State of the Bible | Pirates of the Caribbean | Their Second Best | TV Today | Horrors |
---|---|---|---|---|
The Virginia Mary
Home to Langley and Quantico; the Mother of Christ
|
Haiti
Elapsing in 1789, this country represents the hemisphere’s only successful slave revolt
|
Ernest Hemingway
A Moveable Feast, Islands in the Stream, Across the River and into the Trees
|
Mindhunter
Tracking the formation of the criminal behavior unit during the 1970s through the eyes of two FBI agents, this series found a large following in early 2016
|
The Thing
Set in Antarctica, this film depicts the mental breakdown and character destruction of a group of American scientists
|
New Abrahampshire
Progenitor of the modern monotheistic faiths; neighbor to Vermont
|
Anglos (35% English, 25% American, 10% Scotch, 8% Welsh)
This demographic represented as much as 80% of the population of pirates
|
William Faulkner
Light in August, If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem; Sartoris
|
Twin Peaks
Starlit by Kyle MacLachlan, this absurdist, Northwestern piece dominated popular culture in the 1990s
|
Friday 13th
Filmed in 1980, Sean Cunningham’s Freddy Kruger, played by Robert Englund, still commands presence in today’s horror circles
|
Arkansasaul
Birthplace to William Jefferson Clinton, a particularly tall Judaic king
|
Edward Teach / Blackbeard
The Queen Anne’s Revenge, dredged in 1996 from the North Carolinian coast, belonged to this famous pirate
|
H.G. Wells
The Outline of History, The Country of the Blind, The First Men in the Moon
|
Dark
The first German-language series to break into American popular culture, this show involved time travel, incest, and the burden of original sin
|
Sleepaway Camp
Filmed in 1983, this cult classic remains defined by its final line: “How can it be? My God, she’s a boy!”
|
Tennesseeve
Home to Music City, USA; Adam's missus
|
Libertalia
This anarchist pirate safe haven was apparently founded along the coast of Madagascar in the late seventeenth century, though its exact location has been lost to history
|
Vladimir Nabokov
Ada, or Ardor; Speak, Memory; Invitation to a Beheading
|
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
This multifaceted, mid-Atlantic, approach to the study of narcissism in its five major forms entered its fourteenth season this past year
|
Hostel
The first step in Eli Roth’s dreadful career--and yes that is a value judgment--these American college students find an end to their European tour with a powerdrill through the kneecap
|
Idahosea
Exporter of diamonds and potatoes; the Prophet of Doom
|
Homosexual relationship
The pirate practice of Matelotage stands as one of the first civil unions of this variety to become common in the Western world
|
Yukio Mishima
Forbidden Colors, Confessions of a Mask, The Sound of Waves
|
Our Boys
Following the slaughter of three children in a broken Israeli slum, this series depicts the breakdown of a nation in the wake of traged
|
The Exorcist
Oh my, are these stairs in Georgetown...did that little girl call my mother a whore?
|