Chosen as handmaid to Eostre the Saxon goddess Hild would spend a year serving the goddess before she was wed Her future was mapped out
- until her father was murdered & King Edwin claimed her as kin Hild's first love was given a key command in Edwin's forces & vanished from her life wed to her elder sister That same day the court was baptised ending the people's fertility religion & Hild's role Life looked bleak
- even more so when the husband to whom she was given was killed along with her child Hild resented the compulsory baptism but became intrigued by the Iona priests & eventually converted Aidan the charismatic figure who taught & lived a new kind of love persuaded Hild to help spread the new faith In thanks for a significant victory King Oswy ordered her to found one of his new monasteries at Whitby She would see the men she trained appointed by the Pope as missionary bishops carrying the faith across Britain

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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play 2006 marks the 70th anniversary of the formation of Abbott & Costello the American comedy duo whose work in radio film & television made them one of the most popular & respected teams in comedy history To celebrate the anniversary & the centenary of Lou Costello&s birth Universal Pictures are releasing The Abbott & Costello Collection Box Set which

Includes:: all time classics such as & Abbott & Costello meet Frankenstein& & In the Navy& & & Buck Privates& Bud Abbott (the tall thin straight one) & Lou Costello (the short fat clownish one) officially got together in 1936 & after achieving huge success with their radio sketches they moved on to films in 1940 when they were signed by Universal Studios & appeared in support roles in "A Night in the Tropics" The hugely successful & Buck Pirates& was their breakthrough film in 1941 & it was from this point that they began to be seen as America&s favourite comedy team & by the end of 1945 they had starred in 15 movies The simple farcical formula of their films was a winning combination as Abbott & Costello became the biggest box office success of the early 40&s This box set houses some of Abbott & Costello&s most celebrated comedy masterpieces featuring 25 films spread over 13 discs! Films Comprise 1 Pardon My Sarong 2 Who Done It 3 Hold That Ghost 4 In The Navy 5 Keep & Em Flying 6 Ride & Em Cowboy 7 Buck Privates 8 Night In The Tropics 9 Meet The Killer Boris Karloff 10 Meet Jekyll & Hyde 11 In The Foreign Legion 12 Keystone Cops 13 Meet Frankenstein 14 Meet The Mummy 15 Meet The Invisible Man 16 Go To Mars 17 Hit The Ice 18 Lost In Alaska 19 The Naughty Nineties 20 The Time Of Their Lives 21 Buck Privates Come Home 22 The World Of Abbott & Costello 23 Here Come The Co-Ed&s 24 In Society 25 Comin& Round The Mountain Actors Bud Abbott Lou Costello Virginia Bruce Robert Page Lionel Atwill Shemp Howard Larry Fine Moe Howard Richard Carlson Joan Davis Dick Powell Carol Bruce Ella Fitzgerald Boris Karloff Lon Chaney Jr Bela Lugosi & Bruce Cabot Director Erle C Kenton Edward Bernds Arthur Lubin A Edward Sutherland Charles Lamont Jean Yarbrough Charles Barton Sidney Miller & William A Seiter Certificate PGLanguages English

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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Bud Abbott & Lou Costello first paired up in 1935 working in burlesque & eventually getting a break on radio appearing on The Kate Smith Hour in 1938 Two years later they signed a film contract with Universal & would go on to make a total of 30 films over the next five years In 1951 they moved on to television hosting the Colgate Comedy Hour before landing their own show This colle 3ction features two of their better known films together with six episodes from their top rated television series Actors Bud Abbott Lou Costello Clyde Beatty Frank Buck Max Baer Directors Jean Yarbrough Charles Barton Producers Bud Abbott Lou Costello Edward Nassour Alex Gottlieb Format Box set PALLanguage English Region Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe Read more about DVD formats) Number of discs 3 ...

