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Film poster
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A film poster is a poster used to promote and advertise a film. Studios often print several posters that vary in size and content for various domestic and they normally contain an image with text. Todays posters often feature photographs of the main actors, prior to the 1990s, illustrations instead of photos were far more common. The text on film posters usually contains the title in large lettering. It may also include a tagline, the name of the director, names of characters, film posters are displayed inside and on the outside of movie theaters, and elsewhere on the street or in shops. The same images appear in the film exhibitors pressbook and may also be used on websites, DVD packaging, flyers, advertisements in newspapers and magazines, film posters have been used since the earliest public exhibitions of film. They began as outside placards listing the programme of films to be shown inside the hall or movie theater, by the early 1900s, they began to feature illustrations of a film scene or an array of overlaid images from several scenes. Other posters have used artistic interpretations of a scene or even the theme of the film, as an economy measure, the NSS regularly recycled posters that were returned, sending them back out to be used again at another theater. During this time, a film could stay in circulation for several years and those posters which were not returned were often thrown away by the theater owner, but some found their way into the hands of collectors. Today there is a thriving market in film posters, some have become very valuable. The record price for a poster was set on November 15,2005 when $690,000 was paid for a poster of Fritz Langs 1927 film Metropolis from the Reel Poster Gallery in London. The 1931 Frankenstein six-sheet poster, of only one copy is known to exist, is considered to be the most valuable film poster in the world. Over the years, old Bollywood posters, especially with hand-painted art, have become collectors items, occasionally, rare film posters have been found being used as insulation in attics and walls. In 2011,33 film posters, including a Dracula Style F one-sheet, from 1930-1931 were discovered in an attic in Berwick, Pennsylvania, as a result of market demand, some of the more popular older film posters have been reproduced either under license or illegally. Although the artwork on reproductions is the same as originals, reproductions can often be distinguished by size, printing quality, several websites on the Internet offer authentication tests to distinguish originals from reproductions. Original film posters distributed to theaters and other venues by the movie studios are never sold directly to the public. However, most modern posters are produced in quantities and often become available for purchase by collectors indirectly through various secondary markets such as eBay. Accordingly, most modern posters are not as valuable, however some recent posters, such as the recalled Pulp Fiction Lucky Strike U. S. one sheet poster, are quite rare
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Mario Bava
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Mario Bava was an Italian director, screenwriter, special effects artist, and cinematographer from the golden age of Italian horror films. His work kick-started the giallo genre and the modern slasher film. His son Lamberto Bava later went on to become a horror film director in his own right. Mario Bava was born in San Remo, Liguria on 31 July 1914 and he was the son of Eugenio Bava, a sculptor who also worked as a special effects photographer and cameraman in the Italian silent movie industry. Mario Bavas first ambition was to become a painter, unable to turn out paintings at a profitable rate, he went into his fathers business, working as an assistant to other Italian cinematographers like Massimo Terzano. He also helped his father at the effects department at Benito Mussolinis film factory. Bava became a cinematographer in his own right in 1939, shooting two films with Roberto Rossellini. He made his debut in the early 1940s. Bavas camerawork was a factor in developing the screen personas of such stars of the period as Gina Lollobrigida, Steve Reeves. Bava completed filming I vampiri for director Riccardo Freda in 1956, Bava co-directed The Day the Sky Exploded in 1958, the first Italian science fiction film, predating even the sci-fi films of Antonio Margheriti. Because he had no earlier credited experience as a director, the film was credited solely to Paolo Heusch, in 1960, Bava directed the gothic horror classic Black Sunday, his first solo directorial effort, which made a genre star out of Barbara Steele. His use of light and dark in black-and-white films is widely acclaimed along with his use of color in films such as Black Sabbath, Kill. Blood and Black Lace and The Whip and the Body and his work has proved very influential. Bava