Not until later did he find out he would be playing Clarence Boddicker. Later still, he discovered the reason: being Dutch, director Paul Verhoeven had grown up near the Holocaust, and thought that, when wearing glasses, Smith resembled Heinrich Himmler
In Sacramento, California, a robbery suspect fled into a darkened movie theatre to escape pursuing police. He became so engrossed in this movie, which was playing on screen, that he failed to notice that police had evacuated all other patrons from the theatre. When the lights flipped on, the stunned man was taken into custody.
Wollemi pines reproduce both sexually (through wind pollination), and vegetatively in a process known as ‘self-coppicing’, whereby the plant spontaneously sprouts multiple trunks from its base. This reproductive process is thought to be a vital defence mechanism against damage from fire and other natural disasters
Слово о подразделении Игореве » , поскольку тогда запрещалось приводить название военной части в открытой прессе ( разрешалось печатать : « подразделение такого - то » или « хозяйство такого - то
Lévi-Strauss supposedly suggested that the English title be Pansies for Thought , borrowing from a speech by Ophelia in Shakespeare's Hamlet (Act IV, Scene V).
One day, people from the VIA association (VIA is a students’ network association with many clubs ... amongst those is VideoLAN.) came back drunk with a cone. They then began a cone collection (which is now quite impressive I must say). Some time later, the VideoLAN project began and they decided to use the cone as their logo.
Starting with version 1.1.0, VLC release codenames refer to characters from Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels; an exception is release 2.2.1, which came out shortly after Pratchett's death on March 12, 2015, and which was codenamed Terry Pratchett in honor of the author himself