Joel T. Schumacher (August 29, 1939 – June 22, 2020) was an American movie director, writer, screenwriter, and producer. He was known for his movies such as "D.C. Cab", "Batman Forever", "Batman & Robin", "The Lost Boys", "Falling Down", "A Time to Kill", "8mm", "Tigerland", and "Phone Booth". His directorial debut came in 1981 "The Incredible Shrinking Woman".
Schumacher was born on August 29, 1939 in New York City. He studied at Parsons The New School for Design and University of California, Los Angeles. Schumacher was openly gay. He died from cancer on June 22, 2020 in New York City, aged 80.
Jerry Robinson
Sherrill David Robinson (January 1, 1922 – December 7, 2011) or Jerry Robinson, was an American comic book artist and writer. He created The Joker and Robin.
Robinson was born on January 1, 1922 in Trenton, New Jersey. He studied at Columbia University. Robinson died on January 7, 2011 from natural causes in his home in Staten Island, New York, aged 89.
Linda Hamilton
Linda Hamilton (born September 26 1956) is an American television and movie actress. She was born in Salisbury, Maryland. She played Sarah Connor in "The Terminator" and its 1991 sequel. She also starred in the TV show "Chuck" and several other TV programs.
Delroy Lindo
Delroy George Arthur Lindo (18 November 1952 as Norman Flemming) is an English actor. He has performed in many movies and stage acts. He starred in the movies "Malcolm X" and "Crooklyn". He was born in London.
Geoffrey Holder
Geoffrey Richard Holder (August 1, 1930 – October 5, 2014) was an Trinidadian movie, television, stage, radio, voice actor, choreographer, director, dancer, painter, costume designer, and singer. Holder was known for his deep soft voice. He was in "The Wiz", "Annie", "Live and Let Die", "Bear in the Big Blue House", "Doctor Dolittle". He narrated "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory". Holder won 2 Tony Awards in 1975 and a Drama Desk Award in 1975.
Holder was born on August 1, 1930 in Port of Spain, Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago. He studied at Queens Royal College. He was married to Carmen de Lavallade from 1955 until his death in 2014. Holder had a brother, Boscoe Holder.
Holder died in Manhattan, New York City from pneumonia, aged 84.
Paddy Barnes
Paddy Barnes (born 9 April 1987) is an Irish boxer. He got a bronze medal in the 2008 Summer Olympics and the 2012 Summer Olympics. As of 1 May 2013, He was 6th in the world in his division, the men's light flyweight.
Bahadur Shah II
Bahadur Shah II or better known as Bahadur Shah Zafar (24 October 1775 7 November 1862) (reigned 1837-1858) was the last emperor of the Mughal Empire of India.
Bahadur Shah was the son of Akbar Shah II. He fought the revolt of 1857 (first independence war of India) with many freedom fighters or leaders such as Rani Lakshmi bai , Tatya Tope and Mangal Pandey, etc against the East India Company and British army.
Bahadur Shah became the Mughal Emperor after his father's death on 28 September 1837.
Bahadur Shah ruled over a Mughal Empire that barely extended beyond Delhi's Red Fort.
The East India Company ruled India. The company allowed him a pension. He had no real power in India.
He fought with a small army and ultimately lost the revolt. The Red fort was captured and Bahadur Shah was forced to flee to Humayun's tomb. On 20th of September, he was found and captured.
After the Indian Rebellion of 1857, the British Administration exiled him from Delhi. He was sent to a prison in Rangoon (now Yangon), Burma and died there.
Bahadur Shah Zafar was known as an Urdu poet, who used the pen-name "Zafar". His work was compiled as the "Kuliyaat-e-Zafar" (Urdu: Collected Works of Zafar Notes and references)
Michael Conlan
Michael Conlan (born 19 November, 1991) is an Irish boxer who got a bronze medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics representing Ireland. He is currently 3rd in the world in his division, the fly.
Jonathan Hardy
Jonathan Hardy (20 September 1940 – 30 July 2012) was a New Zealand-Australian movie, television, stage, voice actor, comedian, writer and director. He was in "The Devil's Playground", "Mad Max", "Mr. Reliable", and in "Moulin Rouge!".
Hardy was born on 20 September 1940 in Wellington, New Zealand.
Hardy died on 30 July 2012 in his home in Southern Highlands, New South Wales, Australia from unknown causes, aged 71.
George Miller (director)
George Miller (born 3 March 1945) or Dr. George Miller is an Australian movie director, screenwriter, producer, and a former doctor. Miller is mostly known for the "Mad Max" and "Babe" movie series. He also wrote and directed the Academy and BAFTA Award winning movie "Happy Feet". Miller was born in Brisbane, Australia.
Badlands
Badlands are a type of dry terrain which is extremely difficult to move across.
It happens when softer rock is eroded by wind and water, leaving harder rock sticking up. Canyons, ravines, gullies and other such geological forms are common in badlands. They are very difficult to cross by foot, or even on horse, and impossible by car. Dry badlands may have spectacular colour displays that range from dark black/blue coal strata to bright clays and sandstone.
The term 'badlands' is apt: badlands have steep slopes, loose dry soil, slick clay, and deep sand, all of which act against travel and other uses. They form in dry regions with infrequent but intense rain-showers, little vegetation, and soft sediments which get massive erosion.
Some of the most famous fossil beds are found in badlands, where erosion rapidly exposes the sedimentary layers and the scant cover of vegetation makes surveying and fossil hunting relatively easy.
Coal seams get exposed in some badlands, so some coal mining districts have developed in badlands areas. An example of this is the Drumheller district of the Red Deer River in Alberta, where the Atlas Coal Mine historical site shows the last of 139 mines which operated in the badlands.
Some of the best-known badland formations can be found in North America. In the U.S., Makoshika State Park in Montana, Theodore Roosevelt National Park in North Dakota and Badlands National Park in South Dakota together form a series of extensive badland formations. Dinosaur National Monument in Colorado and Utah are also badlands settings.
The Big Muddy Badlands in Saskatchewan, Canada, gained notoriety as a hideout for outlaws. There is a large badland area in Alberta, Canada, particularly in the valley of the Red Deer River (where Dinosaur Provincial Park is) and in Drumheller, Alberta where the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology is.
A well-known badlands formation in New Zealand is the Putangirua Pinnacles – formed by the erosion of the conglomerate of an old river delta. It is at the head of a small valley near the southern tip of the North Island.
Nicholas Pileggi
Nicholas Pileggi (born February 22, 1933) is an American author, producer and screenwriter. He wrote the book "Goodfellas". The movie "Goodfellas" was based on that book.
Pileggi was born in New York City, New York on February 22, 1933. Pileggi was married to Nora Ephron from 1987 until her death in 2012. He has won a BAFTA Award for his screenplay for "Goodfellas".
Louise Brown
Louise Brown (born 25 July 1978) is the first person to be born as a result of in vitro fertilization.
Peter Ustinov
Sir Peter Ustinov (Peter Alexander, Baron von Ustinow, 16 April 1921 – 28 March 2004) was an English movie, television, stage, voice, radio, television actor, writer, director, singer, and dramatist. Ustinov played lead roles in the movies "Spartacus", "Death on the Nile", "Evil Under the Sun", "Quo Vadis", and "Topkaki".