Barbados is a dansband from Sweden. It was formed in 1992. They have had several successes in the Swedish record charts. The band's original lead singer was Magnus Carlsson. They became widely known after winning second place in Melodifestivalen contest in 2000. The band has replaced their lead singer three times. Carlsson left the group in 2002 and later became a member of the group Alcazar. Mathias Holmgren, a former Fame Factory student, replaced Carlsson. He was forced to leave the band in 2004. Chris Lindh replaced him, before leaving the band in 2007. The current lead singer is Björn Lagerström.
The band won its first Grammis Award in February of the year 2000.
The band has participated in the Melodifestivalen music contest four times:
Both lead singer Mathias Holmgren and Magnus Carlsson have participated in Melodifestivalen as solo singers.
David Morrissey
David Mark Morrissey (born 21 June 1964) is an English actor and film director. He was born in Liverpool. He decided to be an actor after he saw the film "Kes". He became known in England after he started acting in "One Summer" in 1983 when he was 18. After making "One Summer" Morrissey went to the "Royal Academy of Dramatic Art". He narrated the 2004 documentary "The Boy That Michael Jackson Paid Off". Morrissey has directed six films. Recently he played as The Governor in the AMC original series "The Walking Dead".
Social stigma
Social stigma is when society thinks that something is bad.
The sociologist Erving Goffman wrote that there are three kinds of social stigma:
1. Physical differences such as obesity, scars, and leprosy.
2. Differences in personal traits, such as mental illness, drug addiction, and alcoholism.
3. "Tribal stigmas" are traits of ethnic group, nationality, or of religion that are thought as different to that of the majority ethnicity, nationality or religion.
Christine Chubbuck
Christine Chubbuck (August 24, 1944 – July 15, 1974) was the host of a morning talk show in Sarasota, Florida. She was also a volunteer at a local hospital. There she gave puppet shows for the mentally handicapped children. She is best known as the television broadcaster who committed suicide during a live television program.
Chubbuck was born in Hudson, Ohio, on 24 August 1944. She grew up in a middle-class family and attended Laurel School for Girls. She went to college at Ohio State University. Then she graduated from Boston University with a degree in broadcasting. She held several jobs with small television stations. In 1973 she was hired by WXLT-TV in Sarasota, Florida as the host of a morning talk show. According to her co-workers she was pretty, easy to get along with and did a good job. According to her mother she wanted a family but had not found the right person to marry yet. In her spare time she held puppet shows for mentally handicapped children at a local hospital.
Three weeks before her death she had received approval to do a program on suicide. On the morning of Monday, July 15, 1974, during her broadcast, Chubbuck read a prepared script. She said: "In keeping with Channel 40's policy of bringing you the latest in blood and guts, and in living color, you are going to see another first, an attempted suicide." Chubbuck then shot herself with a handgun. It was not a quick decision but an event she had planned for months. Chubbuck had even joked about shooting herself on the air but nobody had apparently paid much attention. She had been dealing with depression for several years before she died. Chubbuck was 29 years old.
Erving Goffman
Erving Goffman (11 June 1922 – 19 November 1982) was a Canadian sociologist and writer. He moved to the United States. Goffman wrote about social stigma.
His first book was published in 1959. In 1961, Goffman published the book "Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates". In 1968 he became a Chair in Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. His last book, "Forms of Talk", was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle award. He died November 20, 1982 of stomach cancer.
Jill Bennett
Nora Jill Bennett (24 December 1931 — 4 October 1990) was a British actress. She played Mrs. Ellen in "Lady Jane" (1986). She also played Margaret Stevenson in "I Want What I Want". She also worked in stage plays and television shows.
Bennett was born in Penang, in the Straits Settlements. She killed herself with barbiturate drugs at age 58 in London. She was cremated. Her ashes were scattered into the River Thames along with her friend Rachel Roberts' ashes.
Eva May
Eva May (May 29, 1902 — September 10, 1924) was an Austrian actress. She played Lady Rutland in "The Earl of Essex". She also played Kaethi in "Old Heidelberg".
Eva May was born in Vienna, Austria. She shot herself to death, for reasons unknown. She was age 22.
Christine Pascal
Christine Pascal (November 29, 1953 — August 30, 1996) was a French actress and director. She played Sylvie in "Round Midnight" (1986). She also acted in other movies. Most of those movies were French. Pascal was also a writer.
Pascal was born, Lyon, Rhône. She died after jumping from the window of a psychiatric ward near Paris. She was aged 42.
Imogen Hassall
Imogen Hassall (August 25, 1942 — November 16, 1980) was an English actress. She was in over 30 movies in the 1960s and 1970s. She played Sir Roger's secretary in "The Early Bird". She also played Samantha in "Take a Girl Like You" (1971).
Hassall was born in Surrey in England. She killed herself using barbiturates (drugs). She died in the Wimbledon area of London, aged 38.
Eelam War III
The Eelam War III began on 19 April 1995 when the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE, also called Tamil Tigers) sank two Sri Lankan naval craft in Sri Lanka. This was the third armed conflict between the military of Sri Lanka and the Tamil Tigers. There were also Eelam Wars I and II before this conflict and Eelam war IV afterwards.
On the night of 18 July 1996 LTTE forces attacked and overran the military base at Mullaithivu. It was the brigade headquarters of the 215 Sri Lankan Army. About 1,600 soldiers were killed or missing. In April 2000 the LTTE Sea Tigers captured Elephant Pass. This was a major victory since they had lost the last battle at Elephant Pass in 1991. By 2001 both sides were exhausted and ended the war. The LTTE came away with a reputation for their fighting skills. But this led to an Eelam War IV.
On 25 May 1995, LTTE (Liberation of Tamil Tigers) killed 42 men, women, and children in Kallarawa, Sri Lanka. Everyone else who lived there escaped the bloodshed.
In the Ampara District of Sri Lanka on 18 September 1999, another massacre took place. Over 50 women, men, and children were hacked to death in the middle of the night in their sleep.
Bronies: The Extremely Unexpected Adult Fans of My Little Pony
Bronies: The Extremely Unexpected Adult Fans of My Little Pony is a 2012 documentary film about the adult fandom of the 2010 animated television series "", who are known as bronies. The film was released on DVD and Blu-ray on February 17, 2013. Laurent Malaquais directed the film. The creator of "Friendship Is Magic" executive-produced it.
Evan Chandler
Evan Chandler (born Evan Robert Charmatz) (January 25, 1944 – November 5, 2009) was an American screenwriter and dentist. He is best known for accusing Michael Jackson of sexually abusing his son Jordan Chandler in 1993.
Chandler was born in the Bronx to Jewish parents. He changed his name from Charmatz to Chandler because he thought Charmatz was “too Jewish-sounding”.
Chandler wrote the 1993 movie "". In her book "Shockaholic", Carrie Fisher said that Chandler was her dentist.