![]() ![]() They are not related to, and should not be confused with Robin Fox, anthropologist, and his daughter Kate Fox, social anthropologist.Īlexander has always been a fascinating figure to me. He is the father of the internet entrepreneur Martha Lane Fox, the founder of. ![]() Lane Fox is also a gardening correspondent for the Financial Times. His appearance as an extra, in addition to his work as a historical consultant, was publicized at the time of the film's release. He was historical adviser to the film director Oliver Stone for the epic Alexander. He is a lecturer in Ancient History at Exeter College, Oxford. He has also taught Greek and Latin literature and early Islamic history, a subject in which he held an Oxford Research Fellowship, and is also New College's Tutor for Oriental Studies. ![]() Since 1977, he has been a tutor in Greek and Roman history, and since 1990 University Reader in Ancient History. Lane Fox was educated at Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford. Robin Lane Fox (born 1946) is an English historian, currently a Fellow of New College, Oxford and University of Oxford Reader in Ancient History. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Having Wednesday celebrate and normalize the Addams Family's differences is one of the best ways it compares to earlier iterations. The first members of the family depicted were the mother, the butler, and the Thing, making their debut in this 1938 cartoon. ago Think thats a hairier version of Lurch. The characters weren’t established yet and, once they were, didn’t receive names until the original television series started in 1964. ![]() However, her friends can accept her regardless of her differences and make an effort to understand her. That was the first ever Addams Family comic, which came out in 1938. In Wednesday, Wednesday always goes against the status quo and especially against expectations for young women. ![]() ![]() Even though the Addams are always depicted as strange and kooky, they're a very close-knit and loving family who care about doing what's right. One of these major themes is that being different isn't scary. However, in addition to Easter eggs and similar visual effect techniques, Wednesday also carries on the Addams Family legacy by encompassing the major themes that have always surrounded the family. Other references were a little harder to detect, such as Ortega incorporating Lisa Loring's Wednesday shuffle into her dance scene or background photos depicting Morticia's (Carolyn Jones) wicker chair or the memorable Cousin Itt. Some of the references are more obvious than others, such as a secret code in Wednesday being two finger snaps that match the iconic theme created by the 1964 Addams Family TV series or Tyler (Hunter Doohan) saying Lurch's (Ted Cassidy) famous "You rang?" line. ![]() ![]() Peter secretly pines for Eliza, the promiscuous amateur photographer who is recovering from the spur-of-the-moment kiss she received from him in the school’s darkroom. The story begins with Peter, the good-looking and popular athlete with a lucrative basketball scholarship lined up ahead of him who’s looking for something more meaningful in life than glory on the court. An asteroid nicknamed “Ardor” has been spotted, tracked, and is slowly but surely making a slow descent towards a collision with earth, forcing the kids in a Seattle-area high school to face personal truths that shatter the confining roles that have previously been imposed on them from the outside. In Tommy Wallach’s We All Looked Up, his debut novel and it’s companion album, the perennial complaint of teenagers everywhere is turned into a literal and - surprisingly - empowering reality. ![]() One of the occupational hazards of being an adolescent is that life often feels like it’s coming to an end. Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 384 pages, $17.99. We All Looked Up and We All Looked Up: The Album by Tommy Wallach. ![]() It’s not by accident that some of the greatest coming-of-age stories are concerned with deconstructing social stereotypes. ![]() ![]() Kristy and her family and friends visit Battleview Orchards, where they pick apples and pumpkins before returning home to bake an apple pie and make jack-o'-lanterns.Ĭustomers who bought this item also bought. Reading Level: 3.7 Interest Level: Lower Grades Point Value: 0.5 Shop the latest titles by Amy Hutchings at Alibris including hardcovers, paperbacks. Physical Information: 0.14" H x 8.06" W x 7.74" (0.18 lbs) 32 pagesįeatures: Ikids, Illustrated, Price on Product Lexile Measure: 580 AD (Adult Directed Text) An apple pie recipe is included to ensure a truly delicious ending.Ĭlick for more in this series: Read with Me Paperbacks Contributor(s): Hutchings, Richard (Author), Hutchings, Amy (Author), Hutchings, Richard (Illustrator)īinding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & EditionsĪnnotation: A timely tale of family outing, Picking Apples and Pumpkins shares the pleasures of autumn and the delights of fresh picked favorites, along with carving jack-o-lanterns and baking yummy apple pies. ![]() ![]() ![]() Tracking delivery Saver Delivery: Australia postĪustralia Post deliveries can be tracked on route with eParcel. 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Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.Ģ-10 days after all items have arrived in the warehouse Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. ![]() ![]() He was fluent in Latin, French, and Italian, but wrote in the vernacular of Middle English. 1370 CE) in honor of John of Gaunt's late wife Blanche.īy the time Chaucer began composing The Canterbury Tales, he was at the height of his poetic powers and had traveled and read widely. 