Pulp International - Ten vintage foreign Hitchcock posters The headlines that mattered yesteryear. 1912—The Titanic Sinks Two and a half hours after striking an iceberg in the North Atlantic Ocean on its maiden voyage, the British passenger liner RMS Titanic sinks, dragging 1,517 people to their deaths. The number of dead amount to more than fifty percent of the passengers, due mainly to the fact the liner was not equipped with enough lifeboats. 1947—Robinson Breaks Color Line African-American baseball player Jackie Robinson officially breaks Major League Baseball's color line when he debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers. 1935—Dust Storm Strikes U.S. Exacerbated by a long drought combined with poor soil conservation techniques that caused excessive soil erosion on farmlands, a huge dust storm known as Black Sunday rages across Texas, Oklahoma, and several other states, literally turning day to night and redistributing an estimated 300,000 tons of topsoil. 1953—MK-ULTRA Mind Control Program Launched
Library Booklists: Adult Fiction: Crime Novels and Mystery Fiction To learn more about crime fiction, and readers advisory as it applies to crime fiction, check out Springfield (MA) City Library's excellent Murder in the Stacks: Reader's Advisory for Mystery and Detective Fiction for an outline of the history of the mystery. Mysteries featuring Amateur Detectives See also Cozies. Mostly Fiction: Detectives and Amateur Sleuths: Excellent resource for the authors listed. Not comprehensive, but provides depth of information on sleuths, bibliography, biography, web links, and reviews for 200+ authors. Note that detectives and amateur sleuths are all lumped together on this list. If You Like Amateur Sleuths - Female (Hennepin County Library, MN): Author, title, publication year, summary, webcat link for about 23 books featuring female amateur sleuths. If You Like Amateur Sleuths - Male (Hennepin County Library, MN): Author, title, publication year, summary, webcat link for about 15 books featuring male amateur sleuths. If You Like ... Mysteries Featuring Animals
9 Of The World's Most Inspiring Infographics We spend lots of time here at Co.Design hunting down the smartest and most creative infographics to feature daily, but we’re limited by what’s available on the web, what we have permission to publish, and what languages we (and you) can understand. Here to pick up where Infographic of the Day leaves off is Information Graphics (Taschen, April 2012), a 480-page doorstopper of a book that offers up a mind-boggling selection of infographics, many plucked from the furthest reaches of the media firmament. It has more than 400 examples, ranging from an illustration of stalled building projects in a Dutch design rag to a Nicholas Felton-designed chart of CNN.com traffic to a map of sonar and whale songs courtesy of a Danish geological institute. Preorder Information Graphics here.
221B Baker Street: Sherlock Holmes சிறுகதைகள் - அத்துவான வெளி தன் வீட்டிலே சும்மாத் தலையோடு வாசல் நடந்துகொண்டு சுகமாக வாழலாம் என எண்ணியவனுக்கு எதிரே வாசலில் பெரிய மரமொன்று பார்வைகொள்ள நிற்கிறது. வாயிற்பக்கம் எப்போதாவது வந்து நின்று போவோர் வருவோர்களைச் சும்மா நின்று கவனிப்புக் கொள்வதில், இந்த மரத்தையும் பார்வையில் பட்டுப்போகுமளவிற்கு வெறித்து நோக்குவது உண்டு. எந்த யுகத்திலிருந்து இது இப்படிக்கு இங்கே ஸ்தலவிருக்ஷமென நிற்கிறது என்பது புரியவில்லை. ஆனந்தமாக அது ஆகாயத்திற்கும் பூமிக்குமாக வளர்ந்து எட்டுத் திக்கையும் நோக்கிப் படர்ந்ததென இருப்பது எதற்காகவென்றும் தெரியவில்லை. பின்னிருந்து ‘என்ன சார் ஸௌக்கியமா? ‘தெரியாதவர்களும் தெரிந்தவர்களென ஏமாற்றுவது உண்டு ஸார்…நான் அப்படிஇல்லை. ‘ஆமாம் ஸார் அப்படி நினைப்பது தவறு’ என்றான் இவன். ‘இப்போது நீங்களா பேசுகிறீர்கள்-நான்தானே-உங்களைப் பிடித்து நான் பேசாதுபோனால் நீங்கள் தெரிந்தும் தெரியாதது மாதிரித்தானே போவீர்கள்…’ என்று உடம்பை நெளித்துக்கொண்டு கெஞ்சும் பாவனையில் பேசிவந்தது இவனுக்குப் பார்க்க பரிதாபமாக இருந்தது. ‘ஆமாம்-’ என்றான் இவன். ‘நானும் அப்படித்தான் நினைத்தேன். இரவு அந்நேரம் கோவிலில் கூட்டமே இல்லை.
