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Budget. $15 million. Box office. $50.6 million. Notes on a Scandal is a 2006 British psychological drama thriller directed by Richard Eyre and produced by Robert Fox and Scott Rudin. Adapted from the 2003 novel of the same name by Zoë Heller, the screenplay was written by Patrick Marber. The film stars Judi Dench and Cate Blanchett and centres ...
Notes on a Scandal in the U.S.) is a 2003 novel by Zoë Heller. It is about a female teacher at a London comprehensive school who begins an affair with an underage pupil. Heller said to The Observer in 2003 that the real life controversy of American middle-school teacher Mary Kay LeTourneau 's affair with a student was the inspiration for the ...
Azeotrope. Vapour-liquid equilibrium of 2-propanol /water showing positive azeotropic behaviour. An azeotrope ( / əˈziːəˌtroʊp /) [1] or a constant heating point mixture is a mixture of two or more components in fluidic states whose proportions cannot be altered or changed by simple distillation. [2] This happens because when an azeotrope ...
Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat. " Mrs Bixby and the Colonel's Coat " is a short story by Roald Dahl that first appeared in the 1959 issue of Nugget. The story is Dahl's variation on a popular anecdote dating back at least to 1939: [1] a married woman receives a glamorous mink coat from a man with whom she had an affair.
The Twin ( Dutch: Boven is het stil, lit. 'it is quiet upstairs') is a novel by Dutch writer Gerbrand Bakker. It won the International Dublin Literary Award in 2010, making Bakker the first Dutch writer to win the award, one of the world's richest literary awards, with a € 100,000 prize. [1] [2] Boven is het stil was published in 2006 and its ...
United States of America) The Oil Platforms case (formally, Oil Platforms (Islamic Republic of Iran v. United States of America) ICJ 4) is a public international law case decided by the International Court of Justice in 2003 in which Iran challenged the U.S. Navy 's destruction of three oil platforms in the Persian Gulf in 1987-1988. [ 1]
The Case of the S.S. "Lotus" (France v. Turkey) Decided. 7 September 1927. Claim. Turkey has illegally arrested Mr. Demons, captain of the Lotus. Ruling. There is no rule of international law reserving jurisdiction of crimes committed in high seas to the flag State; Turkey did not violate any law in arresting Mr. Demons. Court membership.
In the beginning, Edgar is already dead. The narration begins shortly after the publishing of the death notices, when the father visits the mother's flat, where she raised Edgar without a husband. The father tries to find out more about Edgar, to "get to know" him. He talks to Willi, Charlie, Addi. Although Edgar is already dead, he makes long ...