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2017 ASEAN Film Festival, 27 March to 07 April 2017

03/24/2017

| Anglais/English/Inglés, Culture, movie

In commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), we wish to invite everyone to the 2017 ASEAN Film Festival, which will be held from 27 March to 7 April 2017 at Cinema (Room XIV), 1/F, Building A (Door 17) of the Palais des Nations. The films will screen at 12:30 p.m. everyday. ASEAN Film Festival Opening Ceremony, 27 March, 11:45 a.m. On Monday, 27 March 2017, the ASEAN Film Festival will have its opening ceremony prior to the screening of…

ANNE BONNY (c.1698 – c.1725s) AN IRISH PIRATE

03/12/2017

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| Anglais/English/Inglés, Ita's World

ANNE BONNY (c.1698 – c.1725s) AN IRISH PIRATE It was common belief among pirates that having women aboard a ship was bad luck. It didn’t prevent a few swashbuckling ladies from joining and even leading bands of buccaneers. Anne Bonny, or Bonney, has been the inspiration for countless stories, books, films, songs and other works. Daniel Defoe (1660-1731), pseudonym Captain Charles Johnson, wrote about her in History of the Pyrates (1724). She is one of seventy-five portraits in Marian…