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Robert William Shields (May 17, 1918 – October 15, 2007) was an American minister and high school English teacher best known for writing a diary of 37.5 million words, which chronicled every five minutes of his life from 1972 until a stroke disabled him in 1997.
Around the World in 80 Days was produced by Broadway showman Michael Todd, based on a musical by Orson Welles [12] and Jules Verne's adventure novel. Todd had never before produced a film. [ 1 ] The director he hired, Michael Anderson, had directed the highly acclaimed British World War II feature The Dam Busters (1955), George Orwell 's ...
In the end, the deal agreed was a complex five-part contract worth around $4.5 million in total that included $1 million for three years of play, $1 million for ten years of marketing rights, $1 million for a fourteen-year PR contract, and another $1 million for a music contract.
In 1984, Nicholas Coleridge emulated Fogg's trip, taking 78 days; he wrote a book titled Around the World in 78 Days. [17] In 1988, Monty Python member Michael Palin took on a similar challenge without using aircraft, as a part of a television travelogue, called Around the World in 80 Days with Michael Palin. He completed the journey in 79 days ...
Image credits: PeopleLikeColdplay #4. In Japan. Left my phone on my desk at uni, sleepless night, rushed there the next morning to find it sitting exactly where I left it.
25 million [11] [12] 1618–1683 Manchu vs. Ming Dynasty: China World War I: 15–22 million [13] [14] [3] 1914–1918 Allied Powers vs. Central Powers: Global Conquests of Timur: 7–20 million [7] 1369–1405 Timurid Empire vs. various states in Asia Central Asia, West Asia, and South Asia An Lushan rebellion: 13 million [15] 754–763
Image credits: Old-time Photos To learn more about the fascinating world of photography from the past, we got in touch with Ed Padmore, founder of Vintage Photo Lab.Ed was kind enough to have a ...
50 British Zane Grey: 250 million [76] 250 million [76] English Western American Irving Wallace: 250 million [77] 250 million [77] English Suspense: American Masashi Kishimoto: 250 million [78] 250 million [79] Japanese Manga, Naruto: 72 Japanese Gosho Aoyama: 250 million [80] 250 million [81] Japanese Manga, Detective Conan: 100 Japanese J. R ...