"Rising Damp (film) Rising Damp is a 1980 comedy film based on the British situation comedy ""Rising Damp"", which aired on ITV from 1974 to 1978. The television series was, in turn, adapted from Eric Chappell's stage play ""The Banana Box"". Chappell adapted the play to television, and wrote the screenplay for this feature film. The film's director was Joseph McGrath. Leonard Rossiter plays Rupert Rigsby, the middle-aged landlord of a decrepit townhouse. Rigsby has fallen for his only female tenant, Ruth Jones (Frances de la Tour). Ruth, however, prefers Philip, who is much younger, more attractive, and more sophisticated"
"into the Iroquois tribe and given the Mohawk name ""Desagondensta"", meaning ""he stands people on their feet"". Jones was baptised Anglican by Reverend Ralph Leeming at the request of his father in 1820, but internally he did not accept Christianity. Jones would later say that although the instruction he received in Christianity from his father, his stepmother and his old schoolteacher George Hughes had attracted him to the religion, the conduct of the white Christian settlers ""drunk, quarreling, fighting and cheating the poor Indians, and acting as if there was no God"" convinced him there could be no truth in"
"Mary Jones had become a national icon by the end of the nineteenth century, and was a significant figure in Welsh nonconformism. Mary Jones was from a poor family, the daughter of a weaver, who lived at Llanfihangel-y-pennant, Abergynolwyn, at the foot of Cader Idris near Dolgellau. She was born in December 1784. Her parents were devout Calvinistic Methodists, and she herself professed the Christian faith at eight years of age. Having learned to read in the circulating schools organised by Thomas Charles, it became her burning desire to possess a Bible of her own. The nearest copy was at"
"excelled at sports and found solace in the nature of Jamaica. Marjorie and Robert eventually brought their children – including the 13 year old Grace – to live with them in the US, where they had settled in Lyncourt, Salina, New York, near Syracuse. It was in the city that her father had established his own ministry, the Apostolic Church of Jesus Christ, in 1956. Jones continued her schooling and after she graduated, enrolled at Onondaga Community College majoring in Spanish. Jones began to rebel against her parents and their religion; she began wearing makeup, drinking alcohol, and visiting gay"
"the Credit River settlement, instructing the Indian girls in sewing and other domestic skills. The Mississaugas of the Credit Mission dubbed Eliza ""Kecheahgahmequa"" (""Gichi-agaamiikwe"", ""the lady from beyond the [blue] waters""/""woman from across the great shore""). Jones' translation of the Gospel of Matthew was published in 1832, and around the same time he served as an editor for his brother John's translation of the Gospel of John. Jones was ordained a minister on October 6, 1833 by Reverend George Marsden in York, Upper Canada. He was the first Ojibwa to be ordained as a Methodist preacher. The same year, the"
"include ""Pride's Crossing"" (1997–98) and ""The Glass Menagerie"" (2013–14). Her film appearances include ""The Horse Whisperer"" (1998), ""Erin Brockovich"" (2000), ""The Village"" (2004), ""Amelia"" (2009) and ""The Beaver"" (2011). In 2012, she played Dr. Judith Evans on the NBC drama ""Awake"". Jones was born in Paris, Tennessee. Her mother was a high school teacher and her father owned a flower shop. Her parents were very supportive of her theatrical ambitions, encouraging her interest by sending her to classes with local drama teacher, Ruby Krider. Jones takes great pains to credit her high school speech teacher, Linda Wilson, with her first"
"Bessie Jones Mary Elizabeth ""Bessie"" Jones (February 8, 1902 – July 17, 1984) was an American gospel and folk singer credited with helping to bring folk songs, games and stories to wider audiences in the 20th Century. Alan Lomax, who first encountered Jones on a field recording trip in 1959, said, ""She was on fire to teach America. In my heart, I call her the Mother Courage of American Black traditions."" Jones grew up in an impoverished but musical family in the small black farming community of Dawson, Georgia. Her grandfather, a former slave born in Africa, taught her many"
"baptised a Methodist. Despite her baptism, she refused to become a Christian. Her second child by Augustus Jones, Kahkewaquonaby, later known as the missionary Peter Jones, was born in 1802. The same year, Jones ended his relationship with Tuhbenahneequay as he wanted the respect of his white Christian neighbours and Tuhbenahneequay refused to convert. Both children were left with Tuhbenahneequay. She later married Chief Mesquacosy, with whom she had 8 children, including Maungwudaus in 1811 and Wahbunoo in 1817. After the conversion of her son Kahkewaquonaby to Methodism in 1823, she was quickly converted, and moved to Davis' Hamlet where"
"arose during this time; ""The Daughters of Mother Jones"" and ""The Freedom Fighters"". At the peak of the strike around 500 women were involved in supporting the miners, most of them housewives. One group of women that formed during the strike was the ""Daughters of Mother Jones"". The group took their name from Mary Harris Jones, also known as ""Mother Jones"", a famous mine union activist. The group chose the name because they wanted to support the miners' benefits and follow the same beliefs as Jones. The Daughters performed many of the same actions as other women supporters during the"
