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Je viens de découvrir avec horreur « les petites mains d’Anvers ». Probablement en référence des mains coupées des Congolaises et Congolais.

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La fiche wikipédia mentionne un biscuit qu’on fabrique encore avec une date de création qui rend peu crédible leur explication sur le péage et le fleuve. En 1934 quand le confiseur Jos Hakker de la Société royale du maître pâtissier d’Anvers a fait cette recette le Congo était toujours colonisé par la Belgique.
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Fascinant : The Spirit Photographs of William Hope | The Public Domain Review
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This remarkable collection of photographs was unearthed in a Lancashire antiquarian bookshop by one of the curators at the National Media Museum. Known as “spirit photographs”, they were taken by a controversial medium called William Hope. Born in 1863 in Crewe, Hope started his working life as a carpenter, but in 1905 became interested in spirit photography after capturing the supposed image of a ghost while photographing a friend. He went on to found and lead a group of six spirit photographers known as the Crewe Circle. Following World War I, support for the group, and demand for its services, grew as the grieving relatives of those lost to the war sought a means of contacting their loved ones. By 1922 Hope had moved to London where he established himself as a professional medium. The work of the Crew Circle was investigated on various occasions, the most famous of these taking place in 1922, when the Society for Psychical Research sent Harry Price to investigate. Price collected evidence that Hope was substituting glass plates bearing ghostly images in order to produce his spirit photographs. Later the same year Price published his findings, exposing Hope as a fraudster. However, many of Hope’s most ardent supporters spoke out on his behalf, the most famous being Sir Arthur Conan Doyle who wrote The Case for Spirit Photography, in response to Price’s claims of fraud. Hope continued to practice, despite his exposure, until his death in 1933.

Belafonte and Scorcese plan TV series on Leopold II’s Brutal Rule in #Congo
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By now, a lot has been written on the #HISTORY of Belgian #King_Leopold_II’s deadly reign over his own private colony, Congo Free State from 1885-1908 (after which it became a formal Belgian colony and was renamed Belgian Congo). Strangely though, there is not much in the way of films or TV series–well in […]

#FILM #MEDIA #TELEVISION #Adam_Hochschild #Arthur_Conan_Doyle #Democratic_Republic_of_Congo #Harry_Belafonte #Heart_of_Darkness #Joseph_Conrad #King_Leopold's_Ghost #Martin_Scorcese #TV_miniseries

New TV Series on Leopold II’s Brutal Rule in #Congo
▻http://africasacountry.com/new-tv-series-on-leopold-iis-brutal-rule-in-congo

By now, much has been written on the #HISTORY of Belgian #King_Leopold_II’s deadly reign over his own private colony, Congo Free State from 1885-1908 (after which it became a formal Belgian colony and was renamed Belgian Congo). Strangely though, there is not much in the way of films or TV series–well in English […]

#FILM #Hot_News #MEDIA #TELEVISION #Adam_Hochschild #Arthur_Conan_Doyle #Democratic_Republic_of_Congo #Harry_Belafonte #Heart_of_Darkness #Joseph_Conrad #King_Leopold's_Ghost #Martin_Scorcese #TV_miniseries

Le Vendredi Saint on n’échappe pas aux histoires anciennes et leurs versions modernisées. C’est le jour de la passion qui annonce un miracle.

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Quo vadis ? (USA 1951)
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Nero hat inzwischen die fixe Idee, das alte Rom um der Kunst willen zu verbrennen und an seine Stelle eine neue Stadt mit Namen Neropolis aufbauen zu lassen. So geschieht es denn auch, Rom steht in Flammen und der geistesgestörte Kaiser singt dazu: „Flammen, verzehrt es, wie im Feuerofen!“ Die Bevölkerung hat kein Verständnis für die wahnwitzigen Vorstellungen ihres Herrschers und bestürmt protestierend den Palast. Nero wiederum, feige und voller Angst um sein Leben, braucht jetzt unbedingt einen, dem er die Schuld an der Brandkatastrophe zuschieben kann.

Poppaea schlägt die Christen als Schuldige vor. So wäre sie ihre Rivalin bei Marcus los und Nero gerettet. Der greift gern nach dem rettenden Strohhalm, und alsbald sind die Gefängnisse voll von Christen. Lygia ist unter ihnen und auch Marcus, der inzwischen zum neuen Glauben übergetreten ist.

De nos jours les horreurs et les miracles constituent les éléments clé de l’image de la médecine moderne. Depuis les docteurs Jekyll et Mengele on n’a plus besoin d’antagonistes divins et sataniques pour décrire un monde complet.

Seven of the Most Deviously Frightful Doctors in Horror Films - Dread Central
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Doctors. Aside from the medical field, they’ve excelled in so many areas. Literature… Dr. Seuss. Sports… Dr. J. Sugary beverages… Dr. Pepper. Successful doctors are everywhere. And they’ve certainly left their mark in - and on - the horror genre.

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Without a doubt more than a few movie doctors have gone off the deep end, many of them with some pretty colorful results. We’ve seen our favorite doctors and scientists do all kinds of nasty things to their human victims. Most take bodies apart, but a couple of them even put things back together, most notably Dr. Frankenstein. Yes, there have been some great ones, like Dr. Anton Phibes, Dr. Jekyll and Dr. Giggles, but here are a few of our other favorites: Seven of the Most Deviously Frightful Doctors in Horror Films.

American Mary (2012 US)
The Human Centipede : First Sequence (2012 NL)
Re-Animator (1985 US)
The Island of Dr. Moreau (1977, 1996 US)
Batman Begins (2005 US, UK)
The Fly (1986 US)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)