The Iron Curtain is a term that has been employed as a way of describing the boundary that basically separate the countries that are part of the Warsaw Pact and those that are part of NATO (North Atlantic Treat Organization). The Iron Curtain was basically in existence from 1945 up until 1991 when...
Some things might have been better off not being invented. Now we're not denying that these come with some good ... convenience, connectedness, etc. We're just saying... sometimes the bad seems to outweigh the good.
Paul of TarsusSaul of Tarsus, a.k.a. Paul the Apostle, Paul of Tarsus [?-65 c.e.] was a Hellenistic Jew and student of Gamaliel the Elder who served as enforcer for the Pharisaic Sanhedrin against the apostate Christian sect following the crucifixion of Jesus. Around 33 c.e. he experienced a dramatic...
Born on the 21st of June 1948, in Aldershot, English Ian Russel McEwan is a novelist and screen writer. He is a highly acclaimed contemporary writer with many of his novels being adapted into film. His writing style has caused critics to call him ‘Ian Macabre’. Until he was twelve years old, Ian...
In the theatre there are 1,500 cameras rolling at the same time- in the cinema, only one,” as quoted by Orson Welles, the prolific director of the most studied film of all time, Citizen Kane. Within the last century cinema has grown from pioneering silent films into orchestrated musicals, “spaghetti...
The world depends on oil for most of its energy needs. It is used not just in transportation but in many factories and industrial processes. Without oil, life would literally grind to a standstill.However, some countries consume more oil than others. In fact, in a study published in the CIA World...
