He was organizing secretary of Bharatiya Jana Sangh in 1957. In 1968, he became an All‑India General Secretary and later Vice‑President of the Jan Sangh. He was jailed during the Indian Emergency (1975-1977).
Parameswaran died on 9 February 2020 at the age of 91.
George Stevens Jr.
George Cooper Stevens Jr. (born April 3, 1932) is an American writer, playwright, director and producer. He was born in Los Angeles. He is the founder of the American Film Institute, creator of the AFI Life Achievement Award and instigator/producer of the Kennedy Center Honors.
George Stevens
George Cooper Stevens (December 18, 1904 – March 8, 1975) was an American movie director, producer, screenwriter and cinematographer. His best known works are "A Place in the Sun" (1951), "Shane" (1953), "Giant" (1956), and "The Diary of Anne Frank" (1959).
Jean-Claude Carrière
Jean-Claude Carrière (; 17 September 1931 – 8 February 2021) was a French novelist, screenwriter, actor, and an Academy Award honoree. He was president of La Fémis, the French state film school. Carrière was known for his works with Luis Buñuel on the screenplays of Buñuel's late French movies.
Carrière died in Paris on 8 February 2021, aged 89.
Lynn Stalmaster
Lynn Arlen Stalmaster (November 17, 1927 – February 12, 2021) was an American casting director. She was born in Omaha, Nebraska. She studied at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Stalmaster got his first job in show business as an actor, appearing in the war movies "The Steel Helmet" (1951) and "The Flying Leathernecks" (1951).
Stalmaster is known for casting more than 60 movies of the decade, among them; "Fiddler on the Roof", "Harold and Maude", "The Cowboys", "Deliverance", "Rollerball", "Silver Streak", "Black Sunday", "Coming Home," "Convoy," "The Rose," "Superman" and "Being There".
Stalmaster was also responsible for casting TV-shows like "Combat!", "Gunsmoke", "The Untouchables, My Favorite Martian (S01,E01)' as well as Academy Award winning movies "In the Heat of the Night", "The Thomas Crown Affair", "The Right Stuff" and "The Untouchables".
In 2016, he received an Academy Honorary Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Stalmaster died in Los Angeles on February 12, 2021 at the age of 93.
Luis Buñuel
Luis Buñuel Portolés (; 22 February 1900 – 29 July 1983) was a Spanish-Mexican filmmaker.
"The New York Times" called him "a revolutionary" who was a "leader of avant-garde surrealism in his youth and a dominant international movie director half a century later".
His first movie, "Un Chien Andalou", was called "the most famous short [movie] ever made" by critic Roger Ebert, and his last movie, "That Obscure Object of Desire", won him Best Director awards from the National Board of Review and the National Society of Film Critics.
Lucille Eichengreen
Lucille Eichengreen ("née" Cecilie Landau; February 1, 1925 – February 7, 2020) was a German survivor of the Łódź Ghetto and the Nazi German concentration camps of Auschwitz, Neuengamme and Bergen-Belsen.
She moved to the United States. In 1994, she published "From Ashes to Life: My Memories of the Holocaust". She later taught classes on the Holocaust at libraries, schools and universities in the United States and Germany. She took part in a documentary from the University of Giessen on life in the Łódź Ghetto.
Erazim Kohák
Erazim Kohák (21 May 1933 – 8 February 2020) was Czech philosopher and writer. He was born in Prague. After communists took over Czechoslovakia in 1948, his family escaped to the United States. He also worked at Gustavus Adolphus College and Boston University (Professor in 1977). After the Velvet revolution in 1989, he returned to Czechoslovakia to become a professor at Charles University in Prague.
He died in February 2020 at the age of 86.
Sharpe James
Sharpe James (born February 20, 1936) is an American Democratic politician. James was born in Jacksonville, Florida. He was State Senator for the 29th Legislative District and was 35th Mayor of Newark, New Jersey. James was the second African American Mayor of Newark. From June 1999 until July 2006, James was Mayor of Newark and New Jersey State Senator at the same time.
His final reelection campaign, against then-Councilman Cory Booker in 2002, was documented in the 2005 feature movie "Street Fight".
On April 16, 2008, James was convicted of five counts of fraud by a federal jury and was sentenced to 27 months in prison.
Thumbscrew (torture)
The thumbscrew is a torture instrument which was first used in early modern Europe. It is a simple vice, sometimes with protruding studs on the interior surfaces. Victims' thumbs, fingers, or toes were placed in the vice and slowly crushed. The thumbscrew was also applied to crush prisoners' big toes.
28 Fundamental Beliefs
The 28 fundamental beliefs are the core beliefs of Seventh-day Adventist theology. Adventists are opposed to the formulation of creeds, so the 28 fundamental beliefs are considered "descriptors", not "prescriptors"; that is, that they describe the official position of the church but are not criteria for membership. These beliefs were originally known as the 27 fundamental beliefs when adopted by the church's General Conference in 1999 additional belief (number 11) was added in 2005. The "Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary" is a way to say Adventist theological thought.
They might be grouped into: God, humanity, salvation, the church, Christian life, and the restoration.
Edward Morley
Edward Morley (January 29, 1838 – February 24, 1923) was an American physicist who worked was known for many establishments, for example measuring the speed of light, fine structure, the Michelson–Morley experiment and many more.
Sex machine
A sex machine is a machine that is used to simulate human sexual intercourse or other sexual activity.
Aimee Lou Wood
Aimee Lou Wood (born 3 February 1995) is a British actress. She is best known for her role as Aimee Gibbs in the Netflix original comedy-drama series, "Sex Education", from 2019 onwards. She will also appear in the upcoming film "Louis Wain".
Wood was born and raised in Stockport, Greater Manchester. She graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in 2017. She is dating "Sex Education" co-star Connor Swindells.
Connor Swindells
Connor Ryan Swindells (born 19 September 1996) is a British actor and model. He is best known for his role as Adam Groff in the Netflix original comedy-drama series "Sex Education" (2019–present). In 2018, he appeared alongside Gerard Butler and Peter Mullan in the psychological thriller movie "The Vanishing".
Swindells was born in Lewes, East Sussex. He is dating "Sex Education" co-star Aimee Lou Wood.
Jenna Ortega
Jenna Marie Ortega (born September 27, 2002) is an American actress. She is noted for her roles on television as young Jane in "Jane the Virgin", Harley Diaz in "Stuck in the Middle" and Ellie Alves in "You". In 2016, she began voicing Princess Isabel in the Disney Channel animated series "Elena of Avalor". Ortega's movie work includes starring as Annie in "" (2013), Mary Ann in "The Little Rascals Save the Day" (2014) and Dawn in "Saving Flora" (2018).
Ortega was born in Coachella Valley, California. She is of Mexican and Puerto Rican ancestry.
Chosen people
Many people have considered themselves to be the chosen people. Usually, a deity chose them to fulfill a specific role, or purpose. In monotheistic religions, this is used to construct "God's chosen people". One of the common cases was that the Israelites. Sometimes the claim is constructed because even though the people are not related to the Israelites, the ideas are similar.
Redemption (theology)
Redemption is a key concept in many religions: Very broadly speaking, it means that there will be an event, that will free a single person, a group of people, or all people from evil. It is commonly used in Judaism, Christianity and Gnosticism. In Buddhism, the term enlightenment has a similar meaning.