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3 hours ago · Updated 9:31 PM PDT, September 19, 2024. NEW YORK (AP) — When he wasn’t working on mystery stories, and he completed hundreds, G.K. Chesterton liked to think of new ways to tell them. Detective fiction had grown a little dull, the British author wrote in a rarely seen essay from the 1930s published this week in The Strand Magazine, which ...
7 hours ago · The Dogs of War – 1980 film by John Irvin in which a mercenary plans to kill a fictional African dictator in the course of a coup d'état. The Kidnapping of the President – 1980 film by George Mendeluk in which the U.S. President is kidnapped by a South American terrorist and sealed in an armoured car wired to explode.
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1 day ago · 11]: 10–11 David Keith Lynch was born in Missoula, Montana, on January 20, 1946. : 1 His father, Donald Walton Lynch (1915–2007), was a research scientist working for the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), and his mother, Edwina "Sunny" Lynch (née Sundberg; 1919–2004), was an English language tutor. Two of Lynch's maternal great-grandparents were Finnish-Swedish immigrants who ...
1 day ago · A soap opera, daytime drama, or soap for short, is typically a long-running radio or television serial, frequently characterized by melodrama, ensemble casts, and sentimentality. [ 1 ] The term "soap opera" originated from radio dramas originally being sponsored by soap manufacturers. [ 2 ] The term was preceded by " horse opera ", a derogatory ...
