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  2. Empire of Dust - Wikipedia

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    Empire of Dust is a 2011 documentary film directed by Bram Van Paesschen. The film documents the workers of China Railway Seventh Group (CREC-7), a subsidiary of China Railway Group Limited (CREC), as they are contracted to construct a road between Kolwezi and Lubumbashi in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The film follows two employees of ...

  3. Richard Boone - Wikipedia

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    Richard Boone graduated from Hoover High School in Glendale, California. He attended Stanford University in Palo Alto, California , where he was a member of Theta Xi fraternity. He dropped out of Stanford prior to graduation and then worked as an oil rigger , bartender, painter, and writer.

  4. Siege of Boonesborough - Wikipedia

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    After the initial flurry of shooting, Boone—who reemerged as the natural leader even though as a captain he was outranked by Major Smith and Colonel Richard Callaway—urged the Kentuckians to conserve their gunpowder. At night, Native Americans ran up to the walls and attempted to throw burning torches onto the roofs of the houses within.

  5. A Thunder of Drums - Wikipedia

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    A Thunder of Drums is a 1961 American CinemaScope Western film directed by Joseph Newman and starring Richard Boone, George Hamilton, Luana Patten and Arthur O'Connell. The screenwriter James Warner Bellah adapted it from his 1946 short story "Command".

  6. Anna Smith Spark - Wikipedia

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    Anna Smith Spark (born 1978 or 1979) is a British fantasy fiction writer and civil servant from Bishop's Stortford. She wrote a trilogy titled Empires of Dust as well as several other standalone works, and has been styled the "Queen of Grimdark ".

  7. The Bushido Blade - Wikipedia

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    The Bushido Blade is a fictional sideline to the true events surrounding the treaty Commodore Matthew Perry signed with the shogun of feudal Japan.The samurai sword entrusted to Commodore Perry for President Franklin Pierce of the United States by the Emperor of Japan is stolen by factions wishing to maintain Japanese isolationism.

  8. Against a Crooked Sky - Wikipedia

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    The eldest daughter of a pioneer family is kidnapped by a mysterious Indian tribe, and the eldest son pursues her. To secure his sister's freedom, he must sacrifice his own life by passing the test of "Crooked Sky" and shield his sister from an executioner's arrow.

  9. Star in the Dust - Wikipedia

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    Star in the Dust is a 1956 American Technicolor Western film directed by Charles F. Haas and starring John Agar, Mamie Van Doren and Richard Boone. It was based on the 1953 Lee Leighton novel Law Man. In the town of Gunlock, sheriff Bill Jorden is due to hang Sam Hall for cattle-stealing.