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Recounts the life and adventures of Robin Hood, who, with his band of followers, lived in Sherwood Forest as an outlaw dedicated to fighting tyranny. The Italian puppet created by Geppetto, whose nose grows long whenever he tells a lie.Ī woman lets down her very long hair to be used as an escape ladder. The Pied Piper pipes the village free of rats, and when the villagers refuse to pay him for the service he exacts a terrible revenge. Peter Rabbit is always getting into trouble in Mr. The adventures of the three Darling children in Never-Never Land with Peter Pan, the boy who would not grow up. The manuscript was originally presented to the Daughters of the American Revolution, Mary Clap Wooster Chapter, in New Haven, Conn., June 14, 1895, by Mrs. This book invites readers to learn German by featuring simple sentences with an English translation.Ī favorite story among the Uncle Remus tales. Moby Dick, a vicious whale, has bitten off the leg of Captain Ahab, who seeks revenge.įinger puppets accompany selected and adapted Mother Goose tales. The French translation of the classic poem "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe. "Le Corbeau = The Raven: Poëme / Par Edgar Poe" Tales of King Arthur and his legendary Knights of the Round Table. The sixth book in the forever popular series of the king of the jungle. The animals in this book show they are smarter than humans. A Selection of the Best Fairy Tales of all Times and of all Authors".Ī poor boy exchanges the family cow for some magic beans. From "Fairy Tales Every Child Should Know. Poetry accompanies the shadow images in Gobolinks.Ī wicked witch takes advantage of two wandering and abandoned children. "Gobolinks, or Shadow-Pictures for Young and Old" The vampire Count Dracula is trying to relocate from Transylvania to England. Denslow.Ī young girl befriends a family of bears. 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The fables of Æsop, based on the texts of L'Estrange and Croxall. “A Princess of Mars,” first in the John Carter seriesįirst in series from the creator of Tarzan, this book features swordplay, daring feats, romance and six-limbed green aliens as Confederate Captain John Carter finds himself mysteriously transported to Barsoom, which we know as Mars. Introduces the letters A to Z while following the fortunes of an apple pie. Adventure awaits in these classic books online. Turn the pages to explore bygone eras, time-honored tales and historical narratives. Mashable has reached out to Thompson for comment on this, and we will update this article if we receive a response. Thompson addressed the writers directly in his final Twitter video (opens in a new tab), saying he'd love to work with them to find a resolution. Thompson tweeted about the scheduled deletion but didn't obscure the name of the author who'd filed the final strike, which led to them being harassed by Thompson's fans (he later deleted the tweet and admitted his mistake). Craig Thompson, a YouTuber known as Mini Ladd, issued a public apology (opens in a new tab) after his channel was threatened with deletion due to the copyright strikes it received from NoSleep writers. While the movement has received widespread support, there have also been dissenting voices. NoSleep going dark.ĭespite progress, not everything has been plain-sailing. "Ultimately, we want to achieve a standard baseline of pay for all writers when negotiating with any content creator that makes substantial profit on various platforms, build bridges with smaller or non-profit channels that can foster good relations as they grow, educate writers on what constitutes fair rates for their work (online adaptations pay differently to a publication, for example), educate narrators on copyright laws, and ensure everyone benefits," Lea said. Creeps (opens in a new tab), and negotiations with other narrators are ongoing. Writers involved in the movement have made contact with large YouTube narrators like Mr. So far, Lea said, the Blackout is progressing well. "It was what helped the Blackout get its start leading by example." "Over the last few months, I have moved to taking several narrators to task when finding out they used my work without my permission, in every single case I was successful and got my rightful compensation," Lea said. For a while, he said, it even killed his love of writing. And as Lea saw more and more people narrating, sharing and adapting The Expressionless, he started growing more and more frustrated. Some took it without credit, while others said they couldn't afford to pay him. The outcome, Lea explained, was a lot of people trying to profit off his work. I was naive, as so many bright-eyed