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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by BaftaBaby[/i] [br][b][red]TA:MOU = Themed Anniversary: Moving On Up[/red][/b] [u]The Rules[/u] Each Tuesday a theme will be decided based on the Anniversary of some significant event. All you have to do is trawl your reviews for any that relate to that event and post them here with a link. You can post as many as you wish, so long as either the film or your review clearly relates to the theme. [b]You can only post during the week of the current TA:MOU.[/b] You don't have to say you voted unless you really want to - but you are expected to visit all the links posted. [hr] [u]ON THIS DAY: 9 April[/u] TA:MOU goes Brrr or Boom! > in 1867 � Russia was going broke & didn't want a follow-up to the Crimean war against Britain. There were rumours of territorial conflict over gold deposits. And the USA was looking to expand its territory under the Manifest Destiny principle. So the US Senate narrowly voted to ratify a treaty with Russia for the purchase of Alaska for $7.2 million. Your first TA:MOU task is to wrap up warm and search your flannels for films set in Alaska. Any era, any plot. or > in 1945 Congress established the Atomic Energy Commission [AEC], allegedly dedicated to the peacetime uses of nuclear energy. Please post your fwfrs for films primarily concerned with atomic science - bombs or not! BUT if you say nooculer I will personally launch something right in yer face. [b] OR[/b] [hr] [b]Light the birthday candles for[/b] 1895 � Michel Simon, French actor - & one of the very best (d. 1975) 1898 � Paul Robeson, legendary American singer, actor, and activist (d. 1976) 1917 � Brad Dexter, American actor & a Magnificent Seventh (d. 2002) 1933 � Jean-Paul Belmondo, French actor - Bet Lemmy goes for this one! 1939 � Michael Learned, American actress - yes, it sez actress! 1948 � Jaya Bachchan, Indian actress 1954 � Dennis Quaid, American actor 1966 � Cynthia Nixon, American actress 1990 � Kristen Stewart, American actress 1998 � Elle Fanning, American actress [/quote]    -  HTML is OFF | Forum Code is ON   Check here to include your profile signature.