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The most expensive movie ever made was Cleopatra from the 60's having a budget of $290.2 million
Interesting, I think we should let out two internet sites fight it out between them...
# The most expensive film ever made, James Cameron's "Titanic" which cost $200 million, was also the most successful, in the sense that it won 11 Academy Awards equalling "Ben Hur" in 1959. Later, "The Lord Of The Ring; The Return Of The King" also won 11 Oscars.
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# The first film made for the Web was a $3 million 30-minute comedy called "Quantum Project" directed by Eugenio Zanetti in 2000.
# The first film shot entirely on digital cameras was "Star Wars: Attack Of The Clones" directed by George Lucas in 2001.
# A complete feature film is at least 1.5 terabytes which makes it difficult to move around as a whole between different post-production houses, but some 30 companies have come together to develop a wide area network called Sohonet which uses asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) technology to link production houses in the Soho area, outside London, and in Hollywood.
Now that just goes to prove that we must not believe in all we read. Soho isn't outside London at all, it's slap bang in the West End
# The first film shot entirely on digital cameras was "Star Wars: Attack Of The Clones" directed by George Lucas in 2001.
# A complete feature film is at least 1.5 terabytes which makes it difficult to move around as a whole between different post-production houses, but some 30 companies have come together to develop a wide area network called Sohonet which uses asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) technology to link production houses in the Soho area, outside London, and in Hollywood.
Now that just goes to prove that we must not believe in all we read. Soho isn't outside London at all, it's slap bang in the West End
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On my site titanic ranks 3rd most expansive movie made while Superman Returns ranks 2nd with just under $200 million
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On my site titanic ranks 3rd most expansive movie made while Superman Returns ranks 2nd with just under $200 million
I have just questioned the value of the information I am reading and have edited my post above with an addendum... read up.
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The world's first private electronic computer was completed in 1946 at the University of Pennsylvania and called the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator (ENIAC); in one second, it could make 5,000 additions, but it contained no less than 17,468 thermionic valves, it was 8 feet high by 80 feet long, and it weighed 30 tons.
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The Rhodesian Army issued a total of twelve Continuous Serice in the Bush Medals. My dad got one of the twelve and the three guys that served with him got three. Basically they spent their six month tour of duty fishing on a very remote stretch of the Zambezi river. The Driver assumed they'd been changed, because he regularly was and they ddnt bother to correct anyone until their tour was up. The sum total of other people they saw for the six months............. the supply driver every two weeks and two lost fishermen in a canoe
Sometime around 1100ad, Japan was under a serious invasion from Korea.
Koreans numbered in the 100.000s and the Japanese were seriously outnumbered and unprepared for war.
Both attempts to invade occured on beaches and both times there was a miraculous coinsidental stormy weather which had a devastating effect on the Korean approaching ships when they attempted to reach land. Many of their ships was crushed against rocks and most of their men drowned before they reached the shore to battle the japanese. The same thing happened on their second attempt 2-3 years later
After that it was believed Japan was under the protection of a higher might.
Koreans numbered in the 100.000s and the Japanese were seriously outnumbered and unprepared for war.
Both attempts to invade occured on beaches and both times there was a miraculous coinsidental stormy weather which had a devastating effect on the Korean approaching ships when they attempted to reach land. Many of their ships was crushed against rocks and most of their men drowned before they reached the shore to battle the japanese. The same thing happened on their second attempt 2-3 years later
After that it was believed Japan was under the protection of a higher might.
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In late 2002, a 10-strong team of Japanese computer specialists ran a computer program which took five years to design for a a total of 400 hours at the top speed of two trillion calculations a second to work out the value of pi - the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. They calculated the value to 1.2411 trillion places, a figure that would stretch around the world 500 times.
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The increased electricity used by modern appliances is causing a shift in the Earth's magnetic field. By the year 2327, the North Pole will be located in mid-Kansas, while the South Pole will be just off the coast of East Africa.
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Eli Whitney made no money from the cotton gin because he did not have a valid patent on it.
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James J. Ritty, owner of a tavern in Dayton, Ohio, invented the cash register in 1879 to stop his patrons from pilfering house profits.
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Pez was invented in 1927 by Eduard Haas, an Austrian anti-smoking fanatic, who marketed peppermint-flavored PEZ as a cigarette substitute. The candy gets its name from the German word for peppermint, Pfefferminze. Haas brought the candy to the U.S. in 1952. It bombed, so he reintroduced it as a children's toy, complete with cartoon heads and fruity flavors. It's of the most secretive companies in the U.S., they won't even disclose who currently owns the company.
I think it owed by aliens living in Area 52 (the sector next to Area 51) .
I think it owed by aliens living in Area 52 (the sector next to Area 51)
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Seventy per cent of women would rather eat chocolate than have sex....
http://www.joyofcakes.co.uk/images/Gallery/Weddings_MalteserHeaven.jpg
http://www.joyofcakes.co.uk/images/Gallery/Weddings_MalteserHeaven.jpg
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*drool* that picture is making me want to lick my screen! Quite a common occurrence on this site
On the subject of drooling, everyone's tongue print is different.
On the subject of drooling, everyone's tongue print is different.
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What is sex?
It's this fun thing that....mmmm, chocolate....
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How should you refer to a group of cows?
Less than 12 cows are a kine of cows; 12 cows are a flink of cows; and, if it is more than 12, it is called a herd of cows.
Less than 12 cows are a kine of cows; 12 cows are a flink of cows; and, if it is more than 12, it is called a herd of cows.
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What is sex?
Dunno
I think it's what you do with when you run out of chocolate!
or batteries
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For some strange reason I find this post very interesting. I had never considered before that when driving past a field with two or three cows in it I never viewed them as a herd. Then here you produce a mathematical number that defines a specific quantity that constitutes a herd. My mind is now at rest, I can die in peace
Or can I? Does this same formula apply to, say. a flock of sheep and every other animal collective noun? And this is definitely one for those family get-togethers
Some other peculiar animal collective nouns...
A tower of giraffes
An implausibility of gnus
A shrewdness of apes
A flange of baboons
A rhumba of rattlesnakes
The list goes on...
Who the hell decided these?
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For some strange reason I find this post very interesting. I had never considered before that when driving past a field with two or three cows in it I never viewed them as a herd. Then here you produce a mathematical number that defines a specific quantity that constitutes a herd. My mind is now at rest, I can die in peace
Or can I? Does this same formula apply to, say. a flock of sheep and every other animal collective noun? And this is definitely one for those family get-togethers
Some other peculiar animal collective nouns...
A tower of giraffes
An implausibility of gnus
A shrewdness of apes
A flange of baboons
A rhumba of rattlesnakes
The list goes on...
Who the hell decided these?
Speaking as an African,m born and bred, that's rubbish. A collection of Baboons is not known as a Flange. More than one Baboon is generally known as a Nuisance
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