![]() By concentrating on key members from each strata of Pompeiian society we are plunged into the everyday life of a city rebuilding itself, in the knowledge that it will all be for nothing when Vesuvius erupts. ![]() ![]() This startling new book concentrates on the twenty years between 59 and 79AD, thus beginning with the earthquake which all but destroyed Pompeii and ending with the volcanic eruption which has become part of our collective popular imagination.Īlex Butterworth and Ray Laurence have synthesised the latest research into Pompeii to bring this period of flux and instability back to life. Author(s): Alex Butterworth & Ray LaurenceĪ visceral history of Pompeii - the living city brought back to life ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Defending the borders was risky, but the Poles were counting on a British and French counteroffensive, which never came. That was dictated more by political than military concerns, as Poles feared that the Germans, after they had taken over the territories that they had lost by the Treaty of Versailles, would try to end the war by keeping those territories. The Polish plan to defend from the German invasion, Plan West, called to defend the borders. ![]() Map showing the Polish assault southwards Winston Churchill called the battle an "ever-glorious struggle". : 65–70 The battle has been described as "the bloodiest and most bitter battle of the entire Polish campaign". Western Poland was now under German occupation. That weakened Polish forces and the Poznań and Pomorze Armies were destroyed. It began as a Polish counter-offensive, which gained initial success, but the Germans outflanked the Polish forces with a concentrated counter-attack. The battle took place west of Warsaw, near the Bzura River. ![]() The Battle of the Bzura (or the Battle of Kutno) was the largest Polish counter-attack of the German invasion of Poland and was fought from 9 to 19 September. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() For playing an aspiring actress in the romantic musical La La Land (2016), she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. In 2014, Stone played a recovering drug addict in the black comedy Birdman, which earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, and made her Broadway debut as Sally Bowles in a revival of the musical Cabaret. Following this breakthrough, she had supporting roles in the romantic comedy Crazy, Stupid, Love (2011) and the period drama The Help (2011), and gained wider recognition as Gwen Stacy in the 2012 superhero film The Amazing Spider-Man and its 2014 sequel. The last of these was Stone's first leading role, earning her a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress. After small television roles, she appeared in a series of well-received teen comedy films, such as Superbad (2007), Zombieland (2009), and Easy A (2010). As a teenager, she relocated to Los Angeles and made her television debut in In Search of the New Partridge Family (2004), a reality show that produced only an unsold pilot. In 2017, she was the world's highest-paid actress and named by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world.īorn and raised in Scottsdale, Arizona, Stone began acting as a child in a theater production of The Wind in the Willows in 2000. She is the recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, and a Golden Globe Award. Emily Jean " Emma" Stone (born November 6, 1988) is an American actress. ![]() ![]() ![]() And like the reincarnation of their patron saint, she will bring hope to all of Santa Olivia. Eventually, the orphans find an outlet for their frustrations: They form a vigilante group to support Loup Garron who, costumed as their patron saint, Santa Olivia, uses her special abilities to avenge the town.Īware that she could lose her freedom, and possibly her life, Loup is determined to fight to redress the wrongs her community has suffered. The “Wolf-Men” were engineered to have superhuman strength, speed, sensory capability, stamina, and a total lack of fear, and Loup, named for and sharing her father’s wolf-like qualities, is marked as an outsider.Īfter her mother dies, Loup goes to live among the misfit orphans at the parish church, where they seethe from the injustices visited upon the locals by the soldiers. A fugitive “Wolf-Man” who had a love affair with a local woman, Loup’s father was one of a group of men genetically-manipulated and used by the US government as a weapon. Loup Garron was born and raised in Santa Olivia, an isolated, disenfranchised town next to a US military base inside a DMZ buffer zone between Texas and Mexico. ![]() Lushly written with rich and vivid characters, Santa Olivia is Jacqueline Carey’s take on comic book superheroes and the classic werewolf myth. ![]() ![]() ![]() Here you will find a list of the most populated streets in specific cities, including tenants' names and their phone numbers. Once you enter the correct address and select the “Search“ button, Radaris will direct you automatically to a detailed page with real estate information about properties in the US. has an address lookup feature that requires you to search for the addresses you are interested in. ![]() You can use their number to search them on, find them on social media, hire a private