Tourism in Saint Petersburg Russia
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Saint Petersburg is Russia's second-largest city after Moscow, with 5 million inhabitants in 2012, part of the Saint Petersburg agglomeration with a population of 6.2 million (2015). An important Russian port on the Baltic Sea, it has a status of a federal subject (a federal city).
Situated on the Neva River, at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea, it was founded by Tsar Peter the Great on 27 May [O.S. 16 May] 1703. On 1 September 1914, the name was changed from Saint Petersburg to Petrograd, on 26 January 1924 to Leningrad, and on 1 October 1991 back to its original name. During the periods 1713–1728 and 1732–1918, Saint Petersburg was the capital of Imperial Russia. In 1918, the central government bodies moved to Moscow, which is about 625 km (388 miles) to the south-east.
Saint Petersburg is one of the most modern cities of Russia, as well as its cultural capital. The Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments constitute a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Saint Petersburg is home to the Hermitage, one of the largest art museums in the world. Many foreign consulates, international corporations, banks and businesses have offices in Saint Petersburg.
Saint Petersburg has a significant historical and cultural heritage.
The 18th and 19th-century architectural ensemble of the city and its environs is preserved in virtually unchanged form. For various reasons (including large-scale destruction during World War II and construction of modern buildings during the postwar period in the largest historical centers of Europe), Saint Petersburg has become a unique reserve of European architectural styles of the past three centuries. Saint Petersburg's loss of capital city status helped the city to retain many of its pre-revolutionary buildings, as modern architectural 'prestige projects' tended to be built in Moscow; this largely prevented the rise of mid-to-late-20th-century architecture and helped maintain the architectural appearance of the historic city center.
Saint Petersburg is inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage list as an area with 36 historical architectural complexes and around 4000 outstanding individual monuments of architecture, history and culture. New tourist programs and sightseeing tours have been developed for those wishing to see Saint Petersburg's cultural heritage.
The city has 221 museums, 2000 libraries, more than 80 theaters, 100 concert organizations, 45 galleries and exhibition halls, 62 cinemas and around 80 other cultural establishments. Every year the city hosts around 100 festivals and various competitions of art and culture, including more than 50 international ones.
Despite the economic instability of the 1990s, not a single major theatre or museum was closed in Saint Petersburg; on the contrary many new ones opened, for example a private museum of puppets (opened in 1999) is the third museum of its kind in Russia, where collections of more than 2000 dolls are presented including 'The multinational Saint Petersburg' and 'Pushkin's Petersburg'. The museum world of Saint Petersburg is incredibly diverse. The city is not only home to the world-famous Hermitage Museum and the Russian Museum with its rich collection of Russian art, but also the palaces of Saint Petersburg and its suburbs, so-called small town museums and others like the museum of famous Russian writer Dostoyevsky; Museum of Musical Instruments, the museum of decorative arts and the museum of professional orientation.
The musical life of Saint Petersburg is rich and diverse, with the city now playing host to a number of annual carnivals.
Ballet performances occupy a special place in the cultural life of Saint Petersburg. The Petersburg School of Ballet is named as one of the best in the world. Traditions of the Russian classical school have been passed down from generation to generation among outstanding educators. The art of famous and prominent Saint Petersburg dancers like Rudolf Nureyev, Natalia Makarova, Mikhail Baryshnikov was, and is, admired throughout the world. Contemporary Petersburg ballet is made up not only of traditional Russian classical school, but also ballets by those like Boris Eifman, who expanded the scope of strict classical Russian ballet to almost unimaginable limits. Remaining faithful to the classical basis (he was a choreographer at the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet), he combined classical ballet with the avant-garde style, and then, in turn, with acrobatics, rhythmic gymnastics, dramatic expressiveness, cinema, color, light, and finally with spoken word.
