The BBC has chosen actor Matt LeBlanc to fill a vacant seat on the new reboot of the popular TV show 'Top Gear'. The network is scrambling to put together a cast of characters that can live up to the original hosts.
The BBC has chosen actor Matt LeBlanc to fill a vacant seat on the new reboot of the popular TV show 'Top Gear'. The network is scrambling to put together a cast of characters that can live up to the original hosts.
Despite their popularity, by the late 1880s dry goods stores were so full of unsold books that prices dropped to less than five cents per copy. Many titles that could still not sell were given away or destroyed.
Beadle dime novels became so popular that the company had to build a factory of hack writers to mass produce them. As urbanization spread, tales of the Wild West were in less demand, and tales of urban outlaws became popular.
Despite the warning from Lord Shaftsbury that the paperback literature was seducing middle-class society into an unproductive life of evil, the penny bloods grew in popularity.
"Africa is inferred to be the continent of origin for all modern human populations. But the details of human prehistory and evolution in Africa remain largely obscure."
"Africa is inferred to be the continent of origin for all modern human populations. But the details of human prehistory and evolution in Africa remain largely obscure."
In the movie Skyline, strange lights descend on Los Angeles, drawing people outside like moths to a flame. An extra-terrestrial force threatens to swallow the entire human population off the face of the earth.