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Henry Purcell
Henry Purcell (10.09.1659 – 21.11.1695),
was
an English organist and Baroque composer of secular and
sacred music.
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Although Purcell incorporated Italian and French stylistic elements
into his compositions, his legacy was a uniquely English
form of Baroque music.
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Henry Purcell's anthem "Lord, who can tell" was
composed in 1678. It is a psalm that is
prescribed for Christmas Day and also to regularly be read at Morning Prayer on the fourth day of each month.
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Henry Purcell wrote two of his finest anthems,
"I was glad" and "My heart is inditing", for
the coronation of King James II. One of Purcell's most elaborate, most important and most magnificent works was a birthday ode for Queen Mary.
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Purcell is honoured together with J.S.Bach and G.F.
Handel with a feast day on the liturgical calendar
of the Episcopal Church on 28 July.
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In Victoria Street, Westminster, England, there is a
bronze monument to Purcell (right), sculpted by Glynn Williams
and erected in 1994.
Purcell is among the Baroque composers who has had a direct influence on modern rock and roll; according to Pete Townshend of The Who, Purcell was among his influences, particularly evident in the opening bars of The Who's "Pinball Wizard".
Memorial sculpture on Victoria St.
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Charles Robert Darwin (1809 –1882) was an English
naturalist.
Charles Darwin
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Darwin established that all species of life have
descended over time from common ancestors, and proposed the
scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection.
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He published his theory with compelling evidence for
evolution in his 1859 book On the Origin of
Species.
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In recognition of Darwin's pre-eminence as a scientist,
he was one of only five nineteenth-century non-royal personages
from the United Kingdom to be honored by a state funeral, and was buried in Westminster Abbey, close to John Herschel and Isaac Newton.
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Charles Spencer Chaplin was born on 16 April
1889, in East Street, Walworth, London, England. Chaplin was
an English comic actor, film director and one of the most creative and influential personalities of the silent-film era.
Charlie Chaplin
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His working life in entertainment spanned over 75
years.
He became one of the best-known film stars in
the world before the end of the First World War.
He have been composing the music from 1918.
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In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Chaplin
the 10th greatest male screen legend of all time.
Chaplin used mime, slapstick and other visual comedy routines. His most famous role was that of The Tramp.
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"The Tramp" is a vagrant with the refined
manners, clothes, and dignity of a gentleman.
"The Tramp", Chaplin's
principal character, was known as "Charlot" in the French-speaking world, Italy, Spain, Andorra, Portugal, Greece, Romania and Turkey, "Carlitos" in Brazil and Argentina, and "Der Vagabund" in Germany. Chaplin continued to play the Tramp through dozens of short films.
"The Tramp"
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- Chaplin had blue eyes.
- Chaplin once entered
a "Chaplin look-alike" competition and came in third.
- In
1985, Chaplin was honoured with his image on a postage stamp of the United Kingdom, and in 1994 he appeared on a United States postage stamp designed by caricaturist Al Hirschfeld.
- A minor planet, 3623 Chaplin, discovered by Soviet astronomer Lyudmila Georgievna Karachkina in 1981, is named after Chaplin.
interesting facts:
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1914 — Tillie’s Punctured Romance
1921 — The Kid
1923
— A Woman of Paris
1925 — The Gold Rush1
1926
— A Woman of the Sea
1928 — The Circus
1928 — Show People
1931 — City Lights
1936 — Modern Times
1940 — The Great Dictator
1947 — Monsieur Verdoux
1952 — Limelight
1957 — A King in New York
1967 — A Countess From Hong Kong
Feature films:
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By 1977, he had difficulty communicating, and was
using a wheelchair. Chaplin died in his sleep in
Vevey, Switzerland on Christmas Day 1977.
On 1 March 1978, his corpse was stolen by a small group of Swiss mechanics in an attempt to extort money from his family.
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The plot failed; the robbers were captured, and
the corpse was recovered eleven weeks later near Lake
Geneva.
His body was reburied.
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John Lennon
John Winston Ono Lennon, (9 October
1940 – 8 December 1980) was an English singer-songwriter.
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He rose to worldwide fame as one of
the founding members of The Beatles and, with Paul
McCartney, formed one of the most successful songwriting partnerships of the 20th century.
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The Lennon/McCartney songwriting partnership is regarded as one
of the most influential and successful of the 20th
century.
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John Lennon Peace Monument
As performer, writer or
co-writer Lennon has had 25 number one singles on
the US Hot 100 chart. His album sales in the US stand at 14 million units. Double Fantasy, released shortly before his death, and his best-selling, post-Beatles' studio album at three million shipments in the US won the 1981 Grammy Award for Album of the Year.
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Participants in a 2002 BBC poll voted him
eighth of "100 Greatest Britons“.
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Between 2003 and 2008, Rolling Stone recognized Lennon
in several reviews of artists and music, ranking him
fifth of "100 Greatest Singers of All Time" and 38th of "The Immortals: The Fifty Greatest Artists of All Time", and his albums John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band and Imagine, 22nd and 76th respectively of "The RS 500 Greatest Albums of All Time".
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He was appointed Member of the Order of
the British Empire (MBE) with the other Beatles in
1965. He was posthumously inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1987 and into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994.
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The princess was the national patroness of the
fund fighting against Aids. She showed the world that
people with AIDS deserve no isolation, but compassion and kindness. It helped change world’s opinion, and gave hope to people with AIDS. Diana worked particularly for the Red Cross.
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Diana worked on children's charities, and had teamed
up with Hillary Clinton in an effort to ban
landmines. She wanted to give people a part of her soul, to make them happy.
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People put thousands of flowers in front of
Diana’s home, Kensington Palace after her death.
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Immediately after her death, opened memorials devoted to
Diana, where the public left flowers and other tributes.
Palace.
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The Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fountain in
Hyde Park, London opened by Queen Elizabeth II.