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Mark Rubin, prominent builder of Riverside projects, dies at 84February 23, 2021 at 11:44 AM Mark Rubin, Holocaust survivor, builder of Riverside office towers, townhouses and shopping centers in Riverside, and advocate for a UC Riverside medical school, has died. He was 84.
Rubin, a Beverly Hills resident, never lived in Riverside or the surrounding area, but considered it to be a prime location for future Southern California growth, said daughter Michelle Rubin of Los Angeles, who is president of Regional Properties.
“My dad just said, ‘I love building in Riverside. I love the people,...Tags: New York, Germany, Los Angeles, Sport, Prague, Soccer, Obituaries, Beverly Hills, Local News, Southern California, John Warren, Mark, Riverside, Czechoslovakia, Pam, Rubin 130 people like this. Like Gen Z is already shaking up the venture-capital industry. Meet 29 up-and-coming investors.February 21, 2021 at 11:56 AM Hello everyone! Welcome to this weekly roundup of stories from Insider from Business co-Editor in Chief Matt Turner. Subscribe here to get this newsletter in your inbox every Sunday.Read on for more on Gen Z VCs, Citigroup's $900 million blunder, Walmart slowing its healthcare ambitions, and what happened next at yoga brand GaiaRead time: 5 1/2 minutes.
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Hello!Former Pr...Tags: Amazon, Texas, Corporate America, Colorado, White House, US, America, Trends, Walmart, Larry Page, Netflix, Venture Capital, Citigroup, Pimco, Peru, Silicon Valley 82 people like this. Like #TBT The Watches That Got My Wife Into Vintage — Prim, Elves, And ElginFebruary 11, 2021 at 9:30 AM Before we met, my wife had one modern quartz Cartier Tank from 2010. I think she wore it exactly zero times over the last 12 months. Who is to blame? Today’s suspects: the vibrant rectangular Elves, the 1920s Parisienne fashion wonder by Elgin, and a couple of indestructable Prim workhorses from Czechoslovakia. All vintage! My […]
Visit #TBT The Watches That Got My Wife Into Vintage — Prim, Elves, And Elgin to read the full article.Tags: Women, Watches, Vintage, Elves, Tbt, Czechoslovakia, Elgin, Cartier Tank, PRIM, Lelong 77 people like this. Like Celebrating Fredy Hirsch’s queer legacy of braveryFebruary 10, 2021 at 9:00 PM The day I first learned about Fredy Hirsch was a normal workday in 2017. I’d just gotten off the bus and was walking to my home in south Tel Aviv. I’d recently been spending my commutes listening to the six-hour testimony of Dina Gottliebová Babbitt, an artist and Holocaust survivor, on the USC Shoah Foundation’s YouTube channel. I was absorbed in the story of her heroic and traumatic experiences as a young woman in the Theresienstadt ghetto and Auschwitz-Birkenau. Then she started talking about...Tags: Google, Germany, Tel Aviv, Doodles, Auschwitz, Auschwitz Birkenau, Czechoslovakia, Theresienstadt, Hirsch, Germany Israel, Fredy, USC Shoah Foundation, Google in Europe, Google in the Middle East, Fredy Hirsch, Eliran Levy 19 people like this. Like Hanna Alström & Carice van Houten in 1930s Film 'The Affair' TrailerFebruary 4, 2021 at 10:36 AM "He doesn't deserve you…" "I know." Vertical Entertainment has released an official US trailer for an indie drama from Czechia titled The Affair. The film's original release title is The Glass Room, and it first opened in theaters in Czechia in 2019, but it's only now getting an official US release. Set in the 1930s in Czechoslovakia before WWII, the film is indeed about an "affair". Liesel Landauer and her friend Hana are linked by a lifelong relationship and an exceptional house built by t...Tags: Movies, Trailer, US, Czechoslovakia, Indies, Hana, To Watch, Carice van Houten, Liesel, Czechia, Hanna Alström, Alexandra Borbély, Liesel Landauer, Von Abt, Hanna Alström Claes Bang Carice van Houten, Hanna Alström Carice van Houten 103 people like this. Like Life Lessons From 100-Year-Olds: Timeless Advice in a Short FilmFebruary 4, 2021 at 7:00 AM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AThycGCakk
And therefore my opinion is, that when once forty years old we should consider our time of life as an age to which very few arrive; for seeing that men do not usually last so long, it is a sign that we are pretty well advanced; and since we have exceeded the bounds which make the true measure of life, we ought not to expect to go much further. —Michel de Montaigne
After his retirement at age 38, renaissance essayist Michel de Montaigne devoted ...Tags: Google, England, College, France, Life, Harvard, Harper, Alexa, Montaigne, Facebook Twitter, Czechoslovakia, Michel de Montaigne, Josh Jones, Bertrand Russell, Crozier, Ellen Langer 79 people like this. Like The life of Donald Trump Jr., who once lived out of a truck, didn't speak to his father for a year, and spent 2020 campaigning with his girlfriendDecember 31, 2020 at 11:01 AM Donald Trump Jr., 42, is President Donald Trump's eldest child.
