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3 days ago · It's a Wonderful Life is a 1946 American Christmas supernatural drama film produced and directed by Frank Capra. It is based on the short story and booklet " The Greatest Gift " self-published by Philip Van Doren Stern in 1943, which itself is loosely based on the 1843 Charles Dickens novella A Christmas Carol. [ 4 ] .
5 days ago · Pulitzer Prize, any of a series of annual prizes awarded by Columbia University, New York City, for outstanding public service and achievement in American journalism, letters, and music. The prizes are highly esteemed and have been awarded each May since 1917.
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4 days ago · Tony Awards, annual awards for distinguished achievement in American theater. Named for the actress-producer Antoinette Perry, the annual awards were established in 1947 by the American Theatre Wing and are intended to recognize excellence in plays and musicals staged on Broadway.
4 days ago · “The Diary of Anne Frank” by Wendy Kesselman, based on the book by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett is an adaptation of the book “The Diary of a Young Girl” by Anne Frank. The play details the experiences of Anne, a Jewish teenager who went into hiding with her family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands in World ...
3 days ago · The atom bomb that annihilated Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6, 1945, proved Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity. Mass became energy and the classic Western dialectic of three-dimensional space and linear time was displaced by the integrated concept of spacetime. On that day, modern physics also collided with the traditional Japanese understanding that space and time are interdependent ...
1 day ago · Featuring the voices of René Auberjonois, Christopher Daniel Barnes, Jodi Benson, Pat Carroll, Paddi Edwards, Buddy Hackett, Jason Marin, Kenneth Mars, Ben Wright, and Samuel E. Wright, The Little Mermaid tells the story of a teenage mermaid princess named Ariel, who dreams of becoming human and falls in love with a human prince ...
1 day ago · Laura Hackett, reporter, Blue Ridge Public Radio (BPR) Gerard Albert III, Western North Carolina rural communities reporter, BPR News. Brad Panovich, chief meteorologist, WCNC Charlotte.
