Speeding through space Burke&s Gambit is a rugged company freighter on an extremely important mission with its seasoned crew being tasked with finding powerful alien technology What the crew finds instead is something they never expected a dangerous parasitic organism has somehow made its way into the ship & inside the body of one of the crew members! Just as the bio-organism contamination alarm goes off one of the crew members seizes the chaotic moment & sabotages the freighter&s engines The ship its crew & the parasitic organism are all on a collision course with planet Earth where further contamination of the world&s population awaits Which of the crew are dedicated company personnel wanting the alien organism to reach Earth? Which are just crew wanting to identify the infected crew member? Most importantly which member of the crew is infected?! Join the crew of Burke&s Gambit on a wild space adventure with hidden affiliations & a hidden infected player In Burke&s Gambit players take on specific roles of Captain Marine Comms Officer & more as they take turns & roll a die The possibilities of the die include damaging another player healing themselves looking at a crew affiliation card or even scanning a player&s diagnostic card But if you roll an engine power up you hasten the ship&s arrival to Earth When Burke&s Gambit reaches Earth a vote must be held to eject someone from the airlock (assuming anyone&s left)! Players 4-8 Playing time 20 minutes Ages 14 ...

Big Rock Candy Mountain Blue Tail Fly On Top Of & Ol Smoky True Love Goes On & On A Little Bitty Tear Funny Way Of Laughing Call Me Mr In-Between Foggy Foggy Dew Polly Wolly Dolly Woolie Boogie Bee Turtle Dove Frankie & Johnie The Long Black Veil Scarlet Ribbons (For Her Hair) Lenora Let Your Hair Hang Down Pearly Shells I Know An Old Lady Ballad Of Davy Crockett Waltzing Matilda There&s A Hole In My Bucket Hush Little Baby Git Along Little Dogies Riddle Song ...

Christina Aguilera makes her dramatic feature debut as Ali a small-town singer who takes her shot at stardom performing at a neo-burlesque nightclub in Los Angeles Situated in a regal old theater that's still dazzling despite having fallen into disrepair The Burlesque Lounge is the kind of club where legends are born When club owner Tess (Cher) hires charismatic Ali as a cocktail waitress the ambitious big-city newcomer goes to great lengths to make a good impression Taken under the wing of a friendly featured dancer (Julianne Hough) Ali quickly realizes that not everyone is quite as nice when she forms a friendship with bartenderaspiring musician Jack (Cam Gigandet) & incurs the wrath of the club's cattiest showgirl (Kristen Bell) After making her leap to the stage with a little help from a sympathetic stage manager (Stanley Tucci) & the club's playfully androgynous host (Alan Cumming) Ali becomes the star attraction at The Burlesque Lounge & the crowds start packing in Later a wealthy businessman (Eric Dane) makes a bid for the club while trying to charm the talented young performer straight into his arms ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Ali is a small-town girl with a big voice who escapes hardship & an uncertain future to follow her dreams to LA After stumbling upon The Burlesque Lounge a majestic but ailing theater that is home to an inspired musical revue Ali lands a job as a cocktail waitress from Tess the club&s proprietor & headliner Burlesque&s outrageous costumes & bold choreography enrapture the young ingenue who vows to perform there one day Soon enough Ali builds a friendship with a featured dancer finds an enemy in a troubled jealous performer & garners the affection of Jack a bartender & fellow musician With the help of a sharp-witted stage manager & gender-bending host Ali makes her way from the bar to the stage Her spectacular voice restores The Burlesque Lounge to its former glory though not before a charismatic entrepreneur arrives with an enticing proposal ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Ali is a small-town girl with a big voice who escapes hardship & an uncertain future to follow her dreams to LA After stumbling upon The Burlesque Lounge a majestic but ailing theater that is home to an inspired musical revue Ali lands a job as a cocktail waitress from Tess the club&s proprietor & headliner Burlesque&s outrageous costumes & bold choreography enrapture the young ingenue who vows to perform there one day Soon enough Ali builds a friendship with a featured dancer finds an enemy in a troubled jealous performer & garners the affection of Jack a bartender & fellow musician With the help of a sharp-witted stage manager & gender-bending host Ali makes her way from the bar to the stage Her spectacular voice restores The Burlesque Lounge to its former glory though not before a charismatic entrepreneur arrives with an enticing proposal ...

'A first-rate popular history of a fascinating & neglected battle James Holland is a master of spinning narrative military history from accounts of men & women who were there & BURMA '44 is a veritable page-turner' BBC History In February 1944 a rag-tag collection of clerks drivers doctors muleteers & other base troops stiffened by a few dogged Yorkshiremen & a handful of tank crews managed to hold out against some of the finest infantry in the Japanese Army & then defeat them in what was one of the most astonishing battles of the Second World War What became know as The Defence of the Admin Box fought amongst the paddy fields & jungle of Northern Arakan over a fifteen-day period turned the battle for Burma Not only was it the first decisive victory for British troops against the Japanese more significantly it demonstrated how the Japanese could be defeated The lessons learned in this tiny & otherwise insignificant corner of the Far East set up the campaign in Burma that would follow as General Slim's Fourteenth Army finally turned defeat into victory Burma '44 is a tale of incredible drama As gripping as the story of Rorke's drift as momentous as the battle for the Ardennes the Admin Box was a triumph of human grit & heroism & remains one of the most significant yet undervalued conflicts of World War Two ...

Guy Delisle's newest travelogue revolves around a year spent in Burma (also known as Myanmar) with his wife & son Burma is notorious for its use of concealment & isolation as social control where scissor-wielding censors monitor the papers the de facto leader of the opposition has been under decade-long house arrest insurgent-controlled regions are effectively cut off from the world & rumour is the most reliable source of current information An impressive & moving work of comics journalism from the author of Pyongyang & Shenzen ...

65 years have passed since a brilliant young art student set sail from Liverpool to fight Japanese aggression in the Far East Captured on arrival in the chaotic fall of Singapore Jack Chalker joined the 60000 allied prisoners driven to the limits of human endurance in the slave labour camps of the infamous Burma Railway "A sleeper laid for every life lost" ran the legend & the author's brushes & paints improvised with genius from the unlikeliest of sources record not only the misery squalor savagery heroism & fortitude of the prison camps but also the horrific reality of disease wounds & the ravages of starvation Unseen for nearly three generations the drawings in this book accompanied by Chalker's own commentary occupy an enthralling niche in the chronicling of the Second World War As an historical document a medical record & a tribute to the memory of the thousands who lost their lives " Burma Railway" is a profoundly moving document exquisite in its detail unique in its honesty It features over 100 full colour illustrations & photographs ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Armed with pocket-sized video cameras a tenacious band of Burmese reporters face down death to expose the repressive regime controlling their country Compiled from the shaky handheld footage acclaimed filmmaker Anders Ostergaard&s Burma VJ plays out as a real-life thriller as the Video-Journalists themselves become the target of the Burmese government Director Anders Ostergaard Certificate Exempt from Classification Year 2009 Duration 1 hour & 26 minutes (approx) ...

Based on his experiences as a policeman in Burma George Orwell&s first novel presents a devastating picture of British colonial rule It describes corruption & imperial bigotry in a society where &after all natives were natives
- interesting no doubt but finally an inferior people& When Flory a white timber merchant befriends Indian Dr Veraswami he defies this orthodoxy The doctor is in danger U Po Kyin a corrupt magistrate is plotting his downfall The only thing that can save him is membership of the all-white Club & Flory can help Flory&s life is changed further by the arrival of beautiful Elizabeth Lackersteen from Paris who offers an escape from loneliness & the &lie& of colonial life
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