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Donald Trump Jr., eldest son of President Donald Trump, is an executive vice president of the Trump Organization.
The 43-year-old, who has five children, has lived the majority of his life in the shadow of his father and younger sister Ivanka, but since his dad became president, his outspoken, anti-political-correct stance has come into its own.
While Ivanka and his father...Tags: Facebook, New York Post, Florida, Politics, Usa, New York, London, News, Abc, Washington Post, Washington, Life, White House, Russia, New York City, America 58 people like this. Like The Art of Movie Posters: View Online 40,000+ Movie Posters & Learn How They’re MadeDecember 15, 2020 at 10:00 AM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEbW2fXSShc
If you can’t judge a movie by its poster, it’s not for the poster designer’s lack of trying. Nearly as venerable as cinema itself, the art of the movie poster has evolved to attract the attention and interest of generation after generation of filmgoers — and, safe to say, developed a few best practices along the way. Some examples go beyond effective advertisement to become icons in and of themselves: take for example, the poster for Quentin Ta...Tags: Google, Art, Facebook, New York, Film, College, Poland, Quentin Tarantino, Woody Allen, Seoul, Vanity Fair, Ghana, Martin Scorsese, Facebook Twitter, Czechoslovakia, John Hughes 147 people like this. Like CS Score Reviews Solo: A Star Wars Story Deluxe Edition Soundtrack & More!November 30, 2020 at 12:19 PM CS Score Reviews Solo: A Star Wars Story Deluxe Edition Soundtrack & More!
Welcome back, film score lovers! This week we’ve got quite the lineup. First, we take a deep dive into the recently released Solo: A Star Wars Story Deluxe Edition Soundtrack by John Powell and John Williams, which is available to stream digitally on all major platforms. Next is an interview with composer Guillaume Roussel, who spoke with CS Score about his beautiful work on the Disney+ film Black Beauty. And finally,...Tags: Games, Movies, CS Score, Cyberpunk 2077, Movie News, Movie Scores, Soundtracks, Star Wars, Video Game News 106 people like this. Like Jeremy Irons-Led Spy Thriller Munich Begins Production for NetflixNovember 4, 2020 at 1:25 PM Jeremy Irons-led spy thriller Munich begins production for Netflix
Coming off of his Emmy-nominated work on HBO’s Watchmen miniseries, Jeremy Irons is diving right back into work as production has begun on Netflix’s adaptation of Robert Harris’ bestselling spy thriller Munich, in which Irons leads an ensemble cast.
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According to The Hollywood Reporter, Jeremy Irons, George MacKay, and rising German star Jannis Niehwöhner (Netflix’s Mute) have signed on to star ...Tags: Europe, Movies, Casting, Netflix, Munich, Thriller, Adaptation, Nazi, Hitler, Spielberg, Steven Spielberg, Jeremy-Irons, HARRIS, Czechoslovakia, Robert Harris, Kosse 110 people like this. Like Netflix’s ‘Munich’ (No Relation to the Spielberg Movie) Adds Jeremy Irons and ‘1917’ Star George McKayNovember 3, 2020 at 1:30 PM Netflix has recruited some major international actors to star in their adaptation of Munich — not at all related to the Steven Spielberg film. Watchmen star Jeremy Irons and 1917 actor George McKay are set to star in Netflix’s Munich, a feature adaptation of the Robert Harris bestseller, a spy thriller set in Europe at the brink of World War II.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Jeremy Irons, George McKay, and rising German star Jannis Niehwöhner (Netflix’s Mute) have signed on to star in...Tags: Europe, Movies, Casting, Netflix, Munich, Thriller, Adaptation, Nazi, Hitler, Spielberg, Steven Spielberg, Jeremy-Irons, HARRIS, Czechoslovakia, Robert Harris, Kosse 69 people like this. Like Jeremy Irons to Headline Netflix Adaptation of Robert Harris Bestseller ‘Munich’November 3, 2020 at 7:47 AM “Watchmen” actor Jeremy Irons is headlining Netflix original film “Munich,” an adaptation of the bestselling 2017 novel by Robert Harris (“Fatherland”). The film is set in the fall of 1938 when Europe stands on the brink of war. Adolf Hitler is preparing to invade Czechoslovakia and Neville Chamberlain’s government desperately seeks a peaceful solution. With […]Tags: Europe, News, Global, Netflix, Munich, Neville Chamberlain, Adolf Hitler, Jeremy Irons, Czechoslovakia, Robert Harris 40 people like this. Like From rich kid to first daughter: The life of Ivanka TrumpOctober 30, 2020 at 10:43 AM Ivanka Trump, 38.
