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A House in the Sky is a 2013 memoir by Amanda Lindhout, co-written with the journalist Sara Corbett.It recounts Lindhout's experience in southern Somalia as a hostage of teenage militants from the Hizbul Islam fundamentalist group.
In 2013, Lindhout released a memoir, co-written with journalist Sara Corbett, titled A House in the Sky recounting her experience as a hostage. She indicated in the book that her motive for travelling to Somalia in the midst of an insurgency was the dearth of competition from other journalists covering the region, as well as the possibility of ...
Cabin in the Sky is a 1943 American musical film based on the 1940 Broadway musical of the same name. The first feature film directed by Vincente Minnelli , [ 2 ] Cabin in the Sky features an all- black cast [ 2 ] and stars Ethel Waters , Eddie "Rochester" Anderson and Lena Horne .
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 17 February 2025. Alleged alien abduction, 1975 Travis Walton at The 2019 International UFO Congress in Phoenix, Arizona The Travis Walton incident was an alleged alien abduction of American forestry worker Travis Walton on November 5, 1975 in the Apache–Sitgreaves National Forests near Heber, Arizona ...
"USFS 1919: The Ranger, the Cook, and a Hole in the Sky" was adapted into a 1995 ABC television film titled The Ranger, the Cook and a Hole in the Sky, also known simply as Hole in the Sky. The film was directed by John Kent Harrison, with the adaptation written by Robert Wayne, and stars Sam Elliott, Jerry O'Connell, Ricky Jay, and Molly Parker.
A Ladder to the Sky is a 2018 novel by Irish novelist John Boyne, and his eleventh novel for adults.The plot concerns Maurice Swift, a handsome young writer who schemes, seduces, and plagiarizes his way to literary stardom.
Cabin in the Sky is a musical with music by Vernon Duke, book by Lynn Root, and lyrics by John Latouche.The musical opened on Broadway in 1940. [1] The show is described as a "parable of Southern Negro Life with echoes of Ferenc Molnár's Liliom (which would be turned into the musical Carousel) and Marc Connelly's The Green Pastures."
October Sky is a 1999 American biographical drama film directed by Joe Johnston, and starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Chris Cooper, Chris Owen, and Laura Dern.The screenplay by Lewis Colick, based on the book of the same name, tells the story of Homer H. Hickam Jr., a coal miner's son who was inspired by the launch of Sputnik 1 in 1957 to take up rocketry against his father's wishes and eventually ...