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Antiquities recovered by Italy to go on display at Rome's presidential palace
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1. Wide exterior of Quirinal presidential palace
2. Poster for art exhibition
3. Wide interior of exhibition with media gathered around exhibits
4. Marble statue of 'Vibia Sabina'
5. Close-up of statue
6. Two glass showcases
7. Close-up of two ceramic vases
8. Various of Paestan red-figure calyx krater (vase used to mix wine and water) depicting a scene from Greek mythology in which Europa was abducted by Zeus disguised as a bull
9. Journalist taking notes
10. Close-up of ivory mask (believed to be biggest ivory piece from ancient times ever found)
11. Journalists looking at mask
12. Tilt down from ornate ceiling to exhibition room
13. Various of supports for a marble shelf with two griffins (body of a lion, head and wings of an eagle) attacking a deer
14. Wide of Italian Culture Minister Francesco Rutelli entering room
15. Rutelli looking at ivory mask
16. Various wides of news conference
17. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Francesco Rutelli, Italian Culture Minister:
It is now over, the odyssey of these masterpieces, excavated from the bowels of the earth, at night, secretly, deprived of their identity, reduced to soulless beauties, with no history, no context.
18. Cutaway of journalist holding brochure
19. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Francesco Rutelli, Italian Minister of Culture:
Ours is a policy against art traffic. If there is something Italy is proud of, it's to have determined a radical change in the traffic of objects excavated illegally.
20. Mid of audience
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Dozens of treasures from the Greek, Etruscan and Roman civilisations go on display on Friday in an exhibition featuring many of the ancient masterpieces recouped in Italy's campaign against illegal trafficking in antiquities.
The exhibition at the Quirinal presidential palace hosts 68 masterpieces of pottery, sculpture and painting handed over by international museums and collections.
It comes after Rome stiffened the pressure to return artifacts that Italian authorities maintain were dug up illegally or stolen and then smuggled out of the country.
It is now over, the odyssey of these masterpieces, excavated from the bowels of the earth, at night, secretly, deprived of their identity, reduced to soulless beauties, with no history, no context, Culture Minister Francesco Rutelli said at a presentation to the media on Monday.
Ours is a policy against art traffic. If there is something Italy is proud of, it's to have determined a radical change in the traffic of objects excavated illegally, he added.
More than half of the pieces displayed come from a deal signed in September with California's J. Paul Getty Museum after more than a year of negotiations over dozens of disputed artifacts.
Most of the other treasures were also returned by US museums, including Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, the Metropolitan Museum in New York and Princeton's University Art Museum.
Rutelli said museum visitors, however far away, would not suffer from the return of the artifacts, noting that under the deals with the museums Italy will give long-term loans of equally significant treasures.
The exhibition runs through March 2 and admission is free except on Sunday, when tickets cost 5 euros (7.2 US dollars).
Rutelli said officials were still studying where all the pieces will ultimately be displayed.
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NUREMBERG “FOR PEOPLE TO REMEMBER. THE TRIAL THROUTH THE EYES OF THE REPORTERS” / english subtitles
The International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg was public in the widest sense of this word. All the 403 tribunal proceedings were open to public.
Print media, radio, film industry have brought an opportunity to millions of people in the whole world to follow the progress of the Trial.
A large part of places in the session hall was assigned to representatives of mass media.
During the trial, Willy Brandt, the future Chancellor of Germany, was working, being a newsperson from Norway. The American press was represented by John Dos Passos, who later became a famous writer. The Soviet press representatives were the prose luminaries Ilya Ehrenburg, Leonid Leonov, Konstantin Fedin and Boris Polevoy. More than once could Ernest Hemingway and Marlene Dietrich be seen at the hearings. In 1961, the actress will play one of the star parts in the Oscar-winning film of Stanley Kramer ‘Judgment at Nuremberg’
When sensation was about to break out in Room No. 600, three beeps were ringing in the court palace. The film reflects the brightest events of the trial: confession of Hitler’s deputy Rudolf Hess in simulation of insanity, unannounced appearance of field marshal Paulus, eye-opening presentation of the Soviet judge Lev Smirnov, cross-interrogation of “Nazi Number 2” Hermann Göring by the Allies’ chief prosecutors.
In also presents interviews with children of famous Soviet journalists:
– Alexey Kampov-Polevoy (the memoirs of his father, publicist Boris Polevoy, have provided the basis for the film);
– Arina Zhukova, daughter of the artist Nikolay Zhukov who has created the whole gallery of expressive portraits of the process participants;
– Anna Khaldei, whose father Yevgeny Khaldei, being a famous photographer, was not only shooting in the course of the trial, but was witnessing in the court himself.
They all – journalists, writers, photographers, artists – have left us the heritage of true-to-life images of victims and extorters, persecutors and solicitors, court witnesses and residents behind the walls of the Court of Justice. Lest we forget..
