![]() ![]() ![]() Wolf, an extreme survivalist television personality, is the first one on the scene when the meteors hit, filming the damage. The Lazarus Impact is a fast paced, high intensity, peri-apocalyptic zombie action thriller that traces the stories of eight unique and diverse characters as they travel through the madness, trying to head west past the quarantine to safety. But when the dead start coming back to life and eating the living, the US braces itself for a full-on zombie outbreak that no military barricade can keep contained. Military personnel wearing gas masks patrol the edges of the affected area, preventing anyone from crossing. As a result the government quarantines the entire northeast. The dust plume causes severe illness and death as it blows east across America. The US power grid fails due to the impact of a large meteorite. A meteor shower pelts the earth with strange debris on Christmas Eve. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The Wednesday’s announcement comes at a time when India’s entertainment and sports broadcasters industry is going through a consolidation. Paramount Global, formerly known as ViacomCBS, will continue to be a shareholder and supply its large catalog of global content to Viacom18. Reliance Projects and Property Management Services, a wholly owned subsidiary of Reliance Industries, is additionally investing $216 million in Viacom18, it said. ![]() The collaboration will also see JioCinema, an on-demand video streaming service owned by Reliance, transferred to Viacom18, the firms said. The Indian conglomerate Reliance and Viacom18 have inked a strategic partnership with Bodhi Tree, an “investment platform” run by James Murdoch’s Lupa Systems and former Disney executive Uday Shankar, in a push to turn the Ambani-backed network, which operates over three dozen television channels in nine languages and streaming services, into “one of the largest TV and digital streaming companies” in the world’s second-largest internet market.īodhi Tree is investing $1.78 billion in Viacom18, which also counts Paramount Global among its backers, as part of the partnership, the companies said Wednesday. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In an interview with The Atlantic, author Matthew Desmond expresses his goal of writing about poverty through the lens of eviction, focusing on relationships and interactions among landlords, tenants, and judges. The Pulitzer committee selected the book "for a deeply researched exposé that showed how mass evictions after the 2008 economic crash were less a consequence than a cause of poverty." Background Įvicted was well-received and won multiple book awards such as the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction and the Robert F. Through a year of ethnographic fieldwork, Desmond's goal in the book is to highlight the issues of extreme poverty, affordable housing, and economic exploitation in the United States. Set in the poorest areas of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the book follows eight families struggling to pay rent to their landlords during the financial crisis of 2007–2008. Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City is a 2016 non-fiction book by American author Matthew Desmond. ![]() ![]() ![]() In Britain, meanwhile, Dr Bloomfield explains that women actors started to become more common by the 1660s, “displacing the boy players who had commonly played women’s roles in the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods”. This form of theatre was known as the c ommedia dell'arte, an improvised version of comedy. Even before this, there are records of female cross-dressers dating back thousands of years, such as women who performed in male roles during the Tang Dynasty (618–907AD) in China.Īccording to Dr Jacob Bloomfield, an honorary research fellow at the University of Kent who teaches gender studies, it was “common” for women to play male roles throughout the 17th century in France and Italy. Loosely speaking, their history can be traced back hundreds of years, their beginnings stemming from the legacies of male impersonators in the 1600s onwards. But there is a great deal of fluidity in terms of how drag performance is defined and how performers define themselves. Lesser known than their drag queen counterparts, drag kings often tackle problematic male stereotypes, such as toxic masculinity, with the aim of challenging the patriarchy through singing, comedy, and dance. A drag king is typically (though not always) an AFAB (assigned female at birth) performer dressing and creatively expressing themselves in an exaggerated masculine style. Today, drag kings are generally women, transgender men or non-binary people performing in male drag on stage. ![]() ![]() ![]() There were animal whisperers, committed staff, wildly devoted volunteers, handsome heartbreakers, and a machete-wielding prom queen who carried Laura through. The humans, too, were cause for laughter and tears. They weren't alone, not with over a hundred quirky animals to care for, each lost and hurt in their own way: a pair of suicidal, bra-stealing monkeys, a frustrated parrot desperate to fly, and a pig with a wicked sense of humor. And in Wayra, she made a friend for life. Wide-eyed, inexperienced, and comically terrified, Laura made the scrappy, make-do camp her home. ![]() ![]() Fate landed her at a wildlife sanctuary on the edge of the Amazon jungle where she was assigned to a beautiful and complex puma named Wayra. Laura was in her early twenties and directionless when she quit her job to backpack in Bolivia. In this rapturous memoir, writer and activist Laura Coleman shares the story of her liberating journey in the Amazon jungle, where she fell in love with a magnificent cat who changed her life. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Inspired by the true story of a young girl I met over nine years ago, I was drawn into the fascinating world of my protagonist, Jody Angel Taylor. ![]() STOP THE WORLD is my first work of fiction. I've worked as a journalist for nearly twenty years and have also written two self help books. This YA story was an incredible journey for me as it's set in Cedarville, North California, a place that has become so tangible, I feel as if I actually live there. ![]() ![]() Even the most knowledgeable of Civil War buffs will find fascinating new material and new interpretations, and Sears's famously accessible style will make the book just as appealing to the general reader. ![]() ![]() Based on years of research, this is the first book in a generation that brings everything together, sorts it all out, makes informed judgments, and takes stands. From the first gleam in Lee's eye to the last Rebel hightailing it back across the Potomac, every moment of the battle is brought to life with the vivid narrative skill and impeccable scholarship that has made Stephen Sears's other histories so successful. In Gettysburg Sears tells the whole story in a single volume. Volumes have been written about this momentous three-day battle, but recent histories have tended to focus on the particulars rather than the big picture: on the generals or on single days of battle - even on single charges - or on the daily lives of the soldiers. ![]() The greatest of all Civil War campaigns, Gettysburg was the turning point of the turning point in our nation's history. ![]() ![]() ![]() She is enormously popular for her rhyming stories of the unforgettable HAIRY MACLARY and his friends. what can be the matter? Another rumbustious, rhyming romp with Hairy Maclary (from Donaldson’s Dairy!) and friends!Lynley Dodd is an award-winning author/illustrator who lives in New Zealand. Then something happens to turn the waiting room into a kerfuffling scramble of paws, a tangle of bodies and a jumble of jaws. ![]() ![]() ![]() ”Hairy Maclary is waiting to see the vet with lots of other pets. Hairy Maclary’s Rumpus at the Vet is a hilarious rhyming story by Lynley Dodd.”Sniffles and snuffles and doses of flu – itches and stitches and tummyache too. ![]() ![]() ![]() Help support archaeology, scholarly research, and the preservation of James Fort structures. Making a gift directly supports the Jamestown Rediscovery Foundation’s ongoing efforts to research, preserve, and educate about the significance of the original site of America’s birthplace. ![]() ![]() The award-winning Archaearium museum houses over 2000 artifacts that bring James Fort’s story to life.Įxplore selected artifacts from Jamestown Rediscovery's collection.įollow the growth of England’s first permanent colony in North America and learn about life in James Fort.įind your connection to the Jamestown story.īring Jamestown to the classroom through our lesson plans and virtual school programs.ĭownload kid-friendly activities and learn more about family fun on the island.Įxplore online resources to learn more about the archaeology and history of Jamestown. Archives cover years of archaeology at James Fort.Ĭlick each James Fort feature to learn more about what archaeologists have learned in 20 years of work. Explore Jamestown Rediscovery’s exciting finds in monthly archaeological updates. ![]() ![]() I don’t have to worry about Ashley boring me.” This kind of goes with the previous reason, but I like the surprises and never knowing what to expect. You know his tongue is pierced, and just thinking about it makes me-” He gave an impish grin, but didn’t finish his thought before holding up a third finger. Holding up another finger, Rick continued, “He’s sharp, quick-witted, you never know what Ashley’s tongue might say or do. I know that probably shouldn’t be the top reason, but come on, I’m a man with needs, and Ashley’s hot body more than satisfies those hankerings.” One,” he held up one finger, “He’s sexy as sin. Rick: “Why do I like Ashley? That’s easy. ![]() Me: “So Rick, why exactly do you like Ashley?” It’s a tough opening question, but I don’t want to beat around the bush, and we both know what this interviews really about. ![]() I wrote this at the end of Dirty Drag 2 so this is where I hypothetically see Rick’s mind-space at the conclusion of Drag 2. This is just a fun little mock interview I wrote up, mostly so I could get in Ricks’s head. ![]() |