Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson OM, FRS (30 August 1871 – 19 October 1937) was a New Zealand chemist and physicist who became known as the father of nuclear physics. In early work he discovered the concept of radioactive half-life, proved that radioactivity involved the transmutation of one chemical element to another, and also differentiated and named alpha and beta radiation, proving that the former was essentially helium ions. This work was done at McGill University in Canada. It is the basis for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry he was awarded in 1908 "for his investigations into the disintegration of the elements, and the chemistry of radioactive substances".
Rutherford performed his most famous work after he had moved to the Victoria University of Manchester in the UK in 1907 and was already a Nobel laureate. In 1911, he theorized that atoms have their positive charge concentrated in a very small nucleus, and thereby pioneered the Rutherford model of the atom, through his discovery and interpretation of Rutherford scattering in his gold foil experiment. He is widely credited with first "splitting the atom" in 1917 in a nuclear reaction between nitrogen and alpha particles, in which he also discovered (and named) the proton. This led to the first experiment to split the nucleus in a fully controlled manner, performed by two students working under his direction, John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton, in 1932. After his death in 1937, he was honoured by being interred with the greatest scientists of the United Kingdom, near Sir Isaac Newton's tomb in Westminster Abbey. The chemical element rutherfordium (element 104) was named after him in 1997.
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Bill Baker, a kind, sensitive and content man, enjoys life's simple pleasures, such as tilling his garden or playing with butterflies. His seemingly fulfilling life is disrupted by Pavornocturnus - a night terror disorder that causes Bill to commit violent acts while asleep. His disorder can only be relieved with a unique, dangerous, and mind-altering technology.
A victim to his own mind
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Say her name three times and she'll come for you. Kill you? Are you kidding? She's far too busy to do that. British comedy horror webseries following the adventures, lives and loves of the urban-legendary Bloody Mary and her friends: Viscera, Malevolent and Abdabs. Pull up a chair and join us at Hemingways, the bar where everybody knows your name. And says it three times.
Keywords: banshee, bloody-mary, grim-reaper, incubus, sleep-paralysis, succubus, webseries
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Levi, a slave considered to be a very valuable asset during his time, is chained and sold, being taken away from his wife and children to his new home on a new plantation. His new master, Quincy Jackson, plan is to use Levi as a stud to make plenty of babies. Levi is give his new master's last name and forced into adultery. Generations later, a descendant of Levi, Alex Jackson, a married man with children finds himself living in a few situations that causes him to realize that the only difference between him and his ancestor is that Levi was forced to do what he is willing to do.
Keywords: slavery, urban
A day in the life of Joanne, a little girl obsessed with Houdini and perfecting the ultimate escape.
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Indeed a tribute, this movie tells the story of Princess Diana's last year, from May 1996 to her fatal accident in August 1997. It focuses on her love affairs with a Pakistani heart surgeon and with Dodi Al Fayed, on her battle with the press, her charity work, and her relationship with her sons. Many scenes re-enact well-known images and moments from this year, and the movie ends on the note that Diana was about to accept Dodi's proposal of marriage when the accident occurred.
Keywords: british-royal-family, character-name-in-title, marriage-proposal, mother-son-relationship, portrait, prince, prince-william, princess, princess-diana, royal-romance
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After The Atomic War the world is divided into three states. London is a city in Oceania, ruled by a party who has total control over all its citizens. Winston Smith is one of the bureaucrats, rewriting history in one of the departments. One day he commits the crime of falling in love with Julia. They try to escape Big Brother's listening and viewing devices, but, of course, nobody can really escape...
Keywords: 1980s, alternative-reality, anti-communist, based-on-novel, big-brother, brainwashing, conspiracy, dystopia, electroshock-therapy, ends-with-i-love-you
George Orwell's Terrifying Vision Comes To The Screen.
Big Brother is Watching...
The year of the movie. The movie of the year.
O'Brien: If you want a vision of the future, Winston, imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever.
Winston Smith: [voice-over] Thoughtcrime is death. Thoughtcrime does not entail death. Thoughtcrime IS death. I have committed even before setting pen to paper the essential crime that contains all others unto itself.
[Winston writes in his forbidden diary]::Winston Smith: [voice-over] April the 4th, 1984. To the past, or to the future. To an age when thought is free. From the Age of Big Brother, from the Age of the Thought Police, from a dead man... greetings.
Syme: Beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
[Winston writes in his forbidden diary]::Winston Smith: [voice-over] If there is hope, it lies in the proles. If they could become conscious of their own strength, they would have no need to conspire. History does not matter to them.
[Winston describes visiting a prostitute in the off-limit proletarian areas in his diary]::Winston Smith: [voice-over] It was three years ago, on a dark evening. Easy to slip past the patrols, and I'd gone into the proletarian areas. There was no one else on the street, and no telescreens. She said, "Two dollars," so I went with her. She had a young face, painted very thick. It was really was the paint that appealed to me: white like a mask, and bright red lips. There were no preliminaries. Standing there with the smell of dead insects and cheap perfume, I went and did it just the same.
[Winston renders a war hero an "unperson"]::Winston Smith: [into his speaker phone] Rutherford unperson. Substitute Ogilvy. Ogilvy blog details as follows: war hero, recently killed, Malabar front. Today awarded posthumous secondary order of conspicuous merit second class.::[Winston tapes over Rutherford's face, consigning him to oblivion]
Winston Smith: [reciting poem] Under the spreading chestnut tree / I sold you / You sold me.
[Charrington and Winston look at an old sketch of a church]::Charrington: Oranges and lemons, say the bells of St. Clements...::Winston Smith: What was that?::Charrington: Something old...
Winston Smith: Look, I hate purity. Hate goodness. I don't want virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone corrupt.::Julia: Well, I ought to suit you, then. I'm corrupt to the core.::Winston Smith: Do you like doing this? I don't mean just me...::Julia: I adore it.