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2.) Best Director - 1968

Who Won: Carol Reed for Oliver!
Who Should've Won: Stanley Kubrick for 2001: A Space Odyssey

In the mid-20th century, the Academy was notable for two things: A.) heaping Oscars on yalping, pastel musicals nobody watches anymore and B.) refusing to give Stanley Kubrick the time of day. These two proclivities converged in 1968, when Kubrick lost the Best Director Oscar to a herd of screaming orphans.

The failure to honor 2001 is perhaps one of the Academy's greatest oversights, but there's one particular genre snub that I find totally unconscionable, if only for posterity's sake...

That Stanley Kubrick didn't win an Oscar for this film is terrible. That he never won a directing Oscar and none of his films won for best picture is a travesty. (Interesting note: Hitchcock never won a directing Oscar, but Rebecca did win for best picture and cinematography in 1940).

Athol Historical Society President Susannah Whipps-Lee said the time capsule — which has yet to be opened — was made from an old glass container that looked like a pickle jar with a rusted metal screw top. It was buried about 150 years ago, she explained, in what is known as the Old Indian Cemetery or Settlers Burial Ground, which has no gravestones.

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The discovery of the 150-year-old time capsule, with possibly 300 historical documents inside it, was made by Athol history teacher Keith Williams. Mr. Williams read about the hidden treasure in a book of the town’s history and contacted officials to help verify the discovery.

Owing to the degradation of the jar and documents inside, they're waiting for experts to come and open it.

Not only has Monopoly replaced the tokens (with pictures of the old tokens), but they also got rid of cash in favor of credit cards. This will be a monumental failure.

On the back of a treasured draft of the U.S. Constitution was a truncated version of the same document, starting with the familiar words: "We The People. . . ."

They had been scribbled upside down by one of the Constitution's framers, James Wilson, in the summer of 1787. The cursive continued, then abruptly stopped, as if pages were missing.

Apparently it's been known to scholars for a while, but now the public at large knows about it.

It seems like a no-brainer, but in the end you will probably have to buy a separate app for every magazine you want. Not a bad thing if the apps are good, which is highly unlikely.

For thrift stores like the Salvation Army, about half the garments donated eventually wind up in overseas market stalls or as industrial fiber. That translates into 17,000 jobs in the United States, an estimated 100,000 jobs in Africa's informal economy and a multinational trade in second-hand clothing valued at more than $1 billion a year.

I was expecting a bad answer to the above question, but it turns out to be a pretty good one.

Without that emotional opening sequence, we’d have a hard time sympathizing with Carl’s nostalgia and disappointment.  Given the opening ten minutes, we don’t just see Carl sighing over the unfinished adventure scrapbook; we sigh right along with him.  We miss Ellie as much as Carl does.  The movie makes the viewer feel nostalgic, until we realize that we, like Carl, need to shed the Bunyanesque burden of the past (the house that Carl comically pulls around by the garden hose) and get on with the next thing.