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2 giorni fa · 15. Sir Lenny Henry presents the BBC's Comic Relief telethon for the last time, having previously announced he felt it was time for "new faces" to succeed him. [76] Sir Lenny was part of the team which had founded Comic Relief in the mid-1980s. Red Nose Day 2024 raises over £40m for charity.
3 giorni fa · The East India Company ( EIC) [a] was an English, and later British, joint-stock company founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. [4] It was formed to trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies (the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia ), and later with East Asia. The company gained control of large parts of the Indian ...
5 giorni fa · NWOTHM. The new wave of British heavy metal (commonly abbreviated as NWOBHM) was a nationwide musical movement that started in England in the mid-1970s and achieved international attention by the early 1980s. Editor Alan Lewis coined the term for an article by Geoff Barton in a May 1979 issue of the British music newspaper Sounds to describe ...
5 giorni fa · 12 Years a Slave is a 2013 biographical drama film directed by Steve McQueen from a screenplay by John Ridley, based on the 1853 slave memoir Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup, an African American man who was kidnapped in Washington, D.C. by two conmen in 1841 and sold into slavery. He was put to work on plantations in the state of ...
5 giorni fa · First black British actor to be nominated for an Academy Award. 1993 Ralph Fiennes: Schindler's List: Nominated Pete Postlethwaite: In the Name of the Father: Nominated 1994 Paul Scofield: Quiz Show: Nominated 1995 Tim Roth: Rob Roy: Nominated 1997 Anthony Hopkins: Amistad: Nominated 1999 Michael Caine The Cider House Rules: Won Jude Law: The ...
3 giorni fa · e. A pride flag is any flag that represents a segment or part of the LGBT community. Pride in this case refers to the notion of LGBT pride. The terms LGBT flag and queer flag are often used interchangeably. [1] Pride flags can represent various sexual orientations, romantic orientations, gender identities, subcultures, and regional purposes, as ...
4 giorni fa · The Black Pirate: United States Albert Parker: Douglas Fairbanks, Billie Dove, Anders Randolf: Also known as The Black Buccaneer: Breed of the Sea: United States Ralph Ince: Ralph Ince, Margaret Livingston, Pat Harmon: The Eagle of the Sea: United States Frank Lloyd: Florence Vidor, Ricardo Cortez: Film about Jean Lafitte (c. 1780 – c. 1823 ...
