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t. e. Aimee Elizabeth Semple McPherson (née Kennedy; October 9, 1890 – September 27, 1944), also known as Sister Aimee or Sister, was a Canadian Pentecostal evangelist and media celebrity in the 1920s and 1930s, [1] famous for founding the Foursquare Church. McPherson pioneered the use of broadcast mass media for wider dissemination of both ...
The Ministry of Truth (Newspeak: Minitrue) is the ministry of propaganda. As with the other ministries in the novel, the name Ministry of Truth is a deliberate misnomer because in reality, it serves the opposite: It is responsible for any necessary falsification of historical events. However, like the other ministries, the name is also apt ...
Telescreen. Telescreens are two-way video devices that appear in George Orwell 's dystopian 1949 novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. Omnipresent and almost never turned off, they are an unavoidable source of propaganda and tools of surveillance. The concept of the telescreen has been explored as a metaphor or allegory for the erosion of privacy in ...
Auteur Mostofa Sarwar Farooki is spearheading “Ministry of Love,” a 12-film anthology by the leading lights of the Bangladesh film industry for streamer Chorki. The broad theme of the films ...
Living Stream Ministry (LSM), originally named Stream Publishers when founded in 1965 by Witness Lee, [1] is a non-profit corporation currently based in Anaheim, California. LSM publishes the works of Watchman Nee and Witness Lee, including the Recovery Version of the Bible. LSM has been a member of the Evangelical Christian Publishers ...
Kenneth Max Copeland was born on December 6, 1936, [1] raised in West Texas near a United States Army Air Forces airfield. This inspired him to become a pilot. [2] [3]Copeland was a recording artist on the Imperial Records label, having one Billboard Top 40 hit, "Pledge of Love", which charted in the Top 40 on April 20, 1957, stayed on the charts for 15 weeks, and peaked at No. 17.
In 1955, an episode of BBC's The Goon Show, "1985", was broadcast, written by Spike Milligan and Eric Sykes and based on Nigel Kneale 's television adaptation. It was re-recorded about a month later with the same script but a slightly different cast. [3] "1985" parodies many of the main scenes in Orwell's novel.
A mosque minaret in Hyderabad, Pakistan fitted with loudspeakers. Loudspeakers were invented in the early 20th century, and they were introduced in mosques in the 1930s, where they are used by a muezzin for the adhan ("call to prayer"), [1] and sometimes for khutbah in Islam. Outdoor loudspeakers, usually mounted on tall minarets, are used five ...