directed what is now regarded as the earliest of the Italian giallo films, The Girl Who Knew Too Much and Blood and his 1965 sci-fi/ horror film Planet of the Vampires was a thematic precursor to Alien. Although comic books had served as the basis for countless serials and childrens films in Hollywood, Bavas Danger, many elements of his 1966 film Kill, Baby. Regarded by Martin Scorsese as Bavas masterpiece, also appear in the Asian strain of terror film known as J-horror, 1971s A Bay of Blood is considered one of the earliest slasher films, and was explicitly imitated in Friday the 13th Part 2. Mario Bava was very disappointed with the distribution of some of his later films. His Lisa and the Devil was never picked up by a distributor, in 1977, Bava directed his last horror film, Shock, which was co-directed with his son Lamberto Bava who did the work uncredited
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Luigi Pistilli
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Luigi Pistilli was an Italian actor of stage, screen, and television. At one time Luigi Pistilli was one of Italys most respected actors of stage, screen, in theater, was considered one of the countrys finest interpreters of Bertolt Brechts plays in The Threepenny Opera and St Joan of the Stockyards. He is known to Italian horror movie buffs mainly for his three 1972 thrillers, Twitch of the Death Nerve, Iguana with the Tongue of Fire and Your Vice is a Locked Room, tragically, Pistilli committed suicide in 1996 at age 66. Born in Grosseto, Pistilli studied acting at Milans Piccolo Teatro, although he went into acting in films, he never completely severed his ties with the theater and often returned to appear in plays directed by Giorgio Strehler. He appeared in many spaghetti Westerns such as The Good, the Bad and he played the murderous Albert in the Mario Bava giallo Twitch of the Death Nerve in 1971. He had a role on the popular Italian television Mafia drama The Octopus. He also appeared as the villain in Death Rides a Horse. Pistilli committed suicide in his home in Milan just before he was scheduled to appear in the performance of Terence Rattigans Tosca on April 21,1996. The program was panned by critics and audiences, and that might have contributed to Pistillis state of mind, in his note he apologized to her for the spiteful statements released in the published interview. Hes buried in the village of Cori, next to his parents and his son Daniele. Luigi Pistilli at the Internet Movie Database
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Laura Betti
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Laura Betti was an Italian actress known particularly for her work with directors Federico Fellini, Pier Paolo Pasolini and Bernardo Bertolucci. She had a friendship with Pasolini and made a documentary about him in 2001. Particularly notes her roles as Emilia, the servant, in Pier Paolo Pasolinis Teorema and Mildred, born Laura Trombetti in Bologna, she grew up to be interested in singing. She first worked professionally in the arts as a jazz singer, Betti made her film debut in Federico Fellinis La Dolce Vita. In 1963, she became a friend of the poet. In 1976, Betti portrayed a cruel and eroto-maniacal fascist in Bernardo Bertoluccis Novecento and she also played Miss Blandish in his Last Tango in Paris, though her scenes were deleted. In 1973 she dubbed the voice of the Devil for the Italian version of William Friedkins The Exorcist, from the 1960s, Betti dedicated much of her time to literature and politics. She became the muse for a number of leading political and literary figures in Italy and came to personify the revolutionary, in 2001, she made a documentary about Pasolini, Pier Paolo Pasolini e la ragione di un sogno. This Centro, strongly wanted by Betti, owns also thousands of photograph and all the works of Pasolini, poetry, literature, cinema and journalism. After her death in 2004 her brother Sergio Trombetti has donated all the documents of her career to the Centro that has absorbed them under the name Fondo Laura Betti. La Dolce Vita, directed by Federico Fellini The Witches, produced by Dino De Laurentiis Teorema, for her role as Emilia, La commedia è finita/La canzone del giramondo/La canzone del tempo/Una venere ottimista Quattro canzoni con Laura Betti. Amare vuol dire mentire/ I hate Rome/ Lucciola/ Satellite Laura Betti con lorchestra di Piero Umiliani, quella cosa in Lombardia/Piero/Io son una Laura Betti con lorchestra di Piero Umiliani. Macrì Teresa detta Pazzia/Valzer della toppa/Cocco di mamma Laura Betti con lorchestra di Piero Umiliani, venere tascabile/Vera signora/E invece no Laura Betti dal film Cronache del 22. Nel 22 sognavo già lamore/Proprio oggi/Sulla strada che va a Reggio/La prima volta Laura Betti N.1, je me jette/La parade du suicide/Je hais Rome/La belle Léontine Laura Betti N.2. Je sais vivre/Piero/Maria le Tatuage/Une vraie dame Laura Betti e Paolo Poli, La bambinona/Guglielmino/La bella Leontine/Io Corpus Domini 1938/Mi butto/Donna bocca bella/Donna Lombarda/Orrenda madre/La Lisetta/La Ninetta/La Morettina/La Gigiotta Ordine e disordine
