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22 hours ago · Main cast members (from left to right) Mitch Pileggi, Gillian Anderson, David Duchovny, and William B. Davis at the 2016 Chicago Wizard World The X-Files is an American science fiction television series first broadcast in September 1993 and followed by two feature films: The X-Files and The X-Files: I Want to Believe. The characters defined the overarching mythology of the series. They ...
22 hours ago · American rock band Thirty Seconds to Mars produced a music video for their 2006 single "The Kill" which is an extended homage to the film. The music video is set in a haunted hotel, and replicates imagery from the film including the black intertitles with white text, Jack's typewriter, Lloyd's bar, Jack bouncing a tennis ball against a wall, the ghostly woman in the bathroom, the murdered ...
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During the Troubles, as part of its armed campaign against British rule in Northern Ireland, the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) regularly engaged in violent attacks, including bombings, against British authorities. While these incidents were largely confined to Northern Ireland, the IRA were known to carry out attacks in England. By the 19...
The bomb detonated at approximately 2:54 am (BST) on 12 October. The blast brought down a five-ton chimney stack, which crashed down through the floors into the basement, leaving a gaping hole in the hotel's façade. Firemen said that many lives were probably saved because the well-built Victorian hotel remained standing. Thatcher was still awake at...
IRA statement
The IRA claimed responsibility the same day; its statement read:
Thatcher's response
Thatcher began the next session of the conference at 9:30 am the following morning, as scheduled. She dropped from her speech most of her planned attacks on the Labour Partyand said the bombing was "an attempt to cripple Her Majesty's democratically elected Government": Immediately afterwards, her popularity soared almost to the level it had been during the Falklands War.The Saturday after the bombing, Thatcher said to her constituents: "We suffered a tragedy not one of us could have thought...
Approval in Britain
At the time of the bombing, the miners' strike was underway. As a result, those critical of Thatcher and her policies, including Morrissey, frontman of the English alternative rock band the Smiths, joked shortly after: "The only sorrow of the Brighton bombing is that Thatcher escaped unscathed." David Bret wrote in the book Morrissey: Scandal & Passion that "The tabloids were full of such remarks; jokes about the incident were cracked on radio and television programmes. A working-men's club i...
The bombing is depicted in the 2011 biographical film The Iron Lady. Jonathan Lee's 2015 novel High Diveis a fictionalised account of the bombing, written largely from the alternating perspectives of the hotel manager, his teenage daughter, and an IRA bombmaker who helps Magee. Rights to the book were purchased and it is in development as a potenti...
Guardianstory on the release of Magee in 1999Charles Moore, Margaret Thatcher: At Her Zenith(2016) Vol. 2: pp. 309–16Kieran Hughes, Terror Attack Brighton: Blowing up the Iron Lady(2014)Steve Ramsey, Something Has Gone Wrong: Dealing with the Brighton Bomb(2018)Rory Carroll, Killing Thatcher: The IRA, the Manhunt and the Long War on the Crown (published in the US as There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History) (2023)22 hours ago · Silent Hill: The Escape is a mobile game. It was released in Japan for the FOMA phone December 19, 2007, and was released for the iOS internationally in 2009. The goal of the game is to guide the player through ten stages by finding a key and opening the locked door. The game is played in a first-person perspective.
22 hours ago · Heinrich Luitpold Himmler (German: [ˈhaɪnʁɪç ˈluːɪtpɔlt ˈhɪmlɐ] ⓘ; 7 October 1900 – 23 May 1945) was a German politician who was the 4th Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffel (Protection Squadron; SS), a leading member of the Nazi Party of Germany, and one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany, primarily known for being a main architect of the Holocaust.
22 hours ago · Early life Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich was born in 1904 in Halle an der Saale to composer and opera singer Richard Bruno Heydrich and his wife, Elisabeth Anna Maria Amalia Heydrich (née Krantz). His father came from a Protestant family, but converted to Elisabeth's Roman Catholic faith upon marriage. Reinhard was an altar boy, attending evening prayers and Mass every week with his mother ...
22 hours ago · W. Axl Rose (born William Bruce Rose Jr.; born February 6, 1962) [3] is an American singer and songwriter. He is the lead vocalist and lyricist of the hard rock band Guns N' Roses, and has been the band's sole constant member since its inception in 1985. [4] Possessing a distinctive and powerful wide-ranging voice, [5] Rose has been named one ...