writers and performers are when they get thrust into such a bright spotlight." "Even when they asked permission, I just agreed and thought exposure was better. "YouTube culture was different in those days and attributing works for free was just a given, nobody thought about the consequences," he explained. Lea described the fallout as immediate and everlasting. "I mean *exploded* to the point that Twitter was freaking out over it, Snopes had to run a debunking article (opens in a new tab) on it and YouTube influencers left, right and centre were jumping on it to react." "Within 24 hours it had exploded," Lea told Mashable. How Reddit is helping horror writers find success At the encouragement of a friend, he decided to upload it to the CreepyPasta Wikia. Back in 2012, during a creative writing lesson at university, Lea wrote a short horror story called The Expressionless. Like many NoSleep writers, Lea has firsthand experience with this issue. The fight for fair compensation.Īlthough the closure of NoSleep was only announced a week ago, its roots go back further.Īt the start of February, British horror writer and NoSleep contributor T-Jay Lea (opens in a new tab) created something called The Writers Blackout (opens in a new tab) – a "movement designed to help authors receive fair compensation from YouTube narrators via direct mediation and/or advice from experienced writers," according to the pinned FAQ (opens in a new tab) at the top of the subreddit's page. So what is the closure all about, and how did it start? As a horror writer and regular NoSleep poster myself, I've been following the situation as it's unfolded. Thousands of readers across the world, many of whom check in for their nightly dose of scares, will be met with the above message. The stories posted there regularly receive thousands of upvotes (the all-time most upvoted story has around 38,000), and a huge number of new stories are posted each day. It's no exaggeration to say that a huge number of people will be affected by this closure.Īccording to the tracking tool Reddit Metrics, Reddit is currently home to almost two million subreddits – and in terms of subscriber count, NoSleep is in the top 50 overall (opens in a new tab). NoSleep has gone private in support of its authors. Our design keeps to the essentials of classic space strategy games, maintaining their core feature sets and gameplay balance while enhancing mechanics including: diplomacy, espionage, leaders, strategic resources, and a Galactic Cold War between two ancient species the Rigelans and Arcturans. Our goal with Lord of Rigel is to provide the ultimate space opera experience as a strategy in the style of the science fiction of the 1990s. Embarking in faster than light starships from your home planet, you will explore new worlds, seek out other civilizations and unlock the secrets of ancient species. Lord of Rigel is a single player turn based 4x (explore, expand, exploit, exterminate) space strategy game for Windows, Mac, and Linux where the goal is to build an empire and shape the future of the galaxy. We will discuss minor species more as we continue this series.Explore, negotiate, trade, research, and conquer to shape the fate of the galaxy in Lord of Rigel a grand space strategy game. Additionally conquering a minor species will have diplomatic consequence for the elder species and many of the player species. Additionally if diplomatic relations between the player and the minor species are high enough players absorb those species into their own empire. So why are they important you ask? Minor species will have traits or resources that can help a player and thus make them rewarding to work with. All of these species are pre-FTL (Faster Than Light) and are confined to one world. The last category of species are minor races. However unlike the Elder races the player can try and bring player species into a new power bloc that they can build to force the Elder species out of the galaxy. Initially many of the races will choose to side with one of the Elder races and will begin to form power blocs in the galaxy. Player races are also susceptible to the whims of the Elder races. Additionally players can create their own custom species by selecting a species image and choosing custom stats that work for them. Lord of Rigel players can look forward to trying out 10 unique species that range from Humans, to shape shifters, to machines roaming the galaxy in search of a home. Player species are the ones that the player will get to play with from the beginning of the game. Players will need to navigate the waters of diplomacy in order to survive not being wiped out by the other side. The Galactic Council will have two player power blocs