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The living fish swims in water "The living fish swims in water" is the English language translation of a complete sentence, which, in the three most widely-spoken Finno-Ugric languages of Finnish, Estonian and Hungarian, is recognizable as being of common origin, and traceable to the common ancestor of the three languages. The Estonian philologist Mall Hellam, who discovered the sentence, has even claimed mutual intelligibility.
The lynching in Ramallah On October 12, 2000, two Israeli soldiers (Vadim Nurzhitz and Yossi AvrahamiVadim Nurzhitz, , ; Yossi Avrahami, ), entered Ramallah and were arrested by the Palestinian Authority police. According the Israeli sources, the men were reservists, who on their way to reporting for duty entered Ramallah by mistake; Palestinian sources claimed that the men were armed and "dressed in civilian clothes, apparently on an undercover operation"CNN: Israel fires into Ramallah, seals Palestinian areas, but their bodies in military uniform can be seen in photographsRamallah lynching photographs (the name of Vadim Nurzhitz is misspelled) and in video footage broadcast later on the TV.
The L Magazine The L Magazine is a bi-weekly city guide for New York City, focusing on the downtown neighborhoods of Manhattan and Brooklyn; its style is based on similar magazines such as Pariscope Magazine of Paris, France. The first issue was published in April of 2003.
The L-Shaped Room The L-Shaped Room is a 1962 film, directed by Bryan Forbes, which tells the story of a young French woman, unmarried and pregnant, who moves into a London apartment building, befriending a young man in the building. It stars Leslie Caron and Tom Bell.
The Lab (band) The Lab were an Australian Sydney-based electronic music band consisting of keyboardist Paul Mac, vocalist Yolanda Podolski and vocalist and bassist Warwick Factor. They formed in the early 1990s and initially recorded on the rooArt label.
The Laboratory of Art and Ideas at Belmar The Laboratory of Art and Ideas at Belmar is a unique contemporary art institution located just outside of Denver, Colorado. Founded by Executive Director Adam Lerner, The Lab at Belmar is the cultural anchor of the Belmar district, a 104-acre mixed-use residential and commercial urban neighborhood located in Lakewood, five miles outside of Denver.
The Labour Charter of 1927 The Charter of Labour of 1927 was just one of the mainly legislations Mussolini, the Italian Fascist dictator 1922-43, introduced in his attempts to modernise the Italian economy. The Charter declared private enterprise to be the most efficient, thus helping Mussolini to confirm the support of the rich industrialists who were the initial backers of Fascism.
The Labour Church The Labour Church was an organization intended to give expression to the religion of the labor movement. This religion is not theological but leaves the theological for the individual to consider and contemplate.
The Labours of Hercules The Labours of Hercules is a short story collection written by Agatha Christie. It features Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, and gives an account of twelve cases with which he intends to close his career as a private detective.
The Labrats The Labrats were a post punk power trio formed in Sydney Australia in 1986 by former members of the heavy rock group Ironheart. Following Ironheart's disbanding in 1986, the instrumental elements of the band, namely John Botica (guitar), Brendon Venner (drums) and Mark O'Connor (bass guitar) made a calculated foray into the Sydney innercity power-pop scene, seeing Botica taking over the band's lead vocals as well as guitar, something he hadn't done for several years since his first high school band called 'Bad News' some ten years prior.
The Labyrinth of Solitude The Labyrinth of Solitude (Spanish: El Laberinto de la soledad) is an essay, published in 1950, written by the Mexican author and poet, Octavio Paz. The book is a reflection on Mexican history and identity that critically analyses Mexican society from its historical base, its relationships with other cultures, and its collective character.
The Labyrinth Plus! Edition The Labyrinth Plus! Edition, made by NonStop Entertainment, is a 3-D maze puzzle in which the objective of the game is to get a ball to the end of a maze, using dots on the board to guide you around the obstacles.
The Lace Curtain The Lace Curtain was an occasional literary magazine founded and edited by Michael Smith and Trevor Joyce under their New Writers Press imprint. Both press and journal were dedicated to expanding the horizons of Irish poetry by rediscovering a native modernist tradition, publishing younger Irish poets who were working in modes that sat outside the mainstream and introducing innovative non-Irish writing to an Irish audience.
The Lacquer Screen The Lacquer Screen is a detective novel writen by Robert van Gulik and set in Imperial China (rougly speaking the Tang Dynasty). It is a fiction based on the real character of Judge Dee (Ti Jen-chieh or Di Renjie), a magistrate and statesman of the Tang court, who lived roughly 630–700.
