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Quite a double-act: Lillian Hellman and Dashiell Hammett's stormy…
When she met Hammett at a party, he was 36 and famous, the bestselling author of Red Harvest and The Maltese Falcon. Writers make myths out of people's lives, especially their own. And when writers become embroiled with…
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Japan's low-cost space programme pushes the limits
The Hayabusa (Falcon) ended its five-billion-kilometre (three-billion-mile) mission when it burnt up on re-entry over the Australian outback. The past year has seen Japan's space agency JAXA chalk up several world firsts,… -
China opens skies to private air transport
The makers of helicopters and small business jets are predicting a major bump in sales - France's Dassault Falcon just moved its Asia office from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, which it called the new "centre of gravity" for the market. -
Gulliver's Travels, Rob Letterman, 90 mins, (PG)
As a result, he's hailed a hero and spins the little people a lot of big lies about his status at home (in the film's one decent line, he's asked, "Don't you miss your subjects, and the White House, and the Millennium Falcon? - View falcon visually. Visit the NewsWall.
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Gulliver's Travels, Rob Letterman, 90 mins, (PG)
As a result, he's hailed a hero and spins the little people a lot of big lies about his status at home (in the film's one decent line, he's asked, "Don't you miss your subjects, and the White House, and the Millennium Falcon? -
Wildlife's fight for survival in a bitter winter
At Barnes this week, there was also the stunning spectacle of a peregrine falcon sitting at the frozen lake's edge, visible to every other bird. A fox was creeping along the shore of the frozen lake, a quarter of a mile away. -
The 2010 Whitaker’s Almanack Quiz answers
Graphene; 2) 14 peregrine falcon eggs; 3) Static kill; 4) Arsenic; 5) The April; 2) Indonesia; 3) The House of Representatives; 4) Burma (Myanmar); The Dalai Lama; 6) Serbia; 7) Russia and Georgia; 8) Bono; 9) b. -
Lift-off for private space rocket
Space Exploration Technologies' Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral, carrying the company's first Dragon capsule. The Nasa-backed mission is intended to test a new system for delivering cargo – and eventually… -
Mobile data will strain 3G networks to breaking point in 2011
HQ Wireless' forthcoming Star Wars Arcade: Falcon Gunner is likely to be the first of many such titles says Juniper Research.Mobile phone payment systems will start being adopted by mainstream users within the next year as… -
Something To Declare: Bargain of the week, Royal wedding avoidance tactics
Egypt's Sinai Peninsula for £500, with flights from Gatwick, staying at the three-star Falcon Hills. The best deals are likely to be for travelling out on Easter Sunday and back a week later. These are both likely to be…
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Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead, British Museum, London
Every body part had its own matched deity; the sun god, Ra, died at night and was reborn each dawn as a child, or, at times, a scarab; the soul might travel the Earth as a lotus flower or a snake, a swallow, a falcon or the god Ptah. -
Crew use life rafts to escape from blazing ship
A Falcon 50 fixed wing aircraft was scrambled from a French airfield to provide a communications link. All but 13 of the crew on board the factory fishing vessel escaped on life rafts and were picked up by a passing ship. -
Runway unveiled for world's first 'tourist' spaceship
The space ship is 60 feet (18 meters) long and its cabin is similar in size to a Falcon 900 executive jet, "allowing maximum room for the astronauts to float in zero gravity," according to the company. - View falcon visually. Visit the NewsWall.
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Simon MacCorkindale: British actor who played Greg Reardon in the US…
Falcon Crest, the tale of the feuding Channing and Gioberti families in the MacCorkindale forming his own production company, Amy International, with his second wife, the actress Susan George, after turning down a further … -
Online critics post top 100 directorial debuts of all-time
The Maltese Falcon by John Huston"Huston's rock-solid classical technique, exact casting, and carefully transcribed screenplay, lay the groundwork for a film that works with the drive and efficiency of a Formula One engine.