Kingdom Come (Jay Z album)

Kingdom Come is the ninth studio album by American rapper Jay Z. It was released on November 21, 2006. It was considered a "comeback album" for the established rapper, as 2003's The Black Album was slated to be his final release. Kingdom Come was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rap Album, losing to Kanye West's Graduation at the 50th Annual Grammy Awards. The album received generally positive reviews and was a commercial success, selling about 680,000 copies in its first week, making it Jay Z's highest selling album within a one-week period. Many of the CD pressings were released in a translucent red jewel case.

Despite its commercial success and positive reviews, Jay-Z considers Kingdom Come to be his worst album, based on a ranking of all of his studio albums that he gave in 2013.

Music

Kingdom Come was the first Jay Z album released since 2003's The Black Album, which had been widely hyped as Jay Z's "retirement" album. The video for that album's hit single "99 Problems" had ended with Jay Z going down in a hail of gunfire. Jay Z stated in interviews that that scene represented the "death" of Jay Z and the "rebirth" of Shawn Carter. Because of this, Jay Z had originally planned to release Kingdom Come under his real name of Shawn Carter, but decided in the end to release it under his more-famous stage name Jay Z. The album's second single, "Lost One" (produced by Dr. Dre) addresses Jay's split with Roc-A-Fella co-founder Damon Dash, the death of his nephew, and supposedly his relationship with singer Beyoncé.

The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later

The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later (French: Le Vicomte de Bragelonne ou Dix ans plus tard [lə vikɔ̃t də bʁaʒəlɔn u diz‿ɑ̃ ply taʁ]) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas. It is the third and last of the d'Artagnan Romances, following The Three Musketeers and Twenty Years After. It appeared first in serial form between 1847 and 1850. In the English translations, the 268 chapters of this large volume are usually subdivided into three, but sometimes four or even five individual books. In three-volume English editions the volumes are entitled The Vicomte de Bragelonne, Louise de la Vallière, and The Man in the Iron Mask. Each volume is roughly the length of the original The Three Musketeers. In four-volume editions volume names remain except that Louise de la Vallière and The Man in the Iron Mask move from second and third volumes to third and fourth, with Ten Years Later becoming the second volume. There are usually no volume-specific names in five-volume editions.

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Ten Years (film)

Ten Years (Chinese: 十年; Jyutping: Sap6 Nin4) is a 2015 Hong Kong speculative fiction film. It offers a vision of the semi-autonomous territory in the year 2025, with human rights and freedoms gradually diminishing as the Mainland Chinese government exerts increasing influence there.

Produced on a shoestring budget, the film was a surprise hit, beating out Star Wars: The Force Awakens at the Yau Ma Tei cinema where it was first released.

Plot

The film comprises five short stories set in the year 2025.

Extras

Prior to an International Labour Day celebration, government officials concoct a false flag assassination plot to foment public support for legislation of the National Security Law. They hire two petty gangsters to execute the plot: Hairy (Zerisawa Courtney Wu), a middle-aged low-level triad member, and Peter (Peter Chan), an immigrant from India. While the two argue over who should fire the gun, the director of the Liaison Office decides that the leaders of both the TMD and the Fortune Parties are to get shot with real bullets, so as to instigate greater panic in the territory. Misbelieving they will get paid and flee to India afterwards, both Hairy and Peter attempt the assassination but are killed instantly on scene by the police. Later, the government identifies the perpetrators as terrorists and restates the significance of the upcoming legislation.

500 Years Later

500 Years Later (፭፻ ዓመታት በኋላ 500 ʿamätatə bähwala) is an independent documentary film directed by Owen 'Alik Shahadah, written by M. K. Asante, Jr. and released in 2005. It has won five international film festival awards in the category of Best Documentary (including UNESCO "Breaking the Chains Award"). It has also won other awards including, "Best Documentary at the Pan African (Los Angeles) and Bridgetown (Barbados) Film Festivals; Best Film at the International Black Cinema (Berlin) Film Festival; and Best International Documentary at the Harlem (New York) International Film Festival".500 Years Later has received praise as well as controversy, both for the genre of the film (creative documentary), and the social-political impact of the film as it relates to race study. The film opened on February 28, 2005, at the Pan-African Awards (PAFF) and won Best Documentary at its premiere. The film made its American television premiere on August 23, 2008, on TV One (Radio One), and Ethiopian Television premiere on October 27, 2007. It was shown nationally in South Africa on December 14, 2014, on SABC 2. In 2010, the sequel Motherland was released.

10000 Years Later

10000 Years Later (Chinese: 天籁之一萬年以后) is a 2015 Chinese animated action fantasy film directed by Yi Li. It was released on March 27, 2015.

Synopsis

This story takes place in the far future after a cataclysmic event that forces a majority of humanity to revert to medieval-style civilization and living. A man named Wugreb, leader of a Tibetan tribe called the Wu Tribe, led an expedition to the Western Regions of China to rediscover an ancient city called Tech City, which their ancestors created at the acme of their civilization. Wugreb, however, became drunk with the new-found power he recovered from Tech City, and utilizing the technology of Tech City, created vast armies of monsters and demons with which to conquer the world, starting with the Western Regions itself. His plans for global domination were thwarted, however, by the tutelary goddess of Tibet, Kelsang, and he's been imprisoned within the tomb of Kuger, where he originally found Tech City, for millennia since. The effects of Wugreb's onslaught were felt throughout the whole world, and many new, strange creatures and even subspecies of human came about as results of Tech City's return to the world. Now the seal laid down by Kelsang upon Wugreb wanes in power, and it's up to a young storytelling girl and her warrior comrades of countless tribes, kingdoms, and nations from across the surface of the Earth to rise up and stand against the invasion of Wugreb and the return of the corruptible Tech City once more.

John David California

John David California was the pseudonym used by Swedish book publisher Fredrik Colting when on 7 May 2009 he published 60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye in the United Kingdom.

The book was presented as a sequel to The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger, with Salinger's antihero Holden Caulfield now a 76-year-old man on the run from a nursing home.

Salinger, who died in January 2010, was in the process of suing Colting for copyright infringement, and had succeeded in getting a court order which indefinitely bans the publication, advertising or distribution of the book in the United States.

Before and during the UK launch, Colting claimed that J D California was a "Swedish-American" author, and presented the book as a sequel. However, when his lawyers submitted a "defendants' memorandum" to a federal court in Manhattan on 15 June 2009, this memorandum claimed that the novel is a legally protected commentary and parody of The Catcher In the Rye, and not an unauthorized sequel. A June 18 article presented Colting's view that the book is a piece of literary criticism on Salinger and his Caulfield character.