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  Rocky - The Ultimate Trivia...

  Film Trivia Metaverse

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  ROCKY 
  THE ULTIMATE TRIVIA COLLECTION 
    
  FROM THE MOVIE DIRECTED BY JOHN G. AVILDSEN 
    
  CREATED BY FILM TRIVIA METAVERSE 
    
  ABOUT THE FILM 
  Rocky (1976) is a powerful sports drama directed by John G. Avildsen, written by and starring Sylvester Stallone. The film follows Rocky Balboa, an uneducated but determined Italian-American boxer living in Philadelphia. Working as a debt collector for a loan shark, Rocky gets a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to fight Apollo Creed, the heavyweight champion, after Creed's opponent drops out. With the help of his trainer Mickey and support from his love interest Adrian, Rocky trains for the biggest fight of his life. The movie explores themes of perseverance, self-worth, and the pursuit of the American Dream against all odds. 
    
  TRIVIA SAMPLES: 
    
  “According to Burt Young, during filming of the scene where Paulie walks home drunk, an actual drunk wandered onto the location and told Young he wasn't acting drunk convincingly, so Young asked the man to demonstrate it. Young then copied the man's actions for the scene.” 
    
  “The ice rink scene was originally written to feature 300 extras, but the production couldn't afford so many people. When Sylvester Stallone turned up to shoot the scene, to his horror, there was only one extra. So, Stallone hastily threw together the scene as it exists in the completed film. This scene has become one of the most popular in the entire Rocky saga.” 
    
  “Sylvester Stallone and Carl Weathers suffered injuries during the shooting of the final fight: Stallone suffered bruised ribs, and Weathers suffered a damaged nose, the opposite injuries of what their characters had.”

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  Skirts - Fashioning Modern...

  Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell

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  In a sparkling social history, Skirts traces the shifting roles of women over the twentieth century through the era's most iconic and influential dresses. 
   
   
   
  While the story of women's liberation has often been framed by the growing acceptance of pants over the twentieth century, the most important and influential female fashions of the era featured skirts. Suffragists and soldiers marched in skirts; the heroines of the Civil Rights Movement took a stand in skirts. As women made strides towards equality in the vote, the workforce, and the world at large, their wardrobes evolved with them. 
   
   
   
  Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell's Skirts looks at the history of twentieth-century womenswear through the lens of game-changing styles like the little black dress and the Bar Suit, as well as more obscure innovations like the Taxi dress or the Pop-Over dress, which came with a matching potholder. These influential garments illuminate the times in which they were first worn—and the women who wore them—while continuing to shape contemporary fashion and even opening the door for a genderfluid future of skirts. At once an authoritative work of history and a delightfully entertaining romp through decades of fashion, Skirts charts the changing fortunes, freedoms, and aspirations of women themselves.

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  Makers by Nature - Letters from...

  Bruce Herman

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  An Artist's Look at Theology, Art, and Philosophy
  Dear Tom,
  Thanks for writing again—and for this unusually philosophical response to my letter! In response: my theology of art is my theology. Period. I think of God as the Artist and all human artists as eternal apprentices. Consequently, all my thinking about God involves the centrality of beauty and the act of making. As I've said many times, we were made by a Maker to be makers. . . .
  Bruce
  In a series of fictional letters, respected artist and educator Bruce Herman passes on wisdom to a younger generation. He explores a wide array of practical, philosophical, and theological issues, such as:
  
  - What is art versus craft? What is good art?
  - What is the calling of an artist? Of a Christian artist?
  - What do you do when you're stuck in your creative process?
  - How should Christians relate to the contemporary art scene?
  - What is beauty, and how is it relevant in our world?
  Full of personal stories and behind-the-scene looks at Herman's own artistic process, Makers by Nature also features full-color artwork by Herman and several of his former students. Artists and art lovers will find insight, wonder, and encouragement to consider the Maker's invitation to creativity, however it takes shape.

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  African Empires - Civilizations...

  Rolf Hedger

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  This long, elaborate book bundle consists of 25 titles, which are the following: 
  Aksumite Empire 
  Ancient Egypt 
  Ashanti Empire 
  Axum Empire 
  Benin Empire 
  Carthaginian Empire 
  Dahomey Kingdom 
  Empire of Ife 
  Ghana Empire 
  Great Zimbabwe 
  Kanem-Bornu Empire 
  Kilwa Sultanate 
  Kingdom of Kongo 
  Kingdom of Kush 
  Kingdom of Mapungubwe 
  Luba Empire 
  Mali Empire 
  Meroitic Kingdom 
  Mutapa Empire 
  Nok Civilization 
  Oyo Empire 
  Songhai Empire 
  Sosso Empire 
  Wagadu (Ghana) Empire 
  Zulu Kingdom 
  Don't miss out. This is insane value! Get it now!

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  Textile Landscape - Painting...

  Cas Holmes

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  Textile Landscapes demonstrates how to develop your approach to textile art with a focus on using found objects and paint and stitch on cloth and paper. 
  Cas explains how to exploit the contrast between the hands-on textural quality of working with fabrics and threads and the spontaneity and movement of brush marks to lend a painterly quality to your work.
  
  She begins with the basics – keeping a sketchbook to generate ideas, painting  and stitching on cloth and on paper and working digitally; Inspiring Landscapes looks at natural and urban space, the changing seasons and great landscapes as well as intimate spaces and travel diaries; Painting and Marking with Cloth explains the practical aspects of painting and dyeing cloth and how to make connections between paint, print, dye, stencil and stitch; Stitch-scapes looks at the different forms of landscape, experimenting with photographs and prints and how to translate those images using ink, stitch, abstract and collage techniques and then at how to transform the image using digital techniques; On Closer Inspection covers using elements and details from landscape and the environment as found objects and for research; finally People and Place explores the relationship we have with the outdoors and the built environment, as well as personal interpretations of place.
  
  The book includes artworks by the author that explore the UK, USA, Europe and Australia, as well as works by other internationally renowned textile artists. A creative guide ideal for textile artists of all levels – students, teachers and practising artists and makers – to make unique and beautiful work inspired by the world around us.

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  Dark Legacy The: Unveiling the...

  Dr. Phillip Clingan

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  In the annals of crime, the sinister figures known as serial killers cast a long, chilling shadow. From the infamous to the lesser-known "The Dark Legacy: Unveiling the Top 10 Serial Killers of the United States," delves into the author's behavioral analysis of the killer's twisted minds and macabre deeds of history's most notorious serial rapists and serial murderers. Within these pages, you'll encounter Ted Bundy's meticulous planning, John Wayne Gacy's enigmatic charisma, and Samuel Little's haunting legacy. But beyond the headlines, this book uncovers the stories of lesser-known killers whose crimes are no less shocking. With meticulous research and gripping storytelling, "The Dark Legacy: Unveiling the Top 10 Serial Killers of the United States" comprehensively explores the darkest corners of the human psyche illustrated through a first-ever behavioral analysis. From their childhood traumas to their gruesome methods, each killer's tale is dissected with chilling detail, shedding light on the factors that drove them to commit their heinous acts. Prepare to delve into the minds of monsters as you journey through the pages of "The Dark Legacy: Unveiling the Top 10 Serial Killers of the United States." But beware, for in these stories of horror and madness, the line between fascination and fear becomes disturbingly thin.

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