![]() ![]() ![]() If you look carefully at the scenes set in a second-hand bookshop, you might spot Pratchett’s hat and scarf, “just hanging there” in tribute. Gaiman briefed the designers to bring him all the ideas they might assume were “a bit too mad, but …” and gleefully embraced “the little clunky bits”: there are pointedly old school graphics and a pre-credit sequence in episode three that spans much of world history and goes on for nearly half an hour. The result is a delightful, hectic and “ridiculously personal” confection, brimming with jokes and stars – Benedict Cumberbatch is Satan, Frances McDormand plays God – which aspires, despite its lavish Amazon budget, to “a handmade feel”. ![]() Having made the pledge, Gaiman said when we met recently in New York, he “knew that I couldn’t just invent it, write it down and give it to somebody and go: ‘OK, I’m done,’ because at that point anything could happen”, so he plunged in as showrunner, making all the creative calls himself and cast it partly from “my address book”. After “all of the fanciest writers that we could find and think of” had turned the job down, Gaiman promised to adapt their co-written 1990 novel himself and when Pratchett died in the spring of 2015, “suddenly it was a last request”. Y ou’d never know from watching Good Omens, Neil Gaiman’s effervescent apocalyptic comedy of errors, that he started writing it fresh off the plane from the funeral of his friend Terry Pratchett, when “nothing seemed funny”. ![]()
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We have a hard time wrapping our heads around something completely unmerited. Perhaps this is the reason grace is so difficult to understand. ![]() Rarely is service rendered without expectation of return. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the 1920s, Rogers worked as a journalist on the Pittsburgh Courier and the Chicago Enterprise, and he served as the first black foreign correspondent from the United States. ![]() Rogers’s little book was priceless because he was delivering enlightenment and pride, steeped in historical research, to a people too long starved on the. Rogers addresses issues such as the lack of scientific support for the idea of race, the lack of black history being told from a black person’s perspective, and the fact of intermarriage and unions among peoples throughout history.Ī respected historian and gifted lecturer, Rogers was a close personal friend of the Harlem-based intellectual and activist Hubert Harrison. The first edition of Joel Augustus Rogers’s now legendary 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro with Complete Proof, published in 1934, was billed as A Negro ‘Believe It or Not.’. He was one of the greatest popularizers of African history in the twentieth century. ![]() He challenged prevailing ideas about race, demonstrated the connections between civilizations, and traced African achievements. Now with elan and eruditionand winning enthusiasmHenry Louis Gates, Jr., gives us a corrective yet loving homage to Rogers’s work. Rogers, a largely self-educated black journalist and historian. His research spanned the academic fields of history, sociology and anthropology. In 1934, 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro With Complete Proof: A Short Cut to the World History of the Negro was published by Joel A. JOEL AUGUSTUS ROGERS (September 6, 1880–March 26, 1966) was a Jamaican-American author, journalist, and historian who contributed to the history of Africa and the African diaspora, especially the history of African Americans in the United States. ![]() ![]() ![]() With over 20 years of experience, Lisa Eldridge is one of the most highly regarded make-up artists on the international beauty and fashion circuits. ![]() An engaging history of style, it is also a social history of women and the ways in which we can understand their lives through the prism and impact of makeup. Face Paint explores the practical and idiosyncratic reasons behind makeup’s use, the actual materials employed over generations, and the glamorous icons that people emulate and how they achieved their effects. In Face Paint, Lisa Eldridge reveals the entire history of the art form, from Egyptian and Classical times up through the Victorian age and golden era of Hollywood, and also surveys the cutting-edge makeup science of today and tomorrow. Makeup, as we know it, has only been commercially available in the last 100 years, but applying decoration to the face and body may be one of the oldest global social practices. 