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Saying: 'You want it bad, you get it bad'
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Photography: Small-Town America (1850-1920). Robert N. Dennis Collection of Stereoscopic Views at the New York Public Library.
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Literature: Writer Nicole Krauss married writer Jonathan Safran Foer in 2004.
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Video: Amistad (1997). Directed by Steven Spielberg; w/ Matthew McConaughey (Baldwin), Djimon Hounsou (Cinque), Morgan Freeman (Joadson), Anthony Hopkins (John Quincy Adams). Story of the 1839 revolt by Africans on the slave ship 'Amistad'. Important, serious topic. Presented in Hollywood style: melodramatic, kitschy, sappy. Overdone. Overall rating: 4 out of 10.
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DVD: Time Life's Lost Civilizations (2002). Part 1 of 4: Mesopotamia (Return to Eden), Ancient Egypt (Quest for Immortality), Aegean (Legacy of Atlantis). Reportage on the Babylonian, Assyrian, Sumerian, Jewish, Egyptian, and Greek civilizations. Informative, although sometimes a bit too lurid. On Thera, a small island in the Aegean just north of Crete, the Volcano Santorin erupted ca. 1628 BC. Apparently the people were able to evacuate in time, but never returned. The video considers it as the Atlantis described by Plato (in his 'Timaeus' and his 'Critias'). The Sumerians inhabited the land of Mesopotamia around 3500 BC. It is considered to be the oldest civilization. More about Sumer
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Web: Photo storage for Blogger: Hello.
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