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  2. Lord of the Flies (1963 film) - Wikipedia

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    Golding himself supported the film. When Kenneth Tynan was a script editor for Ealing Studios he commissioned a script of Lord of the Flies from Nigel Kneale, but Ealing Studios closed in 1959 before it could be produced. The novel was adapted into a movie for a second time in 1990; the 1963 film is generally considered more faithful to the novel.

  3. SparkNotes - Wikipedia

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    Because SparkNotes provides study guides for literature that include chapter summaries, many teachers see the website as a cheating tool. [7] These teachers argue that students can use SparkNotes as a replacement for actually completing reading assignments with the original material, [8] [9] [10] or to cheat during tests using cell phones with Internet access.

  4. Peter Jackson's interpretation of The Lord of the Rings

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    Commentators have compared Peter Jackson's 2001–2003 The Lord of the Rings film trilogy with the book on which it was based, J. R. R. Tolkien's 1954–1955 The Lord of the Rings, remarking that while both have been extremely successful commercially, the film version does not necessarily capture the intended meaning of the book.

  5. Lotf Ali Khan - Wikipedia

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    With his defeat, the 44-year reign of the Zands came to an end and the first chapter in the 131-year Qajar dynasty was written. His tomb is in Emamzadeh Zeid in the Old Bazaar of Tehran. His portrait is in the Museum of Fine Arts in Sadabad Palace. It is said that Lotf Ali Khan was uniquely handsome and tremendously skillful with the sword.

  6. Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World - Wikipedia

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    Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World is a 1998 American direct-to-video animated musical adventure film and the sequel to the 1995 Disney film Pocahontas.While the first film dealt with her meeting with John Smith and the arrival of the British settlers in Jamestown, the sequel focuses on Pocahontas's journey to England with John Rolfe to negotiate for peace between the two nations, although ...

  7. Elephants Can Remember - Wikipedia

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    The last two of these cases are discussed in Chapter 5 of the novel, along with the case retold in Five Little Pigs. Mr Goby is a recurring character in many of the later Poirot novels. Although he does not appear in the previous novel, Hallowe'en Party , he is mentioned as having contributed to that investigation in Chapter 21 of that novel.

  8. Sybil (novel) - Wikipedia

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    The book is a roman à thèse, or a novel with a thesis — which was meant to create a furor over the squalor that was plaguing England's working class cities.. Disraeli's interest in this subject stemmed from his interest in the Chartist movement, a working-class political reformist movement that sought universal male suffrage and other parliamentary reforms.

  9. Edward Low - Wikipedia

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    Edward Low (also spelled Lowe or Loe; c. 1690–1724) was a pirate of English origin during the latter days of the Golden Age of Piracy, in the early 18th century.Low was born into poverty in Westminster, London, and was a thief from an early age.