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13 Nov 2022 2 minute read 0 comments thranax
Franklin Schaffner is one of those directors who throughout his career made very few films, but left an indelible mark on the seventh art. Of the list of fourteen films by him there are two that immediately attract attention. One is "Planet of the...
13 Nov 2022 2 minute read 2 comments thranax
It is my favorite of the whole saga, the one that I have seen the most, why? I guess because it was the first thing I saw and I was 13 or 14 at the time. Today I think that without being the best, he has many more crumbs than was said. Suddenly, a t...
12 Nov 2022 1 minute read 2 comments thranax
To really talk about this movie it is by force to have played World of Warcraft. While it is true that a movie should attract everyone, this movie is made by a fan of the game and it was inevitable that it will releaside it for all... But a little m...
12 Nov 2022 3 minute read 0 comments SweptOverNiagara
History is rife with holes. There are examples of it everywhere. Who really built the Pyramid at Giza (something we can't replicate even with today's modern construction tools)? Who really killed JFK (His security detail called off just before the mo...
12 Nov 2022 17 minute read 0 comments fisherofmen
If you can put yourself back before the hysteria that some people fell into in the years leading up to December 21, 2012, you would remember Bitcoin was in the mix way back then, but it wasn't until after 2012 that it really gained traction and at...
11 Nov 2022 4 minute read 0 comments SweptOverNiagara
It should be clear to everyone by now that geopolitically, the world is re-aligning with new alliances forming such as BRICS. The war between Russia and Ukraine has caused the western world to impose devastating sanctions on Russia, except it's not...
9 Nov 2022 3 minute read 0 comments SweptOverNiagara
Before World War One, Imperial Russia possessed the largest gold reserves of any country in the world and its downfall began with the start of the First World War. The country was ill-prepared and ill-equipped to fight a war and Tsar Nicholas II assu...
7 Nov 2022 1 minute read 0 comments JSL
Traditional media just doesn't cut it. That doesn't mean you should rely on any Tom, Dick and Harry that happen to go viral. Here are just a few of my standard fare information sources which have YouTube channels that make information consumption a l...
7 Nov 2022 5 minute read 0 comments SweptOverNiagara
A brief history of... When Nicola Tesla Tore Up His Contract With Westinghouse. In 1884, Nicola Tesla, originally from Serbia, sailed into New York as a new immigrant, with just 4 cents to his name. He carried something else with him that would open...
16 Oct 2022 12 minute read 0 comments YouveBeenGreeked
The iconic Acropolis of Athens and the Parthenon as its crowning piece, and the Western ideals of democracy, philosophy and architecture - these things were allowed to reach their zenith in Athens essentially under the rule of one man, who has gone d...
