" said the 60-year-old in a statement. Dirty Picture is inspired by the case of Southern actressSilk Smitha, who committed suicide.Vidya Balanis playing the female lead in the movie, which is being produced byEkta Kapoor. Luthria said when he approached Naseer for the film, he was taken ...
Genetic researchers opine that they had descended from the Arabian horses crossed with the native Indian ponies and might have some influence of the Mongolian horses as well. However, the Marwari horse share a common genetic structure with their fellow Indian breed – the Kathiawari, while both ...
By sharing family pictures, memorabilia and her grandmother's needlework, Scarlett tells the story of her grandmother during the Depression, WWII and Cold War eras. As a board member of the California Heritage Quilt Project, Scarlett has documented her gramdmother's quilts in the Quilt Index....
Inaugurated in 1999, the sculpture garden was designed by the sculptor Shamim Sikder and represents the struggle and pride of the Bengali nation, featuring a main sculpture topped by Bangladesh’s national flag which is surrounded by 103 smaller statures, mostly representing the faces of pioneering ...
I found two accounts showing differing reasons for the seizure; first, the fact that she was taking on timber from US property. The other account indicated that Hinderwell was paying his Native American help in furs, which, as stated inReport of the commission of claims under the convention ...
some 20 years earlier. In 1763, as the result of the treaty ending the French and Indian War, France lost its military hold over the American colonies and all of its North American possessions east of the Mississippi River with the exception of two small islands off the coast of ...
‘Last Pass Under Heaven’, traditionally marked the western limits of civilisation. Beyond lay the rich jade fields of Khotan, the prized Heavenly Horses of Ferghana and – at the very edges of the western world – fabled Daqin, the ancient Chinese name for Rome. But in between lay ...
nymphsand winged horses at either end, was built between 1896 and 1900. It is named after TsarAlexander III, who had concluded theFranco-Russian Alliancein 1892. His sonNicholas IIlaid the foundation stone in October 1896. The style of the bridge reflects that of theGrand Palais, to which ...
This is an article from 1948 by filmmaker Lewis Jacobs that is considered the first substantial history of American avant-garde filmmaking called “Experimental Cinema in America.” It was published in the Hollywood Quarterly and is broken down into a couple chapters, exploring the typically little...