The Ladder of Divine Ascent The Ladder of Divine Ascent or Ladder of Paradise (Κλίμαξ; Scala or Climax Paradisi) is an important work for monasticism in Eastern Christianity, composed by John Climacus in ca. AD 600, at the request of John, Abbot of Raithu, a monastery situated on the shores of the Red Sea.
The Laden Showroom The Laden Showroom is widely considered as London's leading showroom and store that promotes and supports young and independent fashion designers. Time Out Magazine described the store as "a font of experimental design".
The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories (ISBN 0-7475-8703-5) is a collection of 8 short stories, some of which are set in the same world as the novel of magic, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell. It is Susanna Clarke's second book, although some of the stories were previously published in anthologies such as Patrick Nielsen Hayden's Starlight 1"Susanna Clarke's Magic Book" By John Hodgman at BookBitchBlog.
The Ladies of Missalonghi The Ladies of Missalonghi is a 1987 short novel by Australian writer Colleen McCullough commissioned for the Hutchinson Novellas series and published in the United States in the Harper Short Novel series. Set in the small town of Byron in the Blue Mountains of Australia in the years just before World War I, the novel is the story of Missy Wright and the Hurlingford family.
The Ladies' Defence The Ladies' Defence, Or, a Dialogue Between Sir John Brute, Sir William Loveall, Melissa, and a Parson, is an essay in verse published by Lady Mary Chudleigh in 1701. The piece was written in response to a wedding sermon, The Bride-Woman's Counselor, published by the minister John Sprint in 1700.
The Lads of Wamphray The Lads of Wamphray is Child ballad 184, existing in fragmentary form. According to Walter Scott and others, the ballad concerns a 16th century feud between reiving families from Wamphray in the Scottish Borders.
The Lady and the Monster The Lady and the Monster is a 1944 film, based on the horror novel Donovan's Brain by Curt Siodmak. It is about the attempts to keep alive the brain of a multimillionaire after his death, only to create a telepathic monster.
The Lady and the Unicorn The Lady and the Unicorn (French: La dame Ă  la licorne) is the title of a cycle of French tapestries often considered one of the greatest works of art of the Middle Ages in Europe. They are estimated to have been woven in the late 15th century (c.
The Lady in the Morgue The Lady in the Morgue (1936) is one of the novels by Jonathan Latimer featuring private detective William Crane. The lady of the title is a female corpse which is stolen from a Chicago morgue before the dead woman's identity can be established.
The Lady of Pleasure The Lady of Pleasure is a Caroline era comedy of manners written by James Shirley, first published in 1637. It has often been cited as among the best, and sometimes as the single best, the "most brilliant," of the dramatist's comic works.
The Lady of Shalott "The Lady of Shalott" is a romantic poem by the English poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892). Like other early poems— "Sir Lancelot and Queen Guinevere," and "Galahad"— the poem recasts Arthurian subject matter loosely based on medieval sources and takes up some themes that would become more fully realized in Idylls of the King where the tale of Elaine is recounted.
The Lady of the Sorrows The Lady of the Sorrows is the second book in The Bitterbynde Trilogy. It is preceded by The Ill-Made Mute and followed by the last book in the trilogy; Battle of the Evernight, which closes the trilogy with a quiet peace and content.
The Lagoon The Lagoon is a short story by Joseph Conrad composed in 1896 and first published in Cornhill Magazine in 1897. The story is about Arsat, a Malay travelling through an Indonesian rainforest with a sick woman in a small boat.
The Lais of Marie de France The Lais of Marie de France are a series of twelve short narrative poems in Anglo-Norman, generally focused on glorifying the concepts of courtly love through the adventures of their main characters. Little is known of their author, Marie, but she is said to be born in France, which is how she is known, and lived in England when the lais were written in the late 12th century.
The Lake The Lake was a British play written by Dorothy Massingham and Murray MacDonald. It debuted on Broadway at the Martin Beck Theatre on December 26, 1933 and was one of acting legend Katharine Hepburn's first major Broadway roles.
The Lake (novel) The Lake is a 1984 novel by Japanese Nobel laureate Yasunari Kawabata. This book tells the story of a former schoolteacher named Gimpei Momoi, with recurring memories of a lake from his hometown, and his interactions with a number of women including his student, Hisako.
The Lake District Peninsulas The Lake District Peninsulas is a neologism used by a quango to promote part of the Furness area of north-west England. Specifically it refers to the Furness Peninsula, or Low Furness, and the Cartmel Peninsula.
