
Nathan Francis
@NathanFrancis__
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Passionate about #Art and #Culture Interests: #Arts #Comedy #Film #History #Literature #Philosophy #Tech
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Joined May 2013
@ThatEricAlper Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life - Eric Idle / Monty Python https://t.co/LYOSI9LUvh
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#OneBattleAfterAnother #Film #Review – #PaulThomasAnderson’s thrillingly helter-skelter counterculture caper Anderson updates #ThomasPynchon for the era of Ice roundups, pitting shaggy revolutionary #LeonardoDiCaprio against cartoonish forces of reaction https://t.co/bHHFPVXsRw
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Anderson updates Thomas Pynchon for the era of Ice roundups, pitting shaggy revolutionary Leonardo DiCaprio against cartoonish forces of reaction
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Cracked Engineers with 20 years of experience don’t sit on the market long. Here’s how one Series D company hired a veteran backend + AI engineer through Fonzi in just 29 days. 🧵
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📖 #OTD in the #History of #Literature 17 September 1897, #HenryJames' novel WHAT MAISIE KNEW was first published as a single volume book by Heinemann in London. It had been serialized earlier that year in The Chap-Book and the New Review.
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"How can we be happy behind the backs of people who trust us?" 🌹#OTD in #Film #History 17 September 1993, #MartinScorsese's elegant #EdithWharton adaptation "The Age of Innocence," starring #DanielDayLewis, #MichellePfeiffer, and #WinonaRyder, had a limited release in the 🇺🇸
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💻 #OTD in #Computing and #Tech #History 17 September 1991, the open-source #LINUX operating system kernel was first released by #LinusTorvalds.
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"No, Mr Bond, I expect you to die!" 💰 #OTD in #Film #History 17 September 1964, #GuyHamilton's #JamesBond classic GOLDFINGER, starring #SeanConnery, #GertFröbe, and #HonorBlackman, premiered in London.
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“To be always what I am - and so changed from what I was.” 🎭#OTD in #Theatre #History 17 September 1961, #SamuelBeckett's "Happy Days," premiered at the Cherry Lane Theatre, New York; directed by Alan Schneider, with Ruth White as Winnie, and John C. Becher as Willie.
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“The thing is - fear can't hurt you any more than a dream.” 📖#OTD in the #History of #Literature 17 September 1954, Sir #WilliamGolding's "Lord of the Flies" was first published by Faber and Faber in London.
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"We may become the makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets." ✒️ Sir #KarlPopper, Austrian-British political philosopher, #DOTD 17 September 1994. #Politics #Philosophy
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⚒️ #EdmoniaLewis, "Wildfire", American sculptor of mixed #AfricanAmerican and #NativeAmerican race, #DOTD 17 September 1907. #Art #Sculpture
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"We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier." Poems: https://t.co/HokICsW6Lb] ✒ #WalterSavageLandor, English author and poet, #DOTD 17 September 1864. #Poetry #Literature
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"Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall." Poems: https://t.co/o5aPid9L5p] ✒ #TobiasSmollett, Scottish author and poet, #DOTD 17 September 1771. #Poetry #Literature
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"I know that I'm with the best people I can be, and my arsenal of sounds and songs and tracks is as good as it could possibly be. Don't be in a band unless you feel that." 🔥Remembering #KeithFlint, English singer, musician, and dancer (#Prodigy), who was #BOTD 17 September 1969
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"You immerse yourself in it until you are part of the story. That's the only way I know how to work." ✒️ #RobertGraysmith, American Zodiac killer researcher and author, is 83 today. #TrueCrime
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✒️ Remembering #JeffMacNelly, American Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist (Shoe), #BOTD 17 September 1947. #Art #Cartoons
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