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Saint Petersburg (Russian: Санкт-Петербу́рг, tr. Sankt-Peterburg, IPA: [ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk] (listen)) is Russia's second-largest city after Moscow, with 5 million inhabitants in 2012, part of the Saint Petersburg agglomeration with a population of 6.2 million (2015). An important Russian port on the Baltic Sea, it has a status of a federal subject (a federal city).
Situated on the Neva River, at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea, it was founded by Tsar Peter the Great on 27 May [O.S. 16 May] 1703. On 1 September 1914, the name was changed from Saint Petersburg to Petrograd (Russian: Петрогра́д, IPA: [pʲɪtrɐˈgrat]), on 26 January 1924 to Leningrad (Russian: Ленингра́д, IPA: [lʲɪnʲɪnˈgrat]), and on 1 October 1991 back to Saint Petersburg. During the periods 1713–1728 and 1732–1918, Saint Petersburg was the capital of Imperial Russia. In 1918, the central government bodies moved to Moscow, which is about 625 km (388 miles) to the south-east.
Saint Petersburg is one of the most modern cities of Russia, as well as its cultural capital. The Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments constitute a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Saint Petersburg is home to the Hermitage, one of the largest art museums in the world.
Many foreign consulates, international corporations, banks and businesses have offices in Saint Petersburg.
Stare Miasto w Kozim Grodzie | Old Town in The Goat City | Librarian on the road #15
Lublin, jedno z największych miast położonych na wschodniej rubieży Polski. Miasto królewskie, siedziba Trybunału Koronnego, jedna ze stolic naszego kraju, nazywane pieszczotliwie Kozim Grodem. Chociaż ciągle leży w turystycznym cieniu Kazimierza Dolnego, to jednak pod warstwą patyny kryje sporo uroku który czeka na ponowne odkrycie. W pierwszej części naszej lubelskiej przygody odwiedzimy Stare Miasto.
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Обед с Путиным, Будапешт, Венгрия, Голая правда | Cupiditas | Купидитас
Будапешт нам очень понравился, по этому не смогли сдержаться и решили показать Вам эти замечательные кадры с его видами. К сожалению погода не была благосклонна к нам и город не заиграл всеми красками, а так же дождик запретил нам летать на квадрокоптере. А пока вы наслаждаетесь видами вот вам немного информации о городе!
Когда попадаешь в Будапешт, то оказываешься дома. По крайней мере если ты Петербуржец. Архитектура, люди, метро, погода… все это очень нам напомнило Петербург.
ИСТОРИЯ
Сам Будапешт конечно город уже древний, ели брать во внимание историю всех городов, которые в него объединились. Это Пешту, Буда и Обуда
Его история начинается аж с первого века еще до нашей эры как кельтского ремесленного поселения. Потом кто только там его не завоевывал, не сжигал и не отстраивал заново. Конечно же первыми были Римляне, за ними пришли Гунны, их подвинула Великая Моравия, после которой тут обосновались первые Венгрерские племена в 895 г. н.э. Потом сюда приходили Монголы, Турки и серия революций.
Окончательно города объединились лишь 1873 году в составе Австро-Венгерской империи. И город начал бурно развиваться уже к 1896 году население насчитывало 730 тыс человек. В этом же году и появилось первое метро. До этого в 19м веке начали развиваться железные дороги, в 73м году появилось электроосвещение улиц, в 87 пошли первые трамваи.
1944 году город был оккупирован германскими войсками и к 13 февраля 45го красная армия его отбила в ходе 102 дневной осады и кровопролитного штурма, в ходе которого погибло 38 000 человек.
ТРАНСПОРТ
В Будапеште очень развитая транспортная сеть, она объединяет в себе практически все виды транспорта.
Аэропорт с тремя пассажирскими терминалами на юго-западе города.
Колесный общественный транспорт состоит из 180 автобусных и 14 троллейбусных маршрутов.
Железнодорожная городская сеть насчитывает 29 трамвайных маршрутов и 3 линии метро, как подземного так и наземного. Стоит отметить, что в Будапеште используются самые длинные трамваи в мире, длина которых достигает почти 54 метров.
В Будапеште построено 2 железнодорожных вокзала. Более того здесь существует так же детская железная дорога.
