or a thing that made you feel squicked and scared, it was designed to make you wonder, and draw fear from that. You can imagine the reaction of many internet dwellers as they first scrolled down to see that thread.
The temperature was sizzling in New York City on the morning of Sunday, July 18, 1999, inching toward a high of 98 degrees. Bathed in broad sunlight, David Cone navigated the three northbound lanes of the FDR Drive, guiding his vehicle toward the players
then fleshed out over six seasons into a character-driven, mythologically rich, Emmy-winning existential adventure, the island-based drama had become one of the biggest pop-cultural obsessions in the world by the end of the aughts. Just one ...
Duchess Anne. Anne had herself given birth to a little boy shortly before Mary’s birth and had a house full of children, little Mary’s cousins. However, when her father was arrested for treason, having plotted to marry the Princess Elizabeth, and was being held in the Tower awaiting exe...
History of film - Global Cinema, Art Form, Technology: World War II physically and economically devastated the film industries of the Soviet Union, Japan, and most European nations. Italy’s early surrender, however, left its facilities relatively intact
(p. 418). Nor am I discussing the truly dangerous fiction they peddle to the world, such as the “Great Barrington Declaration” on the Covid pandemic or the fantasy ofclimate-change denialism, largely fueled by libertarians and theirfossil-fuel-burning patrons. Or the “right” to poison...
in real time, it went from going to do an update about one story and then, very quickly, it became the story. and it wasn’t just the story in sports. rudy gobert getting the virus was the story that changed the entire narrative of this pandemic in our country, period. end of ...
The Hellenistic Age suffers from some of the same disabilities, in the estimation of Classicists, as Late Antiquity, i.e. it doesn't measure up to the brilliance of the Golden Age of Greece and of late Republican and early Imperial Rome. However, the Hellenistic world, although mostly not...
Near the beginning of this year, fellow Web nerd and nuclear history buff Chris Griffith mentioned a project to put an entire book online:The Effects of Nuclear Weaponsby Samuel Glasstone and Philip J. Dolan, specifically the third (1977) edition. Like Chris, I own a physical copy of this...
The most important source of the New Wave lay in the theoretical writings ofAlexandre Astrucand, more prominently, ofAndré Bazin, whose thought molded an entire generation of filmmakers, critics, and scholars. In 1948 Astruc formulated the concept of thecaméra-stylo(“camera-pen”), in which...