Eleanor of Aquitaine (Aliénor, Éléonore, Alienora; 1122 – 1 April 1204) was a member of the Ramnulfid dynasty of rulers in southwestern France, and one of the wealthiest and most powerful women in western Europe during the High Middle Ages. She inherited the Duchy of Aquitaine from her father, William X, in 1137, and by successive marriages became queen of France (1137–1152) and then England (1154–1189). She was the patron of literary figures such as Wace, Benoît de Sainte-Maure, and Bernart..
Jeffrey L. "Jeff" Smith (January 22, 1939 – July 7, 2004) was the author of several best-selling cookbooks and the host of The Frugal Gourmet, a popular American cooking show which began in Tacoma, Washington in 1973 as Cooking Fish Creatively and later moved to WTTW in Chicago, and Natan Katzman's A La Carte Communications, where it aired nationally on PBS from 1983 to 1997.
The Kaveri, also written Cauvery in English, is a large river. The origin of the river is traditionally placed at Talakaveri, Kodagu in the Western Ghats in Karnataka, flows generally south and east through Karnataka and Tamil Nadu and across the southern Deccan plateau through the southeastern lowlands, emptying into the Bay of Bengal through two principal mouths.
Shaktism (Sanskrit: , शाक्तं; lit., 'doctrine of power' or 'doctrine of the Goddess') is a denomination of Hinduism that focuses worship upon Shakti or Devi – the Hindu Divine Mother – as the absolute, ultimate Godhead. It is, along with Shaivism and Vaisnavism, one of the primary schools of devotional Hinduism.
Bow may refer to:
Bow and arrow (), a weapon system that uses elasticity to propel arrows, its use is archery
Bow (ship) (), the foremost point of the hull of a ship or boat
From up and coming and one to watch director Jang Cheol-soo comes this tale of two women from the Korean town of Moodoo. When Seoul banker Hae-won visited Moodoo to see her grandparents she befriended local girl Bok-nam. The two kept in contact by writing ..
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Bride Wars Kate Hudson and Anne Hathaway go veiled head to veiled head in this bridal comedy. Childhood friends Liv (Hudson) and Anne (Hathaway) have dreamed of June weddings at the Plaza since they were kids and now their fantasy is finally within re..
Sarah Hyland (Modern Family) and Matt Prokop (High School Musical 3: Senior Year) team up in this comedy about makeovers that really matter. After it girl Dylan (Hyland) accidentally drops her expensive handbag into the mall fountain, she's surprised whe..
Sought by the greed of Men since the dawn of Humankind but only bestowed upon the woman whose fate it forever scars - the Witchblade. Is it the Righteous Sword of God or the Hand of the Devil Himself? Now a new bearer has been chosen and she must discove..
Catherine Saint John-Burke is an independent sophisticated British woman living in London's Chelsea. Her world is turned upside down one day when she comes home to find an uncouth Kiwi woman Shirley Zachary drinking beer on her sofa. Shirley announces s..
Pop, blues, soul, and rock'n'roll singer/ songwriter/ guitarist /banjoist Elle King's debut album LOVE STUFF will be released on January 13, 2015 on RCA Records.Elle worked with acclaimed collaborators on LOVE STUFF including Jeff Bhasker (Fun., Kanye West..
The Emmy Award-winning ladies of Wisteria Lane have even sharper fangs in the juicy fourth series of DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES a primetime soap opera that takes aim at the dark side of suburban life. The fourth installment revolves around the return of Katheri..
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It was the last thing on earth they ever expected. Life can be tough when you're a Valley girl. First, there's making sure you're on time for pep squad practice. Then there's having to live under the same roof as your bitchy stepmother who, you suspect, i..
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Fed up with being unable to travel beyond the borders of her swamp the witch Metallia forges a contract with the legendary Hundred Knight to help her realize her ambition of spreading her swamp throughout all of Medea. As the Hundred Knight your mission ..
Paul Gregory (William Sylvester) is an accomplished composer despite his blindness and his beautiful wife Anne (Barbara Shelley) seems to be the perfect supporting wife. But unknown to Paul she is having a passionate affair with Ricky (Alexander Davion) ..
