- Jackie Brown is maybe one of Tarantino’s lesser known films, but maybe on of his best? Join me as we explore his follow up to Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs and takes his cinematic style in a new direction. With blaxploitation influences, meta casting decisions and a fresh approach to violence - Jackie Brown is unlike any other movies in Tarantino’s filmography
- Star Tales - Vela (ianridpath.com)
One of the three sections into which the French astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille divided the oversized Greek constellation of Argo Navis, the Argonauts’ ship, in his southern star catalogue of 1756. In that preliminary catalogue he gave it the French name Voilure du Navire, which was Latinized to Vela in his final catalogue, Coelum australe stelliferum of 1763.