and obedience, and also profess a fourth vow—to give "wholehearted free service to the poorest of the poor."
Teresa received a number of honours, including the 1962 Ramon Magsaysay Peace Prize and 1979 Nobel Peace Prize. She was canonised (recognised by the church as a saint) on 4 September 2016, and the anniversary of her death (5 September) is her feast day.
A controversial figure during her life and after her death, Teresa was admired by many for her charitable work. She was praised and criticised for her opposition to abortion, and criticised for poor conditions in her houses for the dying. Her authorised biography was written by Navin Chawla and published in 1992, and she has been the subject of films and other books. On September 6, 2017, Teresa and St. Francis Xavier were named co-patrons of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Calcutta.
Her lifestyle is an example to us all
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Post by ARENA on Aug 28, 2019 5:57:22 GMT
Robb Wilton, born Robert Wilton Smith (28 August 1881 – 1 May 1957) was an English comedian and comic actor who was famous for his filmed monologues in the 1930s and 1940s in which he played incompetent authority figures. Wilton was born in Everton, Liverpool, and had a dry Lancashire accent which suited his comic persona as a procrastinating and work-shy impediment to the general public.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 28, 2019 9:44:26 GMT
Sir John Betjeman CBE (/ˈbɛtʃəmən/; 28 August 1906 – 19 May 1984) was an English poet, writer, and broadcaster who described himself in Who's Who as a "poet and hack". He was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1972 until his death.
He was a founding member of the Victorian Society and a passionate defender of Victorian architecture. He began his career as a journalist and ended it as one of the most popular British Poets Laureate and a much-loved figure on British television.
"Come, friendly bombs, and fall on Slough! It isn't fit for humans now, "
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Post by ARENA on Aug 29, 2019 6:40:10 GMT
Charles Gray (29 August 1928 - 7 March 2000) was an English actor who was well known for roles including the arch-villain Blofeld in the James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever, Sherlock Holmes' brother Mycroft Holmes in the Granada television series, and as The Criminologist in the cult classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show in 1975. Gray was born Donald Marshall Gray in Bournemouth, Dorset.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2019 9:46:44 GMT
Richard Samuel Attenborough, Baron Attenborough, CBE ( 29 August 1923 – 24 August 2014) was an English actor, filmmaker, entrepreneur, and politician. He was the President of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA). Attenborough joined the Royal Air Force during the Second World War and served in the film unit. He went on several bombing raids over Europe and filmed action from the rear gunner's position. He was the older brother of Sir David Attenborough, a naturalist, documenter, and broadcaster, and John Attenborough, an executive at Alfa Romeo. He was married to actress Sheila Sim from 1945 until his death.
As a film director and producer, Attenborough won two Academy Awards for Gandhi in 1983, receiving awards for Best Picture and Best Director. The BFI ranked Gandhi the 34th greatest British film of the 20th century. He also won four BAFTA Awards and four Golden Globe Awards. As an actor, he is best known for his roles in Brighton Rock, The Great Escape, 10 Rillington Place, The Sand Pebbles, Miracle on 34th Street (1994) and Jurassic Park.
Probably best remembered for his film Gandhi , an original "luvvie"
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2019 9:50:24 GMT
Dinah Washington (born Ruth Lee Jones; August 29, 1924 – December 14, 1963) was an American singer and pianist, who has been cited as "the most popular black female recording artist of the '50s". Primarily a jazz vocalist, she performed and recorded in a wide variety of styles including blues, R&B, and traditional pop music, and gave herself the title of "Queen of the Blues". She was a 1986 inductee of the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993.
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Post by ARENA on Aug 30, 2019 6:15:11 GMT
Denis Winston Healey, Baron Healey CH, MBE, PC, MC (born 30 August 1917) is a retired British Labour politician, who served as Secretary of State for Defence from 1964 to 1970 and Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1974 to 1979. Healey was born in Mottingham, London, but moved with his family to Keighley in the West Riding of Yorkshire when he was five.
