larryfreeman

I love to make recommendations about movies and books. Occasionally, I like to write on other topics including politics, mathematics, and programming.

I've just posted my first math hub .

Please let me know what you think. I am planning to keep adding more.

So, far, I've reviewed the following movies:

*The Darjeeling Limited: A Very Beautiful Journey

*Knocked Up: Some Funny Moments For Mature Audiences

*Kung Fu Panda: A fun family movie

*'Meet the Robinsons: A SciFi Treat for Families

*"My Best Friend" -- Absurd but fun

*"Persepolis": Sad but well worth it

*Southland Tales: A Flawed Tale with Touches of Genius

*Spiderwick Chronicles: Too Scary for the Young Ones

*The Tin Man: If you liked the Wizard of Oz, check this out.

In the Spotlight

A List of Fantasy Films from 1930-1969

A list of fantasy films with description and comments in historical order. This will not include science fiction unless they have a fantasy theme.

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  Fantasy

  A List of Fantasy Films from 1930-1969

  3 years ago

  A list of fantasy films with description and comments in historical order. This will not include science fiction unless they have a fantasy theme.

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  Prehistoric Times

  The Beginnings of Human History, Society, and Culture

  9 years ago

  When does human history begin? If we seek help from anthropology, then we find that the first animals of the homininans appeared in Africa around 6 million years ago and the first Homo sapiens appeared 600,000 to 200,000 years ago, also in Africa. ...

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  Math

  The New Pythagoreans: The Secret Society of Modern Math

  5 years ago

  When I was a child, I remember seeing a Disney short about mathematics called Donald in Mathmagic Land. In it, I learned about the Pythagoreans, a secret math society from Ancient Greece who believed that all the universe consisted of countable...

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  Hairstyles

  Hairstyle: the Story Behind the Beatles Mop Top Haircut

  9 years ago

  Since I'm a Beatles fan, it makes sense for me to write on the hair style that still gets associated with them. The mop top hairstyle gets its name because it reminded the older generation of a wet mop. For me, I associate the mop with Raggedy Ann...

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  owlcation.com

  Ashok: A Short Biography of Ashoka the Great of India

  11 years ago

  According to Wikipedia, H.G. Wells wrote: "In the history of the world there have been thousands of kings and emperors who call themselves "their highnesses," "their majesties", and "their exalted majesties" and so on. They shone for a brief...

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  owlcation.com

  How Long Did the Empires of Ancient Civilizations Last?

  3 months ago

  Recently, I was talking with a colleague at work and I mentioned that civilizations usually only last 500 years. The only problem was that I couldn't remember where I had heard that. In fact, I wasn't all that sure that I was right. I know that the...

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  owlcation.com

  What Is an Example of Civilization?

  3 years ago

  Recently, I was talking to a colleague at work and I mentioned that civilizations tend to last only 500 years. I had heard this somewhere but I couldn't remember where. Of course, to even begin this discussion raises the question of what exactly...

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  Math

  Abel's Proof: A Gentle Introduction to Mathematics

  10 years ago

  Mathematics Can Be Interesting... Really Mathematics is not something that we normally associate with sublime beauty. The way mathematics is taught, it is a subject that many if not most people would prefer to avoid. Just open any Dover math book...