Joseph L. Manciewicz's adaptation of William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar put Marlon Brando in a toga.
Beware the Ides of March. You can expect all manner of bad omens, murders most foul, and pretentious features like this one. The Roman year began in March and it took fifteen days to recover from their new year’s celebration. On this day in 44 BC, give or take a calendar change, Julius Caesar, who ended the Roman Republic after years of internal battles dating back to Romulus and Remus, was assassinated in a conspiracy of about 60 Senators who inflicted 23 stab wounds on the new dictator.
Mark Antony, who was Caesar’s underboss, united the people of Rome and went after the conspirators, finally forming a triumvirate with Lepidus and Octavian to rule the fledgling empire before “going native” in Egypt with Cleopatra. That period in Roman history is one of the most documented...
Beware the Ides of March. You can expect all manner of bad omens, murders most foul, and pretentious features like this one. The Roman year began in March and it took fifteen days to recover from their new year’s celebration. On this day in 44 BC, give or take a calendar change, Julius Caesar, who ended the Roman Republic after years of internal battles dating back to Romulus and Remus, was assassinated in a conspiracy of about 60 Senators who inflicted 23 stab wounds on the new dictator.
Mark Antony, who was Caesar’s underboss, united the people of Rome and went after the conspirators, finally forming a triumvirate with Lepidus and Octavian to rule the fledgling empire before “going native” in Egypt with Cleopatra. That period in Roman history is one of the most documented...
- 3/15/2013
- Den of Geek
In World War II, British aircraft designer Barnes Wallace set about to design a way to penetrate the seemingly invincible German front. Between his creation of a rigid airship and other projects, he occupied his time searching for a way to impair Nazi Germany’s ability to manipulate steel by taking away their waterpower. Their target: Hitler’s dams. However, to do so, the British will need a bomb that can be released by an aircraft under heavy fire and can skip over the nets that prevent missiles from making it through. What he created was a bomb that skipped across the water’s surface and detonated against the side of dams. Barnes’s work was a stroke of engineering genius, and yet no blueprint of the final product remains. And so, modern day engineering Professor Dr. Hugh Hunt of Trinity College sets about to recreate Wallace’s legendary bouncing bomb.
- 2/9/2012
- by Lex Walker
- JustPressPlay.net
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