each controlled by either the Rigelans or Arcturans. The back story of the game is heavily reliant on these races and additionally the opposing sides will provide a choice to the player to join one side or to go it alone and push both species out of the galaxy. Ultimately these two species could not agree upon how best to fulfill their role and began cohearsing younger races into siding with the in order to wipe out the other side. The Rigelans and Arcturans can be seen as guardians who were supposed to guide the younger races into maturing and at some point have those younger races take their place as galactic guardians so that the Rigelans and Arcturans could join the Elder races that left long ago. They chose to stay behind when other Elder Races decided to leave the galaxy in order to explore beyond their galaxy. Both races have been in the galaxy for a vastly longer period of time than the younger races. The Elder Races in Lord of Rigel are the Rigelans and the Arcturans. These three categories are significant because the player will interact with each in very different ways and each has a role to play in Lord of Rigel that is unique. Lord of Rigel will feature three groups of species: Elder Races, player races, minor races. This seems like a fitting and good place to begin any discussion of a 4x game because this will tell you who you will get a chance to play. 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What drives the app is the notion that beginning use should be relatively approachable, while more powerful tools and the capacity to zoom in for additional insights into project progress should also be available. In an interesting aside, Case noted his father was an industrial engineer working for Boeing who made extensive use of Gantt charts using pen and paper as he managed huge-scale projects. To help, he built his father a work scheduling app on his first computer, an Atari 800. “We didn't want people to be limited because they found the app didn’t have enough depth for what they wanted to do,” Case said. “We wanted it to be easy for them to capture a project, get into it and organize it to the level of depth they need - to grow into the project and become more advanced in using the app as needs grow.”Īt the same time, Omni also wanted to ensure its project management solution could meet the needs of complex projects. 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Billy fights Kalypso and Ladon before killing them both by overloading the staff with electricity, destroying the Tree and Kalypso's army with them, at the cost of his own life. Realizing the dome reacts violently to his lightning, Billy lures Kalypso to the Park while Hespera shrinks the dome to contain them. Billy persuades a dying Hespera to help him stop Kalypso. Heeding the Wizard's words, Billy flies off to stop Kalypso, while the Shazamily enlists the help of unicorns to fend off the other monsters. Billy, in despair, asks the Wizard to revoke his powers, but the Wizard assures him he is a true hero who is worthy of them. Hespera and Anthea object to their sister's destructive plan, but Kalypso mortally wounds Hespera and de-powers Anthea. All but Billy lose their powers in the skirmish, while Kalypso retrieves the Apple and uses it to plant the Tree at Citizens Bank Park, which spawns monsters to attack the city. Kalypso appears with a dragon named Ladon to acquire the Apple. Billy and the Shazamily show up, and Freddy reacquires his powers.īilly and the Shazamily emerge with the Wizard in the Vasquez home, where they reveal their secret identities to their foster parents. Freddy steals the Apple but is discovered. The Daughters argue as Hespera and Anthea want to use the Apple to revive their realm, while Kalypso wishes to plant it on Earth to destroy it. Meanwhile, Freddy and the Wizard attempt to escape the Gods' Realm with a sympathetic Anthea's help, just as Hespera returns with the Apple. Hespera easily breaks out and steals the Golden Apple, the seed of the Tree of Life. Pedro loses his powers during the fight, while Hespera is captured and taken to the Rock. Billy meets Hespera, and, while the meeting is initially cordial, she and Kalypso soon fight the Shazamily. Meanwhile, the Shazamily enter the Rock of Eternity, where they encounter a sentient pen named Steve, which they use to draft a letter to Hespera as a negotiation for Freddy's release. The Daughters reveal that they want revenge because the Wizard killed their father. Freddy is imprisoned with the Wizard in the Gods' Realm. Billy and the Shazamily attempt to save Freddy, but the daughters kidnap him and place an indestructible dome around the city, trapping everyone inside. Hespera and Kalypso arrive with the staff and steal Freddy's powers, and Anne is revealed to be their youngest sister, Anthea. In a dream, the Wizard warns Billy about the Daughters, prompting the Shazamily to begin researching them.