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19 CE Expulsion from Rome

December 25th, 2023

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 19 CE Expulsion from Rome (essay) See all of 19 CE Expulsion from Rome, no other writeups in this node. (essay) by The Debutante Mon Sep 29 2003 at 15:16:20 The Background: In 19 CE, Tiberius expelled the Egyptian and Jewish residents from the city of Rome. The move was effective only within the city itself, not across the Empire, and it was not a permanent measure. What was it, then, that Tiberius was trying to achieve? The Sou...

Lauriston Garden Mystery - Chapter 3 full text - A Study in Scarlet - Sherlock Holmes

December 25th, 2023

Summary of the below text by Microsoft Copilot (AI/Bing) "The Lauriston Garden Mystery" is the third chapter of "A Study in Scarlet" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. In this chapter, Dr. John Watson is introduced to Sherlock Holmes, who is asked by Tobias Gregson, a detective at Scotland Yard, to help solve the mysterious death of an American man named Enoch Drebber. The corpse was found in an empty house in Brixton, with no apparent wound marks or robbery evident. Holmes deduces the man's profes...

Lion - Jupiter - Elephant

December 24th, 2023

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 The Lion, Jupiter, and the Elephant (thing) See all of The Lion, Jupiter, and the Elephant, no other writeups in this node. (thing) by Aesop Wed Mar 01 2000 at 14:27:20 Aesop's Fables THE LION wearied Jupiter with his frequent complaints. "It is true, O Jupiter!" he said, "that I am gigantic in strength, handsome in shape, and powerful in attack. I have jaws well provided with teeth, and feet furnished with claws, and I lord it ov...

Say Goodbye to Hollywood: John Schlesinger’s The Day of the Locust (1975)

December 23rd, 2023

By Jeremy Carr. There has never been a self-referential Hollywood feature quite like 1975’s The Day of the Locust, a twisting and twisted tale of sullied lives, desperation, and, ultimately, sheer madness." Hollywood has always been rather good at building itself up, generating films that flaunt the glamour of Tinseltown, the glory of sun-kissed stardom, and the charm of movie magic. At the same time, and particularly in the hands of more iconoclastic filmmakers, Hollywood has a...

Great Films Based on Books

December 22nd, 2023

Clip source: Great%20Films%20Based%20on%20Books%20%7C%20LibraryThing Skip to main content Come join our LibraryThing 2023 Roundup Hunt! Dismiss https://www.librarything.com/pic/10346985Great Films Based on Books Description Book lovers often have very strong opinions about how their favorite stories ought to be adapted, when being made into films. Our List of the Month this November is devoted to films that got it right—films that were successfully adapted from books, or that even improv...

VISITORS FROM THE ARKANA GALAXY (1981)

December 15th, 2023

Gosti iz galaksije; AKA Visitors from the Galaxy366 Weird Movies may earn commissions from purchases made through product links.DIRECTED BY: Dusan VukoticFEATURING: Zarko Potocnjak, Ksenia Prohaska, Lucie ZulováPLOT: An aspiring science fiction writer finds he has materialized the aliens from his long-gestating novel, including a space monster.[link ]COMMENTS: Visitors from the Arkana Galaxy is a curious artifact from nowhere. Or at least, from nowhere that exists anymore: a co-production bet...

pure - Rebecca

December 2nd, 2023

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 pure (thing) See all of pure, there are 3 more in this node. (thing) by CapSkippy Sun Jan 13 2002 at 23:39:35 "Pure" is a novel by Rebbecca Ray, and it was a huge success for young girls and women that remember what it’s like to be a young girl. In Britain, where it was originally published by Penguin Books in 1998, it went by the name "A Certain Age", but it was republished in America as "Pure". The new title is ironic, I guess...

Telecom history

November 28th, 2023

Introduction This is a book about cops, and wild teenage whiz-kids, and lawyers, and hairy-eyed anarchists, and industrial technicians, and hippies, and high-tech millionaires, and game hobbyists, and computer security experts, and Secret Service agents, and grifters, and thieves. This book is about the electronic frontier of the 1990s. It concerns activities that take place inside computers and over telephone lines. A science fiction writer coined the useful term "cyberspace" in 1982. ...