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Italian language
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By most measures, Italian, together with Sardinian, is the closest to Latin of the Romance languages. Italian is a language in Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City. Italian is spoken by minorities in places such as France, Montenegro, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Crimea and Tunisia and by large expatriate communities in the Americas. Many speakers are native bilinguals of both standardized Italian and other regional languages, Italian is the fourth most studied language in the world. Italian is a major European language, being one of the languages of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe. It is the third most widely spoken first language in the European Union with 65 million native speakers, including Italian speakers in non-EU European countries and on other continents, the total number of speakers is around 85 million. Italian is the working language of the Holy See, serving as the lingua franca in the Roman Catholic hierarchy as well as the official language of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. Italian is known as the language of music because of its use in musical terminology and its influence is also widespread in the arts and in the luxury goods market. Italian has been reported as the fourth or fifth most frequently taught foreign language in the world, Italian was adopted by the state after the Unification of Italy, having previously been a literary language based on Tuscan as spoken mostly by the upper class of Florentine society. Its development was influenced by other Italian languages and to some minor extent. Its vowels are the second-closest to Latin after Sardinian, unlike most other Romance languages, Italian retains Latins contrast between short and long consonants. As in most Romance languages, stress is distinctive, however, Italian as a language used in Italy and some surrounding regions has a longer history. What would come to be thought of as Italian was first formalized in the early 14th century through the works of Tuscan writer Dante Alighieri, written in his native Florentine. Dante is still credited with standardizing the Italian language, and thus the dialect of Florence became the basis for what would become the language of Italy. Italian was also one of the recognised languages in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Italy has always had a dialect for each city, because the cities. Those dialects now have considerable variety, as Tuscan-derived Italian came to be used throughout Italy, features of local speech were naturally adopted, producing various versions of Regional Italian. Even in the case of Northern Italian languages, however, scholars are not to overstate the effects of outsiders on the natural indigenous developments of the languages
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Horror film
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Horror film is a film genre that seeks to elicit a negative emotional reaction from viewers by playing on their fears. Inspired by literature from authors like Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stoker, the macabre and the supernatural are frequent themes. Horror may also overlap with the fantasy, supernatural fiction and thriller genres, Horror films often deal with viewers nightmares, fears, revulsions and terror of the unknown. Plots within the genre often involve the intrusion of an evil force, event. Another of his projects was 1898s La Caverne maudite. Japan made early forays into the genre with Bake Jizo and Shinin no Sosei. The era featured a slew of literary adaptations, with the works of Poe and Dante, in 1908, Selig Polyscope Company produced Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. In 1910, Edison Studios produced the first filmed version of Frankenstein, the macabre nature of the source materials used made the films synonymous with the horror film genre. Before and during the Weimar Republic era, German Expressionist filmmakers would significantly influence later productions, the first vampire-themed movie, Nosferatu, was made during this period, though it was an unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stokers Dracula. Other European countries also, contributed to the genre during this period, though the word horror to describe the film genre would not be used until the 1930s, earlier American productions often relied on horror themes. Some notable examples include The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Phantom of the Opera, The Cat and the Canary, The Unknown, and The Man Who Laughs. Many of these films were considered dark melodramas because of their stock characters and emotion-heavy plots that focused on romance, violence, suspense. The trend of