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A year after Roosevelt lost a third-party bid for the White House in 1912, he decided to chase away his blues by accepting an invitation for a South American trip that quickly evolved into an ill-prepared journey down an unexplored tributary of the Amazon known as the River of Doubt. ![]() In a gripping account, Millard focuses on an episode in Teddy Roosevelt's search for adventure that nearly came to a disastrous end. ![]() ![]() In the epic conclusion to Victoria Aveyard’s stunning series, Mare must embrace her fate and summon all her power… for all will be tested, but not all will survive. ![]() Will victory be enough to topple the Silver kingdoms? Or will the little lightning girl be forever silenced? War is coming, and all Mare has fought for hangs in the balance. However, storm abilities are considered erratic in nature, as storms themselves are large and difficult to. ![]() ![]() 'Storms are elementals, almost hybridized in nature, as they can change or control weather patterns, resulting in a manipulation of wind, rain, precipitation, etc. But Maven is driven by an obsession so deep, he will stop at nothing to have Mare as his own again, even if it means demolishing everything-and everyone-in his path. Storms are Silvers who can, to some extent, manipulate the weather's patterns: cold, heat, air, electricity and moisture. The final instalment of the multimillion-copy, 1 New York Times bestselling RED QUEEN series by TikTok sensation Victoria Aveyard. Cal’s powerful Silver allies, alongside Mare and the Scarlet Guard, prove a formidable force. Reviews aren't verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when it's identified. ![]() Now determined to protect her heart-and secure freedom for Reds and newbloods like her-Mare resolves to overthrow the kingdom of Norta once and for all… starting with the crown on Maven’s head.īut no battle is won alone, and before the Reds may rise as one, Mare must side with the boy who broke her heart in order to defeat the boy who almost broke her. Mare Barrow learned this all too well when Cal’s betrayal nearly destroyed her. By (Author) : Victoria Aveyard, VICTORY COMES AT A PRICE. ![]() ![]() On the day that he is to marry Isabella, Conrad is suddenly crushed to death by an enormous helmet that falls on him from above having seemingly appeared out of nowhere. Prince Manfred has arranged for Conrad to be married to Princess Isabella, one of the closest living relatives of Prince Alfonso. He pins all of his hopes for the future of his dynasty on his only other child, his sickly 15-year-old son Conrad. He sees no value in his 18-year-old daughter Matilda and takes no interest in her. Although there is a prophecy that his line will not endure, Prince Manfred is keen to secure his succession. Prince Manfred's grandfather came to power under somewhat dubious circumstances. Some people believe that Manfred has no right to rule because he is not related to Good Prince Alfonso, a national hero who ruled Otranto three generations earlier and is venerated almost like a saint. The ruler of the principality is a man known as Prince Manfred. ![]() The novel takes place in the Principality of Otranto in medieval Italy. ![]() The Castle of Otranto is a historical fantasy novel by the British author, historian and politician Horace Walpole. First page of an adaptation of The Castle of Otranto from the 1948 first issue of the American comic book Adventures into the Unknown. ![]() ![]() ![]() Maeve runs into Fluffy, their former nanny, one day. ![]() ![]() When he starts making money as a medical intern, he's able to make his first real estate investments and pursue that instead. In college, Danny discovers his genuine interest in real estate and wants to follow in Cyril's footsteps, but lacks the capital to pursue it. Danny and Maeve occasionally park outside the Dutch House and spy on Andrea voyeuristically. Maeve still works as a bookkeeper at a grocery store in a nearby town. Instead, Maeve pushes Danny to pursue an expensive education (medical school), in order to drain the trust and prevent money from reverting to Andrea. This disrupts Maeve's plans for grad school. The only thing Cyril provided for is an educational trust for Danny, but not Maeve. When Cyril dies from a heart attack, Andrea bans both Maeve and Danny from the house, which is now hers along with Cyril's entire business. Cyril is also more interested in nurturing Danny than Maeve, since Danny is male and will take over his real estate business someday. Maeve has an adversarial relationship with Andrea. The household help, Sandy (housekeeper) and Jocelyn (cook), help to raise them as well. Instead, Maeve helps to take care of the girls and Danny. Cyril and Andrea are indifferent parents. One day, Cyril brings home Andrea, a young, pretty woman with two young girls, Norma and Bright. They grow up in a grand house, known as the Dutch House. Their mother Elna left when they were younger. In Part I, Danny and Maeve are raised by their father Cyril. ![]() |