A lithograph from Gaston Tissandier’s balloon travels depicts falling stars.
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Not so long ago, people had no idea what would happen to them – and what they would see – once they ascended into the clouds.
Some are convinced that details from the past are being warped.
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Real-life adherents to the Mandela Effect veer into conspiratorial thinking. But they do hit on an important truth: Our understanding of history is malleable.
Why is ‘Harriet’ receiving a Twitter backlash?
Does the new film misrepresent Harriet Tubman’s legacy as claimed by many Twitter users?
Jimmy Hoffa waves to delegates at the opening of the 1957 Teamsters Union convention in Miami Beach, Florida.
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Hoffa’s ghost continues to haunt the labor movement.
A stairwell in the Bronx is the site of one of the movie’s most memorable scenes.
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Like the ‘Rocky Steps,’ the ‘Joker Stairs’ have become a mecca for moviegoers. But not all film-related tourism is the same.
President Trump prayed with two students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Feb. 21, 2018 before a discussion on gun violence. On Sept. 9, 2019, he floated an idea to monitor people with mental illness.
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To understand the panic about mass shootings and whether mental illness plays a role, it is important to look to the past. A history of stigma and fear contributes to people blaming mental illness.
Roma director Alfonso Cuarón at the 2019 Golden Globe Foreign-Language Film Symposium.
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Giving a movie subtitles or dubbing it into multiple languages makes commercial and cultural sense, but the process can be riddled with potential pitfalls.
Women have heart attacks too and can have different symptoms to men, like jaw pain, breathlessness or nausea, as well as the familiar chest pain. So why don’t we see this on TV?
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It’s time characters on TV reflected not only women’s experience of heart disease but those of men from diverse backgrounds if we want to prevent more people dying from heart disease.
Teens who see drinking on TV are more likely to drink themselves.
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Teens who see alcohol on TV are more likely to drink. A marketing professor explains how to counter this phenomenon.
Sirabi was the real backbone of Pride Rock.
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Lions don’t generally have armies of hyenas, but not every aspect of The Lion King is inaccurate.
When it comes to a terminal diagnosis, how can families talk about the unthinkable?
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While 92% of adults feel that talking with their loved ones about end-of-life care is important, only 32% have actually done so.
China is projected to surpass the U.S. in box office receipts in 2020.
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Studios are starting to realize that diverse casts and diverse stories have a massive earning potential.
Cap is probably not a fan of inflation.
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It’s why Marvel’s effort to break the worldwide box office record is doomed, as an economist explains.
In the live-action ‘Aladdin,’ Mena Massoud stars Aladdin, while Will Smith plays the Genie.
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While the 2019 ‘Aladdin’ is a big improvement from the 1992 version, it still recycles some old tropes.
Fans queue to see Avengers: Endgame in Bangkok.
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Cinema is the most popular firm of cultural participation, but rising ticket prices threaten that.
High Life: where slow cinema is concerned, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
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Slow movies have until now been largely confined to arthouse cinema, for film aficionados only. Not any more.
‘Game of Thrones’ has taught audiences to never get too attached to any one character.
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The vast majority of stories told in movies, in books and on television conclude with happy endings – and this has real-world political consequences.
Introducing Captain Marvel: she’s a smartass fighting intergalactic evil.
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When the ‘Captain Marvel’ movie opens on March 8, coinciding with International Women’s Day, it will be Marvel Studios’ first female-superhero led film.
One category will be notably missing from this year’s Academy Awards.
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Audio description began as an accessibility aid but has developed into an art form.
Sarah Churchill was an adroit investor and savvy political operative.
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While the film introduces viewers to women who were important political figures in British history, it doesn’t quite capture just how much power and influence these women actually wielded.