Washington, D.C. is home to a lot of impressive architecture. Did you know that one of the gargoyles of the National Cathedral is Darth Vader?
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‘The Life of Pi’, a novel written by Canadian author Yann Martel, was rejected by more than five publication houses before it was finally accepted. In 2001, it was finally published and won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction. It also won the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature in Best Adult Fiction. Over ten million copies of the novel have been sold worldwide.
The Dutch city of Utrecht celebrated George Orwell’s 110th birthday by putting party hats on surveillance cameras. Pretty clever, huh?
Set designers spent a lot of money on Frasier Crane’s apartment in the TV series Frasier. The chic Seattle apartment cost nearly half a million dollars! A staggering $15,000 was spent on the couch alone, a replica of Coco Chanel’s couch. Let's hope that Martin’s recliner was slightly less expensive.
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‘The Life of Pi’, a novel written by Canadian author Yann Martel, was rejected by more than five publication houses before it was finally accepted. In 2001, it was finally published and won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction. It also won the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature in Best Adult Fiction. Over ten million copies of the novel have been sold worldwide.
The Dutch city of Utrecht celebrated George Orwell’s 110th birthday by putting party hats on surveillance cameras. Pretty clever, huh?
Set designers spent a lot of money on Frasier Crane’s apartment in the TV series Frasier. The chic Seattle apartment cost nearly half a million dollars! A staggering $15,000 was spent on the couch alone, a replica of Coco Chanel’s couch. Let's hope that Martin’s recliner was slightly less expensive.
The James Bond franchise is littered with characters that have telling names. “Auric Goldfinger” might be a bit on the nose, but did you know that “Raoul Silva”, the villain from “Skyfall”, is an anagram of “a rival soul”? Not to mention some of the Bond girls’ names which we couldn’t even list here without getting blocked for obscenity...
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