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A Map of the World (1994) is a novel by Jane Hamilton.It was the Oprah's Book Club selection for December 1999. It was made into a movie released in 1999 starring Sigourney Weaver, Julianne Moore, David Strathairn, Chloë Sevigny, Louise Fletcher and Marc Donato with a soundtrack by Pat Metheny.
The End of the World (1916) End of the World (1931) Deluge (1933) Things to Come (1936) Five (1951) When Worlds Collide (1951) Captive Women (1952) Robot Monster (1953) Day the World Ended (1955) World Without End (1956) The Lost Missile (1958) Teenage Caveman (1958) On the Beach (1959) The World, the Flesh and the Devil (1959)
1917 is a 2019 war film directed and produced by Sam Mendes, who co-wrote it with Krysty Wilson-Cairns.Partially inspired by stories told to Mendes by his paternal grandfather Alfred about his service during World War I, [6] the film takes place after the German retreat to the Hindenburg Line during Operation Alberich, and follows two British soldiers, Will Schofield (George MacKay) and Tom ...
The Mile-High Illinois, or simply The Illinois, is an unbuilt conceptual design by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright for a one mile-high skyscraper to be built in Chicago, Illinois. Wright described the project in his 1957 book, A Testament . [ 1 ]
Illinois is ranked second in corn production among U.S. states, and Illinois corn is used to produce 40% of the ethanol consumed in the United States. [154] The Archer Daniels Midland corporation in Decatur, Illinois, is the world's leading producer of ethanol from corn.
The Complete Index to World Film (citwf or citwf.com) is an online database of information related to movies. Citwf, compiled online by Alan Goble and Valan Publishing since 2004, had a Guinness Record as the world's largest published film-related database, with over 756,000 title entries.
The history of Illinois may be defined by several broad historical periods, namely, the pre-Columbian period, the era of European exploration and colonization, its development as part of the American frontier, its early statehood period, growth in the 19th and 20th centuries, and contemporary Illinois of today.
April 14, 2020 was the date of the first COVID-related death in Peoria County. [47] In April 2021, the Peoria metro area had the 9th highest daily average for new COVID cases in the nation. [ 48 ] In December 2021, Peoria area hospitals were at or near capacity with a surge of the Delta variant .