The Lake of Souls The Lake of Souls is the 10th book in The Saga of Darren Shan and is also the first in the 4th and final trilogy in 'The Saga' called The Vampire Destiny Trilogy. It reveals a lot about the character of Harkat Mulds mainly and introduces a new character called Spits Abrams.
The Lakes College The Lakes College (TLC) is a joint initiative of the Anglican Church of Australia and the Uniting Church in Australia. It is operated by EDUCANG Limited along with Forest Lake College, Mary McConnel School, The FLC International Centre, and The Springfield College.
The Lama Foundation The Lama Foundation is a community located on a mountain north of Taos. The residents and visitors tend to have a shared interest in spirituality, although the community is not affiliated with one particular faith.
The Lamb (island) The Lamb, sometimes called Lamb Island, is a small, uninhabited island between the islands of Fidra and Craigleith in the Firth of Forth, off the south-east coast of Scotland. The Lamb can be reached by boat from North Berwick, although there are no landing facilities and little to attract visitors when compared to Fidra and the Bass Rock.
The Lampies The Lampies was a children's television series, based on fictional engineers who must defend the lighting network against being turned off which darkens the world. The series was created by Dave Bonner and features a mixture of 2D and 3D animation.
The Lanarkshire Yeomanry The Warwickshire Yeomanry was a yeomanry regiment of the British Army, first raised in 1794, which served as a dismounted infantry regiment in the First World War and provided two field artillery regiments in the Second World War, before being amalgamated into The Queen's Own Warwickshire and Worcestershire Yeomanry in 1956.
The Lance Krall Show The Lance Krall Show is a 30-minute comedy television show featuring sketches and on-the-street interaction starring Lance Krall, who gained recognition through his popular character Kip on The Joe Schmo Show. The Lance Krall Show aired on Spike TV Mondays at 11:05 pm, with encores Thursdays at 11:05 pm.
The Lancer Society Since its founding in 1934, The Lancer Society has been bringing the men of Whittier an opportunity for brotherhood. Always strong concerning the values of its Quaker tradition, it has strived to aid the incoming students as well as the returning students, the community, and the college, in any way that it can.
The Land (Disney) The Land is the name of a pavilion that sits on the western side of "Future World", one of two themed areas of Epcot, a theme park at the Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida USA. It opened on October 1, 1982 as part of the Phase I features for the grand opening of what was then known as EPCOT Center.
The Land (song) The Land is a protest song, traditionally sung by the Georgist movement in pursuit and promotion of land value taxation. Until the late 1970s it was sung at the end of each year's Liberal Assembly and remains until this day the party anthem of the Liberal Party, as well as the traditional first song of the Liberal Democrats' Glee Club.
The Land Conservancy TLC The Land Conservancy of British Columbia (commonly abbreviated to TLC) is a not-for-profit, charitable land trust based in British Columbia, Canada. It was formed in 1997, with strong influences from The National Trust of England, Ireland and Wales, with whom it partakes in staff exchanges.
The Land of Foam The Land of Foam also known as At the Edge of Oikoumene (Russian: На краю Ойкумены, Na krayu Oikumeny) and Great Arc (Великая Дуга, Velikaya Duga) is a novel written by the Soviet writer Ivan Yefremov in 1946.
The Land of Nod The Land of Nod is a leading catalog, web and retail store company, based in Northbrook, Illinois, specializing in children's furniture, bedding and accessories. The company designs the majority of their items themselves.
The Land of the Mountain and the Flood The Land of the Mountain and the Flood is an overture for orchestra, composed by Hamish MacCunn in 1887. Often cited as the archetypal Scottish overture, it is frequently likened to the works of Sir Walter Scott in its unashamedly lyrical, romantic view of the Scottish landscape.
The Landlord The Landlord is a 1970 film directed by Hal Ashby, which was based on the novel by Kristin Hunter. The story centers around an insensitive and privileged 29 year old man named Elgar Enders, played by Beau Bridges.
The Landmark (Hong Kong) The Landmark (置地廣場) is an office and shopping development owned by Hong Kong Land in Central, Hong Kong. It is commonly known as the home of numerous prestigious international brands and the gathering place of well-heeled shoppers.
The Landmark Theatre The Landmark Theatre is an award winning theatre in the North Devon coastal town of Ilfracombe. Of unusual (even controversial) double conical design, it is locally referred to as Madonna's Bra, a reference to its shape and that of an iconic brassiere worn by the singer Madonna.
