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  1. 10 hours ago · Box office. $104.8 million [4] [5] Apocalypse Now is a 1979 American epic war film produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola. The screenplay, co-written by Coppola, John Milius, and Michael Herr, is loosely inspired by the 1899 novella Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, with the setting changed from late 19th-century Congo to the Vietnam War.

  2. 1 day ago · The main figures of the Spanish Enlightenment were in favour of the abolition of the Inquisition, and many were processed by the Holy Office, among them Olavide, in 1776; Iriarte, in 1779; and Jovellanos, in 1796; Jovellanos sent a report to Charles IV in which he indicated the inefficiency of the Inquisition's courts and the ignorance of those who operated them: "... friars who take [the ...

  3. 10 hours ago · Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich exposes where power lies in our system — and how it's used and abused. robertreich.substack.com

  4. 1 day ago · t. e. The Egyptian revolution of 1952 (Arabic: ثورة 23 يوليو ), [3] also known as the 1952 coup d'état ( Arabic: انقلاب 1952) [4] [5] [6] and 23 July Revolution, [7] was a period of profound political, economic, and societal change in Egypt. On 23 July 1952 the revolution began with the toppling of King Farouk in a coup d'état ...

  5. 10 hours ago · Thích Nhất Hạnh was the forty-second heir of the Linji school of Zen Buddhism in Vietnam. At age 16, Nhất Hạnh entered the monastery at Từ Hiếu Temple, where his primary teacher was Zen Master Thanh Quý Chân Thật, who was from the 43rd generation of the Lâm Tế Zen school and the ninth generation of the Liễu Quán school.

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    10 hours ago · Ballarat ( / ˌbæləˈræt / bal-ə-RAT) [2] ( Wathawurrung: balla arat) [3] is a city in the Central Highlands of Victoria, Australia. Ballarat has a population of 119,096 [4] as of March 2024 making it the third-largest urban inland city in Australia and the third-largest city in Victoria. Within months of Victoria separating from the colony ...

  7. 10 hours ago · The US military, due to a long-term culture of empiricism and technological solutionism, has devised multiple VR-based simulations for the same.44 The University of Southern California created Tactical Iraqi in 2004, an immersive VR whose aim was to teach Arabic language to soldiers being deployed to Iraq.45 Similarly, Virtual Environment for Operational Readiness (VECTOR) has been used to ...

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