inserting an element of macabre into American pre-horror melodramas continued into the 1920s, directors known for relying on macabre in their films during the 1920s were Maurice Tourneur, Rex Ingram, and Tod Browning. Ingrams The Magician contains one of the first examples of a mad doctor and is said to have had a influence on James Whales version of Frankenstein. The Unholy Three is an example of Brownings use of macabre and unique style of morbidity, he remade the film in 1930 as a talkie, during the early period of talking pictures, Universal Pictures began a successful Gothic horror film series. Tod Brownings Dracula was quickly followed by James Whales Frankenstein and The Old Dark House, some of these films blended science fiction with Gothic horror, such as Whales The Invisible Man and featured a mad scientist, mirroring earlier German films. Frankenstein was the first in a series of remakes which lasted for years, the Mummy introduced Egyptology as a theme, Make-up artist Jack Pierce was responsible for the iconic image of the monster, and others in the series. Universals horror cycle continued into the 1940s with B-movies including The Wolf Man, the once controversial Freaks, based on the short story Spurs, was made by MGM, though the studio disowned the completed film, and it remained banned, in the UK, for thirty years
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Carlo Rambaldi
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He is most famous for his work in those two last mentioned films, that is for the mechanical head-effects for the creature in Alien and the design of the title character of E. T. the Extra-Terrestrial. Carlo Rambaldi was born September 151925 in Vigarano Mainarda, Emilia-Romagna and he studied painting at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna, where he developed a passion for electromechanics and the skeleton and musculature of the human body. He was heavily influenced by the work of Picasso and the Italian artist Renato Guttuso, rambaldis first work in film was creating a fire-breathing dragon for the 1957 Italian picture Sigfrido. In 1963 he became a special effects artist. He worked with Italian directors including Federico Fellini, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Mario Monicelli, the Extra-Terrestrial, Dune, Conan the Destroyer, Silver Bullet, King Kong Lives or Camerons Closet, among others. Rambaldi had the distinction of being the first special effects artist to be required to prove that his work on a film was not real. Dog-mutilation scenes in the 1971 film A Lizard in a Womans Skin were so convincingly visceral that its director, Lucio Fulci, was prosecuted for offenses relating to animal cruelty. Fulci would have served a prison sentence, had Rambaldi not exhibited the films array of props to a courtroom. Rambaldis last screen credit was on the 1988 horror film Primal Rag, when computer-generated special effects became common place, Rambaldi complained, Any kid with a computer can reproduce the special effects seen in today’s movies. The curiosity that viewers once felt when they saw special effects has disappeared and its as if a magician had revealed all of his tricks. There’s no question that these films are well packaged but the charm has disappeared. The secret of creating what technology is unable to express lies in the work of the artisan, carlo Rambaldi married Bruna Basso, with whom he had a son, Vittorio, and a daughter. Rambaldi died on August 10,2012 in Lamezia Terme, Calabria, where he had lived for many years
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Theatrical blood
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Theatrical blood or stage blood is anything used as a substitute for blood in a theatrical or cinematic performance. For example, in the effects industry, when a director needs to simulate an actor being shot or cut. The most common is red food coloring, often inside small balloons coupled with explosive devices called squibs, however, Alfred Hitchcock used Bosco Chocolate Syrup as fake blood in his 1960 thriller Psycho. Since the film was in black and white, the color was less important than the consistency, tomato ketchup is also a common alternative. There are many reasons for substituting for real blood in the industry, such as ethical and sanitary concerns. Kensington Gore was a trademark for fake blood used in films and it was manufactured by a retired British pharmacist, John Tinegate, during the 1960s and 1970s, in the village of Abbotsbury, Dorset. Many varieties of blood, having various degrees of viscosity, shades and textures were available, since Tinegates death, the name Kensington Gore has become a generic term for stage blood. Kensington Gore was used in the film The Shining, Theatrical blood has many other applications apart from its use in the film industry. The crime scene investigation science of pattern analysis uses stage blood or sometimes cows blood in mock-up crime scenes when training new investigators. The art of Moulage uses theatrical blood in applying mock injuries for the purpose of training Emergency Response Teams and other medical, Theatrical blood is also popularly used in Halloween costumes. Bodily mutilation in film#Blood Blood substitute Blood squirt Moulage Theatrical makeup Blood Recipes