Agatha Christie's world-famous serial killer mystery reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans & book lovers There's a serial killer on the loose bent on working his way through the alphabet & as a macabre calling card he leaves beside each victim's corpe the ABC Railway Guide open at the name of the town where the murder has taken place Having begun with Andover Bexhill & then Churston there seems little chance of the murderer being caught
- until he makes the crucial & vain mistake of challenging Hercule Poirot to frustrate his plans
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First published in the USA in 1991 to accompany the exhibition The ABCs of Triangle Square Circle The Bauhaus & Design Theory from Preschool to Post-Modernism--Colophon 68 pages Lupton Ellen ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play The ABC s OF DEATH is perhaps the most ambitious anthology film ever conceived with productions spanning fifteen countries & featuring segments directed by over two dozen of the world's leading talents in contemporary genre film Inspired by children s educational books the motion picture is comprised of twenty
- six individual chapters each helmed by a different director assigned a letter of the alphabet The directors were then given free reign in choosing a word to create a story involving death Provocative shocking funny & ultimately confrontational THE ABC s OF DEATH is the definitive vision of modern horror diversity Monster Pictures are proud to present this alphabetical arsenal of destruction orchestrated by what Fangoria calls a stunning roll call of some of the most exciting names in horror across the world Actors Ingrid Bols&248; Berdal Erik Aude Kyra Zagorsky Dallas Malloy Iv&225;n Gonz&225;lez Directors Nacho Vigalondo Adri&225;n Garc&237;a Bogliano Ernesto D&237;az Espinoza Ben Wheatley Ti West Format PALLanguage English French Region Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe Read more about DVD formats) Aspect Ratio Unknown Number of discs 1
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Quilting school is now in session & it's never been so fun to hit the books! Take the challenge to move beyond basic patchwork with 12 skill-building lessons including paper piecing strip piecing bargello set-in seams applique crazy quilting & more Learn the tools terms & techniques that are the bedrocks of quiltmaking Use your new skills to finish a gorgeous final exam an ABC-themed sampler quilt plus a handful of quick-finish projects It's a complete quilting course in one book ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play A fast & furious period romp inspired by real events in 18th century Ireland! Byrne (Lapaine) & Strang (Rhys) are two handsome witty twenty-somethings from wealthy families eager to marry rich society ladies Unfortunately they haven&t a hope of succeeding as in accordance with the laws of the time
- the family fortunes have passed to their elder brothers & they are completely penniless Their only option is The Abduction Club which will allow them to kidnap such women with the intention of persuading them into marriage Many a successful love match has been made this way but when Byrne & Strang target the headstrong Kennedy sistersthey discover they&ve bitten off a little more than they can chew Actors Alice Evans Daniel Lapaine Sophia Myles Matthew Rhys Liam Cunningham Edward Woodward & Patrick Malahide Director Stefan Schwartz Certificate 12 years & over Year 2002 Screen Widescreen 2351 Anamorphic Languages English
- Dolby Digital (51) Subtitles English for the hearing impaired Duration 1 hour & 33 minutes (approx)

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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Meet Doctor Phibes a one-time concert musician who&s now an all-time crazed murderer In this clever crypt-kicking classic horrormeister Vincent Price plays a diabolical doc seeking the ultimate in revenge with precision creepiness & surgical wit ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Gun-runner Tom Friend (Forrest Tucker) embarks on an expedition in search of the fabled creature known as the Yeti or Abominable Snowman He is joined by botanist John Rollason (Peter Cushing) whose scientific curiosity is at odds with Rollason’s aim to capture & commercially exploit one of the creatures Misfortune dogs the expedition as it travels deeper into the Himalayas but trapper Ed Shelley (Robert Brown) succeeds in killing one of the giant animals As the party’s numbers rapidly dwindle the ruthless Friend decides to use Shelley as bait in an effort to trap a live Yeti The hunters soon become the hunted as a series of disturbing events lead Rollason to suspect that they are dealing with creatures of awesome intelligence Nigel Kneale’s compelling screenplay for The Abominable Snowman was adapted from his own BBC production The Creature The film was directed by Val Guest who had already brought the first two instalments of Kneale’s Quatermass saga to the big screen ...