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"I want to present Cleopatra to the World," Lady Stanhope sighed and reached for her purse. Two very young and inexperienced detectives, Flinders Petrie and Thomas Pettigrew, were unexpectedly presented with the case of a lifetime. Flinders and Pettigrew, recent graduates of Oxford and rivals of Sherlock Holmes and John Watson, suddenly find themselves confronted with the task of finding Cleopatra's tomb. The tomb's location, as they quickly discovered,...
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Ein Silvesterabend in New York: Cleo, Mitte zwanzig, britische Kunststudentin, Bohémienne a.k.a. ewig pleite, trifft Frank, Mitte vierzig, Amerikaner, Inhaber einer Werbeagentur und ungleich gesettleter, im Aufzug einer Partylocation. Es ist die vielbeschworene Liebe auf den ersten Blick. Hals über Kopf stürzen Cleo und Frank sich eine amour fou, mit der sie selbst kaum Schritt halten können - geschweige denn die, die ihnen nahestehen.
Eine absolut...
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The Summer My Sister Was Cleopatra Moon is an emotionally charged, cautionary tale about alienation and the spiritual deformity that ensues when it feels like the whole world hates you. In the summer of '76, with no other Koreans in Glover, Virginia, fourteen-year-old Marcy Moon idolizes her irreverent big sister Cleo, who has her pick of lovers and uses her sexuality to prevail against racism. In Marcy's eyes, every guy would cut off his ponytail,...
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Team X-Treme, Folge 11
S.O.S. Cleopatra - Hörspiel
Als Dank für seine Rettung spendiert Sandys Vater dem Team eine Reise auf der Hochseejacht "Cleopatra". Was harmlos beginnt, entwickelt sich zusehends zum Albtraum - denn zum einen verdreht Sandy Kyle gehörig den Kopf, und zum anderen befindet sich jemand an Bord, der den Teammitgliedern nach dem Leben trachtet ...
9) Sex and the City of Ladies: Rewriting History with Cleopatra, Lucrezia Borgia and Catherine the G
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In 1450 Christine de Pisan took up the pen to defend her maligned sex. Her book, , was built around preserving women's reputations from the slights and misunderstandings of history. In it the author is visited by three spirits — Justice, Rectitude and Reason — who guide her in sifting through countless lives, in search of worthy citizens. Nearly 600 years later, the historian and novelist Lisa Hilton picks up the book and promptly falls asleep,...
12) The black mass
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[2024]
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Inspired by real events, this film Mass is set over a 24-hour period in Florida during the winter of 1978 when a serial killer was stalking college girls.
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2024.
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"Discover the work of the greatest writer in the English language as you've never encountered it before by pre-ordering internationally renowned actor Dame Judi Dench's SHAKESPEARE: The Man Who Pays The Rent - a witty, insightful journey through the plays and tales of our beloved Shakespeare. Taking a curtain call with a live snake in her wig... Cavorting naked through the Warwickshire countryside painted green... Acting opposite a child with a pumpkin...
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