It sounds like spring 2024 will be abuzzing as more than a trillion cicadas are expected to appear across the U.S.
For the first time in 221 years, the two groupings of cicadas, brood XIX and XIII, will emerge from the underground in 17 states across the country, according to Fox Weather.
Some of the states that will see both broods in 2024 are Illinois and Indiana.
“Most cicada species come out every year, but in the United States, there are two periodical broods of cicadas that stay underground for either 13 years or 17 years,” Fox Weather reported. Read More...
BLOG February 01, 2017 by Sean Axmaker in Film History D.W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation is inarguably one of the landmarks of American cinema. The distillation of the storytelling techniques, editing ideas, framing and visual composition, and nuanced approaches to performance that Griffith spent years exploring and experimenting within short subjects and mid-length films, it was the longest and most ambitious American film ever made when it was released in 1915 and took American audiences, critics, and filmmakers by storm. Read More...
#Quote1I wrote a play about Charles I when I was twelve. It was surprisingly conventional; he died in the end.2The term artist isn't intelligible to me if it doesn't entail making.3I came here [to Britain] when I was eight. Within minutes, it seems to me, I had no sense of being in an alien land and my feelings for English landscape, English architecture, English character, all this, have just somehow become stronger and stronger. Read More...