И поскольку город делит одна из основных водных артерий Европы - река дунай, здесь присутствует городской водный трамвай, билеты на который можно купить в любой кассе за разумные деньги. Безусловно огромное количество прогулочных судов так же курсируют по Дунаю.
Достопримечательности.
Про достопримечательности Будапешта можно говорить часами, если не днями напролет. Сюда лучше запланировать поездку на несколько дней, что бы увидеть хотя бы часть того, что предоставляет город туристам.
ДЕНЬГИ
В Венгрии есть своя национальная валюта, не взирая на то, что она входит в ЕС и зону Шенген - форинты, на январь 18го года курс к евро составил 308 форинтов за 1 евро.
В Будапеште повсеместно принимают пластиковые карты к оплате, по этому много наличности можно с собой не брать и не обменивать на местную валюту ,т.к. практически везде можно оплатить картой.
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Alaska | Wikipedia audio article
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Alaska ( ( listen); Aleut: Alax̂sxax̂; Inupiaq: Alaskaq; Russian: Аляска, translit. Alyaska) is a U.S. state in the northwest extremity of North America. The Canadian administrative divisions of British Columbia and Yukon border the state to the east, its most extreme western part is Attu Island, and it has a maritime border with Russia (Chukotka Autonomous Okrug) to the west across the Bering Strait. To the north are the Chukchi and Beaufort seas—the southern parts of the Arctic Ocean. The Pacific Ocean lies to the south and southwest. It is the largest state in the United States by area and the
seventh largest subnational division in the world. In addition, it is the 3rd least populous and the most sparsely populated of the 50 United States; nevertheless, it is by far the most populous territory located mostly north of the 60th parallel in North America: its population—estimated at 738,432 by the U.S. Census Bureau in 2015— is more than quadruple the combined populations of Northern Canada and Greenland. Approximately half of Alaska's residents live within the Anchorage metropolitan area. Alaska's economy is dominated by the fishing, natural gas, and oil industries, resources which it has in abundance. Military bases and tourism are also a significant part of the economy.
The United States purchased Alaska from the Russian Empire on March 30, 1867, for 7.2 million U.S. dollars at approximately two cents per acre ($4.74/km2). The area went through several administrative changes before becoming organized as a territory on May 11, 1912. It was admitted as the 49th state of the U.S. on January 3, 1959.
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Napoleon Hill was an American author in the area of the new thought movement who was one of the earliest producers of the modern genre of personal-success literature. He is widely considered to be one of the great writers on success. His most famous work, Think and Grow Rich (1937), is one of the best-selling books of all time (at the time of Hill's death in 1970, Think and Grow Rich had sold 20 million copies). Hill's works examined the power of personal beliefs, and the role they play in personal success. He became an advisor to President Franklin D. Roosevelt from 1933 to 1936. What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve is one of Hill's hallmark expressions. How achievement actually occurs, and a formula for it that puts success in reach of the average person, were the focal points of Hill's books.
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Think and Grow Rich (1937)
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Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude (1960)
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Napoleon Hill's Keys to Success: The 17 Principles of Personal Achievement (1997)
Grow Rich!: With Peace of Mind
The Master-Key to Riches
Succeed and Grow Rich Through Persuasion (1970)
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The Spanish Civil War (Spanish: Guerra Civil Española) took place from 1936 to 1939. Republicans loyal to the left-leaning Second Spanish Republic, in alliance with the Anarchists and Communists, fought against the Nationalists, a Falangist, Carlist, Catholic, and largely aristocratic group led by General Francisco Franco. The war has often been portrayed as a struggle between democracy and fascism, particularly due to the political climate and timing surrounding it. In early 1939, the Nationalists achieved victory, and ruled Spain until Franco's death in November 1975.
The war began after a pronunciamiento (a declaration of military opposition) against the Republican government by a group of generals of the Spanish Republican Armed Forces, originally under the leadership of José Sanjurjo. The government at the time was a moderate, liberal coalition of Republicans, supported in the Cortes by communist and socialist parties, under the leadership of centre-left President Manuel Azaña. The Nationalist group was supported by a number of conservative groups, including the Spanish Confederation of Autonomous Right-wing Groups (Confederación Española de Derechas Autónomas, or CEDA), monarchists such as the religious conservative (Roman Catholic) Carlists, and the Falange Española de las Juntas de Ofensiva Nacional Sindicalista (FE y de las JONS), a fascist political party. Sanjurjo was killed in an aircraft accident while attempting to return from exile in Portugal, whereupon Franco emerged as the leader of the Nationalists.
