Sparky sends in this link to an article about Viggo participating in a benefit reading in Portland, Oregon: “The performance, at 7:30 p.m. Monday, May 5, is sponsored by Illahee Lecture Series and encourages civic engagement and history education. The book, “Voices of a People’s History of the United States,” is edited by Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove, and is a companion volume to Zinn’s “A People’s History of the United States.” The new volume collects the words of U.S. rabble-rousers, visionaries and maverick spirits.” Read More
Day: April 22, 2008
It was cold and drizzling and the movie was 93 years old – but that didn’t stop hundreds turning up to watch the show. After all, this was no ordinary film. It was the only known movie images of Anzac troops at Gallipoli. Heroes of Gallipoli – which was restored by Oscar-winning Kiwi director Peter Jackson’s company – is being screened continuously on the walls of Auckland Museum from 7.30pm to 10pm before Anzac Day, on Friday. The 20-minute film is believed to have been shot by British war correspondent Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett, the only person known to have filmed the action in and around Anzac Cove from July to September 1915. After 93 years, the Anzacs fight again
From the folks at Turbine: Far to the north, beyond the borders of Evendim, lie the icy barrens known as Forochel. Take a brief look at the newest region, and home to the Lossoth, introduced in Book 13: Doom of the Last-king with this week’s Points of Interest update! Exploring Middle-earth: Forochel