Homer as metaphorically blind

November 25th, 2023

Homer as metaphorically blind Wavelength.ai says: There are literary readings and discussions on the question of whether Homer (the poet) was blind or if there is metaphorical significance to the legend of Homer himself. Some scholars believe that Homer and his blindness are legendary due to the lack of information about his life. You can find more information in the following sources: 1. "On the Cultural Figure—and Lived Reality—of the Blind Writer" - [Read more](https://lithub.com/on-the...

Pianoman

November 24th, 2023

Download PDFIt's clear these people have no fucking idea what a real estate novelist does. The hustle is nonstop. Ever hear of The House of Mirth? I wrote it. TIu House of thz Spiits? Nfine. Ttu House of 'ttu Sam Gablzs? I wrote half that's three and a half gables. Tlu Haunting of - Hilt House? The House bn Maryo Strufr Btzak House? Paul. Paul. Paul. Those novels made the careers of Whar- ton, Allende, Hawthorne, Jackson, Cisneros, Dickens. RENGW (Real Estate Novelist Ghost Writing) is why "P...

Bell Labs and BSD

November 23rd, 2023

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 BSD (thing) See all of BSD, there is 1 more in this node. (thing) by nyte Tue May 14 2002 at 5:12:35 Unix was born in the womb of Bell Labs, then a division of AT&T, in 1969. Since then it has had a long and convoluted history resulting in a multitude of flavors and versions. One of the most dominant of Unix's progeny is FreeBSD, as well as its cousins NetBSD and OpenBSD. Prologue In 1969, Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and others a...

Golf comms

November 17th, 2023

Golf/Gold, Arnold Palmer, Spalding, Tembo, Macho Man, Tiger Woods, Objectivity, Little League, Bosco, Moonwalker, UpdatesThe biggest stories right now are connected in a way you may not have noticed.06/10/2023 Trump looming indictment for handling of Classified docs at his Bedminster Golf resort.06/11/2023 Saudi Arabia Completes Its Hostile Takeover of U.S. GolfWhy Golf?Time to decode Pro Golf!GOLF = ?This takeover by Saudi Arabia is something Donald Trump has supported!PGA tour cancelled Tru...

The Yellow Brick Road Around The World

November 17th, 2023

Update: Hamish Harding, Harding: Money Bill, Harding: Tonya, Update: Wyndham, Sulla, UglyFast, Ick, Update: Farewell, Update: Elephant Mario, Sentai, Spy JobsAll of my posts are a mixture of highly confident solid comms and mere hypothesis. I’d love to only include the best, but all of what I do is a work in progress. Every decode confirmed 100 different ways began as a hypothesis, sometimes built from nothing more than 1 tenuous connection.I say that because among my most confident decodes i...

Reviewing AI’s starring role in cinema - ITWeb

October 27th, 2023

Artificial intelligence (AI) has always sparked storytellers' imaginations, bringing them into new, imaginative worlds. Movies, as a strong storytelling medium, provide us a peek into the future possibilities of AI and the impacts it might have on existence.Earlier films such as "2001: A Space Odyssey" and "The Terminator" depicted AI and robots as entities that develop self-awareness and, consequently, a desire to overthrow or harm their human creators.HAL 9000, the intelligent computer in "...

JLA 94

October 26th, 2023

ameriwire | Log Out | Preferences | Drafts | Help | Random You have 1 C! and 13 votes left today. Yay! You gained 1 GP. chat | inbox Near Matches Ignore ExactFull TextFull Text Everything2 JLA #94 (thing) See all of JLA #94, no other writeups in this node. (thing) by Jet-Poop (21 s) Rep: 38 ( +41 / -3 ) (Rep Graph) (+) Sat Mar 13 2004 at 12:04:31 WARNING! SPOILERS AHEAD! DAMN YOU, WOMAN, YOU'VE IMPEDED MY WORK SI...

Cruel Frederick

October 24th, 2023

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 The Story of Cruel Frederick (thing) See all of The Story of Cruel Frederick, no other writeups in this node. (thing) by e2reneta Thu Aug 17 2000 at 0:56:09 The first story in Hoffman's Struwwelpeter. This Frederick! this Frederick! A naughty, wicked boy was he; He caught the flies, poor little things, And then tore off their tiny wings; He killed the birds, and broke the chairs, And threw the kitten...