Report - It’s story time: Natyarangam’s Bharatham Kathai Kathaiyaam (Part 2) - Lalitha Venkat It’s story time: Natyarangam’s Bharatham Kathai Kathaiyaam (Part 2) Text & pics: Lalitha Venkat, Chennai e-mail: lalvenkat@yahoo.com August 24, 2011 Aug 15 The evening started out interestingly. I asked the auto driver, how much to Narada Gana Sabha? He replied in English, “Three zero.” I said, “No. Definition of godliness was the theme for US based dancer Vidhya Subramanian, who presented ‘Namavali’ by R Choodamani. How did Vidhya work upon the story? The music could not use any lyrics as per Natyarangam's instructions. I did not want a literal depiction of the story. The parallel story of ‘Krishna-Sudhama’ is a popular one. Aug 16 US based Navia Natarajan was given the story of ‘Asalum Nagalum’ by Indira Parthasarathy. The parallel story of ‘Dhruva’ was the second piece, where the 5 year old child after being hurt by the harsh words of his stepmother Suruchi, goes to the forest to do tapas. “Choreographing the short story initially was quite a challenge as there were no lyrics.
The Comic Book Guy.com: "Blankets" Review Since I launched this website, there is one complaint that I've gotten a lot, and that complaint is, "you don't review enough American comic books, all you seem interested in reviewing is manga." And you know what? This statement is absolutely true. It's true that I don't review that many American comics as I could be reviewing, and it's true that I do have more of an interest in reviewing manga, but honestly, can you blame me? I mean, compared to American comics (where the market is made up of a good 90% of nothing but superhero and action series) manga is much more diverse, interesting, there are many more different genres in manga to work with than in American comics... in fact, there's just more manga out there PERIOD! I mean, there is only so many times I can review Spider-Man and Batman books and still have something interesting to say about them. However, that doesn't mean that there aren't any good American comics out there, they are just a little harder to find, is all.
Palace Original Articles click on image below to view article The Last Chapter Blacklist Postage Paid High Heels on Wet Pavement The best American film ever produced? Mystique Screwball Comedy Midnight Ramble After the Apex More Hollywood Ten Two From Siodmak With Kubrick Double Indemnity Style Out of the Past Ball of Fire Film Noir? Czech and Slovak Cinema The Russian tanks rolled into Prague in August 1968, and the country was cowed into toeing Moscow's political line. Funnily enough, the definitive end to the Prague Spring didn't happen until almost a year later with an ice hockey match some 650 miles away in Stockholm. It was the first major international sporting event between Czechoslovakia and the USSR since the invasion, and the Czechs splurged their hoarded foreign currency allowances to be able to attend and hold up signs such as "Your tanks won't help you now." In film, the ramifications were dramatic and, between 1969 and 1970, the film industry was reorganised and the liberal films that were planned and made during the Prague Spring were banned "forever." Jaromil Jireš's The Joke (Zert), for example, charts the bitterness of a student member of the Communist Party who is expelled from university and sentenced to hard labor after a harmless prank directed at a girl he loves. Jan Švankmajer: The Dark Side of the Fairy Tale
E316K -- Bremen I think that if there is any value in hearing writers talk, it will be in hearing what they can witness to and not what they can theorize about. My own approach to literary problems is very like the one Dr. Johnson's blind housekeeper used when she poured tea–she put her finger inside the cup. These are not times when writers in this country can very well speak for one another. In the twenties there were those at Vanderbilt University who felt enough kinship with each other's ideas to issue a pamphlet called, I'll Take My Stand, and in the thirties there were writers whose social consciousness set them all going in more or less the same direction; but today there are no good writers, bound even loosely together, who would be so bold as to say that they speak for a generation or for each other. Today each writer speaks for himself, even though he may not be sure that his work is important enough to justify his doing so. And his need, of course, is to be lifted up.