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6 days ago · A free exhibition about the lives and works of Joseph Conrad, Christopher Marlowe, and Aphra Behn. Explore their connections to Canterbury and the very different worlds in which they lived, through objects and immersive activities (including the chance to dress-up as an Elizabethan actor and use a typewriter from Conrad’s time).
1 day ago · A metal plaque dedicated to Joseph Conrad stands in front of the Fullerton Hotel in Singapore. The text on the memorial describes Conrad as a “British Master Mariner and great English writer who made Singapore and the whole of Southeast Asia better known to the world”. The memorial plaque in honour of Joseph Conrad, located…
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2 days ago · Apocalypse Now. Apocalypse Now is a 1979 American epic war film produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola. The screenplay, co-written by Coppola, John Milius, and Michael Herr, is loosely based on the 1899 novella Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, with the setting changed from late 19th-century Congo to the Vietnam War.
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5 days ago · Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen, a German physicist, is widely known for his groundbreaking discovery of X-rays. Born on March 27, 1845, in Lennep, Prussia (now Germany), Roentgen’s contributions to science and medicine revolutionized the way we understand the human body and paved the way for countless advancements in the field of radiology. Roentgen ...
5 days ago · The novelist and essayist, Joseph Conrad (1857-1924), wrote with cold, almost clinical detachment and dispassion, about the spoliation of his native country, Poland, after its partition at the...
2 days ago · Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock KBE (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was an English film director. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in the history of cinema. [1] In a career spanning six decades, he directed over 50 feature films, [a] many of which are still widely watched and studied today.
3 days ago · The July Crisis [b] was a series of interrelated diplomatic and military escalations among the major powers of Europe in the summer of 1914, which led to the outbreak of World War I. The crisis began on 28 June 1914, when Gavrilo Princip, a Bosnian Serb nationalist, assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian ...
