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1. Marguerite Duras

Marguerite Donnadieu, known as Marguerite Duras, was a French

novelist, playwright, scriptwriter, essayist and experimental

filmmaker. She is best known for writing the 1959 film Hiroshima mon

amour, which earned her a nomination for Best Original Screenplay at

the Academy Awards.

 

 

Hiroshima mon amour

Hiroshima mon amour is a 1959 drama film directed by French film

director Alain Resnais, with a screenplay by Marguerite Duras. It is

the documentation of an intensely personal conversation between a

French-Japanese couple about memory and forgetfulness. It was a

major catalyst for the Left Bank Cinema, making highly innovative

use of miniature flashbacks to create a uniquely nonlinear storyline.

 

Movie: Hiroshima Mon Amour (Trailer)

 

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3. news: London elects Sadiq Khan, first Muslim mayor,

after ugly campaign

 

補充:

Khan, Kahn is originally a title for a sovereign or a military ruler,

widely used by medieval nomadic Mongolic and Turkic tribes living

to the north of China. Khan now has many equivalent meanings such

as "commander", "leader", or "ruler" "king" "chief".

 

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Kubla Khan

"Kubla Khan; or, A Vision in a Dream: A Fragment" is a poem written

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, completed in 1797 and published in 1816.

According to Coleridge's Preface to "Kubla Khan", the poem was

composed one night after he experienced an opium-influenced

dream after reading a work describing Xanadu, the summer palace

of the Mongol ruler and Emperor of China Kublai Khan.

 

 

4. Chivalry

 

Chivalry, or the chivalric code, is a code of conduct associated with

the medieval institution of knighthood which developed between

1170 and 1220.The code of chivalry that developed in medieval Europe

had its roots in earlier centuries. It arose in the Holy Roman Empire

from the idealisation of the cavalryman—involving military bravery,

individual training, and service to others—especially in Francia, among

horse soldiers in Charlemagne's cavalry.

 

5. Repenzel

Rapunzel" is a German fairy tale in the collection assembled by the

Brothers Grimm, and first published in 1812 as part of Children's

and Household Tales. The Grimm Brothers' story is an adaptation

of the fairy tale Rapunzel by Friedrich Schulz published in 1790.

 

6. Dionysus

Dionysus is the god of the grape harvest, winemaking and wine,

of ritual madness, fertility, theatre and religious ecstasy in

Greek mythology.

 

7. Onomatopoeia

An onomatopoeia is a word that phonetically imitates, resembles

or suggests the source of the sound that it describes. Onomatopoeia

(as an uncountable noun) refers to the property of such words.

 

List of animal sounds (連結)

 

 

8. Edgar Allan Poe

 

Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, editor, and literary critic.

Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales

of mystery and the macabre. He is widely regarded as a central figure

of Romanticism in the United States and American literature as a whole,

and he was one of the country's earliest practitioners of the short story.

 

To Helen

"To Helen" is the first of two poems to carry that name written

by Edgar Allan Poe. The 15-line poem was written in honor of

Jane Stanard, the mother of a childhood friend. It was first

published in 1831 collection Poems of Edgar A. Poe.

 

 

9. Anne Boleyn

Anne Boleyn was Queen of England from 1533 to 1536 as the second

wife of King Henry VIII, and Marquess of Pembroke in her own right.

Henry's marriage to Anne, and her subsequent execution by beheading,

made her a key figure in the political and religious upheaval that was

the start of the English Reformation.