Revenant

A revenant is a visible ghost or animated corpse that was believed to return from the grave to terrorize the living. The word "revenant" is derived from the Latin word, revenans, "returning", from the verb "revenir"; in French, "revenant" means "coming back", from the verb "revenir", meaning "to come back".

Vivid stories of revenants arose in Western Europe (especially Great Britain, and were later carried by Anglo-Norman invaders to Ireland) during the High Middle Ages. Though later legend and folklore depicts revenants as returning for a specific purpose (e.g., revenge against the deceased's killer), in most Medieval accounts they return to harass their surviving families and neighbours. Revenants share a number of characteristics with folkloric vampires.

Many stories were documented by English historians in the Middle Ages. William of Newburgh wrote in the 1190s, "one would not easily believe that corpses come out of their graves and wander around, animated by some evil spirit, to terrorize or harm the living, unless there were many cases in our times, supported by ample testimony". Stories of revenants were very personal, always about a specific individual who had recently died (unlike the anonymous zombie depicted in modern popular culture), and had a number of common features.

Revenant

We've been leaving too many tracks,
The last unit of the pack still seeks our bones.
I thought that dominance meant more to these dogs...
Stop dragging your feet -
You want to end up like everyone else?
You want to end up like them?
You want to end up like everyone else?
This is my eternity, and I'm never backing down.
This is my eternity, and I'm never backing down.
Whatever made it easier for them to live,
They'll feed themselves to death.
I feel everything you've done is unspeakable.
Dove wings were scattered about after the mass.
No war song in my wake,
You can have it all back.
I couldn't aid in the hunt,
You can have it all back.
This is my eternity, and I'm never backing down.
This is my eternity, and I'm never backing down.
Whatever made it easier for them to live,
They'll feed themselves to death.
Hold your hands in the shape of a dove towards the light,
And see my twisted body in the shadows.
No matter how battered,
No matter how many broken bones,
I'll haunt what's left.
I'll haunt what's left in the shape of a cross on the side of the road.
In the shape of a cross on the side of the road I'll haunt what's left.

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Pompeii, with Vesuvius towering above. The ruins of Pompeii are situated at coordinates 40°45′00″N 14°29′10″E / 40.75°N 14.48611°E / 40.75; 14.48611, near the modern suburban town of Pompei.

Archaeologists Find Skeletons, Gold Coins In Buried Pompeii Shop

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NASA Curiosity rover discovers unexpected mineral on Mars

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File - Some of the four Kenyans who are taking The British government to court, with left-right; Wambugu Wa Nyingi, Jane Muthoni Mara, Paulo Nzili, outside the Royal Courts of Justice, in central London, Thursday, April 7, 2011, as four elderly Kenyans who claim that they were severely beaten and tortured by British officers during an anti-colonial rebellion in the 1950s are taking their case to court in London.

Kenyan, 94, testifies about killings by British soldiers

Edit The Guardian 26 Jun 2016

Court in central London hears witness recall being beaten and seeing companions shot dead during Mau Mau insurgency. @owenbowcott. Nelson Njao Munyaka witnessed two companions being shot dead by British soldiers; he carried their corpses to a white settler’s farm in Kenya’s Rift Valley. Both victims had taken the Mau Mau oath and been trying to escape ... Related. UK to compensate Kenya's Mau Mau torture victims ... Twitter ... ....

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Iraqi Counterterrorism force advance their positions in Fallujah, Iraq, Wednesday, June 22, 2016. Pockets of Islamic State fighters continue to hold neighborhoods along the north and west of the city

Iraqi commander: Fallujah 'fully liberated' from IS

Edit Boston Herald 26 Jun 2016

BAGHDAD — A senior Iraqi commander declared that the city of Fallujah was "fully liberated" from Islamic State group militants on Sunday, after a more than monthlong military operation. Iraqi troops have entered the northwestern al-Julan neighborhood, the last area of Fallujah to remain under IS control, the head of the counterterrorism forces in the operation, Lt. Gen. Abdul-Wahab al-Saadi, told The Associated Press ... figures ... ___ ... ....

