![]() ![]() ![]() Only Scott’s friend, the elegant, dandified David Alexander is impervious to the murderous rages of the Company Captain Tollman, a monstrous man who victimises anyone who dares oppose him. While the soldiers are raring to fight, the commanding officer is antiquated and the officers themselves are divided into factions. But life in the trenches is far from what he had first expected. Embedded undercover in a British infantry regiment on the Western Front, Anson Scott - an American newspaperman – watches, waits and writes his articles in secret, sending them out uncensored for his readers in the USA. It is 1916 and the war in France is hot and about to get hotter. And then, of course, there was the seventh, the most destructive of them all. ![]() At least three of those were going to cause trouble. “All I needed to do was tick off the list of the old sins - lust, greed, anger, laziness, gluttony, and pride. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Her first real success was The Fountainhead (rejected by more than ten publishers before publication in 1943). Rand sold her first screenplay in 1932, but nobody bought We the Living (1936), her first novel and a melodrama, set in Russia. Because her original visa as a visitor expired, she also married a "beautiful" bit-part actor, called Frank O'Connor. She moved swiftly to Hollywood, where she learned English, worked in the RKO wardrobe department and as an extra, and wrote through the night on screenplays and novels. On arrival at Ellis Island, she changed into Ayn (after a name of some Finnish author, probably "Aino") Rand (a supposed abbreviation of her Russian surname). ![]() With money from the sale of jewelry of her mother, Alisa bought a ticket to New York. Alisa returned to the city, renamed Leningrad, to attend the university, but relatives already settled in America and in 1926 offered her the chance of joining them. When the Bolsheviks requisitioned the pharmacy that Fronz Rosenbaum, her father, owned, the family fled to the Crimea. Polemical novels, such as The Fountainhead (1943), of primarily known Russian-born American writer Ayn Rand, originally Alisa Rosenbaum, espouse the doctrines of objectivism and political libertarianism.Īlisa Rosenbaum entered into a prosperous Jewish family before Russian revolution. ![]() ![]() ![]() Through the lens of their imperfections, we can see how God used their stories to bring about His divine plans. While some heard God's voice, others chose their own paths. Like us, they were human beings who faltered and struggled to do their best. Not all of these mothers and daughters in the Bible were paragons of virtue. Through these stories, Shannon explains the intimate connection between faith and family-and how God's unexpected agenda can redefine the way we think about family. And a daughter, Michal, struggled to keep her faithless father, Saul, from sin, while battling pride in herself. ![]() Another biblical mother, Rebekah, made terrible choices in an attempt to ensure her son's place in history. Could Jochebed have imagined that God's actual design for her son involved flight into exile and danger? And yet this was all part of the master plan to deliver Israel from slavery. She tells the story of Jochebed, a mother who took enormous risks to protect her son, Moses, from Pharaoh. But what does it actually look like to live it out? In The Mothers and Daughters of the Bible Speak, Shannon Bream examines the lives of biblical women to see how God's plans can turn our worlds upside down. Have faith is a phrase we hear all the time. God always keeps His promises, but not always in the way we expect. ![]() ![]() ![]() To see this handsomely dressed orchestra cut loose with what is essentially front porch music on a grand scale is a joyous sight. In what I suspect will be one of my favorite scenes of the year, the orchestra breaks into a nicely choreographed round of hand-clapping and foot-stomping to convey happy pink days. In each of the segments, the film routinely cuts away to watch the orchestra-literally showing young viewers how various pieces of music are used to create a wide range of moods. Seuss fans of all ages will delight in watching a young boy and his dog embark on colorful journeys of the imagination: riding make-believe horses on energetic red days, languidly swimming under the sea on quiet green days, feeling "slow and low down" on brown days, and so on. Geisel's witty rhymes pairing a child's emotions with colorful days, wonderful narration by Holly Hunter, top-notch 3-D computer animation, and, of course, a dynamite musical score. ![]() Seuss's My Many Colored Days, based on the beloved author's 1973 text (released as a posthumous picture book in 1996), features Theodor S. ![]() In the field of children's music videos, the Minnesota Orchestra's Notes Alive! series ( On the Day You Were Born and The Nutcracker: The Untold Story ) exist in a multi-award winning class of their own. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As a child, Osborne lived in Salzburg, Austria, as well as Oklahoma and Virginia. Her father's career required the family to travel rather extensively and regularly move. Mary Pope Osborne grew up in a military family, alongside her sister, Natalie Pope Boyce, her twin brother, Bill, and younger brother, Michael. ![]() Osborne's sister Natalie Pope Boyce has written several compendium books to the Magic Tree House series, sometimes with Osborne's husband Will. She would go on to write a variety of other kinds of children's and young adult books before starting the Magic Tree House series in 1992. She somewhat spontaneously began to write, with her first book being published in 1982. Following college, Osborne traveled before moving to New York City. One of four children, Osborne moved around in her childhood before attending the University of North Carolina. Both the series and Osborne have won awards, sometimes for Osborne's charitable efforts at promoting children's literacy. She is best known as the author of the Magic Tree House series, which as of 2017 sold more than 134 million copies worldwide. ![]() Mary Pope Osborne (born May 20, 1949) is an American author of children's books. 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For his accomplishments and contributions as a scientist, he was awarded the ‘Bharat Ratna Award,’ India’s highest civilian honor. ![]() Because of his close association with the military missile and his work in launch vehicle technology and ballistic missile development, he was given the pseudonym of The Missile Man of India. He spent forty years of his life as a scientist or science administrator, primarily at ISRO and DRDO (Defence Research and the Development Organization). He was an eminent scientist who became the 11th President of India from 2002 to 2007. There is no one who does not know about Abdul Kalam, who is popularly known as APJ Abdul Kalam. ![]() ![]() ![]() Henry Olonga's book: Blood, Sweat and Treason - Amazon India (hardback) | India (paperback) | India (e-copy) Henry Olonga (Twitter: Vaidyanathan sidvee)īuy The Summer Game by Gideon Haigh (recently republished by 81allout) Writing the book - and ruminating on the value of speaking one's mind ![]() The divine intervention in the Zimbabwe v Pakistan league match in BulawayoĮscaping to England thanks to some generous benefactors How Olonga's life turned upside down in a matter of a few weeks The political build-up to the 2003 World Cup - and the decision to speak out ![]() The push for 'targets' to have more black players and administrators The racial tension in the backdrop of unrest over Zimbabwe's land reforms The tumultuous early 2000s - within the team and for the country as a whole The purple patch - beating India and Pakistan in Test series, and shining in the 1999 World Cup Growing up in Zimbabwe in the 1980s - and recognizing his cricketing potentialĪ bittersweet Test debut against Pakistan- when he was called for chucking We also look back on Olonga's and Andy Flower's iconic black armband protest at the 2003 World Cup, and how it would change his life forever. We focus on the book that Olonga published in 2010 - Blood, Sweat, and Treason - and revisit the highs and lows of his career. We talk to the former Zimbabwe fast bowler - and the first black cricketer to represent his country - Henry Olonga. ![]() |