Word: apollos
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Lowell Lecture Hall shook with the vibrations of two subwoofers and flashed under colored lights as a packed audience of more than 350 people swayed in their chairs at Apollo Night, a student variety show hosted by the Black Students Association (BSA) Friday evening...
Bart Sibrel is a familiar breed around Los Angeles: a filmmaker bitter that his work remains overlooked by the public. He spent years on his self-produced documentary A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Moon, in which he contends that nasa staged the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing in the Nevada desert. He sought recognition last week from BUZZ ALDRIN, who flew on the Apollo 11 mission. Aldrin arrived at a Beverly Hills, Calif., hotel expecting to be interviewed for Japanese TV. Instead, he encountered Sibrel brandishing a Bible and demanding that Aldrin swear he had walked...
...best picture the world has ever seen wasn't snapped by a professional photographer but by a man of science, the former U.S. astronaut William Anders. Taken in December 1968 from Apollo 8 - the first manned vehicle in lunar orbit - the image is of the earth rising above the moon's arid, lifeless horizon. Revealing the planet for the first time as a pristine blue and white jewel in the black void of space, the picture became an instant classic, inspiring poets and becoming a symbol of the ecology movement. "It is truly the most beautiful photo ever taken," says...
...been female and Lloyd Webber Indian and single, it could have been the perfect Bollywood film plot. A deal was struck, and Bombay Dreams, composed by Rahman and produced by Lloyd Webber and his Really Useful Group at a reported cost of $7 million, will open at London's Apollo Victoria theater on June...
...country's rich, pre-Islamic heritage. The country is a historian's treasure trove. Between the 3rd and 8th centuries, Afghanistan experienced a fusion of Greek, Persian and Indian cultures. The Bamiyan statues, for example, showed traces of Greek influence, as if the sculptors had stolen the robes off Apollo, the Greek sun god, to drape their enormous Buddhas. "There's a cultural void left by the destruction of the two Buddhas," says Afghan archaeologist Zafar Paiman. "I'm sure that, if the reclining Buddha is found, the people of Bamiyan are ready to protect...