Posted by Notcot on Jun 30, 2012 in
Cult Film
For years Nadezhda and Vera two Ukrainian sisters raised in England by their refugee parents have had as little as possible to do with each other – and they have their reasons. But now they find they’d better learn how to get along because since their mother’s death their aging father has been sliding into his second childhood and an alarming new woman has just entered his life. Valentina a bosomy young synthetic blonde from the Ukraine seems to think their father is much richer than he is and she is keen that he leave this world with as little money to his name as possible. If Nadazhda and Vera don’t stop her no one will. But separating their addled and annoyingly lecherous dad from his new love will prove to be no easy feat – Valentina is a ruthless pro and the two sisters swiftly realize that they are mere amateurs when it comes to ruthlessness. As Hurricane Valentina turns the family house upside down old secrets come falling out including the most deeply buried one of them all from the War the one that explains much about why Nadazhda and Vera are so different.In the meantime oblivious to it all their father carries on with the great work of his dotage a grand history of the tractor.
Price : £ 5.59
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Tags: 163, addled, amateurs, bosomy, dad, dotage, family, father, grand history, history, House, Hurricane, life, love, meantime, money, nadezhda, name, new woman, refugee parents, ruthlessness, second childhood, Tractors, two sisters, Ukrainian, War, woman
Posted by Notcot on Jun 30, 2012 in
Cult Film
For years Nadezhda and Vera two Ukrainian sisters raised in England by their refugee parents have had as little as possible to do with each other – and they have their reasons. But now they find they’d better learn how to get along because since their mother’s death their aging father has been sliding into his second childhood and an alarming new woman has just entered his life. Valentina a bosomy young synthetic blonde from the Ukraine seems to think their father is much richer than he is and she is keen that he leave this world with as little money to his name as possible. If Nadazhda and Vera don’t stop her no one will. But separating their addled and annoyingly lecherous dad from his new love will prove to be no easy feat – Valentina is a ruthless pro and the two sisters swiftly realize that they are mere amateurs when it comes to ruthlessness. As Hurricane Valentina turns the family house upside down old secrets come falling out including the most deeply buried one of them all from the War the one that explains much about why Nadazhda and Vera are so different.In the meantime oblivious to it all their father carries on with the great work of his dotage a grand history of the tractor.
Price : £ 5.59
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Tags: 163, addled, bosomy, dotage, family, father, grand history, history, House, Hurricane, life, love, meantime, money, nadezhda, name, new woman, refugee parents, ruthlessness, second childhood, Short, Tractors, Ukrainian, War, woman
Posted by Notcot on Jun 30, 2012 in
Cult Film
Bill Bryson describes himself as a reluctant traveller: but even when he stays safely in his own study at home he can’t contain his curiosity about the world around him. A Short History of Nearly Everything is his quest to find out everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization – how we got from there being nothing at all to here being us. Bill Bryson’s challenge is to take subjects that normally bore the pants off most of us like geology chemistry and particle physics and see if there isn’t some way to render them comprehensible to people who have never thought they could be interested in science. It’s not so much about what we know as about how we know what we know. How do we know what is in the centre of the Earth or what a black hole is or where the continents were 600 million years ago? How did anyone ever figure these things out? On his travels through time and space he encounters a splendid collection of astonishingly eccentric competitive obsessive and foolish scientists like the painfully shy Henry Cavendish who worked out many conundrums like how much the Earth weighed but never bothered to tell anybody about many of his findings. In the company of such extraordinary people Bill Bryson takes us with him on the ultimate eye-opening journey and reveals the world in a way most of us have never seen it before.
Price : £ 8.29
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Tags: 163, big bang, bill bryson, black hole, Centre, centre of the earth, collection, continents, everything, extraordinary people, figure, geology, henry cavendish, history, home, million years, particle, particle physics, physics, reluctant traveller, Rise, science, space, splendid collection, Study, study at home, time, time and space, way
Posted by Notcot on Jun 18, 2012 in
Gadgets
Featuring newspaper reports dating back to the early 20th century right up until the end of last season, this makes the perfect gift for any football fan. Older fans can reminisce about those glory days gone by, and younger fans can learn about the history of their team as it was originally reported.
Price : £ 49.95
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Tags: 163, 20th century, century, end, fan, Featuring, Football, football fan, football team, Gift, glory, glory days, history, Newspaper, newspaper reports, perfect gift, Personalised, price, reminisce, Season, team
Posted by Notcot on Jun 4, 2012 in
Gadgets
Ever wanted to reveal withhold or discover a secret? The original who dunnit? Game has been updated. Now with more tension and concealed twists and turns. The all new version will keep you in suspense until you solve the most famous crime in history.
Price : £ 15.59
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Tags: 163, classic, Cluedo, Crime, detective game, dunnit, history, price, Secret, Suspense, tension, twists, version
Posted by Notcot on May 8, 2012 in
Gothic
Tags: Cultural, cultural history, European, Gothic, gothic literature, history, history of literature, literature, PCHL-Polity, polity
Posted by Notcot on May 7, 2012 in
Steampunk
Welcome to the Demi-Monde: a computer-created steampunk horror-pit of a virtual world, ruled by history’s choicest psychos!
Price : £ 8.99
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Tags: 163, 99read, choicest, Demi, history, horror, price, psychos, Spring, Steampunk, virtual world, world
Posted by Notcot on May 5, 2012 in
Cult Film
A Short History of Nearly Everything is Bill Bryson’s quest to find out everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization – how we got from there being nothing at all to here being us. ; ; His challenge is to take subjects that normally bore the pants off most of us and see if there isn’t some way to render them comprehensible to people who have never thought they could be interested in science. It’s not so much about what we know as about how we know what we know. How do we know what is in the centre of the Earth or what a black hole is or where the continents were 600 million years ago? How did anyone ever figure these things out? ; ; On his travels through time and space Bill Bryson takes us with him on the ultimate eye-opening journey and reveals the world in a way most of us have never seen it before.
Price : £ 12.42
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Tags: 163, Bang, Big, big bang, bill bryson, black hole, Centre, centre of the earth, Challenge, civilization, continents, Earth, everything, figure, history, journey, million years, quest, Rise, science, space, space bill, time, time and space, travels, way
Posted by Notcot on Aug 27, 2011 in
Gothic
Tags: Essay, Gothic, history, revival, taste