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Suffering from amnesia about her pre-Revolutionary childhood, she is raised near Petrograd as an orphan named Anya, rather than being brutally murdered by the Bolsheviks. Indeed, the Fox flick barely mentions that neither Anastasia's parents nor siblings survived the Revolution. Running into a pair of con artists--who, in Fox's twist on history, are looking for an Anastasia impostor to claim the Romanov fortune--Anya leaves cold, miserable Russia and discovers her own identity as Anastasia as everything ends up happy in Paris...
...that much of a babe, and DNA tests proved that the woman widely believed to be Anastasia was not. But animated movies aren't built for lectures; they are supposed to move, and move people. Anastasia comes close to doing that with its coming-of-age tale of the orphan who could be a princess...
...James Albert Michener was an orphan, adopted from the Bucks County, Pa. poorhouse by Mabel Michener, a Quaker widow. From there to Swarthmore, to the Navy, and then to Japan, making a hometown - and a novel - of every place he stopped. "Tales of the South Pacific" was his first, born of his Navy days and published in 1947, when Michener was 40. It won the Pulitzer Prize, was set to music, and became immortal...
...result of the operation was that it helped preserve a threatened species. But because elephants in the wild live in tight-knit groups, the relocation was also a major experiment in social engineering--and like so many such experiments, it has had unexpected consequences. Since 1978, almost 1,500 orphan calves, 600 of them males, have been moved to unfamiliar locations and raised with no exposure to adult elephants or the hierarchical social structure that defines elephant life...
...result may be even more pronounced during the period known as "musth," a time when male elephants' testosterone levels shoot up. Elephants often become aggressive during musth, but in the wild, older bulls usually keep the young ones in line. Not only are the orphan bulls going into musth without chaperones, but their musths seem to start earlier and last longer. The condition usually begins at age 30, but at Pilanesberg some 20-year-old elephants are going into a musth that lasts not the usual few days but as long as three months...