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The massive Comic-Con featuring comics, movies, TV and games opens in San Diego
Football fans have the Super Bowl. Soccer enthusiasts have the World Cup. Cinephiles have the Academy Awards.
For pop-culture lovers - the self-professed geeks and nerds who delight in fantasy-inspired fun from anime to zombies - there...
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London exhibition puts Sherlock Holmes under the magnifying glass
A myth-busting exhibition at the Museum of London is exploring the character of fictional detective Sherlock Holmes.
It's a character that's been endlessly adapted while retaining its essence as a cerebral sleuth, forensic scientist,...
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CES preview: Lifelike robots built to win over humans
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Artificial intelligence (AI) is set to be a top trend at the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas.
In Hong Kong,...
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Stephen King retaliates against Trump blocking him on Twitter
STEPHEN KING RETALIATES AGAINST TRUMP BLOCKING HIM ON TWITTER
Stephen King is retaliating against President Donald Trump for blocking him on Twitter.
In a post late Thursday, the Maine horror author said he...
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Feature on proposal to change name of Nobel Prize author's hometown
1. Wide of sign above road welcoming people to Aracataca, the home town of writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez
2. Boy jumping in the river
3. Pan of wall with Marquez quotation on it
4. Aracataca's train station
5. Man sitting on a chair...
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Vivienne Westwood unveils Indian-inspired summer collection in Milan
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AP Entertainment
Milan, 23 June 2013
1. Exterior of show venue, tilt down on Palazzo della Triennale to show people
2. Various shots of people outside venue of Vivienne Westwood shot
3. Wide shot of...
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Ang Lee holds press conference to announce filming 'Life of Pi'
AP Television News
Taipei, 29 October 2010
1. Wide shot photo director Ang Lee and producer David Womark on stage
2. Mid shot Ang Lee and David posing before photographers
3. Close-up Ang Lee
4. Wide shot photographers
5. Mid shot press...
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ROBOT SOLDIERS AT DEFENCE SHOW
Unmanned drones and robots are becoming a common feature of the modern battlefield.
At the Eurosatory expo in France, the defence industry is showing off its latest hi-tech weapons of war.
The robots are taking over the battlefield of...
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Birthday of Jane Austen - ahead of 200th anniversary of Pride and Prejudice
AP Television
Chawton, Hampshire, U.K - 22 October 2012
1. Mid shot exterior Jane Austen's house
2. Cutaway leaves on tree
3. Wide village of Chawton pan to Jane Austen's House
4. Close up sign pointing to Jane Austen's House
5. Tilt...
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Author Seth Grahame-Smith, the man behind popular mash-ups like 'Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter,' talks about growing up surrounded by books. (Feb. 6)
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Bloomberg
U.S. vs. Europe: More Productivity in Shorter Work Week?
May 13 -- Productivity has declined in the United States while Europe has maintained high levels of output. Are workers more productive in a shorter amount of work time? Bloomberg's Greg Viscusi discusses the misconceptions about...
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Tolkien fans dress up for battle in Czech forest
It started about 20 years ago with just a few dozen fans of the of the JRR Tolkien book "The Hobbit" meeting in the forest in the Czech Republic and acting out some of the famous battle scenes from the fantasy novel. Now two decades...
Bridgeman Arts
Meetings at the Paris Conservatoire, France, 1943
Clip 1 from the 1940s French documentary Les Cadets du Conservatoire (The Conservatory Cadets), about the story of the Cadets of National Conservatoire in Paris under German occupation in WWII. January 1943. Young men walk down Paris...
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'To Kill a Mockingbird,' a coming-of-age story about racism and injustice, voted America's best-loved novel by readers nationwide
'MOCKINGBIRD' CHOSEN AS AMERICA'S BEST-LOVED NOVEL IN VOTE
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Ruth Ozeki wins Women’s Prize for Fiction
A novel which “stood out for its sparkling writing and poignancy” has been named winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction.
American-Canadian author Ruth Ozeki, 66, scooped the prestigious literary prize with her fourth novel The Book Of...
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COLOMBIA: GARCIA MARQUEZ ADMITTED TO HOSPITAL
Spanish/Nat
Colombia's Nobel Prize winner for literature, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, has been hospitalised for exhaustion.
Garcia Marquez, who is 72, was admitted late last week for medical tests at the Santa Fe Foundation clinic in...
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Residents and visitors in the south Alabama hometown of "To Kill A Mockingbird" author Harper Lee are both excited and perplexed that the novelist is releasing a sequel to the classic more than a half-century after her first book. (Feb. 3)
"To Kill a Mockingbird" will not be Harper Lee's only published book after all.
Publisher Harper announced Tuesday that "Go Set a Watchman," a novel the Pulitzer Prize-winning author completed in the 1950s and put aside, will be released...
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Illustrator and writer "Isol" wins Astrid Lindgren child literature prize
1. Wide of Argentine illustrator and writer Marisol Misenta, better known as Isol, flicking through her books
2. Close of Misenta flicking through her books
3. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Marisol Misenta, Argentine illustrator and...
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Brazilian technology unmasks an Egyptian mummy
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1. Exterior National Museum
2. Egyptian Collection showing two ancient Egyptian caskets
3. Various Egyptian mummy kept in nitrogen
4. Archeologist bringing box that contains a mummy's head
5. Close up of the...
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SRI LANKA: COLOMBO: SCIENCE FICTION WRITER ARTHUR C. CLARKE PROFILE
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Science fiction writer Arthur C Clarke has been studying NASA pictures of Europa, one of Jupiter's moons which scientists say could well harbour life.
Clarke has recently published the third part of his Odyssey trilogy in...
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Greek opposition fears Cyprus "contagion", economic analysis
Athens, Greece
1. Wide of Syriza (opposition party) office exterior
2. Close up of sign over Syriza office
3. Close up of podium with microphones ready for news conference
4. SOUNDBITE (Greek) Alexis Tsipras, Leader of Syriza...
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Personal assistant says 87-year-old author should recover "in a few days"
The Colombian novelist and Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez is "stable" and could be released in the coming days, his personal secretary said on Thursday.
Garcia Marquez was hospitalised on Monday due to dehydration and a lung and...
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Colombian novelist and Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez in hospital
Colombian novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez has been hospitalised in Mexico City with lung and urinary tract infections that are responding to treatment, a federal health
official said on Thursday.
The 87-year-old Nobel laureate entered...
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Police in Mexico arrest an aspiring horror novelist after discovering his girlfriend's torso in his closet, a leg in the refrigerator and bones in a cereal box.
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HEADLINE: Plot Twist: Horror writer found with body parts
CAPTION: In Mexico, an aspiring horror novelist is arrested after police discover his girlfriend's torso in a closet, and other body parts scattered...