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19 hours ago · Peter Sellers CBE (born Richard Henry Sellers; 8 September 1925 – 24 July 1980) was an English actor and comedian. He first came to prominence performing in the BBC Radio comedy series The Goon Show. Sellers featured on a number of hit comic songs, and became known to a worldwide audience through his many film roles, among them Chief ...
19 hours ago · Join us. Peter "Big Pete" Somerville. A second special darts event is to be held later this month in memory of a stalwart of the game in Inverness, and other players who have died. Peter “Big Pete” Somerville died back in June 25, 2022, aged 79, but his wife of 60 years Violet or “Vi” as she is better known, is determined to keep his ...
19 hours ago · 1974: Employees at Kennet Press in Cedars Road carried out an ancient custom – and 21-year-old Peter Gray wished they had not bothered. Peter was smothered in powder, paint, cold tea and any other substance that came to hand as part of a ‘banging out’ ceremony – which marked the completion ...
19 hours ago · The Master and Margarita (Russian: Мастер и Маргарита) is a novel by Soviet writer Mikhail Bulgakov, written in the Soviet Union between 1928 and 1940. [1] A censored version, with several chapters cut by editors, was published in Moscow magazine in 1966–1967, after the writer's death on March 10, 1940, by his widow Elena Bulgakova (Russian: Елена Булгакова).
19 hours ago · Billie Holiday(born Eleanora Fagan; April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959) was an American jazzand swing musicsinger. Nicknamed "Lady Day" by her friend and music partner, Lester Young, Holiday made a significant contribution to jazz music and popsinging. Her vocal style, strongly influenced by jazz instrumentalists, inspired a new way of ...
19 hours ago · e. Dorothy Day (November 8, 1897 – November 29, 1980) was an American journalist, social activist and anarchist who, after a bohemian youth, became a Catholic without abandoning her social activism. She was perhaps the best-known political radical among American Catholics. [ 1 ][ 2 ] Day's conversion is described in her 1952 autobiography ...
