Emir Nemanja Kusturica (Serbian Cyrillic: Емир Немања Кустурица), (born 24 November 1954 in Sarajevo) is a Serbian and Yugoslav filmmaker, actor and musician of Bosniak descent, recognized for several internationally acclaimed feature films. He is a two-time winner of the Palme d'Or at Cannes (for When Father Was Away on Business and Underground), as well as being a Commander of the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
Since the mid-2000s, Kusturica's primary residence is Drvengrad, a village in the Mokra Gora region he had originally built for the purposes of his film Life Is a Miracl...
The Chicago Cubs are an American professional baseball team based in Chicago, Illinois.
They are members of the Central Division of Major League Baseball's National League. They are one of two Major League clubs based in Chicago (the other being the Chicago White Sox). The Cubs are also one of the two remaining charter members of the National League (the other being the Atlanta Braves).
The Cubs have not won the World Series in 102 years; a longer championship drought than that of any other major North American professional sports team,
and are often referred to as "The Lovable Losers" b...
Alexander Litvinenko was a former officer of the Russian Federal Security Service, FSB and KGB, who escaped prosecution in Russia and received political asylum in the United Kingdom. He wrote two books, "Blowing up Russia: Terror from within" and "Lubyanka Criminal Group", where he accused the Russian secret services of staging Russian apartment bombings and other terrorism acts to bring Vladimir Putin to power.
On 1 November 2006, Litvinenko suddenly fell ill and was hospitalized. He died three weeks later, becoming the first confirmed victim of lethal polonium-210-induced acute radiati...
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While answering , please, specify whether you speak American or British English.
Hey,
I wanted clarification on what techniques are employed in the following quote:
I was benevolent and good but misery made me a fiend.
Is this an example of high modality, antithesis - or is there something more specific?
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Islip () is a village and civil parish on the River Ray, just above its confluence with the River Cherwell in Oxfordshire, England. It is about east of Kidlington and about north of Oxford.
History
The remains of a Romano-British villa have been found in the village.
The Church of England parish church of Saint Nicholas has existed since at least 1065, but the earliest part of the present building is the arcade between the nave and north aisle, which was built in about 1200 in the Transitional style between Early English and Decorated Gothic. The chancel was rebuilt in 1780. The Churc...
Islip () is a village and civil parish in East Northamptonshire, England. It is close to the town of Thrapston, 5 miles from Little Addington and 7 miles (11 km) east of Kettering. At the time of the 2001 census, the parish's population was 763 people.
Matthias Nicoll moved to New York from Islip in 1664. The town of Islip in Suffolk County, New York is named after the English village.
The village has a well respected garage, a popular hairdressers, a beauty salon, a pub (The Rose and Crown), an inn (The Woolpack Inn), and a Working Men's club.
Islip has a church - St Nicholas - where ...
Led Zeppelin is the debut album of the English rock band Led Zeppelin. It was recorded in October 1968 at Olympic Studios in London and released on Atlantic Records on 12 January 1969 in the USA and 31 March 1969 in the UK. The album featured integral contributions from each of the group's four musicians and established Led Zeppelin's fusion of blues and rock. Led Zeppelin also created a large and devoted following for the band, with their take on the emerging heavy metal sound endearing them to a section of the counterculture on both sides of the Atlantic.
Although the album initially...
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