The Landscape of Truth The Landscape of Truth: A Sound Biblical Doctrine for the True Worshippers is the theological, doctrinal treatise used by the True Worshipper Ecclesiastical Association (TWEA). The work is authored by the Senior Minister of the association, Derick Mckinnely Fuller, who worked for a major NASA contractor as a mechanical drafter/designer.
The Langley Schools Music Project The Langley Schools Music Project is a collection of children's chorus recordings made from 1976-77 by Canadian music teacher Hans Fenger in a school gymnasium in Langley, British Columbia, near Vancouver. The students performed unique versions of pop hits by the likes of The Beach Boys, David Bowie, and Paul McCartney.
The Language Conservancy The Language Conservancy is a nonprofit organization that provides language revitalization support to the world's endangered languages, restoring them to health and stability, and safeguarding them for future generations. It supports several ongoing language restoration efforts through it affiliate organizations, including the Lakota language and the Hidatsa language.
The Language of Fear The Language of Fear is the first book by author and journalist Del James. It has 339 pages and is a collection of short dark fiction stories released in 1995 by Dell Books, a division of Bantam Doubleday Publishing, part of the "Abyss" line of psychological horror.
The Language of the Genes The Language Of The Genes is a popular-science book by Steve Jones about genetics and Evolution (ISBN 0-385-47428-8). The book introduces all different aspects of genetics and molecular biology, and the new editions contain information about the frontiers of the field, such as the Human Genome Project.
The Language Police The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn is a 2003 book by Diane Ravitch that details the role bias and sensitivity guidelines play in determining the content of standardized tests. According to Ravitch, groups on both ends of the political spectrum try to influence what is being taught to children; the Right removes references to subjects such as evolution, while the Left makes sure all minority groups are represented equally.
The Languages of Africa The Languages of Africa is a seminal 1963 book of essays by Joseph Greenberg, in which he sets forth a genetic classification of African languages that, with some changes, continues to be the most commonly used one today. It is an expanded and extensively revised version of his 1955 work Studies in African Linguistic Classification, which was itself a compilation of eight articles which Greenberg had published in the Southwestern Journal of Anthropology between 1949 and 1954.
The Lantern Bearers (Sutcliff novel) The Lantern Bearers is a historical adventure novel for children written by Rosemary Sutcliff and published in 1959, with illustrations by Charles Keeping. Set in Roman Britain in the 400s, it is the story of a British Roman's life after the final withdrawal of Roman troops from Britain.
The Laramie Project The Laramie Project is a play by Moisés Kaufman and members of the Tectonic Theater Project about the reaction to the 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard in Laramie, Wyoming, widely considered to be a hate crime motivated by homophobia. The play draws on over 200 interviews conducted by the theater company with inhabitants of the town, company members' own journal entries, and published news reports.
The Lark Ascending The Lark Ascending is a popular musical piece featuring a prominent solo violin part, written by the famous British composer Ralph Vaughan Williams in 1914. It is intended to convey the lyrical and almost eternally English beauty of the scene in which a skylark rises into the heavens above some sunny down and attains such height that it becomes barely visible to those on the ground below.
The Last The Last is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It is part of the "Divergent Universe" saga which continued until The Next Life.
The Last Albatross The Last Albatross is the first book in Ian Irvine's Eco-thriller titles. Set in the near future (2010) this novel is slightly too close to reality for comfort- it depicts a clear picture of what our world might be like in a few years time focusing clearly on environmental depletion and cultural degeneration.
The Last Angel Of History The Last Angel of History is a 45 minute 1996 documentary that deals with concepts of Afrofuturism as a metaphor for the displacement of black culture and roots. The film bases its concepts around George Clinton's Mothership Connection and features interviews with George Clinton, Derrick May, Stephen R.
The Last Article "The Last Article", a short story by Harry Turtledove, is an alternative history tale that describes a Nazi invasion of India and the reaction of the Germans to the non-violent resistance and pacifism of Gandhi and his followers.
The Last Ball in November The Last Ball in November (Romanian: Noiembrie, ultimul bal) is a 1989 Romanian film directed by Romanian director Dan Pita and based on a novel by Mihail Sadoveanu entitled Locul unde nu s'a întâmplat nimic.
The Last Beat of My Heart "The Last Beat of My Heart" is a song written, produced and recorded by English rock band Siouxsie & the Banshees. It was released in late 1988 as the third and final single from the band's ninth studio album Peepshow.
