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11 hours ago · A selection of Australia's big things. The big things of Australia are large structures, some of which are novelty architecture and some sculptures.In Australia, big things have come to be seen as a uniquely Australian phenomenon, although they emerged at the same time as the so-called Roadside Giants (fibreglass sculptures of things) of the United States.
11 hours ago · VIZ Media, LLC is an American entertainment company headquartered in San Francisco, California, focused on publishing manga, and distribution and licensing Japanese anime, films, and television series. The company was founded in 1986 as VIZ, LLC. In 2005, VIZ and ShoPro Entertainment merged to form the current VIZ Media, which is owned by ...
11 hours ago · Michael Cimino. Michael Antonio Cimino ( / tʃɪˈmiːnoʊ / chim-EE-noh [3] Italian pronunciation: [anˈtɔːnjo tʃiˈmiːno]; February 3, 1939 – July 2, 2016) was an American film director, screenwriter, producer and author. Notorious for obsessive attention to detail and perfectionism, Cimino achieved widespread fame with The Deer Hunter ...
11 hours ago · Brussels International (1897) in Brussels. The World's Columbian Exposition, also known as the Chicago World's Fair, was a world's fair held in Chicago from May 5 to October 31, 1893, to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus 's arrival in the New World in 1492. [1] The centerpiece of the Fair, held in Jackson Park, was a large ...
11 hours ago · Peter Gabriel. Peter Brian Gabriel (born 13 February 1950) is an English singer, songwriter and human rights activist. He was the original lead singer of the progressive rock band Genesis. [1] After leaving the band in 1975, he launched a solo career with "Solsbury Hill" as his first single.
11 hours ago · Hitchcock began work on his tenth film, Blackmail (1929), when its production company, British International Pictures (BIP), converted its Elstree studios to sound. The film was the first British " talkie "; this followed the rapid development of sound films in the United States, from the use of brief sound segments in The Jazz Singer (1927) to the first full sound feature Lights of New York ...
11 hours ago · Tristan da Cunha (/ ˌ t r ɪ s t ən d ə ˈ k uː n (j) ə /), colloquially Tristan, is a remote group of volcanic islands in the South Atlantic Ocean.It is the most remote inhabited archipelago in the world, lying approximately 2,787 kilometres (1,732 mi) from Cape Town in South Africa, 2,437 kilometres (1,514 mi) from Saint Helena, 3,949 kilometres (2,454 mi) from Mar del Plata in ...
