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From their mythical origins to astonishing feats of engineering, an
expertly informed reassessment of one of the great empires of the
Americas: the Inca. In their heyday, the Inca ruled over the
largest land empire in the Americas, reaching the pinnacle of South
American civilization. Known as the "Romans of the Americas," these
fabulous engineers converted the vertiginous, challenging
landscapes of the Andes into a fertile region able to feed
millions, alongside building royal estates such as Machu Picchu and
a 40,000-kilometer-long road network crisscrossed by elegant
braided-rope suspension bridges. Beautifully illustrated, this book
examines the mythical origins and history of the Inca, including
their economy, society, technology, and beliefs. Kevin Lane
reconsiders previous theories while proposing new interpretations
concerning the timeline of Inca expansion, their political
organization, and the role of women in their society while
showcasing how their legacy endures today.
A sure faith and a clear understanding of the Bible is available to
every Believer, not just Pastors and theologians. There is no need
for any of us to be led astray and have our hopes dashed because
they have been built on fallacy. God who cannot lie has breathed
out truth in His Word to us in such a way that we each really can
understand it. We live in an age of unprecedented access to
knowledge yet the popular media thrives by selling us news bites we
seldom verify. Most church goers today get all their theology in 40
minute purpose filled messages on Sunday mornings. Many have almost
no ability to "rightly divide the Word of Truth" and so leave the
deeper things of God and the sure faith they build to be
experienced by only those who have been to seminary. This makes us
easy prey for false teachers, and prophets. Shockingly, it mostly
goes unnoticed that the lost are being inoculated against Eternal
Salvation by false conversion experiences. We need a fail-safe
against all this error and God has given it to us in His Word.
Fallacy lays in wait for every unprepared believer but the Bible
was written to reveal truth to us. Fail-Safe For Fallacy can help
anyone confidently learn this truth directly from the Scriptures.
Every Believer really can cut straight through to the truth God has
given us in His Word instead of being tossed to and fro by the
various doctrines of men. You can know truth, and be sure of it!
A reflection on one of Broadway's most iconic flops, this memoir
follows a musical that featured one of the silver screen's most
powerful personalities. Bette Davis was nominated for twelve
Academy Awards and twice won the Best Actress award, starring in
classics like Jezebel, The Letter, The Little Foxes, All About Eve
and Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, among many more. In 1974, the
living legend agreed to star in Miss Moffat, a musical adaptation
of Emlyn Williams' The Corn in Green. Expectations were high, but
Miss Moffat opened and then abruptly closed, leading theatre
gossips to speculate on what went wrong. Early in his career, Kevin
Lane Dearinger, a young actor who had recently relocated to New
York, landed a minor role in Miss Moffat. Inexperienced and unsure
of himself, he kept a journal of his observations and experiences
throughout production. He observed the older and more seasoned Miss
Davis, who seemed determined to remain clear-headed despite the
unfolding calamity. In this book, Dearinger revisits his journal to
reflect on his own life, a fated stage production, his experience
with an entertainment legend and a bygone era of Broadway.
Clyde Fitch (1865-1909) was the most successful and prolific
dramatist of his time, producing nearly sixty plays in a
twenty-year career. He wrote witty comedies, chaotic farces,
homespun dramas, star vehicles, historical works, stark melodramas,
and adaptations of European successes, but he was best known for
his society plays, mirroring themes found in the novels of Henry
James and Edith Wharton. In fact, Fitch collaborated with Wharton
on a stage adaptation of her House of Mirth. He was also a gay man,
although that gentler adjective was not the term of his time. He
was bullied in school and baited by critics throughout his career
for what they supposed of his private life. He responded with
impressive strength and integrity. He was, at least for a short
time, Oscar Wilde's lover, and Wilde influenced his early plays,
but Fitch's study of Ibsen and other European dramatists inspired
him to pursue the course of naturalism. As he became more
successful, he took greater control of the staging and design of
his plays. He was a complete man of the theatre and among the first
names enrolled in New York's theatrical hall of fame.
Lexington, Kentucky, has been called the cradle of the legitimate
theatre west of the Appalachians since the opening of its first
theatre in 1808. Not long after that opening, a fledgling resident
acting company presented Macbeth, the town's first professional
production of a Shakespearean play. Since then, the local and
traveling stars committed to drama drove Lexington's live
theatrical glamour to thrive impressively into the twentieth
century. Many of the actors who performed in Lexington in the plays
of Shakespeare have been forgotten, but their vivid personalities
and devotion to their art were once an integral part of American
popular culture. The history of their careers and their lives is an
important part of theatre history, of Kentucky history, and of
American history. This study presents detailed accounts of
individual actors in the order of their first appearances in
Lexington. Early chapters explore the range of exposure to
Shakespeare's plays and players experienced by the town of
Lexington and investigate the cultural climate that affected and
was affected by that experience. Because Lexington's theatrical
history provides a template for what so many mid-American towns
experienced in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a
section of the book explores how hundreds of American cities
connected by the early turnpikes and railroads constituted a
community of theatre towns that cherished Shakespeare as a keystone
of American culture. Remaining chapters are devoted to the lives
and careers of the inspiring performers who brought Shakespeare's
words to life over the centuries. Reviews published in Lexington,
supplemented with details from newspapers of New York and other
cities, have provided source material. In addition, theatrical
biographies, histories, historical photographs, programs,
advertisements, theatrical journals, scrapbooks, film, and even
primitive sound recordings are examined in an attempt to
reconstruct something of what Lexington saw and heard of
Shakespeare on its local stages.
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