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Gareth David-Lloyd is a Welsh actor best known for his role as Yanto Jones in the British sci-fi series Torchwood.
The future actor was born on March 28, 1981 in Newport, Wales, United Kingdom. He first appeared on stage as a robot in a school production, and as a teenager joined the troupe of the Gwent Young People’s Theater in Abergavenny. And later he joined the troupe of The Dolman Youth Theater in Newport. There he worked with actor Matthew Woodyatt and singer Nia Lynn. You know, there he took part in several productions, and in Macbeth, Threepenny Opera and King Henry V played the main roles. When former Labor leader Neil Kinnock saw young Gareth in a performance at Monmouth Castle, he sent him £ 250 to develop his acting career.
While attending Coleg Gwent Gareth appeared in various local productions at the Dolman Theater in Newport and the Sherman Theater in Cardiff.
Before moving to Reading to continue his acting studies at The Rep College, Gareth completed an internship at the National Youth Theater. Among others, he played the role of Sebastian in the Twelfth Night production, and also took part in the television shows Absolute Power, Catastrophe, Rosemary & Thyme and A Very English Murder.
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Ava Gardner was one of the most prominent American actresses and most beautiful woman of the twentieth century. In the 1950s she was the brightest star in Hollywood. Her husbands were famous actor Mickey Rooney and legendary singer Frank Sinatra, and billionaire Howard Hughes sought her favor. But she spent her last years alone. One day she received a call from a film studio and was offered to play the role of a rich and lonely woman. She hung up the phone and said: “I’ve been playing it all my life!”
Ava Lavinia Gardner was born on December 24, 1922 to a Puritan family of farmers in a small town in North Carolina. The only book in their house was the Bible, the children were brought up in the most severe obedience and severity. Daughters were not allowed to wear makeup, buy new dresses, or think about anything other than school. For the slightest offense, the mother threatened them with terrible punishment and God’s wrath. Ava’s only passion was cinema.
As soon as the girl turned 18, she moved to a nearby town and enrolled in secretarial courses. A year later, her sister offered to come to New York, where her husband had his own photo studio. Soon, his windows were decorated with photos of Ava, and one day they were seen by an employee of the Metro Goldwyn Mayer film company. He was amazed at the beauty of the girl and invited her to come to screen tests and enroll in acting classes. So her film career began.
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According to the Bible, Great Prophet Moses lived in the XIII century BC at a time when the powerful neighboring countries could not imagine any other faith than polytheism. All the major powers of that time were pagan – Egypt, Babylon … Later states – Greece, Rome were also pagan. And only a small Israelite kingdom positioned itself as a country with faith in one God. Only one person managed to make such a revolution in the minds of the Jews – the great prophet and liberator of the nation.
To tell the truth, it is very difficult to fight old beliefs. They tend to come back. Only miracle could help. Even the birth of this biblical hero happened in the frame of miracles.
Moses was born in that ill-fated year when the Jews were in Egyptian captivity and the pharaoh made a cruel decision to destroy the Jewish children. The Egyptians believed that there were too many Jews. And they decided to get rid of the “extra” slaves. Baby Moses was also threatened with death because of this order. Sheltering a child from Pharaoh’s soldiers was mortally dangerous for the whole family. To save the future prophet, his mother desperately put the newborn in a basket and hid it in a thicket of reeds – she hoped someone would take pity and take a cute baby.
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Eve Myles is a Welsh actress best known for her leading roles in the television series Belonging and Torchwood.
The future actress was born on July 26, 1978, Eastradginlays, Powys, Wales. She received her primary education at the same school as her colleague Steve Meo – Ysgol Maes Y Dderwen. Pretty girl prepared to become an actress and continued her education at the Royal Wales College of Music and Drama in Cardiff. In 2000 Eve graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree. Then she left for London. Since then, the actress has combined a career in television and theater.
In 2001, Eve starred in the film Score and the mini-series Tales from Pleasure Beach. A year later she got the lead role of Carey in the BBC’s Welsh television drama Belonging. In the EastEnders spin-off Dot’s Story the actress played the role of young Gwen. Also in 2003, Eve played the role of Lavinia at the Royal Shakespeare Theater in the production of Titus Andronicus.
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In 1927 thirty-five-year-old Alexander Alekhine became the first Russian to win the world chess championship title. He defeated the Cuban grandmaster Jose R. Capablanca, who had held the world title. Alekhine won six games, Capablanca three, and 25 were drawn.
The match was more than a personal victory for Alekhine, it was a triumph for the ideas of the Russian chess school.
“For me chess is not a game but an art,” Alekhine once said. “Yes, I consider chess an art and accept all the responsibilities it lays upon its devotees.”
“Alekhine’s win”, wrote Emanuel Lasker, the eminent German grandmaster who held the world crown longer than anyone (from 1894 to 1921), “is the victory of an inflexible fighter over a mind that shies away from anything obscure. Capablanca aims at precision, using scientific methods. Alekhine is a greater artist, has a more searching mind, and, in principle, such creative work is on a higher level”.
Richard Reti, a Czechoslovak grandmaster, remarked that “in games won by Alekhine, beneath the ice-cold cloak of modern technique, there burnt the bright and passionate flame of searchings for new paths — something quite alien to Capablanca”.
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Larisa Latynina was world champion in gymnastics for many years. She was born in December 1934 in Kherson. Her father Semyon Andreevich died in 1943, her mother Pelageya Anisimovna was a cleaner. As a child, Larisa began to study choreography and dreamed of ballet. In the 5th grade, after the club was closed, she began to attend the gymnastics section.
Later she became a member of the national school team of Ukraine. The girl took part in the all-Union championship in Kazan, but performed there unsuccessfully. Her coach Mikhail Sotnichenko helped the young athlete prepare for the next competition and she became a master of sports. At the age of 16, Larisa became the fourth in the adult championship of the republic in Kharkov.
In 1954 Latynina finished school and went to study at the Polytechnic Institute. But a year later she moved to the Kiev Institute of Physical Culture. In 1954, as part of the USSR national team, she took part in the 13th World Championships in Rome and became the first in floor exercise.
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The motto of this British noblewoman was the words of Hafez: “everything on earth is not forever, except for acts for the benefit of people”. Traveler, archaeologist, scout, she played an important role in the formation of two states – Iraq and Jordan.
Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell was born in June 1868 in England, in county of Durham. Her grandfather Lowthian Bell owned steel mills and held the title of Baronet. And her father Hugh Bell continued the family business. Gertrude was only three years old when her mother died.
The girl received a good home education and at the age of 15 she entered Oxford College, where she was one of the best students. At the same time, she found time for entertainment, loved to dance, play tennis and perform on the stage of an amateur theater.
One day, Uncle Frank Lascelles, British Ambassador to Romania, invited her to stay in Bucharest. That winter, she plunged into social life, not without irony, remarking in a letter to her father about the Romanian aristocrats: “They have fun as if every day is the last in their life.”
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