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1 day ago · Signature. Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner CBE (born 2 October 1951), known as Sting, is an English musician, activist and actor. He was the frontman, principal songwriter and bassist for new wave band the Police from 1977 until their breakup in 1986. He launched a solo career in 1985 and has included elements of rock, jazz, reggae, classical, new ...
1 day ago · Mark Gatiss's voice. from the BBC programme Desert Island Discs, 23 October 2011. [1] Mark Gatiss ( / ˈɡeɪtɪs / ⓘ; [1] [2] born 17 October 1966) is an English actor, comedian, screenwriter, director, producer and novelist. He is best known for his work in television acting in and co-creating shows with Steven Moffat.
1 day ago · v. t. e. Poetry (a term derived from the Greek word poiesis, "making"), also called verse, [note 1] is a form of literary art that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic [1] [2] [3] qualities of language to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, literal or surface-level meaning. Such a literary composition is a poem and is written by a poet.
1 day ago · Oxford, Bacon, Derby, and Marlowe (clockwise from top left, Shakespeare centre) have each been proposed as the true author. The Shakespeare authorship question is the argument that someone other than William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon wrote the works attributed to him. Anti-Stratfordians—a collective term for adherents of the various ...
7 hours ago · Alexander McQueen. Lee Alexander McQueen CBE (17 March 1969 – 11 February 2010) was a British fashion designer and couturier. [2] He founded his own Alexander McQueen label in 1992, and was chief designer at Givenchy from 1996 to 2001. [2] His achievements in fashion earned him four British Designer of the Year awards (1996, 1997, 2001 and ...
1 day ago · John (24 December 1166 – 19 October 1216) was the king of England from 1199 until his death in 1216. He lost the Duchy of Normandy and most of his other French lands to King Philip II of France, resulting in the collapse of the Angevin Empire and contributing to the subsequent growth in power of the French Capetian dynasty during the 13th century.
