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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2018 15:28:34 GMT
Sir William "Billy" Connolly, CBE (born 24 November 1942) is a Scottish stand-up comedian, musician, presenter, actor, artist, voice artist, and comedian. He is sometimes known, especially in his homeland, by the Scots nickname "The Big Yin" ("The Big One"). His first trade, in the early 1960s, was as a welder (specifically a boilermaker) in the Glasgow shipyards, but he gave it up towards the end of the decade to pursue a career as a folk singer, firstly in the Humblebums alongside friend Gerry Rafferty and Tam Harvey until 1971, and subsequently as a solo artist. In the early 1970s, Connolly made the transition from folk-singer with a comedic persona to fully fledged comedian, for which he has received numerous awards.
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Post by ARENA on Nov 25, 2018 7:56:45 GMT
Shelagh Fraser (25 November 1920 – 29 August 2000) was a British actress. She was best-known for her role as Luke Skywalker's ill-fated aunt, Beru Lars in Star Wars (though Fraser's voice was dubbed in some prints of the film). She appeared in more than 50 films and TV shows during her career, including Z-Cars and Softly, Softly, A Family at War and Heartbeat. Fraser was married and divorced from Anthony Squire. She was the sister of ballerina/actress Moyra Fraser.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 25, 2018 13:44:15 GMT
Joseph Paul DiMaggio (November 25, 1914 – March 8, 1999), nicknamed "Joltin' Joe" and "The Yankee Clipper", was an American baseball center fielder who played his entire 13-year career in Major League Baseball for the New York Yankees. Widely considered one of the greatest baseball players of all time, he is perhaps best known for his 56-game hitting streak (May 15 – July 16, 1941), a record that still stands.
DiMaggio was a three-time Most Valuable Player Award winner and an All-Star in each of his 13 seasons. During his tenure with the Yankees, the club won ten American League pennants and nine World Series championships.
At the time of his retirement after the 1951 season, he ranked fifth in career home runs and sixth in career slugging percentage He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1955, and was voted the sport's greatest living player in a poll taken during the baseball centennial year of 1969] His brothers Vince (1912–1986) and Dom (1917–2009) also were major league center fielders. DiMaggio is widely known for his marriage and lifelong devotion to Marilyn Monroe.
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Post by ARENA on Nov 26, 2018 7:19:51 GMT
Norman Alexander Milne, known professionally as Michael Holliday (26 November 1924 – 29 October 1963) was a British crooner popular in the late 1950s and early 1960s. He had a string of chart hits in the pre-Beatles era in the UK, including two number one singles, "The Story of My Life" and "Starry Eyed". Michael Holliday was born in Liverpool, England, and brought up in Kirkdale.Holliday had an ongoing problem with stage fright, and had a mental breakdown in 1961. He died two years later, from suspected drug overdose, in Croydon, Surrey. His grave is at Anfield Cemetery, Priory Road, Liverpool.
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Post by aubrey on Nov 26, 2018 10:11:29 GMT
Aurora Snow (born November 26, 1981) is an American writer and former pornographic actress and director.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2018 11:01:47 GMT
Tina Turner (born Anna Mae Bullock; November 26, 1939) is an American-born Swiss singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress. Turner rose to international prominence as a featured singer with Ike Turner's Kings of Rhythm before recording hit singles both with Ike and as a solo performer. One of the world's best-selling artists of all time, she has been referred to as The Queen of Rock 'n' Roll and has sold more than 200 million records worldwide to date. She is noted for her energetic stage presence, powerful vocals, and career longevity. Turner held a Guinness World Record for the largest paid audience (180,000) for a solo performer. Simply the Best. The biopic of her life with Ike is well worth a look to see how he abused her, Whats Love Got To Do With It
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Post by aubrey on Nov 26, 2018 12:33:14 GMT
Tina Turner (born Anna Mae Bullock; November 26, 1939) is an American-born Swiss singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress. Turner rose to international prominence as a featured singer with Ike Turner's Kings of Rhythm before recording hit singles both with Ike and as a solo performer. One of the world's best-selling artists of all time, she has been referred to as The Queen of Rock 'n' Roll and has sold more than 200 million records worldwide to date. She is noted for her energetic stage presence, powerful vocals, and career longevity. Turner held a Guinness World Record for the largest paid audience (180,000) for a solo performer. Simply the Best. The biopic of her life with Ike is well worth a look to see how he abused her, Whats Love Got To Do With It
She - along with the Ike-ettes - sang the middle bit in this (it starts here). Frank thought they had done it so well he wanted to pay them extra, but Ike insisted on paying them no more than the MU rate - didn't want them getting above themselves. It's a complicated bit though - they deserved more than union rates:
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Post by ARENA on Nov 27, 2018 8:25:29 GMT
Frances 'Fanny' Anne Kemble (27 November 1809 - 15 January 1893), was a notable British actress from a theatre family in the early and mid-nineteenth century. She also was a well-known and popular writer, whose published works included plays, poetry, eleven volumes of memoirs, travel and works about the theatre. In 1834 she married an American, Pierce Mease Butler, heir to cotton, tobacco and rice plantation.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 27, 2018 9:47:33 GMT
James Marshall Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix; November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970) was an American rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter. Although his mainstream career spanned only four years, he is widely regarded as one of the most influential electric guitarists in the history of popular music, and one of the most celebrated musicians of the 20th century. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame describes him as "arguably the greatest instrumentalist in the history of rock music". Average guitar payer and singer who's fame was probably greater than his talent
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Post by ARENA on Nov 28, 2018 7:34:14 GMT
Jack Train (28 November 1902 – 16 December 1966) was a British radio and film actor popular during the Second World War. Born in Plymouth, Train was on BBC radio in many productions, but his characters in the BBC series ITMA (It's That Man Again) with Tommy Handley gave him fame. He appeared in several British films, none top-rated. In ITMA, the wartime comedy show, he created Colonel Chinstrap.
