Shot on a limited budget with amateur actors, it premièred at New York's Museum of Modern Art and met with an enthusiastic reception in Calcutta.

Pather Panchali ( nominated by Dwaipayan) A pioneering Bengali film from 1955 which tells the tale of a family living in poverty, the problems caused by this, and the small joys snatched anyway.

Æthelred cooperated with Alfred in fighting the Vikings, and accepted his lordship, an important step towards the unification of England in the 10th century. Æthelred, Lord of the Mercians ( nominated by Dudley Miles) In the early 9th century, England was divided into several kingdoms, but these were almost all destroyed by the Vikings, and by the end of the century, Wessex was dominant under Alfred the Great.During the Russian Civil War she was captured by the British and used as a prison hulk, was abandoned, recaptured by the Russians in 1919, and was finally scrapped in 1924. She was sold back to the Russians in 1916, upon which time she was renamed the Chesma. Raised by the Japanese and rechristened the Tango after the war, she fought in World War I against the Germans at the Siege of Tsingtao. She served in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–05, where she fought in the Battle of Port Arthur, was damaged in the Battle of the Yellow Sea, and sunk during the Siege of Port Arthur in December 1904. Russian battleship Poltava (1894) ( nominated by Sturmvogel 66) One of the Imperial Russian Navy's three Petropavlovsk-class pre-dreadnought battleships, she was built in the Galernii Island shipyard between 18.This was common at the time, although many such attempts to create constellations are now ignored, such as Frederici Honores, Noctua, or Triangulum Minus. Grus (constellation) ( nominated by Casliber) Another southern constellation, raised to featured status by another of our excellent astronomy team, Grus, the Crane, was actually divided off from Piscis Austrinus, an ancient constellation documented by Ptolemy.A Contract with God ( nominated by Curly Turkey) A cycle of short comics by Will Eisner set around a New York tenement in the Bronx, this book is credited with popularizing the term ' graphic novel'.Founded by a Persian, Dato Mogol, flourished during the reign of his son, who declared independence from the then-rulers of Thailand, the Ayutthaya Kingdom, and was eventually crushed in the reign of Dato's grandson. Sultanate of Singora ( nominated by Singora) A port city in southern Thailand, founded in 1605, and destroyed in 1680, and the predecessor of the modern town of Songkhla.George Robey ( nominated by Cassianto) An English music-hall singer, noted for his performance of the song ' If You Were the Only Girl (In the World)' during the first World War, and for his portrayal of pantomime dames (a British Christmas tradition, related to the Victorian burlesque, which includes a number of crossdressed parts).The article does a good job of explaining this ambiguity. Metalloid ( nominated by Sandbh) This is one of those chemical terms that everyone thinks they've understood after studying it, but, as it is meant to cover things that have properties between metals and nonmetals, can actually be used to cover large swaths more than generally understood by some authors at some times.It illustrates several 'dreamings' (aboriginal legends), with the centre one telling the tale of Lungkata, the creator of the first bushfire. Warlugulong ( nominated by hamiltonstone) A giant painting by Australian aboriginal artist Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri, considered 'one of the most important 20th-century Australian paintings'.Caelum, the chisel, was introduced in the 1750s as part of the early efforts to divide up the newly documented (by Europeans) southern sky into constellations, with many implements of industry, science, and art suddenly appearing in the heavens.

Caelum ( nominated by StringTheory11) We are lucky to have some very good astronomy authors working on the eighty-eight constellations, mainly the ones of the southern sky at the moment.Morchella rufobrunnea ( nominated by Sasata) An edible morel (a type of mushroom) from the west coast of the United States and Mexico, it was only officially described as its own species in 1998, before then being thought to be part of Morchella deliciosa.He later promoted traditional Indonesian art forms, and is credited with saving the lenong theatre. Djajakusuma ( nominated by Crisco 1492) An Indonesian filmmaker who worked in a variety of genres, but specialised in realist or semi-realist films, usually with an educational message buried therein. Yellowhammer ( nominated by Jimfbleak) A small Eurasian bird, with males having a bright yellow head and underparts, it was once extremely common, inspiring works by Robert Burns, Beethoven and Messiaen, among others.

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