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Elephant is a 1989 British short film directed by Alan Clarke and produced by Danny Boyle.The film is set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles and its title comes from Bernard MacLaverty's description of the conflict as "the elephant in our living room" — a reference to the collective denial of the underlying social problems of Northern Ireland.
Her first book, Year of the Elephant, was published in 1980, in English by University of Texas Press in 1989, in French in 2005. The book is named after a battle in Islamic history in which a flock of birds dropped stones on the enemy elephants, causing them to turn around.
English-language film Italian-language film Common source material (if any) 13 Men and a Gun (1938) Tredici uomini e un cannone (1936) Black 13 (1953) Gioventù perduta (1948) Crackers (1984) I Soliti Ignoti (1958) Everybody's Fine (2009) Stanno Tutti Bene (1990) Heartbeat (1946) Heartbeat (1939) I'll Give a Million (1938) Darò un milione (1935)
Since 1993, 636 medals have been awarded to 305 players in the Premier League, an association football league that serves as the top tier of the English football league system. Since the 2012–13 season , a player needs to have played in a minimum of five matches for a title-winning team to qualify for a medal; this is down from the previous ...
The Wupper river, between Schwebebahn stations Alter Markt and Adlerbrücke Painting of Tuffi on a house wall in Wuppertal facing the Schwebebahn. Tuffi (born 1946, India – died 1989, Paris, France) was a female Asian elephant that became famous in West Germany during 1950 when she accidentally fell from the Wuppertal Schwebebahn into the River Wupper underneath.
Translation studies has developed alongside the growth in translation schools and courses at the university level. In 1995, a study of 60 countries revealed there were 250 bodies at university level offering courses in translation or interpreting. [51] In 2013, the same database listed 501 translator-training institutions. [52]
Horton Hears a Who! (also known as Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! or simply Horton) is a 2008 American animated adventure comedy film [1] based on the 1954 book of the same name by Dr. Seuss, produced by Blue Sky Studios and distributed by 20th Century Fox.
The Elephant Vanishes (象の消滅, Zō no shōmetsu) is a collection of 17 short stories by Japanese author Haruki Murakami. The stories were written between 1980 and 1991, [ 1 ] and published in Japan in various magazines, then collections.