įreddy Freeman, still bullied at school, falls for a new girl named Anne, to whom he shows off his superhero self. Billy is worried about being kicked out of the Vasquez family when he "ages out" of the foster system. The group is drifting apart at home as they grow up and have their own personal interests, in particular the eldest girl, Mary, who resents that her secret life as a superhero has prevented her from going to college. In Philadelphia, Billy Batson and his "Shazamily" of foster siblings save people on the collapsing Benjamin Franklin Bridge, but are called out for its destruction. They take it to the Wizard, imprisoned in the Gods' Realm, and force him to repair the staff and reactivate its powers. Two years after Thaddeus Sivana's defeat, Hespera and Kalypso, two of the daughters of the Titan Atlas, break into the Acropolis Museum in Athens, Greece to steal the Wizard's broken staff. It grossed just over $132 million worldwide against a production budget of $110–125 million. The film received mixed reviews from critics, who considered it inferior to its predecessor. Shazam! Fury of the Gods had its premiere at the Fox Village Theater in Los Angeles on March 14, 2023, and was released in the United States on March 17. Filming began that May in Atlanta, Georgia, and concluded in August. The title and the rest of the returning cast were confirmed in August 2020, with Zegler, Mirren and Liu cast as the daughters of Atlas in early 2021. Sandberg and Levi (Shazam) were also set to return by that December. In the film, Billy Batson / Shazam and his foster siblings fight the Daughters of Atlas.Ī sequel to Shazam! began development shortly after that film's release in April 2019, with Gayden returning as writer, and Morgan joining soon after to revise Gayden's screenplay. Cotrona, Grace Caroline Currey, Meagan Good, Lucy Liu, Djimon Hounsou and Helen Mirren. Sandberg, produced by Peter Safran, and written by Henry Gayden and Chris Morgan, it stars Zachary Levi, Asher Angel, Jack Dylan Grazer, Rachel Zegler, Adam Brody, Ross Butler, D. Pictures, it is the sequel to Shazam! (2019) and the 12th installment in the DC Extended Universe (DCEU). Produced by New Line Cinema, DC Studios, and the Safran Company, and distributed by Warner Bros. Shazam! Fury of the Gods is a 2023 American superhero film based on the DC Comics character Shazam.
Chandragupta Maurya (340-298 BCE)Ĭhandragupta Maurya is influential for his founding of the Mauryan Empire, and consequent unification of India into a single state. Eventually, he would preside over a huge kingdom covering the northern tip of India, from Bengal in the east to the Punjab in the west, and north into Nepal. During these battles, he employed two new weapons: a catapult and a covered chariot with a swinging mace, which has been likened to a modern-day tank. However, in his own desire for power, and due to a family misunderstanding, the Prince had his father imprisoned before taking the throne for himself (Bimbisara was either murdered or committed suicide, depending on which texts you read).Ījatasatru would go on to expand the Magadha empire, defeating no fewer than 36 neighbouring states in the process, and spent 15 years battling the Licchavi republic in the Vajji region of Nepal. Bimbisara became head of the Haryanka dynasty in 543 BCE, whereupon he set about expanding his territory through marriage and conquest. To discover even more about history’s greatest rulers Subscribe to All About History today and save up to 56% on the cover price!Ījatasatru was the son of Maharaja Bimbisara, one of the earliest rulers of the ancient kingdom of Magadha in north-east India. Here are ten of the greatest empire-builders India’s turbulent but fascinating history, presented in date order. Britain’s ‘forgotten’ Muslim soldiers of WWI find a voice. Saragarhi: Inside the last stand of the 36th Sikh Regiment.How India’s ‘Tiger of Mysore’ shocked the British Empire.Its position at the confluence of east and west has also seen it come under fire from various would-be conquerors, including the Mongols of Genghis Khan and Timur, the Persian Achaemenids under Cyrus the Great, and even the Macedonian warrior Alexander the Great. For much of the first two millennia, though, India’s conflicts were driven by internal friction between neighbouring clans and kingdoms, led by some brilliant military and diplomatic minds – and others whose intentions were rather more sadistic. India has played host to the ebb and flow of empire-building since around 600 BCE. |