Archive for October, 2006

Starship Enterprise fetches $770,000 (ABC News)

Posted by on October 7, 2006 * Comments(2)

The Enterprise top lot has garnered one of the highest prices ever paid for any piece of Hollywood memorabilia and set a record for a piece of Star Trek memorabilia. The 198-centimetre model of the Starship Enterprise-D, used extensively in the Star Trek: The Next Generation television series, has sold for 20 times the predicted […]

category: Popular Culture, Television    

Graphic novels find niche at Essex High (Burlington Free Press)

Posted by on October 7, 2006 * Comments(3)

Comic book superheroes have successfully fought their way onto the shelves of public libraries in the form of graphic novels. Time-resistant superhero Wonder Woman, along with such newbies as Spy Boy, Black Panther and X-Men, have hit the shelves of Essex High School library and are garnering reader wait lists that have their classic counterparts […]

category: Comics, Literacy, Popular Culture    

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