John Frankenheimer
director, producerBorn: 2/19/1930Birthplace: Malba, New York
Beginning his career as a television director, he later became a major film director of the 1960s, with such…
Rufus Sewell
actorBorn: 10/29/1967Birthplace: London, England
An accomplished thespian of both stage and screen, Sewell has proven himself adept at playing a range of roles in pieces as diverse…
Source: U.S. State Department.Albania: Institute of Statistics www.instat.gov.al Algeria: Office National de Statistiques (Some English Content) www.ons.dz/English/indexag.htm Andorra: Department of…
Ethiopia Saluting the ColorsWho are you dusky woman, so ancient hardly human,
With your woolly-white and turban'd head, and bare bony feet?
Why rising by the roadside here, do you the colors…
The Dying VeteranAmid these days of order, ease, prosperity,
Amid the current songs of beauty, peace, decorum,
I cast a reminiscence—(likely 'twill offend you,
I heard it in my boyhood;)—More…
Not Heaving from My Ribb'd Breast OnlyNot heaving from my ribb'd breast only,
Not in sighs at night in rage dissatisfied with myself,
Not in those long-drawn, ill-supprest sighs,
Not in many…
Music:Giacomo PucciniLibretto:Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi IllicaPremiére:Rome, January 14, 1900 Flamboyant Tosca opens in a church, where the artist Cavaradossi paints a Mary Magdalen portrait…
