American director Steven Spielberg is regarded as a key contributor to the New Hollywood movement and is credited with creating the contemporary blockbuster movie. Is Steven Spielberg a Jew or a Christian? Learn more.
The title of the most financially successful director belongs to Spielberg.
He has won various awards for his work during the course of his career. Steven Spielberg has received four Director Guild of America Awards, two BAFTA Awards, and three Academy Awards. Read More...
Older than both St Petersburg and Stockholm, and easily the largest and grandest of the three Baltic Republic capitals, Riga is the Baltic Sea’s sleeping leviathan. Once hailed as the "Paris of the North" by Graham Greene, the Latvian capital is only now finally starting to enjoy a tourist renaissance, led by a boom in cruise ships.
It is easy to see why savvy cruise passengers are starting to cotton on to a metropolis I’ve been writing about for two decades, an oasis awash with history that is never content to rest on its hard-won laurels. Read More...
• A large, stout cord, usually one not less than an inch in circumference, made of strands twisted or braided together. It differs from cord, line, and string, only in its size. See Cordage. • A row or string consisting of a number of things united, as by braiding, twining, etc.; as, a rope of onions. • The small intestines; as, the ropes of birds. • To be formed into rope; to draw out or extend into a filament or thread, as by means of any glutinous or adhesive quality. Read More...