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Post by aubrey on Nov 28, 2018 8:19:05 GMT
William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age. What he called his prophetic works were said by 20th-century critic Northrop Frye to form "what is in proportion to its merits the least read body of poetry in the English language". His visual artistry led 21st-century critic Jonathan Jones to proclaim him "far and away the greatest artist Britain has ever produced".
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2018 10:37:14 GMT
Alexander Martin Clunes, OBE (born 28 November 1961) is an English actor. He is best known for portraying Martin Ellingham in the ITV drama series Doc Martin and Gary Strang in Men Behaving Badly. Clunes has narrated a number of documentaries for ITV, the first of which was Islands of Britain in 2009. He has since presented a number of documentaries centred on animals. He has also voiced Kipper the Dog in the animated series, Kipper. Clunes was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2015 Birthday Honours for services to drama, charity and the community in Dorset. From Men Behaving Badly to the grim faced Doc Martin. He did a very good remake of Goodbye Mr Chips
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Post by ARENA on Nov 29, 2018 8:33:42 GMT
Dame Shirley Porter, Lady Porter, DBE, (born 29 November 1930) is a former Conservative leader of Westminster City Council in London. She is the daughter and heir of Sir Jack Cohen, the founder of Tesco supermarkets. She was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1991 by John Major after delivering "a spectacular victory" in Westminster for the Conservatives.In May 1996, after legal investigation work, the District Auditor finally concluded that the 'Building Stable Communities' policy had been illegal, and ordered Porter and five others to pay the cost of the illegal policy, which were calculated as £31.6 million. This judgement was upheld by the High Court in 1997 with liability reduced solely to Porter and her Deputy Leader, David Weeks. After the judgement, the scandal and its effects were discussed in Parliament on 14 May 1996. In 1998, BBC2 screened a documentary, Looking for Shirley, which profiled Westminster City Council's efforts to recover the surcharge and Porter's efforts to move her estimated £70m assets into offshore accounts and overseas investments. The Court of Appeal overturned the judgement in 1999, but the House of Lords reinstated it in 2001 (see Porter v Magill [2001] UKHL 67, [2002] 2 AC 357). Including interest, the surcharge now stood at £43.3 million.[32] In Israel, Porter transferred substantial parts of her great wealth to other members of her family and into secret trusts in an effort to avoid the charge, and subsequently claimed assets of only £300,000.
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Post by ARENA on Nov 30, 2018 8:08:23 GMT
Francis Edward Ifield (born 30 November 1937) is an early Australian-English easy listening and country music singer. He achieved considerable success in the early 1960s, especially in the UK Singles Chart, where he had four Number 1 hits between 1962 and 1963. Born in Coundon, Coventry, Warwickshire, England, Ifield moved with his Australian parents to Dural, 50 km (31 mi) from Sydney, about 1946.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 30, 2018 9:02:58 GMT
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British politician, statesman, army officer, and writer, who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. As Prime Minister, Churchill led Britain to victory in the Second World War. Churchill represented five constituencies during his career as Member of Parliament (MP). Ideologically an economic liberal and British imperialist, he began and ended his parliamentary career as a member of the Conservative Party, which he led from 1940 to 1955, but for twenty years from 1904 he was a prominent member of the Liberal Party.
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