![]() ![]() In 1990, The Daughter of Time was selected by the British Crime Writers' Association as the greatest mystery novel of all time The Franchise Affair was 11th on the same list of 100 books. Grant comes to the firm conclusion that King Richard was totally innocent of the death of the Princes. (Grant appears in a sixth, The Franchise Affair, as a minor character.) The most famous of these is The Daughter of Time, in which Grant, laid up in hospital, has friends research reference books and contemporary documents so that he can puzzle out the mystery of whether King Richard III of England murdered his nephews, the Princes in the Tower. In five of the mystery novels, all of which except the first she wrote under the name of Tey, the hero is Scotland Yard Inspector Alan Grant. She also wrote as Gordon Daviot, under which name she wrote plays with an historical theme. Josephine Tey was a pseudonym used by Elizabeth Mackintosh (25 July 1896 – 13 February 1952), a Scottish author best known for her mystery novels. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() The answering cry is so loud, I rock back on my heels.Ī guitar is placed in my hand, the smooth neck both a familiar comfort and an adrenaline kick. ![]() I answer its call, and a wave of sound and sheer energy crashes over me as I walk into the light.Īnd I am the one who controls it. A shiver licks over my skin, my balls drawing tight. The roar grows louder, followed by a thump, thump, thump. He’s chugging a bottle of water, his free hand tapping an agitated rhythm on his knee.ĭevil, Animal, Mistress-we all have our name for it. “You ready to dance with the devil?” Whip asks no one in particular. My heart rate begins to rise, adrenaline already kicking in. I feel it in my bones, in the subtle charge that lights the air, and in the tremble beneath my feet. And because you become so dependent on it, you come to hate it a little bit as well. But when it loves you?ĭamn, but it’s the best feeling on Earth. If it hates you, there’s nothing to do about it but endure and hope you survive without being completely shredded until you can safely make your escape. It can love you one moment, then hate you the next, and you never know what side of it you’re going to see until it’s upon you. Killian James, lead singer and guitarist, Kill John To be a part of that, to be the soundtrack of someone’s life, is a beautiful thing. Your rage, your sorrow, your joy, your pain. Music can be your friend when you have none, your lover when you’re needy. ![]() ![]() ![]() Cherry’s speech gave additional visibility and momentum to the Create a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair (CROWN) Act, which prohibits discrimination based on hair styles and hair texture. Hair Love’s win was a win for Deandre Arnold and his mother. Volumes of crowdfunding donors are credited at the end of the film! That’s so HOT. Hair Love’s success was, and will continue to be, a big win for many, precisely because so many people were involved. I’m inspired by the fact that Cherry claimed his victory : When God gave him the vision, he didn’t wait for the establishment to co-sign his mission! I’m inspired by Cherry’s leadership: He was willing to boldly reach out to his community and crowdfund the project, because the powers that be would not finance it. ![]() His project won an Academy Award for best animated short film – a monumental win for many more people than just Cherry and Sony Pictures Animation’s Karen Rupert Toliver. ![]() Cherry, a former NFL player who committed himself to football to reach elite athlete status, pivoted and directed a beautiful, deep, six-minute animated film about a father, his little girl, her hair and a family dealing with cancer. It’s also because it’s inspiring to me that Matthew A. Hair Love makes me happy. It’s not just because I'm a stylist and I love hair. Looking around for my happy, I found myself watching Hair Love again. ![]() ![]() ![]() She was intolerant towards necromancy in general with the sole exceptions being the practice of white necromancy (only tolerated) and the creation of baelnorn liches, which she wouldn't tolerate if it was not necessary. She hated undead and her followers made it their duty to destroy these beings. She sent omens to keep her people from danger, crafted illusions around elven hideouts like Evermeet, Myth Dyraalis, Rucien-Xan, and Synnoria, and organized the journeys for elves to these lands. The Lunar Lady was a very protective deity towards elves. They showed a sense of melancholy and tenderness when he was depicted with Corellon. Characteristic about Sehanine's willowy male form were his eyes. This depiction portrayed the Protector and Sehanine as lovers. Īnother depiction of Sehanine was as a male elf. 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The work is a compilation of various texts treating abstract subjects, notably substance theory, different kinds of causation, form and matter, the existence of mathematical objects and the cosmos, which together constitute much of the branch of philosophy later known as metaphysics. Metaphysics ( Greek: τὰ μετὰ τὰ φυσικά, "those after the physics" Latin: Metaphysica ) is one of the principal works of Aristotle, in which he develops the doctrine that he calls First Philosophy. ![]() ![]() ![]() THE ADVENTURES OF HUCK FINN features an adorable Elijah Wood as the optimistic Huck, who is both Southern to the core and also willing to question the adult Southern values of the time that make it legal to own other human beings. To stay in the loop on more movies like this, you can sign up for weekly ![]() Two men try to scam a wealthy grieving family out of their money. Another boy is shot in the back but survives. A slave is nearly hanged but saved at the last minute. Language includes "ass," "butt," and "hell." Feuding families shoot and kill each other. Frightening situations arise in his quest to help his runaway slave friend get to the safety of the North, but it's his failings and his struggles to overcome them that make him a character kids will identify with and perhaps admire. Huck is a fearless child, abused by a selfish and drunken father. The immorality of slavery, the importance of knowing right from wrong, and a celebration of friendship and adventure are all on display. ![]() Unlike the novel, there's no use of the "N" word, but the anti-racist message is clear. Parents need to know that The Adventures of Huck Finn is a 1993 family-friendly Disney version of the Mark Twain novel set in the pre-Civil War South. ![]() |