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North and South is a 1980s trilogy of best-selling novels by John Jakes which take place before, during, and after the American Civil War. [1] The saga tells the story of the enduring friendship between Orry Main of South Carolina and George Hazard of Pennsylvania, who become best friends while attending the United States Military Academy at West Point but later find themselves and their ...
Before 2006, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto were considered as planets. Below is a partial list of these mnemonics: "Men Very Easily Make Jugs Serve Useful Needs, Perhaps" – The structure of this sentence, which is current in the 1950s, suggests that it may have originated before Pluto's discovery.
John William Jakes (March 31, 1932 – March 11, 2023) was an American writer, best known for historical and speculative fiction. His American Civil War trilogy, North and South, has sold millions of copies worldwide. He was also the author of The Kent Family Chronicles. Jakes used the pen name Jay Scotland among others.
Heaven and Hell (Swedenborg book), a 1758 book by Emanuel Swedenborg; Heaven and Hell (Kardec book), an 1865 book by Allan Kardec; Heaven and Hell, a 1956 book by Aldous Huxley, sequel to The Doors of Perception; Heaven and Hell (Jakes novel), a 1987 novel by John Jakes in the North and South trilogy; Heaven and Hell, a 1981 play by Dusty Hughes
In C. S. Lewis' novel The Great Divorce the narrator meets writer George MacDonald in heaven, who uses the quote "Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heav'n" as answer to the narrator's questions about heaven and hell. Frederick Buechner's debut novel, A Long Day's Dying, takes its title from Book 10 of Paradise Lost.
Hell (French: L'enfer) is a French film, released in 2005 and directed by Danis Tanović. It is based on a script originally drafted by Krzysztof Kieślowski and Krzysztof Piesiewicz, which was meant to be the second film in a trilogy with the titles Heaven, Hell and Purgatory. The script was finished by Piesiewicz after Kieślowski died in 1996.
I Don't Want to Be Born is a 1975 British horror film directed by Peter Sasdy and starring Joan Collins, Ralph Bates, Eileen Atkins, and Donald Pleasence. [2] It was written by Stanley Price . Released in the United States under the alternate title The Devil Within Her , it is also known as The Monster and Sharon's Baby .
What Dreams May Come is a 1998 American fantasy drama film directed by Vincent Ward and adapted by Ronald Bass from the 1978 novel by Richard Matheson.Starring Robin Williams, Annabella Sciorra and Cuba Gooding Jr., it won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects and the Art Directors Guild Award for Excellence in Production Design.