"Mary Harris Jones Mary G. Harris Jones (baptized 1837; died 1930), known as Mother Jones, was an Irish-born American schoolteacher and dressmaker who became a prominent organized labor representative and community organizer. She helped coordinate major strikes and cofounded the Industrial Workers of the World. Jones worked as a teacher and dressmaker, but after her husband and four children all died of yellow fever in 1867 and her dress shop was destroyed in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, she became an organizer for the Knights of Labor and the United Mine Workers union. From 1897, at about 60 years"
"in Montgomery, where they made their home. Mary Gaston Jones died on May 12, 1989 in her 101st year—83 years after the death of her husband's first wife. Jones's family was devoutly Christian—his mother a Primitive Baptist and his father an ""immersed"" Methodist. The family attended a nearby Methodist church where Bob Jones was converted at age 11. But as a portent of Jones's later non-denominationalism, he too was baptized by immersion before joining the Methodists. At age 12, Jones was made Sunday School superintendent, and he held his first revival meeting at his home church—seeing sixty conversions in a"
"children with Marjorie's mother and her new husband, Peart. Jones knew him as ""Mas P"" ('Master P') and later noted that she ""absolutely hated him""; as a strict disciplinarian he regularly beat the children in his care, representing what Jones described as ""serious abuse"". She was raised into the family's Pentecostal faith, having to take part in prayer meetings and Bible readings every night. She initially attended the Pentecostal All Saints School, before being sent to a nearby public school. As a child, shy Jones had only one schoolfriend and was teased by classmates for her ""skinny frame"", but she"
"Jones was bilingual and bicultural, he could speak to and relate to the Mississaugas and the white Christian settlers in Upper Canada. Later that year, Reverend Alvin Torry set up a congregation centered around Jones and Chief Thomas Davis (Tehowagherengaraghkwen) composed entirely of Indian members. The pair encouraged converted Indians to settle around Davis' home, which acquired the name ""Davis' Hamlet"" or ""Davisville"". Jones and Seth Crawford taught Sunday school for the growing community, which began building a chapel in the spring of 1824. Many of Jones' relatives were quickly converted and moved to Davis' Hamlet, including his mother Tuhbenahneequay,"
"of age, she was known as Mother Jones. In 1902, she was called ""the most dangerous woman in America"" for her success in organizing mine workers and their families against the mine owners. In 1903, to protest the lax enforcement of the child labor laws in the Pennsylvania mines and silk mills, she organized a children's march from Philadelphia to the home of President Theodore Roosevelt in New York. Mary G. Harris was born on the north side of the city of Cork, Ireland, the daughter of Roman Catholic tenant farmers Richard Harris and Ellen (née Cotter) Harris. Her exact"
"on December 22, 1922. Her mother, a conservative Irish Catholic, named her ""Mary Jane"". She was raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where she attended Catholic school. At the age of 13, she was involved in an altercation with a nun who tried to cane her, but Rathbun fought back. As a teenager, she moved out of her home and found a job as a waitress; she worked as a waitress for most of her adult life. Social activism appealed to her from a young age; she traveled from Chicago to Wisconsin to campaign for the right of miners to form unions."
"her daughter Wechikiwekapawiqua and Chief Wageezhegome (""Wegiizhigomi"", ""Who Possesses the Day""), Wechikiwekapawiqua's husband and Jones' uncle Joseph Sawyer (Nawahjegezhegwabe (""Nawajii-giizhigwabi"", ""He who Rests Sitting upon the Sky"")). Jones received his first official position in the church – exhorter – on March 1, 1825. In this role, he spoke at services after local preachers and assisted travelling preachers during their circuit rides. Church officials including Torry and Case recognised the need for a member fluent in Ojibwe who could translate hymns and bible passages, and present the Christian religion to the Indians in terms they could understand. Jones was put to"
"actually named her ""Diane"", but, a clerical error resulted in her name being recorded as ""Diana"" on her birth certificate. She was listed as ""Diane"" during the first Supremes records, and she introduced herself as ""Diane"" until early in the group's heyday. Her friends and family still call her ""Diane"". Ross's grandfather John E. Ross, a native of Gloucester County, Virginia, was born to Washington Ross and Virginia Baytop. Virginia Baytop's mother Francis ""Frankey"" Baytop was a former slave who had become a midwife after the Civil War. Ross and her family originally lived on Belmont Road in the North"
"called to me, 'Tom, you must go with me.' His looks were ugly and his voice was savage. I was very much afraid, and began to cry, holding on to my mother's clothes and begging her to protect me, and not let the man take me away."" Thomas H. Jones took his last name from Mr. Jones the storekeeper, for whom he worked as a house servant and then a store clerk. Jones obtained some education from Mr. Jones. At the age of 20, Thomas married Lucilla Smith, a young woman of 17 and slave to a neighbor, Mrs. Moore."
