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Jean d'Alembert. Letter to M. d'Alembert on Spectacles (French: Lettre à M. d'Alembert sur les spectacles) is a 1758 essay written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau in opposition to an article published in the Encyclopédie by Jean d'Alembert that proposed the establishment of a theatre in Geneva.
De Spectaculis, also known as On the Spectacles or The Shows, is a surviving moral and ascetic treatise by Tertullian. Written somewhere between 197 and 202, the work looks at the moral legitimacy and consequences of Christians attending the circus, theatre, or amphitheatre. [1] Tertullian argues that human enjoyment can be an offence to God. [2]
The spectacles in ancient Rome were numerous, open to all citizens and generally free of charge; some of them were distinguished by the grandeur of the stagings and cruelty. Romans preferred to attend gladiatorial fights, those with ferocious beasts ( venationes ), reproductions of naval battles ( naumachia ), chariot races , athletic contests ...
The Void, released in 2008; The Dishonored franchise. EverQuest contains a zone called "The Void". Hollow Knight by Team Cherry, with Void being one of the main elements. Dark Souls contains an analogous concept known as "the Abyss." Rain World contains an acidic sea called "The Void Sea" which is capable of halting reincarnation
The editor of the Dollar Newspaper printed "The Spectacles" with the comment that "it is one of the best from [Poe's] chaste and able pen and second only to the popular prize production, 'The Gold-Bug.'" [2] Editor John Stephenson Du Solle reprinted the story in his daily newspaper The Spirit of the Times in Philadelphia, saying, "Poe's Story ...
Google showed how the glasses could be used to translate from Mandarin to English and vice versa, English to Spanish, and provide those who are deaf or hard of hearing with text they can read, so ...
A Florida woman who said she was playing a game with her boyfriend when she zipped him up in a suitcase and left him to die has been sentenced to life in prison.
A map of the Boötes Void. The Boötes Void (/ b oʊ ˈ oʊ t iː z / boh-OH-teez) (colloquially referred to as the Great Nothing) [1] is an approximately spherical region of space found in the vicinity of the constellation Boötes, containing only 60 galaxies instead of the 2,000 that should be expected from an area this large, hence its name.