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40 Acres
Forty Acres may be: *40 Acres (album), ''40 Acres'' (album), the 1999 release from Caedmon's Call *40 Acres (film), ''40 Acres'' (film), a 2024 Canadian thriller film *Forty acres and a mule, a term for compensation that was supposedly to be awarded to freed slaves after the American Civil War *RKO Forty Acres, a former film studio backlot *Forty Acres is the nickname of the original "College Hill" located within the Campus of the University of Texas at Austin, Campus of The University of Texas at Austin *The Forty Acres, the United Farm Workers compound founded by Cesar Chavez and designated a National Historic Landmark {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
40 Acres (album)
''40 Acres'' is the 1999 release from Caedmon's Call and made the band known to a wider, and even international, audience. The album explores the way God's redemption intersects with the places and ways people live their daily lives. The album was recorded at The Castle, Franklin, Tennessee with engineers Steve Bishir, Glenn Rosenstein, and Mike Purcell and mixed at East Iris Recording Studios - now known as House of Blues Nashville, Nashville, Tennessee with engineers David Leonard, Charlie Brocco, Mike Purcell, and Ed Szymczak. "There You Go" is on the ''Digital Praise'' PC game ''Guitar Praise''. Critical reception Track listing Personnel Caedmon's Call * Cliff Young – vocals, guitars * Derek Webb – vocals, guitars * Danielle Young – vocals * Randy Holsapple – Hammond B3 organ, accordion * Aric Nitzberg – bass * Todd Bragg – drums * Garett Buell – percussion Guest musicians * Matt Rollings – pianos, Hammond B3 organ * Phil Madeira – accordion, lap stee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
40 Acres (film)
''40 Acres'' is a 2024 Canadian post-apocalyptic thriller film written and directed by R. T. Thorne (in his feature directorial debut). The film stars Danielle Deadwyler as a matriarch of descendants of African American farmers who settled in 1875 in rural Canada after the first Civil War. Two hundred years later, they are trying to survive in a decimated future. It is set to be released by Mongrel Media in Canada. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 6, 2024. Cast * Danielle Deadwyler as Hailey Freeman * Kataem O'Connor as Emanuel Freeman * Jaeda LeBlanc as Danis Freeman * Michael Greyeyes as Galen * Milcania Diaz-Rojas as Dawn * Leenah Robinson as Raine Production The first news of project developing by R.T. Thorne was released during the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival. On October 17, 2023, it was reported that Danielle Deadwyler would star in the independent post-apocalyptic film directed and written by R.T. Thorne. Also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forty Acres And A Mule
Forty acres and a mule refers to a key part of Special Field Orders, No. 15 (series 1865), a wartime order proclaimed by Union general William Tecumseh Sherman on January 16, 1865, during the American Civil War, to allot land to some freed families, in plots of land no larger than . Sherman later ordered the army to lend mules for the agrarian reform effort. The field orders followed a series of conversations between Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton and Radical Republican abolitionists Charles Sumner and Thaddeus Stevens following disruptions to the institution of slavery provoked by the American Civil War. They provided for the confiscation of of land along the Atlantic coast of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida and the dividing of it into parcels of not more than , on which were to be settled approximately 18,000 formerly enslaved families and other black people then living in the area. Many freed people believed, after being told by various political figures, that they ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RKO Forty Acres
RKO Forty Acres was a film studio backlot in the United States, owned by RKO Pictures (and later Desilu Productions), located in Culver City, California. Best known as Forty Acres and "the back forty," it was also called "Desilu Culver," the "RKO backlot," and "Pathé 40 Acre Ranch," depending on which studio owned the property at the time. For nearly 50 years it was known for its outdoor full-scale Set construction, sets, such as Western Street, Atlanta Street, and Main Street and was used in many films (including ''King Kong (1933 film), King Kong'' (1933) and ''Gone with the Wind (film), Gone with the Wind'' (1939)) and television series (such as ''Bonanza'' and ''Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Trek''). The property was never actually forty acres in size. It was a triangular parcel of , a few blocks from RKO-Pathe (later Selznick, Desilu-Culver, now "The Culver Studios") which was situated to the west. It was bounded by Higuera Street to the north, West Jefferson Boulevard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Campus Of The University Of Texas At Austin
The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public research university in Austin, Texas, United States. Founded in 1883, it is the flagship institution of the University of Texas System. With 53,082 students as of fall 2023, it is also the largest institution in the system. The university is a major center for academic research, with research expenditures totaling $1.06 billion for the 2023 fiscal year. It joined the Association of American Universities in 1929. The university houses seven museums and seventeen libraries, including the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library and the Blanton Museum of Art, and operates various auxiliary research facilities, such as the J. J. Pickle Research Campus and McDonald Observatory. UT Austin's athletics constitute the Texas Longhorns. The Longhorns have won four NCAA Division I National Football Championships, six NCAA Division I National Baseball Championships, sixteen NCAA Division I National Men's Swimming and D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
