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CBC AND NETFLIX JOIN FORCES WITH HALFIRE ENTERTAINMENT TO ADAPT MARGARET ATWOOD’S AWARD-WINNING ALIAS GRACE (Netflix Inc)

Edit Public Technologies 22 Jun 2016
(Source. Netflix Inc) ... Alias Grace will be broadcast in Canada on CBC and will stream everywhere globally on Netflix ... James was hanged while Grace was sentenced to life imprisonment. Grace became one of the most enigmatic and notorious women of 1840s Canada for her supposed role in the sensational double murder, and was eventually exonerated after 30 years in jail ... I'm thrilled that Mary Harron has taken the project on ... Carson (Spotlight)....

Pleasure and Leisure at Hackney Museum (Hackney London Borough Council)

Edit Public Technologies 21 Jun 2016
(Source. Hackney London Borough Council). From cinemas to clubs and carnivals; Hackney Museum is exploring the history of pleasure and leisure in the borough over the past 300 years and is inviting residents to take part ... Celebrations will culminate with Hackney One Carnival on 11 September ... Victoria Park got a swimming lake in order to stop people bathing naked in the nearby bat-filled Regent's Canal in the 1840s ... (noodl. 34194968) ....

Netflix & Sarah Polley Take on Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace

Edit Coming Soon 21 Jun 2016
Netflix & Sarah Polley take on Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace ... Alias Grace will be broadcast in Canada on CBC and will stream everywhere globally on Netflix ... James was hanged while Grace was sentenced to life imprisonment. Grace became one of the most enigmatic and notorious women of 1840s Canada for her supposed role in the sensational double murder, and was eventually exonerated after 30 years in jail ... Carson (Spotlight) ... ....

Family research goes digital (Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council)

Edit Public Technologies 20 Jun 2016
(Source. Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council) ... In partnership with www.deceasedonline.com(external link), Calderdale Council has scanned and created digital versions of all burial and cremation records going back to the 1840s to enable easy and fast searching for family and ancestors' records ... Users can search the website free of charge and can download digital copies of records for a small fee per document ... (noodl. 34175142) ....

The Curse Of The Inability To Imagine

Edit National Public Radio 20 Jun 2016
i. Chris Price/Getty Images. Chris Price/Getty Images. On June 20, 1840, Samuel Morse received a patent for an early version of the electric telegraph. His ideas for transmitting and recording signals helped revolutionize long-distance communication ... They carry photos and videos ... How well can most people today imagine the world of the 1840s? Or even a version of their own lives, stripped of modern-day tools for communication? ... ....

Letter: Religious freedom commitment

Edit Deseret News 19 Jun 2016
Few, if any, groups in America honor their ancestors more than the LDS community ... Sadly, we cannot go back to the 1830s or 1840s or 1850s, to reject oppression based on religious belief ... A Utah vote for Hillary Clinton and against Donald Trump would resonate....

We’re going to go with ‘yes’

Edit Boston Herald 19 Jun 2016
A man set fire to the car of a guy he thought was having an affair with his girlfriend. But the guy had just driven her home from a bar in La Crosse, Wis., and then left his car behind her house, because he’d had too much to drink ... THEY ACTED LIKE THEY SAW A GHOST … A paranormal expert looking for ghosts at a haunted 1840s graveyard in Yorkshire, England, thought he had hit pay dirt when he heard moaning nearby ... ....

Celebrate our Nation's Independence (NPS - National Park Service)

Edit Public Technologies 17 Jun 2016
(Source ... June 16, 2016 ... On Saturday, living history will be featured, so come and mingle with soldiers, laundresses, and officers' wives as they present garrison life in the 1840s.The bark of cannon and crack of gunfire will be heard throughout the day as artillery programs pay honor to our freedom.At 2.00 p.m., enjoy a cup of homemade ice cream provided by the Friends of Fort Scott NHS, Inc ... -'Bleeding and Purging' -1840s Medicine....

Celebrate our Nation's Independence (Hopewell Culture National Historical Park)

Edit Public Technologies 17 Jun 2016
(Source ... June 16, 2016 ... On Saturday, living history will be featured, so come and mingle with soldiers, laundresses, and officers' wives as they present garrison life in the 1840s.The bark of cannon and crack of gunfire will be heard throughout the day as artillery programs pay honor to our freedom.At 2.00 p.m., enjoy a cup of homemade ice cream provided by the Friends of Fort Scott NHS, Inc ... -'Bleeding and Purging' -1840s Medicine....

The Good Teacher of the year 2016 Klaus af Ursin is grateful to walk beside the students (University of Tampere)

Edit Public Technologies 17 Jun 2016
(Source. University of Tampere). Klaus af Ursin is happy about the world's best workplace where the intellectuals and other original personalities intrigue him. Photo. Jonne Renvall ... It brings you joy when you can help the students gain insight into different matters ... He who walks beside the students ... Af Ursin's ancestor, his great-great-grandfather's father, Nils Abraham, was the Rector of the University of Helsinki in the 1840s ... Text....

Enda Kenny urges Irish-born voters to back Remain in visit to UK

Edit Belfast Telegraph 16 Jun 2016
Taoiseach Enda Kenny today visited the UK to urge the Irish community in Britain to vote to remain in the EU ... Share Go To ... He said ... He said Ireland "lost thousands to the Atlantic" emigrating on ships from Liverpool to New York and Canada in the 1840s - and Irish Navy ships were now saving the lives of thousands of refugees from the waters of the Mediterranean ... He added. "It's a big decision and it's your decision ... ....

Picturing history: Webb Blacksmith Shop, Nauvoo, Illinois

Edit Deseret News 15 Jun 2016
They were Edwin, Chauncey, Edward, Pardon and James Webb ... In addition to traditional visitors, busloads of area children come to the blacksmith shop to learn about an aspect of life in Nauvoo in the 1840s....

In the glow of fire and light

Edit The Hindu 14 Jun 2016
Marottikaa (Hydnocarpus Pentandra Oken, Jungle badam in English, Chaul Moogra in Hindi) is also a source of lamp oil. Prior to the discovery of sulpha medicines in the Forties, it was also an effective medicine for leprosy. The seeds give oil and the shell was used as an oil holder. It was called Marottivilakku (Marotti lamp) ... Missionary literature of 1840s talk about chip of fir tree being used as a torch ... Keywords....
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