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The 1993 Four Corners hantavirus outbreak was an outbreak of hantavirus that caused the first known human cases of hantavirus disease in the United States. It occurred within the Four Corners region – the geographic intersection of the U.S. states of Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona – of the Southwestern United States in mid-1993.
116 minutes. Country. United States. Language. English. Box office. $40.7 million. Absence of Malice is a 1981 American drama neo noir thriller film directed by Sydney Pollack and starring Paul Newman, Sally Field, Wilford Brimley, Melinda Dillon and Bob Balaban . The title refers to one of the defenses against libel defamation.
Henrietta Lacks (born Loretta Pleasant; August 1, 1920 – October 4, 1951) [ 1] was an African-American woman [ 4] whose cancer cells are the source of the HeLa cell line, the first immortalized human cell line [ A] and one of the most important cell lines in medical research. An immortalized cell line reproduces indefinitely under specific ...
The story found in the Panchatantra relates how a mouse drops from the beak of a bird of prey into the hands of a holy man, who turns it into a girl and brings her up as his own. Eventually he seeks a powerful marriage for her but discovers at each application that there is one more powerful: thus the cloud can cover the sun, the wind blows the ...
Ratatouille (/ ˌ r æ t ə ˈ t uː i / RAT-ə-TOO-ee) is a 2007 American animated comedy-drama film [3] produced by Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures. The eighth film produced by Pixar, it was written and directed by Brad Bird and produced by Brad Lewis, from an original idea by Jan Pinkava, [4] who was credited for conceiving the film's story with Bird and Jim Capobianco.
The original short story ended abruptly with the major twist—Romaine's revelation that Leonard Vole was in fact guilty. Over time, Christie grew dissatisfied with this abrupt and dystopian ending (one of the few Christie endings in which a murderer escapes punishment), which would have had to be sanitised in any event for stage and film versions where such a brutal crime going unpunished ...
The Secret of NIMH was released in the United States on July 2, 1982, by MGM/UA Entertainment Co. under the United Artists label. It was praised by critics for its animation, characters and plot, allowing the film to win a Saturn Award that same year for Best Animated Film. Though only a moderate success at the box office, it turned a solid ...
Of Mice and Men is a 1937 novella written by American author John Steinbeck. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It narrates the experiences of George Milton and Lennie Small, two displaced migrant ranch workers, who move from place to place in California in search of new job opportunities during the Great Depression in the United States .