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Slasher film
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Slasher films are a subgenre of horror films, typically involving a violent psychopath stalking and murdering several people, usually with bladed tools. Some critics cite Alfred Hitchcocks Psycho as an early influential slasher film, Wes Cravens satirical film Scream renewed public interest in the genre, and several of the original slasher franchises were revived or rebooted in the years following the release of Scream. Many films in the genre continue to attract cult followings. The plot involves opposing objectives of the killer and a hero/heroine, typically, a film begins with a commemoration or anniversary of the past event that reactivates or re-inspires the killer. Often the victim survives, but is damaged in some way by his or her experience with the killer, dika also believes that the genres appeal is rooted in the audiences feelings of catharsis, recreation, and displacement, which is related to sexual pleasure. A common tropes featured in films is the final girl character. This trope is often discussed in introductory film courses, the character often cited as the genres first prototypical final girl is Laurie Strode in Halloween. Final girls, who escape the killers advances by a films end, are often virgins and have at least one female friend who is portrayed as sexually active. Another trope is the anti-heroic characterization of the films villain, most slasher franchises follow the continued efforts of a specific villain, rather than the killers victims, who do not often reappear in sequels. Notable examples of these include, Michael Myers, Freddy Krueger, Jason Voorhees, Chucky. Some critics cite horror plays produced at the Grand Guignol in the late 19th century as having influenced the contemporary slasher genre, others reference the visceral images of violence in films such as Maurice Tourneurs The Lunatics, a silent film adaptation of a Grand Guignol play. Under the Hays Code, even references to sexuality and brutality were deemed unacceptable. Crime writer Mary Roberts Rinehart was an influence on the emerging horror genre. Her novel The Circular Staircase, later adapted into film as The Bat, both films employed the theme of town dwellers pitted against strange country folk, a recurring theme in later horror films. George Archainbauds Thirteen Women tells the story of a college sorority whose former members are set against one another by a vengeful peer, as they die, the culprit crosses out their yearbook photo, a device used in subsequent slasher films such as Prom Night and Graduation Day. The movies climax takes place on a train, something echoed in Terror Train, other early examples of the maniac seeking revenge trope include The Terror, based on the play by Edgar Wallace. Val Lewton produced Jacques Tourneurs The Leopard Man, a film about a murderer covering up his crimes against women in a town by framing an escaped show leopard. Robert Siodmaks The Spiral Staircase, based on Ethel Whites novel Some Must Watch, the helpless but sympathetic heroine became commonplace in later horror films, along with black-gloved killers, point of view shots, and jump scares
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Isa Miranda
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Isa Miranda was an Italian actress with an international film career. Born Ines Isabella Sampietro in Bergamo, she worked as a typist whilst attending the academy in Milan. She went on to bit parts in Italian films in Rome. Having brought several of them to their ruin, she slits her wrists and this performance brought in its wake several film offers and a Hollywood contract with Paramount Pictures. There, billed as the Italian Marlene Dietrich, she played several femme fatale roles in films as Hotel Imperial. She returned to Italy soon after the outbreak of World War II and continued to act on the stage, another success of that period was La Ronde, also directed by Ophüls. Her career took her to France, Germany and England, where she appeared in TV films. Miranda was married to the Italian director and producer Alfredo Guarini until his death in 1981 and she died in Rome in 1982, three days after her 73rd birthday. Isa Miranda at the Internet Movie Database Photographs and literature
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Bay
