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From Executive Producer and two-time NBA champion and MVP Steph Curry, the award-winning film and SXSW selection, JUMP SHOT, celebrates the true story of Kenny Sailors, the forgotten basketball legend who introduced the jump shot that transformed and defines the modern day game of basketball. He became a two-time collegiate All-American and NBA pioneer, revolutionized the sport for women, served as a US Marine in WWII, and then quietly faded into...
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Explores how people from the Philippines, China and India first arrived on the shores of North and South America, their survival amid harsh conditions, re-migrations and settlement in the Americas.. The film travels across oceans and centuries of time to trace the globally interlocking story of East and West.
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Take cruise
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Almost a year ago, Richard and Stanley escaped a nest of supernatural creatures posing as nurses at their retirement home. Together with Richard's granddaughter Burke, they've crisscrossed the country on a mission to protect humanity from the things that go bump in the night, but Stanley's had some mishaps along the way that have left him weak and weary. Burke suggests that a cruise might be just what the doctor...
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Descending from a long line of fishermen on the Yangtze River, Liu Gujun had to redefine his professional activity when the construction of the famous Three Gorges Dam began. His father, who has recently passed away, had to stop fishing the river due the growing pollution that the dam has created and asked his son to start cleaning the river. In the Chinese tradition of respect for the elder, Lui Gujon took the last wishes of his father very seriously....
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For centuries, the sea has been regarded as a male domain, but in this illuminating historical narrative, maritime scholar David Cordingly shows that an astonishing number of women went to sea in the great age of sail. Some traveled as the wives or mistresses of captains; others were smuggled aboard by officers or seamen. And Cordingly has unearthed stories of a number of young women who dressed in men’s clothes and worked alongside sailors...
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“An astonishing work.”
—Julian Fellowes, Creator and Executive Producer of “Downton Abbey”
“A book well worthy of marking the centenary of the crystal-clear night when the immense ship slid to her terrible doom.”
—Simon Winchester, New York Times bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman
It has been one hundred years since the sinking of the passenger liner
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Take account of the competing interest groups within the anti-crown protesters in the pre-revolution period. Consider how the tactics used in political actions differed between the lower rungs of society, the artisan class, and the elites. Note how artisans and skilled craftsmen became a distinct, organized political force, often at odds with the merchant and wealthy class.
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