Lightlark by alex aster6/12/2023 ![]() ![]() This adds to the energy and suspense and mystery of the novel. There are things in it that don't exist and which are often too difficult to imagine existing in the real world. One fact remains, though: Lightlark is a novel that is a fantasy. There are hardships and misfortunes that many villagers and their leaders must deal with. Although Lightlark is a fantastical world, it is also grounded in reality. Lightlark is a fantastical place in which good and bad magic exist, terrible curses plague the land, and cruel monsters wreak havoc on the world. Lightlark is set on the eponymous land of Lightlark. All of that was possible because the rulers did something uncomfortable for them. Prosperity comes to many citizens in the villages of each ruler. After the Centennial is done and one ruler has been killed, harmony returns to villages. Although painful and not very fun, the rulers do it for the good of themselves and ultimately, the good of their kingdom (and those who live inside of it). ![]() ![]() Every 100 years, the rulers of different realms gather together for something called the "Centennial." There, they will duke it out with each other until one of the rulers has died. Written by people who wish to remain anonymousĭoing something difficult for the greater goodĪ major theme of Lightlark is doing something difficult for the greater good. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. ![]()
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Bruce Lee by Bruce Lee6/12/2023 ![]() ![]() Lee's fiancee Eliza Hutton broke her silence on Lee's fatal accident for the first time on Monday following Hutchins' death, describing both accidents as an "avoidable tragedy." That tragedy was eerily reminiscent of Brandon Lee's death in 1993.īrandon Lee, the son of Bruce Lee, died in March 1993 at age 28 after he was accidentally wounded by a prop gun on the film set of "The Crow." "No one should ever be killed by a gun on a film set," Lee's sister tweeted.Īctor Alec Baldwin discharged a prop gun in an accident that killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and injured the director on the New Mexico set of the movie "Rust," authorities said Thursday. ![]() Brandon Lee was best known as the son of kung fu star Bruce Lee.The death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of "Rust" surfaced memories of the death of Brandon Lee at the hands of a prop gun. ![]() The sea wolves by lars brownworth6/12/2023 ![]() Among others, Leif the Lucky who discovered a new world, Ragnar Lodbrok the scourge of France, Eric Bloodaxe who ruled in York, and the crafty Harald Hardrada illuminate the saga of the Viking age - a time which "has passed away, and grown dark under the cover of night". ![]() In The Sea Wolves, Lars Brownworth brings to life this extraordinary Norse world of epic poets, heroes, and travellers through the stories of the great Viking figures. A Viking Kingdom in the Irish Sea - THE RAIDERS - The Sea Wolves: A History of the Vikings - by Lars Brownworth BooksRead and Share (3600 BC 500 AD) Ancient History & Civilisation (500 1500) Post-classical History (1500 Present) Modern History Wars, conflicts. They were also sophisticated merchants and explorers who settled Iceland, founded Dublin, and established a trading network that stretched from Baghdad to the coast of North America. ![]() They were makers of law - the term itself comes from an Old Norse word - and they introduced a novel form of trial by jury to England. ![]() Turning east, they swept down the uncharted rivers of central Europe, captured Kiev and clashed with mighty Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire.īut there is more to the Viking story than brute force. Much of the British Isles fell before their swords, and the continental capitals of Paris and Aachen were sacked in turn. Wave after wave of Norse 'sea-wolves' followed in search of plunder, land, or a glorious death in battle. ![]() In AD 793 Norse warriors struck the English isle of Lindisfarne and laid waste to it. ![]() Jason Priestley by Jason Priestley6/11/2023 ![]() 16 - and will debut on CBC/CBC Gem in January. 3 - it will stream for a limited time starting Dec. The film is set to debut at the Whistler Film Festival on Dec. The result is an 87-minute exploration through the lens of archival video, audio and fresh interviews with former players, executives and journalists who covered Ballard’s two-decade reign of error. “He would say one thing and do something entirely different.” “The guy was such a larger-than-life character and was, in so many facets of his life, such a walking contradiction. “A lot of people had done very brief stories on Ballard, but no one had ever tackled a feature-length documentary on a man whose story we felt was worth a deep dive,” Priestley said during a Zoom call with The Athletic on Wednesday. With “Offside: The Harold Ballard Story,” Canadian director Jason Priestley, a veteran of both shinny and television, makes a convincing argument that echoes of the late owner’s misdeeds can still be heard in an NHL city that has not hosted a Stanley Cup parade since 1967. ![]() Lost in math by sabine hossenfelder6/11/2023 ![]() ![]() Theories today are generating hypotheses which may never be experimentally accessible, on current technology they require accelerators the size of galaxies and and Jupiter sized detectors. Gravitational waves, first observed in 2016, were predicted by Einstein 100 years previously. The Higgs boson found at CERN in 2012 was predicted in the early sixties, some 50 years previously. The problem in fundamental physics is that theory is running well ahead of what can be experimentally confirmed. ![]() This background does mean that I’ve talked to actually string theorists about string theory, and been intrigued that when you asked them where the extra (20 or so) dimensions the theory requires were the fall back answer was always “curled up very small” – they were unable to express it differently. Experimental soft matter physicists, like myself, were at the bottom of the pile. I stopped being an academic physicist nearly twenty years ago but even at that time there was a definite feeling that some area of physics felt themselves superior to others. My background is actually in a different part of physics, the physics of squishy things like plastics, proteins and plants. Lost in Math by Sabine Hossenfelder is a journey through modern fundamental physics and how it has lost its way over the last few years in a quest for beauty rather than relevance. It is physics for my next read, although my background is in physics and chemistry I don’t read much physics. ![]() The history of white people nell6/11/2023 ![]() ![]() They also discuss those who challenged and eventually debunked notions of racial science, where a key turning point was the rise of the Nazis. ![]() They talk about how a slew of different writers pair Americaness with European descent, effectively turning America into a “white man’s country.”