Virgil (70-19 BC): The Aeneid (written 19 BC). A brief summary can be found here. The Aeneid is an ancient Roman Epic about the adventures of the Trojan hero, Aeneas, who was destined to go to Italy and set up a new kingdom after Troy fell to the Greeks. On his way, Aeneas encountered many problems, but through many trial and errors he completed his journey and became the true founding father of Rome. On his way one of the people Aeneas meets is Dido, the young Phoenician queen and builder of Carthage, who falls hopelessly in love with him.


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Video: Moby Dick (1956). After the novel by Herman Melville; directed by John Huston; w/ Gregory Peck (Captain Ahab). The tale of hunting the White Wale.
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Video: The Matrix (1999). w/ Keanu Reeves (Neo), Laurence Fishburne (Morpheus), Carrie-Anne Moss (Trinity). Finding out about the true nature of 'reality'.
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Carrie-Ann Moss also played Natalie in the movie 'Memento' (2000).
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Internet Broadway Database: Comprehensive history of shows produced on Broadway, including historical information about theatres.
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Online Bible Study Aids: including online bible versions, commentaries, dictionanries and bible concordances.
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Video: Wag the Dog (1997). Directed by Barry Levinson; w/ Dustin Hoffman, Robert De Niro, Anne Heche. Plot: Before elections, a spin-doctor and a Hollywood producer join efforts to "fabricate" a war in order to cover-up a presidential sex scandal (IMDB). Plot is a nice idea, but after a half hour becomes repetitive.
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Book: C.S. (Clive Staples) Lewis: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (1950). Oldest volume of 'The Chronicles of Narnia'. The four children (Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy) enter the land of Narnia, and help the lion Aslan to free the country from the terror of the White Witch.
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Book: Sue Townsend: Adrian Mole. From Minor to Major. The Mole Diaries: the first ten years (1991). Incorporating 'The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4' (1982), 'The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole' (1984), 'True Confessions of Adrian Albert Mole' (1989), and 'Adrian Mole and the Small Amphibians' (1991?). First two parts are hillarious, don't bother with the rest.
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Video: Monster's Ball (2001) w/ Billy Bob Thornton (Hank Grotowski) and Halle Berry (Leticia Musgrove; Academy Award Winner Best Actress). Directed by Marc Forster. Plot: A Death Row prison guard in the Southern US quits his job, then falls in love with the wife of a black man he has executed. Movie is breathtaking at times. Weird plot. Good movie!
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Henry Purcell (1659-1695), one of England's greatest composers. Epoch: Middle Baroque. Opera: Dido and Aeneas. Purcell wrote only this one full opera, a short work supposedly designed for a girls' school.
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