...And Justice for All is the fourth studio album by American heavy metal band Metallica, released in 1988 by Elektra Records, and the first to feature bassist Jason Newsted after the death of Cliff Burton in 1986. The album is musically progressive, with long and complex songs and fast tempos. Producer Flemming Rasmussen was absent during the mixing process, and the production has been criticized as "dry". The lyrics feature themes of political and legal injustice seen through the prisms of censorship, war, and nuclear brinkmanship. The album's front cover features a representation of Lady Justice; the phrase "...And Justice for All" appears spray-painted in the lower right corner. Originally released on one vinyl disc, the album was quickly re-released as a double album without additional tracks. The album was included in The Village Voice 's annual Pazz & Jop critics' poll of the year's best albums, and the single "One" earned Metallica its first Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance in 1990. The group's best-selling album at the time and second best-selling ever, it was the first underground metal album to achieve chart success in the US, shipping eight million copies by 2003. (Full article...)
... that The Village in the Jungle has been described as "the first novel in English literature to be written from the indigenous point of view rather than the coloniser's"?
Terry-Thomas's career on radio, film, television and record lasted from 1933 until his retirement in the late 1970s. Terry-Thomas made his debut as an uncredited extra in the 1933 film The Private Life of Henry VIII, and continued to work as an extra and in smaller roles until wartime service with Entertainments National Service Association (ENSA) and Stars in Battledress helped to sharpen his stage and cabaret routine. After the war he appeared on the popular London stage revue Piccadilly Hayride, before he became the star of the first comedy series on British television, How Do You View? (1949). He continued broadcasting on British television and radio and successfully moved into film work, being most creative in the 1950s with appearances in a series of popular comedies. In the 1960s he moved into American films, before he began appearing in European films from the mid-1960s. In 1971 he was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, which slowly brought his career to a conclusion. (Full list...)
A five-member team playing speedball, a variant of paintball in which teams are given an equal playing field through the use of bunkers (such as the inflatable Sup'Air seen here). Teams are placed on a small, open field, and must act cooperatively and aggressively to reach the goal.
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