įurther, they examine the changing notions of American’s self-conceptions over the course of the first half of the 20th century, including ideas of the “melting pot,” racial discrimination, and advocates of cultural pluralism. They discuss race and "whiteness," and how many ethnic groups now regarded as white, including the Irish, Jews, and Italians, were once excluded from mainstream American society as non-white. Host Jonathan Judaken talks with Nell Irvin Painter, Professor Emerita at Princeton University, author of seven books prior to her most recent tome, The History of White People, a work she says might have been entitled, “Constructions of White Americans from Antiquity to the Present.” Nell Irvin Painter, author of The History of White People, and host Jonathan Judaken talk about race and whiteness, discussing how many ethnic groups now regarded as white were once excluded from mainstream American society as non-white. ![]() ![]() George crafted August’s family and the whole setting. The lengths that he goes to for his family is endearing and the way that he treats August is so perfect. Evan is a duke that was never meant to be a duke. She’s fiercely independent, wants her family to be proud of her, and incredibly quick. She works for her family’s company and wants to keep it that way, thus marriage isn’t an option for her. ![]() August is a heroine that doesn’t want or need a man. It had everything I could want in it! I love this time period for novels, a working and determined heroine, a hero who respects her, enough banter, sizzling chemistry, AND it’s so well written! If I could reread this book again for the first time I would. I really, really, really liked this book. The Crenshaws offer up Violet to Evan for marriage, it’s August he wants, but she’s not going easily. When Evan Sterling becomes the Duke of Rothschild on the death of his father and brother he’s given a pile of debt that can only be solved through the marriage to an heiress. ![]() When her family starts to take an interest in gaining rank, she vows to save her sister, Violet, from a destitute duke. She watches as her friends get auctioned off to distant dukes in their family’s hopes of gaining higher prestige in the states. ![]() ![]() The Heiress Gets a Duke Synopsis: August Crenshaw may be an heiress, but she’s done her work at the family steel company. ![]() Christine stephen6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() As Arnie restores the car, he stops wearing his glasses and his blemishes disappear, but he also becomes withdrawn, humorless, and cynical. ![]() Arnie brings Christine to a do-it-yourself garage run by Will Darnell, who is suspected of using the garage as a front for illicit operations. Frightened, Dennis decides he dislikes Christine. ![]() While Arnie finishes the paperwork, Dennis sits inside Christine and has a vision of the car and the surroundings as they existed when the car was new, 20 years earlier. Despite Dennis's reservations, Arnie buys Christine, as LeBay named the vehicle, for $250. LeBay, an elderly gentleman with a back supporter and a grouchy manner. In 1978, bespectacled, acne-ridden, nerdy teen Arnold and his pal Dennis notice a dilapidated 1958 Plymouth Fury being sold by Roland D. In April 2013, PS Publishing released Christine in a limited 30th Anniversary Edition. A film adaptation, directed by John Carpenter, was released eight months later in December of the same year. It tells the story of a car (a 1958 Plymouth Fury) apparently possessed by malevolent supernatural forces. Christine is a horror novel by American writer Stephen King, published in 1983. ![]() Book animal by lisa taddeo6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() The way they could overturn an empire for a girl on bended knee.’ It was not until she began interviewing her subjects that she noticed that, while the stories of men all seemed to adhere to the same pattern, women’s stories were tantalisingly oblique when a woman spoke of desiring a man, it was almost never (or never just) the man himself that she wanted. Lisa Taddeo's first novel tells a disturbing story of Joan, a convoluted character who in a first-person account reveals herself to us in a sardonic toned, cryptic memoir of a lost soul, caught in the prison of her own life. ‘I thought I’d be drawn to the stories of men. This is not an easy book to read, and once read you might question if it was worth it. From Lisa Taddeo, author of the 1 New York Times bestseller and global phenomenon Three Women, comes an intoxicating (Entertainment Weekly), fearless (Los Angeles Times), and explosive (People) novel about what happens when women are pushed beyond the brink, and what comes after the reckoning (Esquire). In the prologue to her first book, Three Women (2019), a work of non-fiction exploring the structures and expressions of desire, Lisa Taddeo writes that she had not initially intended to focus on women. ![]() The trial and death of socrates crito6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() He lived in Athens, from 469 until his execution in 399 BCE. O元80323W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 85.29 Pages 70 Ppi 514 Related-external-id urn:isbn:087220555X The Trial and Death of Socrates Socrates, revered founder of the Western philosophical tradition, is better understood as a mythic philosopher than as a historical figure. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 17:16:33 Boxid IA152101 Boxid_2 CH118701 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City Indianapolis, IN Donorįriendsofthesanfranciscopubliclibrary Edition 3rd ed. ![]() |