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Albert Pierrepoint (/ ˈ p ɪər p ɔɪ n t / PEER-point; 30 March 1905 – 10 July 1992) was an English hangman who executed between 435 and 600 people in a 25-year career that ended in 1956. His father Henry and uncle Thomas were official hangmen before him. Pierrepoint was born in Clayton in the West Riding of Yorkshire. His family struggled ...
Annie is a musical with music by Charles Strouse, lyrics by Martin Charnin, and a book by Thomas Meehan.It is based on the 1924 comic strip Little Orphan Annie by Harold Gray (which in turn was inspired from the poem Little Orphant Annie by James Whitcomb Riley).
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 16 January 2025. American photographer (born 1949) Annie Leibovitz Leibovitz in 2008 Born Anna-Lou Leibovitz (1949-10-02) October 2, 1949 (age 75) Waterbury, Connecticut, U.S. Education San Francisco Art Institute Occupations Photographer visual artist Partner(s) Susan Sontag (1989–2004; Sontag's death ...
From 2007 to 2014, Disney released a series of advertisements created by photographer Annie Leibovitz, and featured celebrities in Disney fairy tale scenes to promote Disney Parks' Year of a Million Dreams celebration.
Pierrepoint is a 2005 British film directed by Adrian Shergold about the life of British executioner Albert Pierrepoint. The film premiered at the 2005 Toronto International Film Festival [1] and was released in the UK on 7 April 2006. [2] In the United States, it had a limited theatrical release at three screens on 7 June 2007, grossing $21,766.
Skin is in! There have been no shortage of wardrobe malfunctions in 2017, and we have stars like Bella Hadid, Chrissy Teigen and Courtney Stodden to thank for that.
Edith Thompson was born Edith Jessie Graydon on 25 December 1893, at 97 Norfolk Road in Dalston, London, the first of the five children of William Eustace Graydon (1867–1941), a clerk with the Imperial Tobacco Company, and his wife Ethel Jessie Graydon (née Liles) (1872–1938), the daughter of a police constable.
Styllou Christofi was born in Cyprus, then a British protectorate, to a Cypriot family. She grew up in a small, isolated village and received no formal education. According to British historian and crime author Philip Jones, the insularity of Cypriot villages such as the one Christofi was from meant that personal disagreements and arguments among residents were seen as local matters, and could ...