Epitomising the glamour and decadence of 1980s Reagan-era America Dynasty was essentially a prime-time soap opera and was characterised by campy melodramatic plotlines as well as Joan Collins' magnetic performance as the conniving Alexis Colby. She is ..
Chloe King is a seemingly normal girl. She goes to class (most of the time), fights with her mom, and crushes on a boy…or two. But around her sixteenth birthday, Chloe finds that perhaps she isn’t so normal after all. There’s the heightened night vis..
But for Eleuia, a quiet Aztec slave, life doesn''t seem so different. She is far from the commotion and uneasiness in the heart of the city.
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She doesn’t believe in any of that stuff. All she wants is to figure out how to get her best friend, Will, back and cope with her parents looming divorce. But then something strange happens on the night of her thirteenth birthday. When the eclipsed m..
One of these newspapermen, and the only living founder is Jeanne Toomey, a law school dropout for financial reasons. At twenty-one years of age, she joined the staff of The Brooklyn Daily Eagle and was sent to cover police headquarters, alternating between..
These selected paragraphs distill the contents and give you a quick look inside Andromache: The germ of this play sprang into existence on a certain April day in 1896 which you and I spent chiefly in dragging our reluctant bicycles up the great hills that ..
No memory of where she came from or who her family was. Now she knows: she's one of the Fade, and she shouldn't even be human"-- Language: ENGLISH Pages: 458 Dimensions: 8.50 x 5.75 x 1.75 Weight: 1.16
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She has one bum leg, a taste for dumplings and beer, and a sweet-tempered rescue mutt for a roommate. She also has Chinese Domestic Security on her tail and a dwindling number of Percocets to get her through her bad days. And she’s about to have some bad..
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PC-connected with customized downloads
Electronic learning toy has 20 Educational Activities
Pretend social network play with animal friends
Download new stories, music, and e-cards
Carry handle and mouse storage for easy portability
Vtech Tote & Go L..
PC-connected with customized downloads
Electronic learning toy has 20 Educational Activities
Pretend social network play with animal friends
Download new stories, music, and e-cards
Carry handle and mouse storage for easy portability
Vtech Tote & Go L..
Latifah stars as Georgia Byrd, a reserved plus-sized woman who lives a dreary, ordinary life in pre-Katrina New Orleans, where she dreams of an elegant existence filled with fancy food, stylish clothing, and high-society parties. But she spends most of her..
THE ONE CHICK HIT SQUAD! Regarded as one of the best of the Blaxploitation genre along with Shaft and Superfly Coffy has been described as “one of the most entertaining films ever made” by Quentin Tarantino. With Coffy Pam Grier was ..
In the mid-70s Argentina's military dictatorship carried out a brutal campaign of torture and murder against thousands of its own citizens.The Official Story follows Alicia (Norma Aleandro) the sheltered wife of a wealthy businessman (Hector Alterio) wh..
Read between the lines of Jessica Fletcher's famous novels and you'll discover what her legions of fans already know - mystery has a way of following this witty writer wherever she goes. Angela Lansbury returns to her iconic role in all 21 sensational Seas..
VileFifty years ago Yale University professor Stanley Milgram held a series of social experiments based on Nazi war criminals' psychology. They were devised to answer a simple question: how far are people willing to go when instructed by authority? Nick, h..
Erotic sex or dangerous fantasy?From the writer of Takashi Miike’s Audition - Ryu Murakami - comes a journey into a dimly lit world of submission obedience and restraint.Ai is a college girl who works on the decadent fringes of Tokyo’s..
A New York City tycoon who falls for a girl who insists on taking a new lover each month. She helps each man work through the unresolved emotional issues in his life, but does not want to give in to her own emotions when she falls in love with the tycoon, ..
Former Senator Selina Meyer was a charismatic leader and rising star in her party with her eye on the White House - then she became Vice President. Emmy Award winner Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Seinfeld) stars in Veep the new HBO comedy series created by Oscar n..
