The Russian Ark: This movie was shot in a single take. The cinematographer Tillman Buttner, used a Steadicam and high-def digital technology; joined with some 2,000 actors in a tight-wire act in which every mark and cue had to be hit without fail to get the whole film in one shot. (x)
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History Meme. 3/4 Leaders → Boudica
Boudica (or Bouddica or Boudecia) was queen of the British Iceni tribe who led an uprising against the occupying forces of the Roman Empire.
Boudica’s husband Prasutagus, ruler of the Iceni tribe, who had ruled as a nominally independent ally of Rome, left his kingdom jointly to his daughters and the Roman Emperor in his will; however, when he died, his will was ignored —the kingdom was annexed as if conquered, Boudica was flogged, her daughters were raped, and Roman financiers called in their loans.
In AD 60 or 61, while the Roman governor, Gaius Suetonius Paulinus, was leading a campaign on the island of Anglesey off the northwest coast of Wales, Boudica led the Iceni, Trinovantes and others in revolt.They destroyed Camulodunum (modern Colchester), earlier the capital of the Trinovantes, then a colonia (a settlement for discharged Roman soldiers) and the site of a temple to the former Emperor Claudius. On hearing the news of the revolt, Suetonius hurried to Londinium (London), the twenty-year-old commercial settlement that was the rebels’ next target. He concluded that they did not have the numbers to defend the settlement, so it was evacuated and abandoned. 100,000 (Iceni, Trinovantes and others) led by Boudica burned and destroyed Londinium and Verulamium (St Albans) and the Legio IX Hispana was cut to pieces. An estimated 70,000–80,000 Romans and British were killed in the three cities by those led by Boudica. Suetonius, meanwhile, regrouped his forces in the West Midlands and, despite being heavily outnumbered, defeated the Britons in the Battle of Watling Street.
The crisis caused the Emperor Nero to consider withdrawing all Roman forces from Britain, but Suetonius’ eventual victory over Boudica re-secured Roman control of the province. Boudica then either killed herself, so she would not be captured, or fell ill and died—the extant sources, Tacitus and Cassius Dio, differ. [more +]
- Luciana Littizzetto: Non so se hai sentito Fabio, questa settimana, la grande polemica della Chiesa. Allora la chiesa è contraria alla depenalizzazione dell'omosessualità. Sto solo dicendo che allora la chiesa non vuole difendere i finocchi. O si sfinocchiano o ciccia. Mi spiego meglio. Praticamente loro dicono "Non difendiamo i gay perché sennò i paesi che poi li perseguitano si sentirebbero discriminati". Ok? Ti sembra un ragionamento? Eminenza? Dite che stavate scherzando, che l'avete detto per far ridere le suore, perché non è possibile. Che ragionamento è? Bisogna aver la mente ben contorta. Secondo me è perché si mettono 'sti cappelli stretti e lunghi, 'sti cosi pelosi a forma di cozza che impediscono la circolazione delle idee.. il sangue non circola bene. E comunque, allora io mi spiego meglio. Cioè voi non vi sbattete perché i gay possano vivere tranquilli e sereni perché non volete che i paesi che li ammazzano si sentano discriminati? Quindi siete dalla parte dell'Iran, dello Yemen, degli Emirati Arabi? Ma lì li ammazzano, gli tagliano la testa, li impiccano per i maroni. MA COSA VI HANNO FATTO DI MALE 'STI GAY? E' PERCHE' SI METTONO LE GONNE COME VOI? Fatemi capire. Ma scusa, il nostro capo supremo.. non Berlu, questo che sta in the sky (appunto, quindi non Berlu), nei cieli, ecco perdonava tutti, anche gli adulteri e i ladroni e voi mai niente? Ecco, noi saremo anche delle pecorelle smarrite, ma voi siete proprio sicuri che la strada la sapete bene?
"It was with Mrs Artaxerxes, and some of the mer-children that he visited the Great White Caves, where all the jewels that are lost in the sea, and many that have always been in the sea, and of course pearls upon pearls, are hoarded and hidden."
J.R.R. Tolkien, Roverandom (via awildellethappears)
For you are a lady high and valiant and have yourself won renown that shall not be forgotten; and you are a lady beautiful, I deem, beyond even the words of the Elven-tongue to tell. And I love you. Once I pitied your sorrow. But now, were you sorrowless, without fear or any lack, were you the blissful Queen of Gondor, still I would love you.
"… Tolkien’s own misadventures with his first automobile, purchased in 1932, were the source of some of Mr. Bliss’s escapades. Tolkien was known to accelerate across busy intersections crying out ‘Charge ‘em and they scatter!’ and once knocked down a stone wall during a family vacation."
mas, s’ieu saupes qu’ilh fos leos,
ieu l’agr’avut caval ferran,
pus de lieys non es poderos
homs, si non es d’aital semblan.
Korra vs Spirit
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