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Mangeuses d'Hommes (English language release title Man Eaters) [1] is a cult 1988 French-language sex comedy/horror film, shot in Sierra Leone (mainly in the jungle near Tokey Beach and Black Johnson Cove) [2] and based on a farce of the same name, first performed on stage in Paris, running for over five years and written by French author/director Daniel Colas.
Joel Heyman as Bill Beavers, a man with a rare disease that makes it impossible for him to sleep: initially considered a death sentence with a life-expectancy of six months, Bill faces the very real possibility he will be the last man on Earth. (regular season 2; guest season 1) Bill was the main character of the original unreleased Day 5 short ...
"The Lotus Eater" is a short story by British author W. Somerset Maugham in 1935 and loosely based on the life story of John Ellingham Brooks. It was included in the 1940 collection of Maugham stories The Mixture as Before .
The story was republished in the collections Conan the Barbarian (Gnome Press, 1954), Conan the Wanderer (Lancer Books, 1968), and The Devil in Iron (Grant, 1976).It has more recently been published in the collections The Conan Chronicles Volume 1: The People of the Black Circle (Gollancz, 2000) as "Shadows in Zamboula" and in Conan of Cimmeria: Volume Three (1935–1936) (Del Rey, 2005) under ...
Leopold Bloom's home at 7 Eccles Street [14] is the setting of episode 4 ("Calypso"), episode 17 ("Ithaca"), and episode 18 ("Penelope"). The post office on Westland Row is the setting of episode 5 ("Lotus Eaters"). Sweny's Pharmacy on Lombard Street, where Bloom purchases soap, and Lincoln Place [15] are also settings of episode 5 ("Lotus ...
First edition (publ. Oxford University Press) Man-Eaters of Kumaon is a 1944 book written by hunter-naturalist Jim Corbett. [1] It details the experiences that Corbett had in the Kumaon region of India from the 1900s to the 1930s, while hunting man-eating Bengal tigers [2] and Indian leopards. [3]
One day, the poor man, a woodcutter, goes to the forest to earn his living, when a strange rain begins to pour, and a voice warns him to leave the forest. The man answers that he needs to earn his living, and the voice gifts him a dish that always produces food. The man's sister-in-law borrows it, and the man returns to the forest.
James Bartley (1870–1909) is the central figure in a late nineteenth-century story according to which he was swallowed whole by a sperm whale. He was found still living days later in the stomach of the whale, which was dead from harpooning. The story originated of an anonymous form, began to appear in American newspapers.