Lord Palmerston,Henry Temple,3rd Viscount(1774-1865)
In 1816 while in charge of the War Office, he came under criticism from the radical MP’s for keeping a standing army even after the threat of Bonaparte was long past.Some of the Tories also sided with them and demanded that the military costs should be drastically reduced. Palmerston reminded them that [...]
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One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest-1975
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According to the film critic Roger Ebert ‘The movie’s simplistic approach to mental illness is not really a fault of the movie, because it has no interest in being about insanity. It is about a free spirit in a closed system’. But when Forman-Saentz team who gave us Amadeus have had dealt with Ken Kesey’s [...]
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