"Peter Jones (missionary) Peter Jones (January 1, 1802 – June 29, 1856) was an Ojibwa Methodist minister, translator, chief and author from Burlington Heights, Upper Canada. His Ojibwa name was Kahkewāquonāby (""Gakiiwegwanebi"" in the Fiero spelling), which means ""[Sacred] Waving Feathers"". In Mohawk, he was called Desagondensta, meaning ""he stands people on their feet"". In his youth his band of Mississaugas had been on the verge of destruction. As a preacher and a chieftain, as a role model and as a liaison to governments, his leadership helped his people survive contact with Europeans. Jones was raised by his mother Tuhbenahneequay"
"Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), and was renamed the Peoples Temple Christian Church Full Gospel. This affiliation was a successful attempt to both raise the dwindling membership and restore the reputation of the organization. In February 1960, the Temple opened a soup kitchen for the poor, and expanded their social services to include rent assistance, job placement services, free canned goods, clothing, and coal for winter heating. Jones and his wife helped to increase the Temple's soup kitchen service to an average of about 2,800 meals per month. The Temple's public profile was further elevated when Jones was appointed to"
"of ""Cayce"", which he chose to spell as ""Casey"". Jones married Mary Joanna (""Janie"") Brady (born 1866), whose father owned the boarding house where Jones was staying. Since she was Catholic, he decided to convert and was baptized on November 11, 1886, at St. Bridget's Catholic Church in Whistler, Alabama, to please her. They were married at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Jackson on November 25, 1886. They bought a house at 211 West Chester Street in Jackson, where they raised their three children. By all accounts he was a devoted family man and teetotaler. Jones went to work for"
"Georgina Spelvin Georgina Spelvin (born March 1, 1936) is the stage name of Shelley Bob Graham, a former American actress and pornographic performer who is best known as the star of the classic pornographic film ""The Devil in Miss Jones"". Spelvin was born in Houston, Texas at 2:24 pm on March 1, 1936 as Shelley Bob Graham. Her father was a geophysicist, and the family moved frequently. She often took dancing lessons during childhood. She graduated from high school in 1954. ""At first, I wanted to be an opera singer but my voice wasn't good enough. My second choice was"
"O. T. Jones Sr. Ozro Thurston Jones Sr. (March 26, 1891 – September 23, 1972) was a Pentecostal - Holiness denomination leader and minister, who was the second Senior Bishop of the Church of God in Christ, Inc. from (1962–1968), succeeding Bishop Charles Harrison Mason, who was the founder. The Church of God in Christ (COGIC) is the fourth largest denomination in the United States. Jones was born in Fort Smith, Arkansas, the son of Baptist parents, Marion and Mary Jones. As a young man, in 1912, he experienced and confessed salvation and ""spirit baptism"" or ""infilling"" as a second"
"child of Linwood Jones, a former U.S. Marine, and Ruby Jones (later Ruby Jones-Mitchell). She has one older brother named Christopher. As a child, Jones attended Queen of All Saints Elementary School in Brooklyn. At the age of 9, her parents separated, and Jones was raised by her father, with whom she had a tumultuous relationship. After being kicked out of her house by her father, Jones dropped out of high school and started living out on the streets. While still a teen, Jones met The Notorious B.I.G. a.k.a. Biggie Smalls (real name Christopher Wallace), who was a key figure"
"include ""A Few Good Men"" (2005), ""Blithe Spirit"" (2009), ""Top Girls"" (2011), ""Beautiful Thing"" (2013) and """" (2014). Jones was born Sarah Anne Jones in Chadderton, Oldham, on 27 August 1978, the daughter of Chris and Jenny Jones, an engineer and a secretary, respectively. She has an older brother named Gary. Jones was brought up as a Catholic; her priest suggested to her father she be christened Sarah Anne, instead of Suranne, her great-grandmother's name, as Suranne was not ""a proper name"". Jones grew up in a house on Foxdenton Lane, surrounded by two farms and their fields and commented"
