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In 2020, faith and spirituality was a huge part of many of its best animated movies. And not always in the best of ways.

How Wolfwalkers Combines Irish History and Folklore to Create a Tale for Our Times Courtesy of Apple TV+ Mebh (left), drawn with curves, meets Robyn, who’s all straight lines. Completing a trilogy that includes the Oscar-nominated The Secret of Kells and Song of the Sea, Cartoon Saloons latest feature is set in 1650 Ireland, where a young English girl meets a tribe that transforms into wolves. While Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart were co-directing a segment for Salma Hayeks 2014 animated feat...

The famous figures honoured with blue plaques in and around Cambridge Cambridge and its surrounding areas have produced countless famous figures 14:20, 31 JAN 2021 Updated Former PM John Major unveiling the Oliver Cromwell plaque at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge in 2016 Sign up to our newsletter for daily updates and breaking newsInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Sign up here! When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. S...

‘Wolfwalkers’ wraps a story of a unique friendship around troubling Irish history [Los Angeles Times :: BC-MOVIE-WOLFWALKERS:LA] In the 1650s Ireland of “Wolfwalkers,” a city girl from England and a feral “wolfwalker” child become friends as an Oliver Cromwell-type Lord Protector tries to wipe out all wolves in the country. But Irish co-directors Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart have a lot to say under cover of that animated-adventure plot. “Cromwell viewed Ireland as being a wild lan...

Print Collector/Getty Images Winston Churchill once wrote, “We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.” Wise words, as would be expected from such a man. But history is full of kings and governments who have tried just that, no matter how leaky the bucket. 1. Cooking Oil The Pharaohs of ancient Egypt didn’t mess around when it came to taxing their subjects. Tax evasion or inaccurate decl...

Released in theaters on Nov. 13, and then onto streaming platforms Dec. 11, 2020, “Wolfwalkers” is the newest film from the Irish animation studio Cartoon Saloon. It follows young Robyn

Rare gold Cromwell coin sells for world record price of £471,200 at Dix Noonan Webb It had been expected to fetch £100,000 – 150,000 and only 12 specimens are believed to exist, with most being in institutions. LONDON .- An extremely fine and rare Oliver Cromwell 50 shilling gold coin, dating from 1656 by Thomas Simon, who was Cromwell’s chief engraver has sold for a World Record Price of £471,200 today (Thursday, January 21, 2021) by International coins, medals, banknotes and jewellery sp...

BBC News Published image captionThe 50 shilling coin dates from 1656 and features Oliver Cromwell A rare gold coin depicting a portrait of Oliver Cromwell has sold for a world record £471,200 at auction. The 50 shilling piece, dating back to 1656, is one of only 12 in existence, auctioneers Dix Noonan Webb said. It was described as "extremely fine and rare" and had an estimate of £100,000 to £150,000 before going under the hammer. The coin was part of the collection of American-born Marvin L...

a- Heres what our nations legislators have been doing this week—theyve been impeaching President Trump again! Here is a story from British history. There was an English king, Charles the First, of the Stuart dynasty. Our schoolmasters told us that Charles was "cultured, autocratic, and unwise." He was so unwise, the nation fell into a civil war, which Charles lost. The victors chopped his head off in 1649. For the following nine years Britain was a republic, though it preferred to be called a...

Courtesy Of Apple Tv+ INTO THE WOODS A small girl ventures into a big forest and finds a delightfully un-Grimm fairy tale in Cartoon Saloons latest. Our streaming entertainment options are overwhelming — and not always easy to sort through. This week, I watched Wolfwalkers, the fourth feature from acclaimed Irish animation studio Cartoon Saloon, which was profiled in a recent iss...