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How was Uranus discovered?
March 1, 2021 at 8:27 am
The planet Uranus was discovered on 13 March 1781 by astronomer William Herschel, making 13 March 2021 the 240
th anniversary of its discovery. And by a nice coincidence the planet will be well placed in the constellation of Aries on that date, giving stargazers a good chance of spotting it.
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On 24 January 1986 we got our closest views of the ice giant to date, thanks to the Voyager 2 space probe. Passing the planet at a distance of just 50,600 miles and spending 6 hours within the Uranian system, Voyager is so far the only craft ever to visit the seventh planet from the Sun.
Female films: Where did the women go? How Hollywood fell out of love with female-made and -led film
Sat, Feb 20, 2021, 06:00 Anna Carey
A large cast of 26 women singing with a reclining piano player, Hollywood, California, circa 1922. Photograph: Underwood Archives/ Getty
In 1917, eight female directors made films for Universal Studios. In 2017, the same studio produced just one film directed by a woman – Pitch Perfect 3. So what happened? In her new book, Women vs Hollywood: The Fall and Rise of Women in Film, Empire magazine writer Helen O’Hara explores the changing role of women in the Hollywood system, from the earliest days of cinema to the 21st century. It’s less a straightforward history and more a look at how women have worked and continue to work with and against the structural forces stacked against them.
Lupin
If you haven’t watched Netflix’s
Lupin yet, then I suggest you make it your next lockdown binge, because the criminal high jinks of Omar Sy have taken the world by storm. In fact, it’s the streaming service’s second most popular original series ever, having reached 70 million households within 28 days of its release. However, what’s perhaps even more intriguing than the show itself, is the story from which it draws inspiration.
In Lupin, adapted from Maurice Leblanc’s novels of the same name, Sy’s character is hell-bent on seeking revenge for his father who was falsely accused of stealing a priceless necklace that supposedly belonged to Marie Antoinette. But, in a fabulous turn of