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TERROR IN THE HAUNTED HOUSE (1958) Reviews and free to watch online

‘Astounding shocker!’ Terror in the Haunted House is a 1958 American horror film in which a newly-wed young wife is forced to re-live a haunting nightmare. The movie was originally titled My World Dies Screaming but it has become better known by its 1959 re-release title. The film is notable for being shot in “Psychorama”, a stylistic gimmick that incorporated subliminal imaging onscreen. At…

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D.O.A. (1949) Rudolph Maté

November 27th 2022

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Never Wave at a WAC

Never Wave at a WAC

Never Wave at a WAC (1953) starring Rosalind Russell, Paul Douglas, Marie Wilson Never Wave at a WAC is a service comedy, focused on two young ladies who join the Women’s Army Corps. One is an entitled daughter of a senator, divorced, and joins the Army to be near her new fiancee. But she’s going to be under the command of her ex-husband. The other is a stereotypical dumb blonde, who wants to be…

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Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock - Star Trek art by Tracie Ching (2012)

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Time Travel Question 57: 19th Century

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Pirate Trivia Time:

Here are some of my favourite bits of pirate trivia:

Ann Bonny's name has been spelled "Anne" with an e for 300 years due to a error in the trial record.

The sole surviving physical description of Ann Bonny and Mary Read by an eyewitness is basically "I knew they were women because they had big breasts".

Blackbeard once ransomed the city of Charleston for syphilis medication.

There is no known record of Blackbeard killing anyone before his final battle.

The word "buccaneer" has the same origins as the word "barbecue" (the boucan, a means of preparing meat).

A buccaneer, William Dampier, introduced the word "avocado" (among others) to the English language (he was also the first person to circumnavigate the world three times).

Wrecks of at least two pirate ships have been discovered: "Black Sam" Bellamy's Whydah Galley, and Blackbeard's Queen Anne's Revenge.

Arguably the most successful pirate of all time was a Chinese woman, Ching Shih, aka Zheng Yi Sao.

Bartholomew Roberts had perhaps the most cinematic pirate death- trading broadsides with a man of war in the middle of a tropical storm.

Yes, Stede Bonnet actually had a library on his sloop, the Revenge.

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4 June 2024 Extract: Chinese and Hong Kong exiles joined activists in Canada, the United Kingdom, the United States and elsewhere to remember the events of June 1989.

More than 2,000 people attended a vigil in Toronto, including the city’s mayor. A vigil was also organised on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, while a series of events including public discussions, an exhibition and play have taken place in London.

Campaign group Hong Kong Watch stressed it was important that June 4 be remembered.

“Those who live in freedom must uphold our responsibility to make sure that 4 June 1989 is never forgotten,” said the group’s founder and chief executive, Benedict Rogers. “We must ensure that candles are lit and memories rekindled in every corner of the world in honour of the courage and sacrifice of those who protested in 1989. The truth must not be erased.”

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(Art: Photograph by Nell Dorr)

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Do not ask your children to strive for extraordinary lives. Such striving may seem admirable, but it is the way of foolishness. Help them instead to find the wonder and the marvel of an ordinary life. Show them the joy of tasting tomatoes, apples and pears. Show them how to cry when pets and people die. Show them the infinite pleasure in the touch of a hand. And make the ordinary come alive for them. The extraordinary will take care of itself. 

~William Martin (Book: The Parent's Tao Te Ching)

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Straw Dogs (1971)

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Do not ask your children

to strive for extraordinary lives.

Such striving may seem admirable,

but it is the way of foolishness.

Help them instead to find the wonder

and the marvel of an ordinary life.

Show them the joy of tasting tomatoes, apples and pears.

Show them how to cry when pets and people die.

Show them the infinite pleasure in the touch of a hand.

And make the ordinary come alive for them.

The extraordinary will take care of itself.

William Martin, “The Parent’s Tao Te Ching”

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[thepursuitofunderstanding]

Do not ask your children to strive for extraordinary lives. Such striving may seem admirable, but it is the way of foolishness. Help them instead to find the wonder and the marvel of an ordinary life. Show them the joy of tasting tomatoes, apples and pears. Show them how to cry when pets and people die. Show them the infinite pleasure in the touch of a hand. And make the ordinary come alive for them. The extraordinary will take care of itself.

William Martin

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Watching

LOVELY, DARK, AND DEEP Teresa Sutherland USA, 2023

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Movie Review ~ Lovely, Dark, and Deep

The lack of urgency in making anything happen in Lovely, Dark, and Deep steals the thunder away from what could have been a heck of a good storm of scares mixed with emotional closure.

Lovely, Dark, and Deep Synopsis: Lennon, a new back-country ranger, travels alone through the dangerous wilderness, hoping to uncover the origins of a tragedy that has haunted her since childhood.  While adapting to her solitary existence, she becomes aware of a lurking, sinister presence.Stars: Georgina Campbell, Nick Blood, Wai Ching Ho, Mick Greer, Celia WilliamsDirector: Teresa…