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Captain Video - Master of the Stratosphere 1951

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3 sheet, 41 x 81 inches. Contents Captain Video Film Posters Comics & toys References ----------------- 1. Captain Video? Whilst browsing through various movie poster sites, the writer came across an intriguingly names cinematic serial from 1951 - the fifteen part of Captain Video - Master of the Stratosphere . Based off the earlier television series Captain Video and His Video Rangers which ran between 1949-55, this cinematic release was the first such TV-to-film production and one of many such serials presented to cinema goers from the 1930s through to 1956. The word video was first cited in 1934 in relation to the invention of television and electronic visual imagery, and as a term related to audio which referred to sound. The precise origin of its relation to the individual referred to as Captain Video is unclear, as this person was a space ranger who travelled both on Earth and beyond. However, a lot of such fantastical words and names appeared ...
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Fave romcoms and other encounters with love on the box

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Love: Buddha Love + Video | Love in the workplace | RomComs | When Harry Met Sally 1989 - Meg Ryan & Billy Crystal. RomComs were a category of movie popular from the late 1980s through to the early 2000s. The genre included films such as When Harry Met Sally  (1989), Groundhog Day (1993),  Notting Hill  (1999),  Bridget Jones's Diary  (2001),  Love Actually  (2003),  Lost in Translation  (2003) and  The Notebook  (2004). The term RomCom is not wholly appropriate as not all of the films were comedies, though they did have a connecting element, namely romance and the process of falling in love and dealing with the consequences. Of course romance has been a feature of literature, cinema, television, the stage and elsewhere for a long, long, time. Movies such as Casablanca set a cinematic standard for the genre back in 1943, and while it was not a comedy - far from it - and the the couple did not end up togethe...
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Phantasmagoria in Two - Tim Buckley 1967-68

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MO :  Broulee | Dreams | Freewheelin' | Parliament | Prose 2001-4 | Phantasmagoria | Prose 2021+ | Red&Black | Roma | Seabird | Songs 1972-4, 2021-3 | St. Pauls | Uncle Jack | Phantasmagoria, n., a sequence of real or imaginary images like that seen in a dream . Contents Magical Rain/e Tutorials Covers References ------------------- 1. Magical One of the present writer's favourite songs is the exquisite Phantasmagoria in Two by Tim Buckley (1947-75). It is for a number of reasons, but primarily because of the impact of a live version from 1968 upon first hearing back in October 2001 .... but we will come to that later. The song was written by the American singer songwriter in early 1967 and a studio recording made in June of that year. It presented the listener with a poignant love song, traditional in its lyrics and full of statements of loss and parting. They went as follows: Phantasmagoria in Two If a fiddler played you...
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The Yaroslav Hunka case 2023

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The Yaroslav Hunka case Yaroslav Hunka united with his mother after 43 years, Ukraine 1989. Not love for Germans, but hatred of Soviets..... My enemy's enemy is my friend.... In 2023 the Ukrainian people fought in a war against Russian occupation and invasion. During 1939-45 the Ukrainian people fought in a war against Russian occupation and invasion. In both instances it was a fight for freedom and independence. Many Ukrainian soldiers died, alongside innocent civilians, both Ukrainian (of all races) and eefugees, through accident or intent. The latter non-combatants were the tragic, yet ubiquitous and increasingly common, collateral damage of modern warfare, with, for example, the Jewish people specifically targeted by the Nazis, though other races and groups within the Ukraine and beyond suffered due to personal, political and societal discrimination, both in WWII and more recently. Just prior to WWII, in fact, some 5 million Ukrainians had died as a result of star...
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