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"A Pot-Walloper", Times cartoon of 1830. One politician addresses the scruffily-attired peasant voter: "The people of Britain possess the power to return an independent parliament if they will but exert it, think of that my noble pot-walloper"; on the right, another candidate says "Never mind Him I'll give you something to put in your pot", reflecting fears that poor voters would be easily bribed.
Salamis, Ancient Greek ruins in Cyprus.. Ruins (from Latin ruina 'a collapse') are the remains of a civilization's architecture. The term refers to formerly intact structures that have fallen into a state of partial or total disrepair over time due to a variety of factors, such as lack of maintenance, deliberate destruction by humans, or uncontrollable destruction by natural phenomena.
Ruined (2008) is an American play by Lynn Nottage. The play premiered at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago , and won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Drama . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The play explores the plight of women during the civil war in the Democratic Republic of Congo .
Broadly, the term liminal space is used to describe a place or state of change or transition; this may be physical (e.g. a doorway) or psychological (e.g. the period of adolescence). [3] Liminal space imagery often depicts this sense of "in-between", capturing transitional places (such as stairwells, roads, corridors, or hotels) unsettlingly ...
The scene is humanizing, and Regina actually seems kinda likeable, which is probably why it was cut in the first place -- but does that mean Regina George was planning on throwing Aaron Samuels ...
The total solar eclipse is just days away and the cloud cover forecast is looking grim for some regions, but there’s still hope because not all cloudy skies are the same.
Apocalyptic fiction is a subgenre of science fiction that is concerned with the end of civilization due to a potentially existential catastrophe such as nuclear warfare, pandemic, extraterrestrial attack, impact event, cybernetic revolt, technological singularity, dysgenics, supernatural phenomena, divine judgment, climate change, resource depletion or some other general disaster.
I remember one winter morning setting off from my home to the bus stop, bundled up against the biting cold, with my new cassette player in a coat pocket. I switched it on and heard a soaring music.