"Noel Jones (Pentecostal bishop) Noel Jones (born January 31, 1950) is an American minister. He is the senior pastor of the City of Refuge Church in Gardena, California, which has about 17,000 members, and was formerly the Greater Bethany Community Church. Jones was born in Spanish Town, Jamaica on January 31, 1950. One of seven children born to Bishop Robert (who was a politician and Apostolic clergyman) and Marjorie Jones. He was raised alongside a diverse array of siblings (one of whom is the actress and singer Grace Jones). His parents took him and his two siblings at the time,"
"Jones preached that alcohol, dances, and the theater, were sinful. He became known for his admonition, ""Quit Your Meanness."" As an example of his preaching, once in an evangelistic Campaign in San Antonio, Texas, Jones hollered that the only difference between San Antonio and hell was that there was a river running down the middle of it. Jones married Laura McElwain of Kentucky. They resided at Roselawn, a mansion in Cartersville, Georgia. By 1895, the two story house had been lifted up with an enormous first floor added underneath. Also on the property were a schoolhouse, greenhouse, smokehouse, a large"
"by a wife and three grown sons. Alex Jones (preacher) Alex C. Jones Jr. (September 18, 1941 – January 14, 2017) was an African-American Roman Catholic deacon, preacher and leader who converted from Pentecostalism to Catholicism. Jones was born in 1941. He graduated from Wayne State University in 1965 with a degree in art education. From 1975 to 1982, he was the senior minister in the Zion Congregational Church of God in Christ, the second oldest Pentecostal church in Detroit, Michigan, and from 1982 to 2000 he was the senior minister in Maranatha Christian Church, an Evangelical Charismatic church in"
"Christian settlers did not, and Augustus Jones ended his relationship with Tuhbenahneequay in 1802. Peter and his elder brother John were raised by Tuhbenahneequay in the ""Midewiwin"" religion, customs and lifestyle of their Mississauga ancestors, and learned to hunt and fish to support themselves. He was named ""Kahkewāquonāby"" by his maternal grandfather, Chief Wahbanosay, during a dedicated feast. A son of Wahbanosay's who had died at age seven had been given the same name. The name translates into English as ""[sacred] waving feathers"" and denotes feathers plucked from the eagle, which was sacred to the Mississaugas. This put him under"
"to compete in the Miss USA pageant which she won. Jones took on her responsibilities on her terms. Unlike previous titleholders, Jones was an outspoken supporter of Women's Lib and had marched in peace rallies. She declared she was pro-choice on abortion and against the Vietnam War. She appears under a pseudonym in Studs Terkel's 1980 book ""American Dreams: Lost & Found"" where she recalled Jones studied at the University of Colorado but dropped out in 1971 to pursue an acting career. Amanda Jones (Miss USA) Amanda Clara Jones (born October 28, 1950) is a former beauty queen from Evanston,"
"and entering employment working for L’Oréal selling cosmetics. A former punk rock guitarist and singer active during the 1990s in an all-female band called Krunch, Jones is reported to have been living on welfare benefits (which she denied) in a council house in Chatham, Kent and to have used a food bank before her departure for Syria. Spending much time on the internet, she became interested in witchcraft and alternative life-styles. Jones converted to Islam and left her previous partner claiming, in social media exchanges with ""Sunday Times"" journalist Dipesh Gadher, that the Iraq War had converted her (around May"
"Mary Jones and her Bible The story of Mary Jones and her Bible inspired the founding of the British and Foreign Bible Society. Mary Jones (16 December 1784 – 28 December 1864) was a Welsh girl who, at the age of fifteen, walked twenty-six miles barefoot across the countryside to buy a copy of the Welsh Bible from Thomas Charles because she did not have one. Rev. Thomas Charles then used her story in proposing to the Religious Tract Society that it set up a new organisation to supply Wales with Bibles. Together with the Welsh hymnwriter Ann Griffiths (1776–1805),"
"James F. Jones (minister) James Francis Marion Jones (November 24, 1907 – August 12, 1971), also known as the Rt. Rev. Dr. James F. Jones, D.D and as Prophet Jones, was a black religious leader, televangelist, faith healer and pastor who led the religious movement that developed into the Church of Universal Triumph, Dominion of God, Inc. from 1938 until his death in 1971. As ""Prophet Jones"", James F. Jones claimed and his followers ascribed to him, divine powers from God as a special premillennial ""incarnation of the spirit of Jesus Christ"". Jones was a contemporary of other religious leaders"