Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and to impress him takes on his multi-armed form and says, “Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” I suppose we all thought that one way or another. Related Reading American Prometheus: The Triumph and ...
VIDEO: <i>Oppenheimer</i> VFX Supervisor Giacomo Mineo—VIEW Conference Interview - CGW explores how leading-edge graphics techniques, including the 3D modeling, animation and visualization are used in such applications as CAD/CAM/CAE, architecture, scie
Forget any preconceived notions you might have about a historical biopic. "It’s a story of immense scope and scale," says Nolan. "And one of the most challenging projects I’ve ever taken on in terms of the scale of it, and in terms of encountering the breadth of Oppenheimer’s story...
Once considered a quirky or niche instrument, the ukulele has hada surge in popularityin recent years. But at the time my father gifted me with mine, there were no uke teachers around,[5]and I knew I wasn’t naturally gifted enough to have the discipline for self-taught lessons. So I ...
"I wanted to write something that wasn't just about pain and suffering, but about the possibility that we all have to be redeemed," she explained about the uplifting ballad, which unfurls the tragic story of a woman who accidentally causes the death of her son in a moment of di...
Some LASS (Liberal arts, social science) pieces I collected recently are these two pieces on the Bengal Famine here and here; more brutal history: The chilling sound that signalled death for IRA ‘informers’; also terrible: homosexuality was considered a disorder in psychiatry. I thought these...
In an interview, Amy Lee fromEvanescencedeclared "I AM Evanescence." Fidel Castrosaid of Che Guevara, 'he WAS the revolution'. Roy Bean, while serving as a Justice of the Peace, often called himself "Law West of the Pecos".See here. ...
He challenges the Emperor for the throne, and Feyd steps up to be Shaddam's champion. The two face off in a knife duel to the death — called Kanly in the books — which Paul narrowly wins. In beating the Emperor's champion, he also beats the Emperor, therefore allowing him to ...
They paid a heavy price for their action by being barred from the Olympics for life and the backlash here at home was loss of employment and they even faced death threats. If the Olympic committee would have acknowledged the struggle for racial equality instead of banning two great black athle...
In 1968, Robert Kennedy was assassinated just after winning the California primaries, which made him the front-runner in the presidential race. Had he reached the White House, he would have been able to reopen the investigation into his brother’s death five years earlier, and it is known fr...