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Con Air is a 1997 American action thriller film directed by Simon West and starring Nicolas Cage, John Cusack and John Malkovich in the lead roles. Written by Scott Rosenberg and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer , the film centers on a prison break aboard a JPATS aircraft, nicknamed as "Con Air".
Windows 10 is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft.Microsoft described Windows 10 as an "operating system as a service" that would receive ongoing updates to its features and functionality, augmented with the ability for enterprise environments to receive non-critical updates at a slower pace or use long-term support milestones that will only receive ...
Romania and Bulgaria become full members of the Schengen Area. In New Orleans , an attacker rams a truck into a crowd and opens fire , killing at least 14 people and injuring 35 others. Mikheil Kavelashvili is inaugurated as president of Georgia while incumbent Salome Zourabichvili (pictured) intends to remain in office amidst a constitutional ...
At Any Price is a 2012 American drama film directed by Ramin Bahrani and written by Ramin Bahrani and Hallie Newton. The film, starring Dennis Quaid and Zac Efron, was selected to compete for the Golden Lion at the 69th Venice International Film Festival, [3] and later screened as an official selection at both the Telluride Film Festival and the 2012 Toronto Film Festival. [4]
The Armour of Light is a historical fiction novel by Welsh author Ken Follett. [1] [2] It is the fifth book in the Kingsbridge Series, and is the sequel to A Column of Fire.The Armour of Light takes place in the years 1792–1824 in Kingsbridge, the same fictional English town in The Pillars of the Earth.
The play takes place in "A room" in a house during the course of one day ("Morning", "Afternoon", and "Night"), but the location of the room is unspecified.The furniture in the room, a "desk" and a "machine" used as a telephone intercom, and the bars on the windows, as illustrated by the premiere production photographs, suggests that the room in a domestic house has been converted into an ...
The central theme of the book is that several fields of contemporary science and philosophy point in the same direction: intelligence is not organized in a centralized structure but much more like a bee-hive of small simple components. [1] Kelly applies this view to bureaucratic organizations, intelligent computers as well as to the human brain.
According to Brooks, he "did an earlier version of the book as a script" but felt it would be too expensive to produce it as a futuristic film. [3] The novel "is meant to be very plausible [...] I almost wanted the book to read like a news story. This is not a faraway America." [3]