The Last Best Year The Last Best Year is a drama, concerning a lonely woman who discovers that she has a terminal illness. This made-for-television movie co-starred Mary Tyler Moore and Bernadette Peters, two actresses known for playing comedic roles.
The Last Blade The Last Blade (幕末浪漫　月華の剣士: Bakumatsu Roman Gekka no Kenshi which roughy tranlates as "Bakumatsu Romance The Swordsman of Moon Flower"), or LB for short, is a fighting game series created by SNK for the Neo-Geo arcade and home system.
The Last Bounty Hunter The Last Bounty Hunter is a live-action laserdisc video game released by American Laser Games in 1994. Like almost all of the games produced by the now-defunct company, it was a rail shooter and, like the two installments in the Mad Dog McCree series before it, was set in the Old West.
The Last Boy Scout The Last Boy Scout is a 1991 action movie starring Bruce Willis as a former Secret Service agent—now working as a private detective—and Damon Wayans as a retired professional football player, who join forces to solve the murder of the football player’s girlfriend. The movie was produced by Warner Bros.
The Last Communist The Last Communist (Malay: Lelaki Komunis Terahkir) is a 2006 Malaysian film described by director Amir Muhammad as a "semi-musical documentary". It is inspired by the leader of the disbanded Malayan Communist Party, Chin Peng and the Malayan Emergency during which more than 10,000 Malayan and British troops and civilians lost their lives.
The Last Continent The Last Continent is the twenty-second Discworld novel by Terry Pratchett, first published in 1998, that parodies Australian people and culture, as well as the famous Crocodile Dundee and Mad Max movies and the popular Australian song Waltzing Matilda.
The Last Days (film) Birmingham native Eric Bryan is, admittedly, fascinated by World War Two. That fascination led Bryan to begin writing the screenplay for what he thought would be a five-minute short dealing with a group of American G.
The Last Days of Pompeii The Last Days of Pompeii was written by Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1834. Once a very widely read book, and now relatively neglected, it culminates in the cataclysmic destruction of the city of Pompeii by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.
The Last Detail The Last Detail (1973) is a comedy-drama film which tells the story of two United States Navy lifers who are assigned shore patrol duty to transport a young sailor to Portsmouth Naval Prison. On their journey to Portsmouth the prisoner, Meadows, begins to grow on the two sailors and they decide to show him a good time before serving his unjust sentence of eight years.
The Last Dispatch (documentary) The Last Dispatch is a documentary film overviewing and giving greater insight into the final days of the indie rock band Dispatch, which culminated with two final live concerts. The first concert took place at the Somerville Theatre to an exclusive crowd.
The Last Dragon (album) Sisqo's third solo album set for release in spring 2007. Production comes from a mix between upcoming producers and established producers such as SisqĂł, Nokio the N-Tity, Brian Turner, Dudley, and the Beat Bangers.
The Last Dragon (docudrama) The Last Dragon is a docudrama made by Animal Planet that is described as the story of "the greatest creature that never existed". It shows the evolution of dragons and projects what life might have been like if they had existed and evolved.
The Last Dragonlord The Last Dragonlord is the first in a series of books written by Joanne Bertin. It takes place in a world of truehumans, truedragons, and dragonlords - beings which have both human and dragon souls and can change from human to dragon and vice versa at will.
The Last Drive The Last Drive were a Greek garage revival rock group which formed in 1983 and broke up in 1995. They are regarded by many as the most important Greek rock group of the 80's and one of the most important and influential groups of Greek rock history.
The Last Few Bricks "The Last Few Bricks" is an instrumental bridge/[used by Pink Floyd] and [[Roger Waters at The Wall live shows, between "Another Brick in the Wall (Part III)" and "Goodbye Cruel World".
The Last Five Years The Last Five Years is a one act musical written by Jason Robert Brown and produced off-Broadway in March of 2002. It explores the five-year relationship between Jamie, a rising novelist, and Cathy, a struggling actress.
The Last Full Measure The Last Full Measure (published May 19, 1998 by Ballantine Books; ISBN 0-345-40491-2) is the sequel to The Killer Angels and Gods and Generals. Together, the three novels complete an American Civil War trilogy relating events from 1858 up to the end of the war.
The Last Full Measure (2004 movie) The Last Full Measure is a 2004 short film written and directed by Alexandra Kerry. Set in 1973, during the Vietnam War, it explores the emotions of a nine-year-old girl awaiting her father's return from the war.
The Last Good Day The Last Good Day is the fourth episode of season two of Tru Calling. A distraught Jack turns to Tru's father for advice when he faces an unsettling and unusual situation: a girl he likes commits suicide and then asks him for help.