investigator, or search them in publicly available government records. There are many ways you can find people online. You can find arrest records for Macy Blake in our background checks if they exist. Macy Blake's address is 117 Main St, Sidney, IA 51652. FAQ: Learn more about our top result for Macy Blake What is Macy Blake's address? ![]() ![]() In fact, the future of his career may rest on proving this theory as fact. Kirihito is convinced the disease is endemic, but Director Tatsugaura insists they’re dealing with a contagious pathogen. Chief among them is a bizarre physical regression, ultimately causing the patient’s features to appear more canine than human. Kirihito Osanai is working with a slew of doctors to unlock the mysteries of Monmow disease, as a patient under their watch suffers from its symptoms. Whether it’s absorbed in one fell swoop or via Vertical’s recent two-volume edition, Ode to Kirihito is one of the finest Tezuka stories available in English. ![]() Its original run in Japan was a different matter, with twenty gripping chapters serialized as Kirihito Sanka in Big Comic from 1970-1971. ![]() ![]() It also may have been the largest bulk volume of manga I consumed prior to Drawn & Quarterly’s release of Yoshihiro Tatsumi’s A Drifting Life. If I remember correctly, the original 2006 Vertical edition of Ode to Kirihito was my first true exposure to a dark, somewhat self-contained Osamu Tezuka tale. ![]() ![]() ![]() Gailey's delightful second novella of mishaps and mayhem in an alternate 19th-century American South picks up a few weeks after the events of Rivers of Teeth, and relies heavily on the reader's familiarity with the earlier volume. ![]() All of them struggle with who they've become after a long life of theft, murder, deception, and general disinterest in the strictures of the law.Īt the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. Others band together to protect a precious infant and a peaceful future. Some hunt the missing lovers they refuse to believe have died. In the aftermath of the Harriet catastrophe, that crew has scattered to the winds. ![]() ![]() Songs are sung of their exploits, many with a haunting refrain: "And not a soul escaped alive." Together they conspired to blow the dam that choked the Mississippi and funnel the hordes of feral hippos contained within downriver, to finally give America back its greatest waterway. Campbell finalist Sarah Gailey's hippo mayhem continues in Taste of Marrow, the sequel to rollicking adventure River of Teeth.Ī few months ago, Winslow Houndstooth put together the damnedest crew of outlaws, assassins, cons, and saboteurs on either side of the Harriet for a history-changing caper. ![]() ![]() ![]() 'We think it's important for the soul of the neighborhood.' " ![]() "And to increase the likelihood that Book Culture survives after it opens next year, Rockrose is discounting its rent until it can turn a profit, Mr. "For a long time this neighborhood was about what will be and now I think it's about what is," said Justin Elghanayan, president of Rockrose Development.īook Culture has leased "a 2,300-square-foot space at 26-09 Jackson, another Rockrose berth," the Times wrote. The post linked to a New York Times feature on the " neighborhood-in-the-making" that is the Court Square section of Long Island City, Queens, "a longtime industrial area by the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge that is experiencing a surge in residential construction." "The rumors are true-Book Culture will be opening a 4th store in LIC!," the New York City bookseller, which has three locations in Manhattan, announced on Facebook over the weekend. Book Culture on Columbus Avenue, on Manhattan's Upper West Side ![]() ![]() We also have several books that queer the family unit, like Krys Malcolm Belc's "poetic and moving" memoir of transmasculine, nonbinary parenthood, The Natural Mother of the Child, and Torrey Peter's "unforgettable" novel about trans women and motherhood, Detransition, Baby. In today's newsletter, we feature books that celebrate queer pop cultural figures, like stand-up comic Gina Yashere ( Cack-Handed), and a pantheon of other high-visibility icons in Jack Guinness's Queer Bible. And that is exactly what Nghi Vo does to The Great Gatsby in her first full-length novel, The Chosen and the Beautiful, centering a queer Vietnamese adoptee as Daisy Buchanan's childhood friend. Basically, it means to seize a (straight) narrative that leaves itself just open enough to interpretation, and to insert a queer identity into that gap as a means of reevaluating the piece. To queer something was an idea that surfaced time and again in my postmodern literature course discussions in the mid- to late 2000s. ![]() ![]() ![]() In many of her essays, she traces the significance of visible representation, such as The L Word, but in other pieces, a heteronormative film like Moulin Rouge lends her enough room to queer it. We grew up in a time when LGBTQ+ representation in media was emerging but still far from perfect. ![]() Like Grace Perry, author of The 2000s Made Me Gay (reviewed below), I too am a gay millennial endlessly interested in queer cultural touchstones. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]()
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