The coup was supported by military units in the Spanish protectorate in Morocco, Pamplona, Burgos, Zaragoza, Valladolid, Cádiz, Córdoba, and Seville. However, rebelling units in some important cities—such as Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Bilbao, and Málaga—did not gain control, and those cities remained under the control of the government. Spain was thus left militarily and politically divided. The Nationalists and the Republican government fought for control of the country. The Nationalist forces received munitions, soldiers, and air support from Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, while the Republican (Loyalist) side received support from the Soviet Union and Mexico. Other countries, such as the United Kingdom, France, and the United States, continued to recognize the Republican government, but followed an official policy of non-intervention. Notwithstanding this policy, tens of thousands of citizens from non-interventionist countries directly participated in the conflict. They fought mostly in the pro-Republican International Brigades, which also included several thousand exiles from pro-Nationalist regimes.
The Nationalists advanced from their strongholds in the south and west, capturing most of Spain's northern coastline in 1937. They also besieged Madrid and the area to its south and west for much of the war. After much of Catalonia was captured in 1938 and 1939, and Madrid cut off from Barcelona, the Republican military position became hopeless. Madrid and Barcelona were occupied without resistance, Franco declared victory and his regime received diplomatic recognition from all non-interventionist governments. Thousands of leftist Spaniards fled to refugee camps in southern France. Those associated with the losing Republicans were persecuted by the victorious Nationalists. With the establishment of a dictatorship led by General Franco in the aftermath of the war, all right-wing parties were fused into the structure of the Franco regime.The war became notable for the passion and political division it inspired and for the many atrocities that occurred, on both sides. Organized purges occurred in territory captured by Franco's forces so they could consolidate their future regime. A significant number of killings also took place in areas controlled by the Republicans. The extent to which Republican authorities took part in killings in Re ...
Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird | Wikipedia audio article
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00:01:25 1 Development
00:01:35 1.1 Background
00:03:49 1.2 SR-71
00:06:41 2 Design
00:06:50 2.1 Overview
00:08:59 2.2 Airframe, canopy, and landing gear
00:12:09 2.2.1 Acquisition of titanium
00:13:04 2.3 Shape and threat avoidance
00:15:32 2.4 Air inlets
00:19:12 2.5 Engines
00:22:02 2.6 Fuel
00:24:09 2.7 Astro-inertial navigation system
00:25:55 2.8 Sensors and payloads
00:29:07 2.9 Life support
00:31:00 3 Operational history
00:31:10 3.1 Main era
00:35:38 3.1.1 European flights
00:37:34 3.2 Initial retirement
00:42:20 3.3 Reactivation
00:46:18 3.4 Final retirement
00:47:44 3.5 Timeline
00:47:53 3.5.1 1950s–1960s
00:50:26 3.5.2 1970s–1980s
00:52:15 3.5.3 1990s
00:53:30 3.6 Records
00:58:56 3.7 Successor
01:00:22 4 Variants
01:01:08 5 Operators
01:02:41 6 Accidents and aircraft disposition
01:03:35 7 Specifications (SR-71A)
01:07:02 8 See also
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The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird is a long-range, Mach 3+ strategic reconnaissance aircraft that was operated by the United States Air Force. It was developed as a black project from the Lockheed A-12 reconnaissance aircraft in the 1960s by Lockheed and its Skunk Works division. American aerospace engineer Clarence Kelly Johnson was responsible for many of the design's innovative concepts. During aerial reconnaissance missions, the SR-71 operated at high speeds and altitudes to allow it to outrace threats. If a surface-to-air missile launch were detected, the standard evasive action was simply to accelerate and outfly the missile. The shape of the SR-71 was based on the A-12 which was one of the first aircraft to be designed with a reduced radar cross-section.
The SR-71 served with the U.S. Air Force from 1964 to 1998. A total of 32 aircraft were built; 12 were lost in accidents with none lost to enemy action. The SR-71 has been given several nicknames, including Blackbird and Habu. Since 1976, it has held the world record for the fastest air-breathing manned aircraft, a record previously held by the related Lockheed YF-12.
Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus
Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley.
