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1 day ago · The first major biography of the French filmmaker hailed by Martin Scorsese as “one of the Gods of cinema.”. Over the course of her sixty-five-year career, the longest of any female filmmaker, Agnès Varda (1928–2019) wrote and directed some of the most acclaimed films of her era, from her tour de force Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962), a classic of modernist cinema, to the beloved documentary ...
2 days ago · 03/22/2021. “That There Isn’t a System At All”…. Dorothy Roberts on Abolition in Child Welfare. On this week’s podcast, we discuss Washington’s limitations on life without parole, “raising the floor” on juvenile arrests, rules of the road for foster youth COVID relief and prioritizing foster parents for vaccines.
2 days ago · Kellyanne Elizabeth Conway ( née Fitzpatrick; born January 20, 1967) is an American political consultant and pollster who served as Senior Counselor to the President in the administration of Donald Trump from 2017 to 2020. [ 1][ 2][ 3][ 4] She was previously Trump's campaign manager, having been appointed in August 2016; Conway is the first ...
15 hours ago · 1957 Birthday Honours. The Queen's Birthday Honours 1957 were appointments in many of the Commonwealth realms of Queen Elizabeth II to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries. The appointments were made to celebrate the official birthday of The Queen, and were published on 4 June 1957 for the ...
1 day ago · Benedictine sisters, Rose Marie Stallbaumer, left, and Barbara McCracken, right, look through corporate resolution archives and newspaper clippings at the Mount St. Scholastica monastery in Atchison, Kan., Tuesday, July 16, 2024. For the past two decades the community has participated in act…
15 hours ago · Asian Americans have been involved in the U.S. entertainment industry since the 19th century, when Afong Moy started a series of shows that evolved into essentially one-women shows. In the mid-19th century, Chang and Eng Bunker (the original "Siamese Twins") became naturalized citizens and were successful performers in the United States. [ 1]
2 days ago · Adelaide, city and capital of the state of South Australia. Situated at the base of the Mount Lofty Ranges, 9 miles (14 km) inland from the centre of the eastern shore of the Gulf St. Vincent, it has a Mediterranean climate with hot summers (February mean temperature 74 °F [23 °C]), mild winters.