1340-1399 CE) for composing his first major work, The Book of the Duchess (c. The events of his life are well documented in court records, and it is known he was recognized for his poetic achievements by Edward III (who granted him a gallon of wine daily for life for what was most likely a poetic composition) and rewarded financially by John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster (l. ![]() ![]() Chaucer's works were never technically published during his lifetime as that concept had not yet been invented but he was well known and highly regarded as a poet as his works were copied by other scribes who then shared or sold them. ![]() ![]() “We figured if 15-18 songs on the project are all fire, then y’all would get the picture.”įor the new single “So Fly” the guys tapped DJ Drugz from the East Side of Cleveland to produce the song and the guys flew 30 Visuals up from Baton Rouge to film the video which is set in a barber shop as Mark Too Sharp gives people edge ups. “We wanted to make the new heat, yeah we got some big name features on there, but we wanted people to know we don’t need features, we got better songs on the tape without features,” Christopher Bradley explained. “We always played around freestyling and rapping and then one day we decided to take it serious because we was really living the street life rappers rap about,” said Mark Too Sharp who’s last single with Lil Boosie reached over 100k plays on YouTube.Īnd while the industry is obsessed with big name features, the guys are more concerned about letting people know that they don’t need features and that their talent stands strong alone. Enter All In Entertainment’s Christopher Bradley and Mark TooSharp who have a new visual and single, “So Fly” that’s picking up in the streets and on radio airwaves across the Midwest. ![]() ![]() Despite the fact that Winter has set in on the East Coast, things are heating up in the Midwest as “The Land” is churning out more and more artists before our eyes. ![]() ![]() ![]() Some of the supporting characters seem like they could have been interesting, but we don't spend much time with them, and the main character, Zoe, doesn't seem to be able to hold the stage. However, outside of Dorian, there don't seem to be any attractive characters that make any impact. In other circumstances (like if the rest of the story was better) I would consider buying the physical book in order to access them. I have found myself searching for some of the recipes online because they sound so delicious. There is quite a bit of discussion about food here, and it's all wonderful as well. The reader executes him perfectly, so that he is charming and endearing and suave. The only real good part of it is the the gargoyle, Dorian. A lead character who is an alchemist with a specialty in plant alchemy? Newly moved to a charming old fixer upper in Portland, Oregon to start a new life? Exploring her charming and funky neighborhood, putting her house in order, getting going on her alchemy again after many years of neglect? A stow-away gargoyle with a significant health problem and a mysterious old book? The gargoyle is a masterful french chef who spends almost all his time adapting standard recipes into vegan ones, since our heroine is vegan? Sign me up!!! Yet, in execution this story falls far short of it's potential. ![]() ![]() As others have noted, this novel has a good central idea. ![]() ![]() Stross doesn’t question these dubious premises, but runs with them in the best SF manner, pushing them to their most delirious consequences. Stross bases his novel on the “strong AI” hypothesis, and the arguments of such enthusiasts as Hans Moravec (who sees the human race as shortly to be surpassed and rendered defunct by artificial intelligences) and Ray Kurzweil (who similarly contends that “within 25 years, we’ll reverse-engineer the brain and go on to develop superintelligence”). ![]() ![]() Charles Stross‘ Accelerando (available for free download here) is a science fiction novel about the Singularity, the hypothesized point when radical increases in computing power - expressed both in neurological enhancements to our brains, and in the development of autonomous artificial intelligences - lead to an absolute discontinuity in history (the word was first used in this sense, as far as I know, by Vernor Vinge). ![]() ![]() If this is what love feels like, it’s complete bullshit. I want her to tell me that I’m not the only one here feeling like every breath is a fucking nail jammed straight into my lungs. ![]() But Daria’s already paid and is still paying. When Penn’s mother dies and his step-father kicks him out, Daria’s mom (who feels residual guilt over his sister’s disappearance) offers him a place to stay and he makes it his mission to make Daria pay for the role she played in what happened. Shenįast forward four years to Penn’s 18th birthday and it’s clear that a lot has changed, but there’s still an undeniable pull between the two. The world just continues turning at the same pace, because kids like Via and me? We disappear all the time, and no one notices. I want to rip the world apart to find her, but the world is not mine to destroy. But the letter contained his sister’s future and when she thinks she didn’t get in she runs away from Penn and their abusive family, never to be seen again. ![]() ![]() Penn enters, unaware of the letter’s contents or the effect it will have on his family, and in an attempt to win Daria’s attention he trashes the letter, leaves her with a piece of sea glass, her first kiss, and a promise of more. Daria is teeming with the kind of jealousy only a fourteen-year-old girl who feels her mother loves another girl more than her can feel and she finds herself in possession of a letter that would change everything. Daria Followhill and Penn Scully meet at age 14 when both their lives are falling apart in very different ways. ![]() |