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Red Room (Baltimore)
Red Room may refer to: Art and entertainment * "The Red Room" (short story), an 1894 short story by H. G. Wells * ''The Red Room'' (French novel), a 2001 novel by Nicci French * ''The Red Room'' (Strindberg novel), 1879 * '' The Dessert: Harmony in Red (The Red Room)'', a 1908 painting by Henri Matisse * ''The Red Room'', a 2010 mixtape by The Game * ''Red Room'' (comics), a fictional Soviet training program featured in Marvel Comics * ''Red Room'' (film), a 1999 Japanese horror film * "Red Room", a song by Loathe from '' I Let It In and It Took Everything'' * "Red Room" (song), a 2019 song by American rapper Offset * Red Room (tour), a 2017-2018 concert tour by the Korean girl group Red Velvet Companies * The Red Room Theatre Company, a London-based theatre company Other uses * Red Room (White House), a state parlor in the White House * Black and White Lodges, from ''Twin Peaks'', commonly referred to as "the red room" * An urban legend referring to a hidden servi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Red Room (short Story)
"The Red Room" is a short Gothic story written by H. G. Wells in 1894. It was first published in the March 1896 edition of '' The Idler'' magazine. Summary A main character chooses to spend the night in an allegedly haunted room, coloured bright red in Lorraine Castle. He intends to disprove the legends surrounding it. Despite vague warnings from the three infirm custodians who reside in the castle, the narrator ascends to "the Red Room" to begin his night's vigil. Initially confident, the narrator becomes increasingly uneasy in the room. He attempts to conquer his fear by lighting candles, but keeping the candles lit in the draughty room becomes an ongoing battle. Each time a candle is snuffed out, the narrator's fear and paranoia increases. He begins to imagine that the drafts are guided by a malevolent intelligence. As the narrator's fear intensifies, he stumbles onto a large piece of furniture (possibly the bed), and ricochets off the walls in a blind panic, hittin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red Room (White House)
The Red Room is one of three state parlors on the State Floor in the White House, the Washington D.C. home of the president of the United States. The room has served as a parlor and music room, and recent presidents have held small dinner parties in it. It has been traditionally decorated in shades of red. The room is approximately . It has six doors, which open into the Cross Hall, Blue Room, South Portico, and State Dining Room. History of the Red Room and its furnishings Creating the Red Room Benjamin Latrobe's 1803 drawing of the White House's first floor indicates that the Red Room served as "the President's Antichamber" (sic) for the president's "Library & Cabinet" next door in the location of the present State Dining Room. During the administration of John Adams, it served as a breakfast room. Jefferson kept a caged magpie in the room. During the James Madison administration, the antechamber became the "Yellow Drawing Room" and the scene of Dolley Madison's fashionable Wed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red Chamber (other)
Red is the color at the long wavelength end of the visible spectrum of light, next to orange and opposite violet. It has a dominant wavelength of approximately 625–740 nanometres. It is a primary color in the RGB color model and a secondary color (made from magenta and yellow) in the CMYK color model, and is the complementary color of cyan. Reds range from the brilliant yellow-tinged scarlet and vermillion to bluish-red crimson, and vary in shade from the pale red pink to the dark red burgundy. Red pigment made from ochre was one of the first colors used in prehistoric art. The Ancient Egyptians and Mayans colored their faces red in ceremonies; Roman generals had their bodies colored red to celebrate victories. It was also an important color in China, where it was used to color early pottery and later the gates and walls of palaces. In the Renaissance, the brilliant red costumes for the nobility and wealthy were dyed with kermes and cochineal. The 19th century ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red Room Curse
The is an early Japanese Internet urban legend about a red pop-up ad which announces the forthcoming death of the person who encounters it on their computer screen. It may have its origin in an Adobe Flash horror animation of the late 1990s that tells the story of the legend. Legend While browsing the Internet, the victim will be presented with a red pop-up with text saying "Do you like , ?" (). The pop-up will reappear after trying to close it, with text coming out of the vertical line. Over time, the text will say "Do you like the red room?" (). Variations of the legend differ on what happens next. According to the most common one, the screen will turn red, displaying a list of names of the Red Room's victims. The target will sense a mysterious presence behind them, after which they will lose consciousness. They will later be found dead in their home, with the walls of the room in which they are discovered "painted red with blood". A lesser known variation states that the t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Eyre
''Jane Eyre'' ( ; originally published as ''Jane Eyre: An Autobiography'') is a novel by the English writer Charlotte Brontë. It was published under her pen name "Currer Bell" on 19 October 1847 by Smith, Elder & Co. of London. The first American edition was published the following year by Harper & Brothers of New York. ''Jane Eyre'' is a ''Bildungsroman'' which follows the experiences of its eponymous heroine, including her growth to adulthood and her love for Mr Rochester, the brooding master of Thornfield Hall. The novel revolutionised prose fiction by being the first to focus on its protagonist's moral and spiritual development through an intimate first-person narrative, where actions and events are coloured by a psychological intensity. Charlotte Brontë has been called the "first historian of the private consciousness", and the literary ancestor of writers like Marcel Proust and James Joyce. The book contains elements of social criticism with a strong sense of Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fifty Shades Trilogy
