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Otto - Wikipedia

Home Random Nearby Log in SettingsAbout WikipediaDisclaimers Open main menuSearchOtto Read in another language Watch this page EditThis article is about the given name. For other uses, see Otto (disambiguation).Otto is a masculine German given name and a surname. It originates as an Old High German short form (variants Audo, Odo, Udo) of Germanic names beginning in aud-, an element meaning "wealth, prosperity".[2]Otto von Bismarck is one of the famous bearers of this namePronunciati...

Unspooled and the Racist Legacy of Gone With the Wind

Unspooled and the Racist Legacy of ‘Gone With the Wind’ I sometimes get obsessed with certain podcasts, and one of my recent favorites is "Unspooled," a podcast that, on each episode, examines a movie from the American Film Institute’s top 100 list and discusses whether or not it deserves to be there. I was shocked and saddened when the show got to "Gone with the Wind." While the podcast hosts differed on how racist the film was, both of them had plenty of praise for it and agreed it belonge...

Authors on the Importance of Writing the Final Chapter First

Authors on the Importance of Writing the Final Chapter FirstBy Alison NastasiJune 30 2013Share:Writing isn’t necessarily a linear process. History shows that authors frequently composed their novels by writing or conceptualizing the final chapter or sentence first. Today marks the 77th anniversary of the publication of Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell. She famously wrote her best-selling story of the Old South backwards, penning the saddest parts of the Rhett Butler and Scarlett O’Hara...

Citizen Kane and Apocalypse Now – Deconstructing Cinematography - Newsshooter

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Overthinking it podcast Episode 574: Setup, Setup, Setup, Punchline

Support Overthinking It by becoming a member for $5/month! Jordan Stokes joins Mark Lee and Matthew Wrather to consider, "What even is a thing?" as they overthink John Carpenter’s seminal 1982 horror film, The Thing. Download (MP3) Subscribe: iTunes Other Apps The Thing Wikipedia and IMDbAmazon, iTunes Jibblies from the Homestar Runner WikiHoxter, J. (1996) "The Evil Dead, Die and Chase: From Slapstick to Splatshtick" (good luck finding it though)   Ep...

Battleship Potemkin 1925 | Public Domain Movies

Battleship Potemkin 1925 File:Броненосец «Потёмкин», noaudio.ogv Battleship Potemkin (, ), sometimes rendered as Battleship Potyomkin, is a 1925 silent film directed by Sergei Eisenstein and produced by Mosfilm. It presents a dramatized version of the mutiny that occurred in 1905 when the crew of the Russian battleship Potemkin rebelled against their officers of the Tsarist regime. Battleship Potemkin has been called one of the most influential propaganda films of all time, and was named ...

BBC - Future - The ‘light triad’ that can make you a good person

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Where Proof, Evidence and Imagination Intersect in Math | Quanta Magazine

Loading [MathJax]/extensions/MathMenu.js PhysicsMathematicsBiologyComputer ScienceAll ArticlesWhere Proof, Evidence and Imagination Intersect10Read LaterShare Copied!10CommentsRead LaterRead LaterQuantized AcademyWhere Proof, Evidence and Imagination IntersectBy Patrick HonnerMarch 14, 2019In mathematics, where proofs are everything, evidence is important too. But evidence is only as good as the model, and modeling can be dangerous business. So how much evidence is enough?10Read LaterBI...

SimpC From the Odyssey to Njals Saga: a voyage round the great myths | The Spectator

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Speaking of Bards and Brads and Bretts and Brains and Brats and Big Bird - Shakespeare references Q

It just occurred to me that maybe "check out the big brain on Brett" in Pulp Fiction might actually be a reference to poets in general, with Shakespeare being a prime example. SEE: Bard Influences - Shakespeare Iambic pentameter, for example, is a formula or system for hosting one's poetry. The structure accommodates a lot, while still giving the poem a structure to adhere this work to all of the other preceding artworks ever regarded by the audience. Hence, poets who respect and acknowl...