On the Beach: Directed by Stanley Kramer. With Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire, Anthony Perkins. After a global nuclear war, the residents of Australia must come to terms with the fact that all life will be destroyed in a matter of months.
in opposition to Galen’s teaching but in conformity with the might of Aristotle’s opinion, that the size of the orifice of the hollow vein at the right chamber of the heart is greater than that of the body of the hollow vein, no matter where you measure the latter. Then...
… on these expanded membranes [butterfly wings] Nature writes, as on a tablet, the story of the modifications of species, so truly do all changes of the organisation register themselves thereon. Moreover, the same colour-patterns of the wings generally show, with great regularity, the ...
On the Beach: Directed by Stanley Kramer. With Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire, Anthony Perkins. After a global nuclear war, the residents of Australia must come to terms with the fact that all life will be destroyed in a matter of months.
On the Beach, American dramatic film, released in 1959, that was set in the aftermath of an imagined World War III. It was based on the apocalyptic novel of the same name by Nevil Shute. The fatal fallout of nuclear war in the year 1964 serves as the fic