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A bay is a recessed, coastal body of water that directly connects to a larger main body of water, such as an ocean, lake, or another bay. A large bay may be called a gulf, sea, sound, a cove is a type of smaller bay with a circular inlet and narrow entrance. A fjord is a particularly steep bay shaped by glacial activity, bays can be the estuary of a river, such as the Chesapeake Bay, an estuary of the Susquehanna River, which is the largest bay in North America. Bays may also be nested within each other, for example, some large bays, such as the Bay of Bengal and the Hudson Bay, have varied marine geology. The land surrounding a bay often reduces the strength of winds, bays were significant in the history of human settlement because they provided a safe place for fishing. Later they were important in the development of sea trade as the safe anchorage they provide encouraged their selection as ports, there are various ways from which bays can be created. The largest bays have developed as a result of plate tectonics, as the super-continent Pangaea broke up along curved and indented fault lines, the continents moved apart and the worlds largest bays formed. These include the Gulf of Guinea, Gulf of Mexico and the Bay of Bengal, another way bays form is via glacial and river erosion. A bay formed by a glacier is a fjord, rias are created by rivers and are characterised by more gradual slopes. Currents can make waves more constant, and soft rocks speed erosion, hard rock eroded less quickly, leaving headlands. The Gulf of California is an example of a bay created by plate tectonics as Baja California peninsula moves away from the Mexican mainland, Bay platform Great capes Headlands and bays
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Billhook
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The billhook is a traditional cutting tool used widely in agriculture and forestry for cutting smaller woody material such as shrubs and branches and is distinct from the sickle. It is very common in the countries of Europe. Elsewhere, it developed locally such as in China, India and Japan, or was introduced by European settlers, such as in North and South America, South Africa. The blade is made from a medium-carbon steel in varying weights and lengths. Blades are straight near the handle but have a strong curve towards the end. The blade is sharpened only on the inside of the curve. The blade is fixed to a handle, in Europe usually made from ash due to its strength. Handles are mostly 12 to 15 centimetres long and may be caulked or round, longer handles may sometimes be used for heavier patterns, making the tool double-handed. The blade and handle are usually linked by a passing through the handle. Some styles of billhook may have scales of hardwood or horn fitted to the handle, some billhooks have a single-bevelled blade, available in both right- and left-handed versions, others have dished blades, or a pronounced thickened nose. The reasons for many of these variations are now lost, the use of a billhook is between that of a knife and an axe. It is often used for cutting woody plants such as saplings and small branches, for hedging, in France and Italy it is widely used for pruning grape vines. The billhook is the European equivalent of such as machetes, parangs, kukris. The billhooks use as a cutting tool goes back to the Bronze Age, the tool has developed a large variety of names in different parts of Britain, including bill, hedging bill, hand bill, hook bill, billhook, billook, brishing hook and broom hook. In American English a billhook may sometimes be referred to as a fascine knife, made on a small scale in village smithies and in larger industrial sites the billhook is still relatively common throughout most of western Europe.5 inches steps. The French firm of Talabot boasted in their 1930 catalogue that they held over 3000 different patterns in their archives, billhooks would have once been made by the local smith to the users specifications but now sizes and shapes are largely standardised. The handles are mostly rat-tail tang, except the Yorkshire having such a long handle that a tang is just not practical—they have a socket instead, the smaller hooks have variations in the shape of the handle, round, oval and pistol-grip. Billhooks are almost universally made from steel of a moderate carbon content
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Entomology
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Entomology is the scientific study of insects, a branch of zoology. This wider meaning may still be encountered in informal use, Entomology is rooted in nearly all human cultures from prehistoric times, primarily in the context of agriculture, but scientific study began only as recently as the 16th century. William Kirby is widely considered as the father of Entomology, in collaboration with William Spence, he published a definitive entomological encyclopedia, Introduction to Entomology, regarded as the subjects foundational text. He also helped to found the Royal Entomological Society in London in 1833, one of the earliest such societies in the world, earlier antecedents, such as the Aurelian society date back to the 1740s. There has also been a history of people becoming