Read by Tomás Costal on the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.
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Opening letters – 0:11
Chapter 1 – 34:23
Chapter 2 – 44:34
Chapter 3 – 57:42
Chapter 4 – 1:14:22
Chapter 5 – 1:29:25
Chapter 6 – 1:43:07
Chapter 7 – 1:59:07
Chapter 8 – 2:21:26
Chapter 9 – 2:40:44
Chapter 10 – 2:54:08
Chapter 11 – 3:09:17
Chapter 12 – 3:25:56
Chapter 13 – 3:38:27
Chapter 14 – 3:51:04
Chapter 15 – 4:02:00
Chapter 16 – 4:20:48
Chapter 17 – 4:40:42
Chapter 18 – 4:52:38
Chapter 19 – 5:09:40
Chapter 20 – 5:24:48
Chapter 21 – 5:45:07
Chapter 22 – 6:05:50
Chapter 23 – 6:25:22
Chapter 24 – 6:40:24
Final letters – 6:58:14
Credits – 7:31:29
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Auto-synced English subtitles are available.
Frankenstein ebook via Project Gutenberg
Picture credits: Theodore Von Holst (1810-1844) (Tate Britain. Private collection, Bath.) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Frankenstein Audiobook ; or The Modern Prometheus (1818) by Mary Shelley | Audiobook with subtitles
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel written by the British author Mary Shelley. Shelley wrote the novel when she was 18 years old. The first edition was published anonymously in London in 1818, and this audiobook is read from that text. Shelley's name appeared on the revised third edition, published in 1831. The title of the novel refers to the scientist, Victor Frankenstein, who learns how to create life and creates a being in the likeness of man, but larger than average and more powerful. In modern popular culture, people have tended to refer to the Creature as Frankenstein (especially in films since 1931), despite this being the name of the scientist, and the creature being unnamed in the book itself. Frankenstein is a novel infused with elements of the Gothic novel and the Romantic movement. It was also a warning against the over-reaching of modern man and the Industrial Revolution, alluded to in the novel's subtitle, The Modern Prometheus. The story has had an influence across literature and popular culture and spawned a complete genre of horror stories and films. It is arguably considered the first fully-realised science fiction novel and raises many issues still relevant to today's society. (Summary from wikipedia.org, adapted by Cori Samuel.)
Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus (1818)
Mary Wollstonecraft SHELLEY
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Suspense: Library Book / The Earth Is Made of Glass / Death on Highway 99
The program's heyday was in the early 1950s, when radio actor, producer and director Elliott Lewis took over (still during the Wilcox/Autolite run). Here the material reached new levels of sophistication. The writing was taut, and the casting, which had always been a strong point of the series (featuring such film stars as Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Henry Fonda, Humphrey Bogart, Judy Garland, Ronald Colman, Marlene Dietrich, Eve McVeagh, Lena Horne, and Cary Grant), took an unexpected turn when Lewis expanded the repertory to include many of radio's famous drama and comedy stars — often playing against type — such as Jack Benny. Jim and Marian Jordan of Fibber McGee and Molly were heard in the episode, Backseat Driver, which originally aired February 3, 1949.
The highest production values enhanced Suspense, and many of the shows retain their power to grip and entertain. At the time he took over Suspense, Lewis was familiar to radio fans for playing Frankie Remley, the wastrel guitar-playing sidekick to Phil Harris in The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show. On the May 10, 1951 Suspense, Lewis reversed the roles with Death on My Hands: A bandleader (Harris) is horrified when an autograph-seeking fan accidentally shoots herself and dies in his hotel room, and a vocalist (Faye) tries to help him as the townfolk call for vigilante justice against him.
With the rise of television and the departures of Lewis and Autolite, subsequent producers (Antony Ellis, William N. Robson and others) struggled to maintain the series despite shrinking budgets, the availability of fewer name actors, and listenership decline. To save money, the program frequently used scripts first broadcast by another noteworthy CBS anthology, Escape. In addition to these tales of exotic adventure, Suspense expanded its repertoire to include more science fiction and supernatural content. By the end of its run, the series was remaking scripts from the long-canceled program The Mysterious Traveler. A time travel tale like Robert Arthur's The Man Who Went Back to Save Lincoln or a thriller about a death ray-wielding mad scientist would alternate with more run-of-the-mill crime dramas.