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A billionaire Las Vegas casino magnate has said he might donate $100m (£64m) to support Republican Newt Gingrich's presidential campaign...Sheldon Adelson, who is worth an estimated $25bn, is almost single-handedly responsible for keeping Mr Gingrich'
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Jimmy Westlake Jimmy Westlake's Celestial News column appears Tuesdays in the Steamboat Today . Have you ever wondered why February has only 28 days most years but occasionally has 29 days, as it does this year? This whole leap year thing started
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Caesar Must Die, which follows real-life prisoners as they rehearse Julius Caesar, took the top prize at the Berlin film festival. The Italian docudrama Caesar Must Die from octogenarian sibling film-makers Paolo and Vittorio Taviani won the top
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The film features inmates from the Rebibbia maximum security prison in Rome. Many of them are serving life sentences for Mafia related crimes. This play was a kind of liberation for them, Vittorio Taviani explained when accepting the prize. The
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Furious crowds surge through graffitied European streets burning cars and protesting austerity measures; riot squads wield deadly force with shield and truncheon; a cold-eyed strongman named Caius Martius (Fiennes) tells the mob they all can go to
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Roman standard in every gladiator movie you have ever watched. At the beginning of the first century BC sovereignty in Rome resided in the People, which may have inspired the most famous attribution of sovereignty in American History, We the People
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In 114 BC, Rome was a democratic Republic. Representatives elected by popular vote filled the Senate, and the Senate ran Rome. The Empire was conquered in the name of
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Topics Directors Vittorio (L) and Paolo Taviani pose during a photocall to promote the movie Caesare Deve Morire (Caesar Must Die) at the 62nd Berlinale International Film Festival in Berlin February 11, 2012. Drug dealers, a Mafioso and a murderer
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First, let's acknowledge that Garry Wills book-length discussion of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar is full of useful information and likely to be an indispensable companion to students of the play in years to come. It collects in one place much of what
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10 Click to rate Rating (0) Sounds like several people were working on this concept simultaneously. Leonardo was a polymath, he had no need to "copy" anything from anyone, except perhaps as a jumping-off point from which to develop his own
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