Grand Thieves & Tomb Raiders: How British Video Games Conquered the World
Added by: miaow | Karma: 8463.40 | Other | 10 August 2015
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Gaming: it’s the greatest British invasion of them all. Lara Croft is an international icon and the British-born Grand Theft Auto and its spin-offs have sold more than 100 million copies worldwide. The UK’s games industry is now bigger than either its cinema or its music.
In 1770 a handful of European nations ruled the Americas, drawing from them a stream of products, both everyday and exotic. Some two and a half million black slaves, imprisoned in plantation colonies, toiled to produce the sugar, coffee, cotton, ginger and indigo craved by Europeans. By 1848 the major systems of colonial slavery had been swept away either by independence movements, slave revolts, abolitionists or some combination of all three. How did this happen?
When a kindly widow is bludgeoned to death, the police arrest her lodger. The evidence seems ironclad. Is he guilty? Or is he being framed? Either way, the condemned man's time is running out, and only Hercule Poirot can help him.
Either… or/neither… nor and double negatives [infographic
“Either or” and “neither nor” can be confusing to those learning English, and “double negatives” can be friends or foes. Help is on the way with a few rules, some handy tips and a convenient infographic.
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