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1 hour ago · This chapter examines the new conceptualisation of womanhood at the beginning of the twentieth century. It examines the serial Seis hermanas/Six Sisters (TVE 2015–2017, 3 seasons, 489 episodes) and the series 14 de abril. La República/14 April. The Republic (TVE, 2011–2019, 2 seasons, 30 episodes) as paradigmatic case studies of Spain’s ...
1 day ago · This is a list of Ig Nobel Prize winners from 1991 to the present day. [1]A parody of the Nobel Prizes, the Ig Nobel Prizes are awarded each year in mid-September, around the time the recipients of the genuine Nobel Prizes are announced, for ten achievements that "first make people laugh, and then make them think".
1 day ago · Hideo Kojima (小島 秀夫, Kojima Hideo, born August 24, 1963) is a Japanese video game designer. He is regarded as one of the first auteurs of video games. [2] He developed a strong passion for film and literature during his childhood and adolescence, which in turn has had a significant influence on his games.
1 day ago · Frank Vincent Zappa [nb 1] (/ ˈ z æ p ə / ZAP-ə; December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American musician, composer, and bandleader.In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa composed rock, pop, jazz, jazz fusion, orchestral and musique concrète works; he also produced almost all of the 60-plus albums that he released with his band the Mothers of Invention and as a solo artist ...
1 day ago · The eponymous Boys as depicted in the television series and comics respectively. The following is a list of fictional characters from the comic series The Boys, created by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson, and subsequent media franchise developed by Eric Kripke, consisting of a live-action adaptation, the web series Seven on 7, the animated anthology series The Boys Presents: Diabolical, and ...
1 day ago · Battles/wars. World War II. George Corley Wallace Jr. (August 25, 1919 – September 13, 1998) was an American politician and judge who served as the 45th governor of Alabama for four terms. He is remembered for his staunch segregationist and populist views. [2][3][4] During Wallace's tenure as governor of Alabama, he promoted "industrial ...
1 day ago · Conan the Barbarian is a 1982 American epic sword-and-sorcery film directed by John Milius and written by Milius and Oliver Stone.Based on Robert E. Howard's Conan, the film stars Arnold Schwarzenegger and James Earl Jones, and tells the story of a barbarian warrior named Conan (Schwarzenegger) who seeks vengeance for the death of his parents at the hands of Thulsa Doom (Jones), the leader of ...