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Ivanka Trump, President Donald Trump's eldest daughter, has lived her life in the public eye.
The 39-year-old has been a business executive, runway model, socialite, doting mother, and key advisor in her father's administration.
Here's a closer look at her life, career, and time in the White House.
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Ivanka Trump has lived her life in the public eye.Born to then real-estate mogul Donald Trump ...Tags: South Korea, Post, Japan, Politics, New York, News, Entertainment, Congress, Washington Post, Washington, Saudi Arabia, Life, White House, Germany, India, New York City 102 people like this. Like You can now play the unauthorized Indiana Jones video game created by Czechoslovak protestors in the 80sOctober 28, 2020 at 8:19 AM Ars Technica has a fascinating new long-form article about The Adventures of Indiana Jones in Wenceslas Square in Prague on January 16, 1989, an unauthorized text adventure created and passed between anti-government activists in Czechoslovakia in the 80s.
In 1989, students and dissidents had flocked to the center of Prague to protest Communism, only to be beaten and arrested by the riot police—an incident that took place during the lead up to the country's historic Velvet Revolution. — Read t...Tags: Post, News, Video Games, Ars Technica, Prague, Communism, Slovakia, Indiana Jones, 8-bit, 80s, Soviet Union, Former Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, Wenceslas Square, Czech, Text Adventures 96 people like this. Like Meopta Optika 6 Riflescope, First Rounds – ReviewOctober 21, 2020 at 5:00 PM Meopta Optika6
U.S.A. –-(AmmoLand.com)- Meopta has been manufacturing optics out of Czechoslovakia for nearly 90 years now. Despite such a wealth of experience, the US market seems to have had a blind spot on the brand. Meopta has largely built its products for militaries around the globe or has acted as a manufacturing partner, allowing other companies to stamp their brand on a Meopta-made product. Within the last 7 years, that has started to change. Now, Meopta is hard-charging at the U...Tags: Europe, Usa, Guns, Oregon, Iraq, US, Afghanistan, Gear, US Army, Czechoslovakia, BDC, Shooting Industry News, Meopta, rifle scope, Meopta Optika, Rex Nanorum 82 people like this. Like Comment on apple strudel by Kat ManningOctober 20, 2020 at 6:36 PM When you say all purpose flour ,,,, bleached or unbleached?
When I was a little girl my best friends mother was from Czechoslovakia. I still remember the wonderful treat when I was given a piece when they made their apple strudel! I would think the flour would be important for this recipeTags: Food, Czechoslovakia, Kat Manning 44 people like this. Like How a mistake at a press conference helped bring down the Berlin WallOctober 6, 2020 at 10:33 AM West Berliners watch East German border guards open a new crossing point between East and West Berlin, near the Potsdamer Square, November 11, 1989.
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October 3 was the 30th anniversary of when East Germany, or the GDR, ceased to exist and its territories joined the Federal Republic of Germany.
