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Meinhardt Raabe, the Last of the Living Munchkins From "The Wizard of Oz" Has Died

Meinhardt Raabe, the last of the living Munchkins from "The Wizard Of Oz" has died. "The Wizard Of Oz" is an iconic 1939 film based upon Frank Baum's "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz." The film stars Judy Garland, Ray Bolger, Jack Haley, Bert Lahr, Frank Morgan, Billie Burke, Margaret Hamilton, Charles...

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Cairn Terrier Dog Breed

The Cairn Terrier is one of Scotland’s original and oldest terrier breeds, originating in the 1500s from the Highlands of Scotland and the Isle of Skye. Named for the manner in which it tracks foxes, rodents and badgers by squeezing down into “cairns” (piles of small stones that marked Scottish...

Tornadoes Assail North Carolina, Kill at Least 45

Tornadoes Assail North Carolina, Kill at Least 45

A wave of unstable weather hurled its fury causing over 60 tornadoes to assail North Carolina in the United States and left at least 45 people dead on Saturday, April 16, 2011. A massive storm system with heavy winds and severe thunderstorms set off more than 60 tornadoes and flattened areas in...

The 50 Most Influential Directors of the Century

The 50 Most Influential Directors of the Century

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...

20 of the Best Dark Fantasy Titles

20 of the Best Dark Fantasy Titles

Dark Fantasy is a nebulous psuedo-genre of the fantastic. It can cover urban fantasy with rough edges, Lovecraftian horror, epic fantasy with violence and dirt still intact — but it's all these things and more. It's any story of the fantastic where things aren't Tolkien-levels of happy. Were people...