Lesley Saweard (born 1934) is a British actress. She has played Christine Barford in the long-running radio soap opera, "The Archers", since 1953. She was born in Lincolnshire, England.
Johnny Briggs (actor)
John Ernest Briggs (5 September 1935 – 28 February 2021) was an English actor. He was best known for his role as Mike Baldwin in the soap opera "Coronation Street", in which he appeared from 1976 to 2006 and again in 2012.
Briggs was awarded the MBE in the 2006 New Year Honours.
Briggs died on 28 February 2021 at his home in Portishead, Somerset from a long-illness, aged 85.
Amanda Barrie
Amanda Barrie (born 14 September 1935) is an English actress. She appeared in two of the "Carry On" movies. She also starred as Alma Halliwell in ITV soap opera, "Coronation Street", which she played on and off for 20 years. She also played Bev Tull in the ITV prison drama, "Bad Girls".
Barrie is openly bisexual.
Bill Hayes (actor)
William Foster Hayes III (born June 5, 1925) is an American actor and singer. His song, “The Ballad of Davy Crockett“ hit the top of the "Billboard" charts in the spring of 1955. He also played Doug Williams on NBC's "Days of Our Lives".
Nanette Newman
Nanette Newman (born 29 May 1934) is an English actress and author. She appeared in nine movies directed by her husband Bryan Forbes. She starred in "Séance on a Wet Afternoon" (1964), "The Whisperers" (1967), "Deadfall" (1968), "The Stepford Wives" (1975) and "International Velvet" (1978).
Samantha Smith
Samantha Reed Smith (June 29, 1972 – August 25, 1985) was an American schoolgirl, peace activist, and child actress. She became famous during the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union.
In 1982, Smith wrote a letter to Soviet Leader Yuri Andropov, and received a personal reply with a personal invitation to visit the Soviet Union, which she accepted.
Smith became a "Goodwill Ambassador" between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, becoming America's Youngest Ambassador.
Smith died on August 25, 1985 in the Bar Harbor Airlines Flight 1808 plane crash near Auburn, Maine at the age of 13.
Win Min Than
Win Min Than (; born 30 November 1933) is a Burmese-Australian actress. She is best known for her role in the 1954 Hollywood movie "The Purple Plain". Than was born in Bago, Burma. Her career lasted from 1954 to 1957.
Morton Ira Greenberg
Morton Ira Greenberg (March 20, 1933 – January 28, 2021) was an American politician and lawyer. He was a Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit from 1987 until his death. He became senior judge in 2000. He was nominated by President Ronald Reagan on February 11, 1987 to the court. Greenberg was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Greenberg died on January 28, 2021 at the age of 87.
Tony Momoh
Prince Tony Momoh (27 April 1939 – 1 February 2021) was a Nigerian journalist and politician. He was Nigerian Minister of Information and Culture from 1986 to 1990 during the military regime of General Ibrahim Babangida. Momoh was born in Auchi, Nigeria.
He died on 1 February 2021 in Lagos, Nigeria at the age of 81.
Jamie Tarses
Sara James Tarses (March 19, 1964 – February 1, 2021) was an American television producer and television studio executive. Tarses was the President of ABC Entertainment from 1996 to 1999. She was the first woman and one of the youngest people to hold such a post in an American broadcast network. She was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She helped produced "Friends", "My Boys" and "Happy Endings".
Tarses died of cardiac arrest caused by a stroke on February 1, 2021 at the age of 56.
My Boys
My Boys is an American television sitcom. Its first episode came out on November 28, 2006, on TBS. The show is about a sports columnist in Chicago, Illinois, played by Jordana Spiro, and the men in her life, including her brother and her best friend. The show was canceled by TBS on September 14, 2010 after four seasons.
Fine-tuned universe
A universe that is fine-tuned is a universe that is designed well-enough to support life. Life as we know it would be impossible if certain things in physics were slightly different. Our universe is fine-tuned for life, and this is seen as not likely. This is because many things have to come together in a certain way. One explanation for this is the anthropic principle. This means that the universe supports life because we wouldn't be here to wonder that if it didn't. This usage of the anthropic principle is tautological. This means that it is true because it is true.
Another explanation for this is the teleological argument. It is also known as argument from design. This means that an intelligent creator created the universe. It is still unknown if the universe created itself or if it was created by someone or something else.
Martin Rees had six of these examples. Some of these are:
Nine Inch Nails live performances
The rock band Nine Inch Nails started doing tours when it was first made in 1988. Trent Reznor started the band and does most of the work for the band's studio. The band has played in many festivals. For example, they played at Woodstock '94, Lollapalooza in 1991 and 2008, and the MTV Video Music Awards. Before 2013, they did 938 gigs.
Nine Inch Nails does not play the same in concerts than when they do in studios. Reznor makes and plays most of the band's music. Other people might sing or play instruments if it is needed for the song. Reznor makes groups of backing musicians (people who play for concerts). Alessandro Cortini (one of the band's keyboardists) said that how the band plays in studios and in CDs is different from how they play in concerts.
Before 2016, Reznor was the only member of the band. Nine Inch Nails' concerts have lighting effects used for the stage. The effects have been done by Reznor and Rob Sheridan starting in 1999. Three tours have been talked about in albums and documentaries.
Critics have said that the tours are good. Some critics talk about how the stage feels aggressive. They also liked the effects that the stage uses. In 2008, Reznor wanted the band to stop touring after 2009. They started touring again in 2013.
Strike Up the Band (movie)
Strike Up the Band is a 1940 American musical movie directed by Busby Berkeley and starring Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney, Paul Whiteman and Orchestra, June Preisser, William Tracy, Margaret Early, Ann Shoemaker, Francis Pierlot, Virginia Brissac, George Lessey. It was distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and won an Academy Award in 1941 and was nominated for 3 others.
Blue Skies (movie)
Blue Skies is a 1946 American musical movie directed by Stuart Heisler and Mark Sandrich and starring Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Joan Caulfield, Billy De Wolfe, Olga San Juan, Mikhail Rasumny, Frank Faylen. It was distributed by Paramount Pictures and was nominated for 2 Academy Awards in 1947.
Shakti
Shakti (Devanagari: शक्ति, IAST: Śakti; lit. "Energy, ability, strength, effort, power, capability") is the primordial cosmic energy and represents the dynamic forces that are thought to move through the entire universe in Hinduism, and especially Shaktism, a major tradition of Hinduism. Shakti is the personification of the energy that is creative, sustaining, as well as destructive, sometimes referred to as auspicious source energy.
As the Shakti or Creatrix, She is known as "Adi Shakti" or "Adi Para Shakti" (i.e., Primordial Inconceivable Energy). On every plane of creation, energy manifests itself in all forms of matter, thermal energy, potential energy, gravitational energy etc. These are all thought to be infinite forms of the Para Shakti. But Her true form is unknown, and beyond human understanding. She is "Anaadi" (with no beginning, no ending) and "Nitya" (forever).
In Shaktism, Adi Parashakti is worshipped as the Supreme Being.