Many steps led to Germany's reunification in 1990, but perhaps none were more dramatic than the night of November 9, 1989, when the Berlin Wall, and the restrictions it r...Tags: Germany, Berlin Wall, Berlin, Trends, Austria, West, Gdr, Hamburg, Peter, Soviet Union, East Germany, East, West Germany, Czechoslovakia, West Berlin, Berliner 109 people like this. Like POTD: NATO enhanced Forward Presence Battle Group Latvia with CZ 858September 13, 2020 at 7:30 PM Welcome to TFB’s Photo Of The Day. Today we honor the CZ 858, or vz. 58 (model 58) as it’s also called. The caliber is 7.62×39mm and it was designed and manufactured in Czechoslovakia. It’s been around for a while, but is still active. It’s quite a “back to basics” rifle. The pictures are from […]
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The post POTD: NATO enhanced Forward Presence Battle Group Latvia with CZ 858 appeared first on The Firearm Blog.Tags: Guns, Defense, Training, Nato, Latvia, TFB, Czechoslovakia, Photo of the Day, Vz 58, CZ 858 88 people like this. Like How cold war spymasters found arrogance of Carlos the Jackal too hot to handleSeptember 6, 2020 at 2:11 AM Terrorist Ilich Ramirez Sanchez was portrayed as ruthless, but research shows Iron Curtain regimes saw him as a liabilityTwo men and a heavily pregnant woman stand in a hotel room in Prague. The men are arguing with two officers from the Czech state security agency, sent to convince them they should leave on the next available flight. A warning that assassins from the French secret services are on their way to kill the three ends the dispute. One stows a pistol in his jacket pocket, the second s...Tags: Europe, Cold War, World news, Prague, Middle East and North Africa, Palestinian territories, Moscow, Carlos, Czechoslovakia, Carlos the Jackal, Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, JACKAL 41 people like this. Like Revisiting the Red Wings’ 1983 DraftAugust 27, 2020 at 4:50 PM The 1983 NHL Entry Draft is one of the most fascinating in history. From this class, 113 players reached the NHL (46.7 percent) and won 21 Stanley Cups, and four players made the Hockey Hall of Fame. The Detroit Red Wings made out reasonably in this draft. They were in the midst of their “Dead Wings” era, with only two playoff appearances between 1967-83. But on June 8, 1983, the franchise changed forever.
We begin with first-round selection, future captain, and current general manager Stev...Tags: Sport, Canada, Rangers, Detroit Red Wings, AHL, Hockey, NHL, Detroit, Calgary Flames, Edmonton, New York Rangers, New York Islanders, Mike, Edmonton Oilers, Steve Yzerman, Oilers 141 people like this. Like In 1939, British stockbroker Nicholas Winton helped 669 children escape the Nazis in CzechoslovakiaAugust 25, 2020 at 8:35 AM In 1939, as the shadow of war spread over Europe, British stockbroker Nicholas Winton helped to spirit hundreds of threatened children out of Czechoslovakia. In this week's episode of the Futility Closet podcast we'll describe Winton's struggle to save the children and the world's eventual recognition of his achievements.
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Image: Wikimedia CommonsTags: Europe, Post, News, Futility Closet, Czechoslovakia, Winton, Nicholas Winton 140 people like this. Like dystopian linksAugust 23, 2020 at 11:14 PM ---"The general pattern of collapse in this new century is implosion from the bottom up. The bottom is chewed through, eviscerated, eaten away, depleted — until nothing is left — by the top. The middle therefore buckles and breaks. The top caves in, eventually, along with it. Whether we look at societies, economies, the planet, or food chains — this pattern of collapse is what seems to characterize now. Of course, I am only speculating, thinking out loud. You are welcome to disagree if you like...Tags: New York, Movies, Colorado, White House, Barack Obama, New Orleans, Robert De Niro, Batman, Alan Parker, Mickey Rourke, National Park Service, Trump, Parker, Eastern, Czechoslovakia, Anne Thompson 126 people like this. Like Tales of the Mysterious Traveler #3 - Steve Ditko art & coverAugust 14, 2020 at 11:03 PM Steve Ditko
