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20 hours ago · Box office. $104.8 million [4] [5] Apocalypse Now is a 1979 American epic war film produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola. The screenplay, co-written by Coppola, John Milius, and Michael Herr, is loosely inspired by the 1899 novella Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, with the setting changed from late 19th-century Congo to the Vietnam War.
2 days ago · 2. Magna Carta in the nineteenth century. A history of Magna Carta will often assert that the charter was rediscovered by Edward Coke in the seventeenth century, Footnote 25 how the multiple copies (i.e. the 1215 and 1225 versions of the charter) were reconciled by William Blackstone, Footnote 26 and then throughout the nineteenth century it develops a constitutional ‘totemic’ status.
1 day ago · Pauline Daniels: Get Me Before The Crematorium Does. Performances. Sat 14 Sep. 1. 2. 3. William Aston Hall is a regional theatre.
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20 hours ago · The literature on these subjects is vast; in addition to texts already cited, see Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer, The Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1986); Roy S. Porter, “The Scientific Revolution—A Spoke in the Wheel,” in Revolution in History, ed. Roy S. Porter and Mikuláš Teich (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1986), 290–316; David Linberg and Robert Westman, eds., Reappraisals of the ...
1 day ago · The central figures in this chapter include the pious Lady Ranelagh, who was Robert Boyle’s inseparable sister; the extravagant Duchess of Newcastle, a natural philosopher active in diverse literary genres; Christina, Queen of Sweden, who grappled with existential and metaphysical questions; Marie Meurdrac, the first female author of a chemistry book; Madame Fouquet, who also left written work; and Joanna Stephens, known for developing an acclaimed method for disintegrating bladder stones.
5 days ago · Preparations to film a Hollywood blockbuster in a rural Northumberland village have begun. Director Danny Boyle has chosen to set the third film in his zombie trilogy, 28 Years Later, in Rothbury...
3 days ago · This fall, Calliope Productions is thrilled to present The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) - an irreverent, zany, and frenetic romp through all 37 of Shakespeare’s plays in 97 minutes.