entomologists through museum curation and research assistance, insect identification is an increasingly common hobby, with butterflies and dragonflies being the most popular. Most insects can easily be recognized to such as Hymenoptera or Coleoptera. However, insects other than Lepidoptera are typically identifiable to genus or species only through the use of Identification keys and Monographs. Because the class Insecta contains a large number of species and the characteristics separating them are unfamiliar, and often subtle. This has led to the development of automated species identification systems targeted on insects, for example, Daisy, ABIS, SPIDA, in 1994 the Entomological Society of America launched a new professional certification program for the pest control industry called The Associate Certified Entomologist. To qualify as a true entomologist an individual would require an advanced degree. Trichopterology - caddis flies Vespology - Social wasps Like other scientific specialties, entomologists have a number of local, national, there are also many organizations specializing in specific subareas. C. Y. Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas University of Minnesota, big Fleas Have Little Fleas, How Discoveries of Invertebrate Diseases Are Advancing Modern Science University of Arizona Press, Tucson,208 pages, ISBN 0-8165-2544-7. Triplehorn, Charles A. and Norman F. Johnson, borror and DeLongs Introduction to the Study of Insects, 7th edition, Thomas Brooks/Cole. — a classic textbook in North America, cS1 maint, Multiple names, authors list Capinera, JL.2008. Iowa State Entomology Index of Internet Resources, archived from the original on 2006-11-14. Archived from the original on 2006-12-06, archived from the original on 2007-02-07. Compendium of References on Flies and Disease, archived from the original on 2006-10-15. USDA Collecting methods. Detailed instructions Arthropa Extensive photo album sorted by topic, Tereshkin Scientific illustration in entomology Tereshkin, A.2008, Methodology of a scientific drawings preparation in entomology on example of ichneumon flies
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Hatchet for the Honeymoon
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Hatchet for the Honeymoon is a 1970 Italian giallo film directed by Mario Bava and starring Stephen Forsyth, Dagmar Lassander, Laura Betti, and Femi Benussi. John Harrington is a handsome, 30-year-old man who in a voice-over narration and he is also impotent and feels compelled to murder young women wearing bridal gowns to remember details of a traumatic event that twisted his mind as a child. Harrington lives in a villa outside Paris, France where hes the manager of a bridal dress factory which is managed by his older wife Mildred. Despite the image he puts upon himself, Harrington relies on Mildred for emotional and financial support, on one particular morning, the ill-matched couple engaged in a verbal sparring match at the breakfast table. Harrington brings up talk of divorce, but Mildred will hear none of that. After walking away from the argument, Harrington retreats into his office, where he meets Helen Wood, Harrington is impressed by her intelligence and beauty, so he hires her on the spot. Later that night, Harrington lures Alice Norton, one of the models at the salon, to his office, as Alice is planning to leave the salon to be married, he offers her a choice to any of the dresses. She selects one and changes into it as per Johns request, the next morning, Inspector Russell arrives to question Harrington about Alices disappearance for her fiancée reported that she never came home last night. Harrington replies that she left at the end of the day, with six models having disappeared from his bridal salon, Harrington naturally has become the prime suspect by the police. But with a lack of evidence, Inspector Russell leaves without arresting him. Over the next few days, Harrington falls in love with Helen after taking her out to dinner and having conversations with her. Harrington clearly has no desire to kill Helen, but his contemptuous wife, after Mildred confronts Harrington and accuses him of being unfaithful after seeing him with coming home from a dinner outing with Helen, Harrington decides to retaliate by killing her. Though he does not understand why, Harrington needs to have a dress in his immediate vicinity when he kills. Rather than talk Mildred into putting on the dress, he dons the veil himself, despite Mildred putting up a fight, she gets hit with the cleaver and falls dead. Thinking that she is alive, Harrington checks the grave in his greenhouse. The body is there, so Harrington burns Mildreds remains in the furnace. Harrington takes the ashes and keeps them in a handbag for himself, Mildreds ghost continues to haunt her husband, appearing only to other people, and not to himself. When Harrington attempts to murder another woman, he is foiled from doing so, Harrington finally decides to murder Helen as a substitute