Tales of the Mysterious Traveler v1 #3, 1957 - An artist returns to his native Czechoslovakia, using his talents under an assumed name while spying on the Reds. This tale of espionage seems more appropriate for a war comic rather among mystery tales. Steve Ditko does a fine job on the opening scene, revealing the Traveler's face in the textured background. Remaining pages, however, [Author: Unknown]Tags: Comics, Unknown, Czechoslovakia, Steve Ditko 50 people like this. Like Vamp or Not? Short Night of Glass DollsAugust 14, 2020 at 1:21 PM This was the 1971 directorial debut for Aldo Lado, known here for his sci-fi flick the Humanoid, and is a gaillo styled film set in Prague. It came to my attention as I read Italian Vampire Films when it was mentioned as 1 of 6 Italian films following Franco’s Count Dracula, which used (transnational) co-production agreements to cushion themselves financially but also “tapped into the vampire mythology”. Five of these have been previously covered here. As you can tell – as this is a ‘Vamp or N...Tags: Amazon, London, Movies, Prague, Mira, Jessica, Moore, Czechoslovakia, Voltaire, Amazon UK, Jacques, LADO, Vamp, Vampire Films, Use Of Tropes, Aldo Lado 107 people like this. Like Missing Text.August 13, 2020 at 2:20 PM Anatoly Vorobey sometimes says of his more recondite posts “вряд ли кому-то будет интересно” [unlikely to be of interest to anyone], and the same is probably true of this, but I have found a tear in the fabric of spacetime and I cannot be silent. Back in my college days, Natalya Baranskaya’s 1969 story «Неделя как неделя» (A Week Like Any Other, also translated as The Alarm Clock in the Cupboard) was famous not only among students of Russian like me but internationally, as a look into the daily...Tags: Uncategorized, Linguistics, Vietnam, Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, Olga, Donskoi, Aksyonov, Anatoly Vorobey, Vasily Aksyonov, Natalya Baranskaya 7 people like this. Like How Did This Get Made: A Conversation With the Producer of ‘The Peanut Butter Solution’July 21, 2020 at 11:00 AM This week, the gang at How Did This Get Made? covered The Peanut Butter Solution , a mid-80s children’s fantasy film about a suddenly-bald 11-year-old boy who uses a peanut-butter-powered magic potion to try and grow his hair back
The key to understanding The Peanut Butter Solution is Rock Demers—the French-speaking, Canadian producer whose beloved Reading – Rainbow -like “Tales for All” series of films has been captivating children around the world since 1985. The same year, in fact,...Tags: Usa, England, Movies, China, Russia, Features, Canada, Poland, Argentina, Romania, Bjork, Iceland, Montreal, Quebec, Michael, Judy Garland 78 people like this. Like Yet Again, Milan Kundera Denounced In His Native LandJuly 8, 2020 at 10:08 AM While the Czech-but-now-French author is known in much of the world for his pointed depictions of how the Communist regimes of Europe twisted the lives of regular people, he’s been viewed ambivalently or worse by many in the Czech Republic — not least because he got out of Czechoslovakia in 1975 and didn’t have to suffer through the final years of the Communist Party’s misrule. Now a new 900-page biography of Kundera has reignited criticism of and debate over the most famous modern writer the c...Tags: Art, Europe, People, Czech Republic, Milan Kundera, Communist Party, Czechoslovakia, Kundera, 07.02.20 135 people like this. Like Campaign launched for statue of English football’s black trailblazerJuly 1, 2020 at 6:30 AM London (AFP) – Football fans are raising money to erect a statue of Jack Leslie, who was chosen to play for England but dropped when selectors discovered he was black.
The Plymouth player, who had an English mother and a Jamaican father, was called up to the national side in 1925 but the invitation was subsequently withdrawn.
It would be another 53 years until Viv Anderson became England’s first black player.
The Jack Leslie Campaign website said: “We not only want to build a statue as a memor...Tags: England, London, Sport, Bbc, Soccer, United States, Premier League, Manchester United, Arsenal, Plymouth, Black Lives Matter, Anderson, Afp, Czechoslovakia, Leslie, Home Park 71 people like this. Like Pop Culture Imports: ‘Volver,’ ‘A Whisker Away,’ ‘Alice,’ and MoreJune 26, 2020 at 12:00 PM (Welcome to Pop Culture Imports, a column that compiles the best foreign movies and TV streaming right now.)
With businesses re-opening and the sun shining, it’s probably tempting to go out and enjoy the summer right now. And while I can’t tell you what you can or can’t do, I can encourage you to stay at home instead and continue to brush up on your quarantine viewing with some fantastic foreign-language films. This week’s Pop Culture Imports includes a sumptuous Pedro Almodóvar mother-daughter...Tags: Amazon, Japan, Movies, Spain, Features, Chile, Pedro Almodóvar, Lewis Carroll, Penélope Cruz, Madrid, Hulu, Hayao Miyazaki, Alice, Weezer, Garcia, Paula 146 people like this. Like |