The Last Goodbye The Last Goodbye is a demo album by Edison which was released on December 10, 2004. It was only sold for one show, where the band announced that they were signed to Credential Recordings and consequently had to change their name to Edison Glass.
The Last Heathen The Last Heathen: Encounters with Ghosts and Ancestors in Melanesia is a book by Charles Montgomery, published in Canada by Douglas and McIntyre in 2004. In 2006, it was published by HarperCollins as The Shark God in the United States.
The Last Hero The Last Hero is a short novel, the twenty-seventh of the Discworld series by Terry Pratchett. It was published in 2001 in a larger format than the other Discworld novels and illustrated on every page by Paul Kidby.
The Last Hero (The Saint) The Last Hero is the title of a mystery novel by Leslie Charteris that was first published in the United Kingdom in 1930 by Hodder and Stoughton and in the United States in 1931 by The Crime Club. The story was initially serialized in 1929 in a British magazine.
The Last Hero (TV series) The Last Hero (Russian: "Последний герой") is a Russian reality television series consisted of five seasons, aired on the First Channel. It was the second Russian reality show preceded by Behind the Glass.
The Last Chancers The Last Chancers was originally a one-off television sitcom, screened under the Comedy Lab banner at 11:40pm on Thursday 21 November 2002. This show was later developed into a five part series which was broadcast on E4 in December 2002.
The Last Judgement (book) The Last Judgement is one of the last of William Blake's prophetic books, a series of texts written in imitation of biblical books of prophecy, but expressing Blake's own intensely personal Romantic and revolutionary beliefs. Unlike his other books it was not illustrated.
The Last Judgment (Memling) The Last Judgement, found in the National Museum in Gdańsk in Poland, is a triptych attributed to Hans Memling and was painted between 1467 and 1471. It was commissioned by an agent of the Medici at Bruges but was captured by a privateer from Danzig.
The Last Judgment (Michelangelo) The Last Judgment is a painting by Michelangelo located in the Sistine Chapel (Vatican City), above the altar. It took six years to complete (Michelangelo began working on it three decades after finishing the ceiling of the Chapel).
The Last King of Scotland The Last King of Scotland is an award-winning first novel by journalist Giles Foden. A UK film adaptation starring Forrest Whitaker as Ugandan dictator Idi Amin (a performance for which Whitaker won a Golden Globe) was released in the U.
The Last King of Scotland (film) The Last King of Scotland is an Academy Award-nominated 2006 British film based on Giles Foden's award-winning debut novel of the same name. It was adapted by screenwriters Peter Morgan and Jeremy Brock, and directed by Kevin MacDonald.
The Last Man on Earth The Last Man on Earth (originally titled L'Ultimo uomo della Terra) is a 1964 film based upon the Richard Matheson novel I Am Legend. It was originally released theatrically in the United States by American International Pictures.
The Last Metro The Last Metro (original French title: Le Dernier Métro) is a 1980 film written and directed by the French filmmaker François Truffaut, and starring Catherine Deneuve and Gérard Depardieu. Set during the German occupation of Paris during the Second World War, it tells the story of a Jewish theatre director and his gentile wife, who struggles to keep him concealed from the Nazis in their cellar while she performs his former job.
The Last Mile The Last Mile is a short (15 minute) comedy-drama written by Terrence McNally for Public television's Great Performances 20th Anniversary Special (1992). The play, directed by Paul Bogart, is set backstage at the Metropolitan Opera House as a soprano (Bernadette Peters) is getting ready to make her Met debut in the opera Tosca.
The Last Mimzy The Last Mimzy is an upcoming science fiction film, being released on March 23, 2007 based on the short story "Mimsy were the Borogoves" by Henry Kuttner. The film is rated PG for some thematic elements, mild peril and language.
The Last Ninja The Last Ninja is an action-adventure computer game that was developed and published by System 3 in 1987 for the Commodore 64. As the first in The Last Ninja Series, it set the standard for the unique look and feel for its sequels; Last Ninja 2: Back with a Vengeance (1988), Last Ninja Remix (1990) and Last Ninja 3: Real Hatred is Timeless (1991).
The Last of Sheila The Last of Sheila is a 1973 film directed by Herbert Ross, written by Anthony Perkins and Stephen Sondheim, and starring Richard Benjamin, Dyan Cannon, James Coburn, James Mason, Ian McShane, Joan Hackett, and Raquel Welch.

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