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Demonstrators opposing Britain's exit from the European Union in Parliament Square following yesterday's EU referendum result hold a protest in London, Saturday, June 25, 2016.

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(CNN)The referendum vote to quit the European Union has left the United Kingdom a more divided society than ever before. In fifty years reporting politics I have never encountered such shock and anger. the morning the result was announced my phone was red hot, mostly with younger friends convinced the older generation had, through indulging their prejudices, sold them down the river ... It's Brexit ... by Donald Trump. Read More ... future ... ....

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James Packer pulled out of Snowden movie, director Oliver Stone says

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Australian mogul James Packer pulled out of financing a hotly anticipated biopic about whistleblower Edward Snowden because he feared he would be denied entry to the US, legendary Hollywood director Oliver Stone says ... Ratpac Entertainment, which Packer co-founded with director Brett Ratner in 2012, has financed a swath of star-studded blockbusters, including the The Revenant, Mad Max ... ....

Kodi Smit-McPhee's Hollywood movie being investigated for allegedly slaughtering bison

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A Hollywood movie starring Australian Kodi Smit-McPhee has been caught up in an animal rights drama over the slaughtering of bison ... Smit-McPhee, most recently seen in Gallipoli and X-Men. Apocalypse, stars in what is described, in echoes of The Revenant, as an Ice Age epic set 20,000 years ago about surviving dangerous conditions to get home after a hunting expedition goes bad. Advertisement ... ....

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Yet her latest project — the watery survival flick The Shallows — will pit the actress against her deadliest foe yet ... Teen soap opera alumna vs ... Bears. Spotted in. The Revenant, The Edge, Grizzly ... A defensive mama Grizzly mauls trapper Hugh Glass (Leonardo DiCaprio) to within an inch of his life in The Revenant — and while rumors of ursine rape turned out to be greatly exaggerated, director Alejando G ... 6 ... 9....

Leonardo DiCaprio extends his support to RSS’ beef ban movement?

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Thu, June 23, 2016 10.57pm IST by Rajat Tripathi. comments. 8 Bollywood dialogues that perfectly fit in Leonardo Dicaprio’s winning situation ... Oscar 2016 ... A big thanks to his movies such as Inception, The Shutter Island, and of course The Revenant ... ....

Movie review: C’mon in, the water’s Lively in ‘The Shallows”

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LOS ANGELES — There’s an excellent movie now in theaters ... It serves Lively best of all ... (The seagull even has a name, but I’m trying to avoid spoilers.) ... And on its own unpretentious, unapologetically pleasure-seeking terms, “The Shallows” has enough to recommend it — not least that you could watch it twice in roughly the same amount of time it would take to watch “The Revenant” and with little appreciable loss in adrenaline or poetry....

Movie review: C'mon in, the water's Lively in 'The Shallowsï¿½

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There's an excellent movie now in theaters ... It serves Lively best of all ... And on its own unpretentious, unapologetically pleasure-seeking terms, "The Shallows" has enough to recommend it - not least that you could watch it twice in roughly the same amount of time it would take to watch "The Revenant" and with little appreciable loss in adrenaline or poetry ... He has fun teasing us with process and minutiae ... MPAA rating....

Tom Hardy to play fearless war photographer Don McCullin in new film

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Tom Hardy To Enter The Battlefield For Biopic Of War Photographer Don McCullin

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Why the Hollywood producer behind blockbuster films like 'The Revenant' thinks 'the movie business stinks'

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Despite the commercial and critical success of his recent blockbuster films like "The Revenant" and "The Big Short," Hollywood producer Arnon Milchan suggests that the movie business is far from a flourishing industry ... In the profile, Milchan uses "The Revenant" to illustrate the financial difficulties of producing a major film ... "Take 'Revenant'....

British actor Will Poulter has said it is "very exciting" that the world premiere of Kids In Love will be shown at the Edinburgh International Film Festival ... Share Go To. The 23-year-old, who recently starred alongside Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hardy in The Revenant, said. "This will be the first time seeing it on the big screen, so it's very exciting ... Alma Jodorowsky, who plays Jack's love interest Evelyn, in the film, said ... ....

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