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Recorded in English c. 1374, with a meaning of "one who pleads or argues for a cause", from Anglo-French oratour, Old French orateur (14th century), Latin orator ("speaker"), from orare ("speak before a court or assembly; plead"), derived from a Proto-Indo-European base *or-("to pronounce a ritual formula").
Before World War II, Oradour-sur-Glane was a quiet, rural community. The original village was destroyed on 10 June 1944, four days after D-Day, when 643 of its inhabitants, including 247 children, were massacred by a company of troops belonging to the 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich, a Waffen-SS unit of the military forces of Nazi Germany in World War II.
Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection (French: Pouvoirs de l'horreur. Essai sur l'abjection) is a 1980 book by Julia Kristeva.The work is an extensive treatise on the subject of abjection, [1] in which Kristeva draws on the theories of Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan to examine horror, marginalization, castration, the phallic signifier, the "I/Not I" dichotomy, the Oedipal complex, exile ...
Acceptance; Admiration; Affection; Amusement; Anger; Angst; Anguish; Annoyance; Anticipation; Anxiety; Apathy; Arousal; Awe; Belongingness; Boredom; Confidence ...
Splatter films, according to film critic Michael Arnzen, "self-consciously revel in the special effects of gore as an artform." [5] Where typical horror films deal with such fears as that of the unknown, the supernatural and the dark, the impetus for fear in a splatter film comes from physical destruction of the body and the pain accompanying it.
(The Center Square) – Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs laid out her goals for the new legislative session during her State of the State address on Monday afternoon as she faces a larger Republican majority.
L'Orateur - Du meilleur genre d'orateurs. Collection des universités de France Série latine. Latin text with translation in French. ISBN 978-2-251-01080-9 Publication Year: June 2008; M. Tulli Ciceronis De Oratore Libri Tres, with Introduction and Notes by Augustus Samuel Wilkins. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1902. (Reprint: 1961).
Skinwalkers is a 2006 action horror film.It was released in the United States by Lions Gate Entertainment and After Dark Films, and focuses on werewolves.Directed by James Isaac, it stars Jason Behr, Elias Koteas, Rhona Mitra, and Tom Jackson.