''Fifty Shades'' is a series of erotic novels by E. L. James, initially a trilogy consisting of ''Fifty Shades of Grey'' (2011), ''Fifty Shades Darker'' (2012) and ''Fifty Shades Freed'' (2012). The series traces the deepening relationship between college graduate Anastasia Steele and young businessman Christian Grey, who introduces Ana to the world of BDSM. The author has spoken of her shock at the success of the book: "The explosion of interest has taken me completely by surprise." James has described the ''Fifty Shades'' trilogy as "my midlife crisis, writ large. All my fantasies in there, and that's it." She did not start to write until January 2009, as she revealed while still active on FanFiction.Net: "I started writing in January 2009 after I finished reading the Twilight saga, and I haven't stopped since. I discovered Fan Fiction in August 2009. Since then I have written two fics and plan on doing at least one more. After that ... who knows?" In August 2013, sales of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Amityville Horror
''The Amityville Horror'' is a book by American author Jay Anson, published in September 1977. It is also the basis of a series of films released from 1979 onward. The book is based on the claims of paranormal experiences by the Lutz family, but has led to controversy and lawsuits over its truthfulness. Historical basis On November 13, 1974, Ronald DeFeo Jr. shot and killed six members of his family at 112 Ocean Avenue, a large Dutch Colonial house situated in a suburban neighborhood in Amityville, on the south shore of Long Island, New York. He was convicted of second-degree murder in November 1975 and sentenced to six terms of 25 years to life in prison. DeFeo died in custody in March 2021. In December 1975, George and Kathy Lutz and their three children moved into the house. After 28 days, the Lutzes fled the house, claiming to have been terrorized by paranormal phenomena while living there. Plot The book describes the house at 112 Ocean Avenue as remaining empty f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dark Web
The dark web is the World Wide Web content that exists on ''darknets'': overlay networks that use the Internet but require specific software, configurations, or authorization to access. Through the dark web, private computer networks can communicate and conduct business anonymously without divulging identifying information, such as a user's location. The dark web forms a small part of the deep web, the part of the Web not indexed by web search engines, although sometimes the term ''deep web'' is mistakenly used to refer specifically to the dark web. The darknets which constitute the dark web include small, friend-to-friend peer-to-peer networks, as well as large, popular networks such as Tor, Freenet, I2P, and Riffle operated by public organizations and individuals. Users of the dark web refer to the regular web as Clearnet due to its unencrypted nature. The Tor dark web or onionland uses the traffic anonymization technique of onion routing under the network's top-level domain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black And White Lodges
Twin Peaks, Washington is a fictional town in the U.S. state of Washington (state), Washington, serving as the primary setting of the television series ''Twin Peaks'', created by Mark Frost and David Lynch, and the 2017 revival ''Twin Peaks: The Return''. It was also featured in scenes in the 1992 movie ''Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me'' and the feature-length deleted scenes compilation, ''Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces''. Places commonly shown within the series include the Double R Diner, The Great Northern Hotel and, the Black and White Lodges. Dale Cooper, FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper states, in the pilot episode, that the town of Twin Peaks is "five miles south of the Canadian border, and twelve miles west of the state line". This places it in the Salmo-Priest Wilderness. Lynch and Frost started their location search in Snoqualmie, Washington, on the recommendation of a friend of Frost. They found all of the locations that they had written into the pilot episode. The towns of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Red Room Theatre Company
The Red Room Theatre Company is a theatre company based in London, United Kingdom. In the 1990s, it was an important venue for new play writing. Description It was founded in 1995 by Lisa Goldman as a voluntary organization and became regularly funded by Arts Council England in 2002. It then achieved charity status in 2006 (charity number 1110724). The Red Room believes theater should be a truly public art form. In August 2006, Topher Campbell succeeded Lisa Goldman as the artistic director. ''The Stage''. Retrieved 2016-11-16. As a director with widespread experience in theater, film, television and radio, Topher has worked with venues such as the |
The Red Room (French Novel)
''The Red Room'' is a psychological thriller novel by Nicci French, the pseudonym of English husband-and-wife team Nicci Gerrard and Sean French. It was first published in 2001. Plot introduction Kit Quinn is a psychologist who ends up scarred after meeting a troubled arrested man. When she goes back to work after the incident she is asked to review a case for the police, in which the man who scarred her is the main suspect. Against everyone else's suggestions she decides to defend this man, at least until more evidence is found. Her suspicions end up proven and in the end she solves the case in the manner of the most experienced detective (which she is not). External links *Peter Guttridge.Mighty Quinn, July 15, 2001. ReferencesThe Red Room at bookarmy.com [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red Room (tour)
Red Room was the first concert tour headlined by South Korean girl group Red Velvet, in support of their first special extended play '' The Red Summer'' (2017). The tour is the group's very first concert in three years since their debut. Background On July 4, 2017, through a press release, SM Entertainment revealed that Red Velvet would be holding their first ever solo concert titled "Red Room" for two nights on August 19 and 20. Tickets for the two shows sold-out in seconds which caused the website to crash. Due to high demand, one additional show was added and to be held on August 18. In Japan, the first show of Red Velvet's Japanese hall tour was held on May 25, 2018, at Marine Messe Fukuoka, in Fukuoka, Japan. SM Entertainment has decided to hold a hall tour on six cities in Japan in response to the flood of applications referring to the group performing in the country. This is the first nationwide hall tour with eight performances at six locations in Japan, starting in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