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Post by aubrey on Aug 30, 2019 7:49:10 GMT
John Robert Parker Ravenscroft, OBE (30 August 1939 – 25 October 2004), known professionally as John Peel, was an English disc jockey, radio presenter, record producer and journalist. He was the longest serving of the original BBC Radio 1 DJs, broadcasting regularly from 1967 until his death in 2004.
He was one of the first broadcasters to play psychedelic rock and progressive rock records on British radio, and he is widely acknowledged for promoting artists working in a multitude of genres including pop, dub reggae, punk rock and post-punk, electronic music and dance music, indie rock, extreme metal, and British hip hop. Fellow DJ Paul Gambaccini described Peel as "the most important man in music for about a dozen years". In 2012 he was among the British cultural icons selected by artist Sir Peter Blake to appear in a new version of his most famous artwork – the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover.
Usually mentioned more in the role of a talent scout than anything; but what was most important for his listeners was not all the musicians who were heard first on his programme and who went on to greater things, but all the groups he played who didn't go on to do anything much: that, and the fact that you really had no idea what would come next: you could get a 50s R&R record, followed by a bit of Dub Reggae by Prince Far-I about Jesus's 40 days in the wilderness, then a long track from a Fall session that would never be heard anywhere else, then a heavy - in all senses - live Van Der Graff song, then The Albion Band doing an accompaniment to some Morris dancing.
Here he is at his 50th birthday party, with Sheila and The Fall, holding the biography of Malcolm Allison that Mark E Smith gave him as a present.
I first heard The Fall on his programme, so I will always be grateful to him for that.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2019 9:23:28 GMT
John Edmund Andrew Phillips (August 30, 1935 – March 18, 2001) was an American singer, guitarist, songwriter, and promoter of the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival. Phillips was a member and leader of the vocal group The Mamas & the Papas.
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Post by ARENA on Aug 31, 2019 6:26:21 GMT
Larry Grayson (31 August 1923 – 7 January 1995), born William Sulley White, was an English comedian and television presenter who reached the peak of his fame in the 1970s and early 80s. He is best remembered for hosting the BBC's popular series The Generation Game and for his high camp and English music hall humour. His unique stand-up act consisted mainly of anecdotes about a cast of imaginary friends.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2019 13:02:09 GMT
Larry Grayson bought a bungalow for him and his mother somewhere on the South coast. They moved in but hated it, missing all their old neighbours and friends in Nuneaton, so they moved back
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Post by ARENA on Sept 1, 2019 6:00:18 GMT
(Edward) Cecil Parkinson, Baron Parkinson, PC (born 1 September 1931 in Carnforth, Lancashire), is a British Conservative politician and former Cabinet Minister. The son of a railway worker, Parkinson was educated at Lancaster Royal Grammar School, a state-run day and boarding school for boys, from where he won a scholarship to Cambridge University, where he read English at Emmanuel College.
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Post by aubrey on Sept 1, 2019 8:18:45 GMT
Katja Bienert was born on September 1, 1966 in Berlin, West Germany. She is an actress and director, known for Die Schulmädchen vom Treffpunkt Zoo (1979) and Diamonds of Kilimandjaro (1983).
She also starred in what became the first "Adult" film made in Spain after the death of Franco; the director (Jess Franco) shot those bits after she'd left. She was annoyed, but forgave him and worked with him on several more films.
In Diamonds of Kilimandjaro, playing the survivor of a jungle plane crash who (in the style of these things) is brought up by the natives and has become their leader:
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Post by ARENA on Sept 2, 2019 6:15:59 GMT
Russ Conway (2 September 1925 – 16 November 2000) was a British popular music pianist. Conway had 20 piano instrumentals in the UK Singles Chart between 1957 and 1963, including two number one hits. Conway was born Trevor Herbert Stanford in Bristol, England. He had no formal piano training, but won a scholarship to Bristol Cathedral Choir.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2019 9:11:08 GMT
Career ruined after being caught and prosecuted cottaging in a public loo
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