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5 days ago · On her deathbed, Granny Weatherall drifts in and out of lucidity, remembering her life, her children and her work. The last memory she has before she dies is the one in which her groom leaves her waiting by herself on her wedding day.
4 days ago · “It seems impossibly fitting, and perfectly weird, that in order to celebrate the life and vision of the late DJ and counter cultural evangelist Andrew Weatherall, once a year pilgrims from all over the world make their way to Carcassonne, a fortified medieval city in the south of France that was home to the Cathar heresy and that is now the ...
5 days ago · The Merchant of Venice, comedy in five acts by William Shakespeare, written about 1596–97. In the play, a merchant named Antonio borrows money from Shylock, a Jewish moneylender, and is unable to repay the loan. There has been debate over whether Shakespeare displays anti-Semitism in his portrayal of Shylock.
2 days ago · The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 American musical fantasy film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). An adaptation of L. Frank Baum 's 1900 children's fantasy novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, it was primarily directed by Victor Fleming, who left production to take over the troubled Gone with the Wind.
2 days ago · The Exorcist is a 1973 American supernatural horror film directed by William Friedkin from a screenplay by William Peter Blatty, based on his 1971 novel.
1 day ago · The Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World; French: La Liberté éclairant le monde) is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor, within New York City.
1 day ago · List of countries by population (United Nations) This is a list of countries and other inhabited territories of the world by total population, based on estimates published by the United Nations in the 2024 revision of World Population Prospects. It presents population estimates from 1950 to the present. [2]