Cultural Sophistication and Self-Reference on American Television

October 20th, 2023

Fully:Cultural Sophistication and Self-Reference on American Television: Seeds of Hope?by Ralph DumainGenerally when I look at American culture these days I see little but degeneracy. I am rarely heartened even by the obvious sophistication that our society has achieved in certain respects over the past two decades, because it is so heavily counterbalanced by increased fragmentation, intellectual laziness, dehumanization, and superficiality. The sophistication that we do have is not so much a...

Alice in Wonderland Chapter Three Creaticely Revised

October 19th, 2023

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 Alice in Wonderland (idea) See all of Alice in Wonderland, there are 2 more in this node. See also: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (idea) by Azound Wed Jun 28 2000 at 8:38:47 Remake of Chapter VIII The Sea in the Puddle A LARGE ROSE-TREE stood near the entrance of the garden: the roses on it were white. Alice took a step towards the tree, and noticed a puddle to the side of it. She stepped into the puddle, and felt the gro...

Containing Russia

October 16th, 2023

Alexander Kluge, Russia Container, trans. Alexander Booth (Chicago: Seagull Books, 2022). 392pp., £27.50 hb., 978 1 80309 065 8Russia Container is not a book about Russia. It’s about the images and stories that East Germans had of Soviet Russia before the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and after. Alexander Kluge wrote it ‘on commission’ by his sister Alexandra Kluge, who, unlike her brother, lived in the German Democratic Republic after the separation of their parents. There Alexandra learnt...

Nuclear Transparency

October 15th, 2023

Some secrets are difficult to see passively, but easy to see as a few "coincidences" are lined up. For example, did you know the Bikini was named after Bikini Atoll Nuclear testing? 07/01/1946 Bikini Atoll: First Post War Nuclear Detonation07/05/1946 Bikini Debut: named after Atomic tests. It was so obscene for the time they had to hire a stripper to model it! It became normalized after Playboy, Hollywood, and beauty pageants kept them in the public eye. By itself...

Hollywood Studio System

October 13th, 2023

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 Hollywood Studio System (thing) See all of Hollywood Studio System, no other writeups in this node. (thing) by mustard_monkey Tue Nov 19 2002 at 20:34:32 "The American Cinema is a classical art so why not admire what is most admirable. Not only the talent of this or that film maker but the genius of the system" The Hollywood Studio System 1930-59 The studio system had an equilibrium of components that is rare in the film industr...

Lily - fiction from E2

October 12th, 2023

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 Lily (thing) See all of Lily, there is 1 more in this node. (thing) by Narya Sat Sep 27 2003 at 21:06:29 The moon hung sick and pallid in the stale night, a sliver, giving off no light. I was leaning against the wall of some monolith of a building, trying not to breathe the thick, rotting air. Another night in this hole. I was considering going back home, but thought better of it. I had left her there, and I didn't need to go ba...

One Thousand Ounces of Gold

October 9th, 2023

ameriwire | Log Out | Preferences | Drafts | Help | Random You have 1 C! and 47 votes left today. Yay! You gained 1 GP. chat | inbox Near Matches Ignore ExactFull TextFull Text Everything2 One Thousand Ounces of Gold Classic (thing) See all of One Thousand Ounces of Gold Classic, no other writeups in this node. (thing) by chappyzoodle (11.6 y) Rep: 31 ( +31 / -0 ) (Rep Graph) (+) Thu Nov 22 2007 at 23:59:36 One T...

Centauridae - Half-Women Half-Horses of Greek Mythology

October 9th, 2023

 Search  GreekReporter.comAncient GreeceCentauridae, the Half-Women Half-Horses of Greek Mythology Centauridae, the Half-Women Half-Horses of Greek Mythology By Patricia Claus October 8, 2023  Facebook  Centauridae, creatures from Greek mythology that were a combination of females and horses, are depicted in this Roman-era mosaic in Tunisia, showing the goddess Aphrodite, or Venus, in the middle. The mosaic was created in the secon...

Saltburn

October 6th, 2023

LONDON 2023Review: Saltburnby David Katz06/10/2023 - Emerald Fennell’s follow-up to Promising Young Woman is a scabrous thriller about the British upper classes, and those who wish to infiltrate themBarry Keoghan in SaltburnSaltburn, the glossy new film by fast-rising British writer-director Emerald Fennell, screening at BFI London, has "remember whens" and "if onlys" on its mind: nostalgia for the prim and privileged Oxford education of her youth, with its sense of abundant possibility for t...

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