Manhunter is a 1986 film based on Thomas Harris's novel Red Dragon. Written and directed by Michael Mann (pictured), it stars William Petersen as offender profiler Will Graham, Tom Noonan as serial killer Francis Dollarhyde—"The Tooth Fairy"—and features Brian Cox as Hannibal Lecktor. Manhunter focuses on the forensic work carried out by the FBI to track down the killer and shows the long-term effects that cases like this have on Graham, highlighting the similarities between him and his quarry. The film features heavily stylized use of color to convey this sense of duality, and the nature of the characters' similarity has been explored in academic readings of the film. Opening to mixed reviews, Manhunter fared poorly at the box office at the time of its release, making only $8.6 million in the United States. However, it has been reappraised in more recent reviews and now enjoys a more favorable reception, as both the acting and the stylized visuals have been appreciated better in later years. Its resurgent popularity has seen it labelled as a cult film.
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718:
Forces of the Umayyad Caliphate abandoned their year-long siege of Constantinople, causing the caliphate to give up its goal of conquering the Byzantine Empire. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Constantinople_(717%E2%80%93718)
1511:
Afonso de Albuquerque captured the city of Malacca, giving Portugal control over the Strait of Malacca, through which all sea-going trade between China and India was concentrated. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capture_of_Malacca_(1511)
1812:
War of 1812: Potawatomi warriors destroyed the United States Army's Fort Dearborn in what is now Chicago, Illinois, and captured the survivors. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Fort_Dearborn
1942:
World War II: The tanker SS Ohio reached Malta, as part of an operation to deliver much needed supplies during the Siege of Malta. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Pedestal
1963:
President Fulbert Youlou was overthrown in the Republic of Congo, after a three-day uprising in the capital. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trois_Glorieuses_(1963)
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avail: 1. (transitive, often reflexive) To turn to the advantage of. 2. (transitive) To be of service to. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/avail
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The supreme truths are neither the rigid conclusions of logical reasoning nor the affirmations of credal statement, but fruits of the soul's inner experience. Intellectual truth is only one of the doors to the outer precincts of the temple. And since intellectual truth turned towards the Infinite must be in its very nature many-sided and not narrowly one, the most varying intellectual beliefs can be equally true because they mirror different facets of the Infinite. However separated by intellectual distance, they still form so many side-entrances which admit the mind to some faint ray from a supreme Light. There are no true and false religions, but rather all religions are true in their own way and degree. Each is one of the thousand paths to the One Eternal. --Sri Aurobindo https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sri_Aurobindo