Category Archives: Viva!

Boris Johnson and Michael Gove under fire on Vote Leave’s law-breaking

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Conservative grandees asked to account for their role in the Brexit campaign, after group drops its appeal against fine

Conservative leadership candidates Boris Johnson and Michael Gove are facing growing calls to account for illegal behaviour by the official Vote Leave Brexit campaign.

The group has dropped its appeal against the Electoral Commission’s ruling that it broke the law by channelling hundreds of thousands of pounds of donations to an ostensibly independent campaign group, BeLeave.

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Brazil: tortured dissidents appalled by Bolsonaro’s praise for dictatorship

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Thousands were brutalized and hundreds killed during Brazil’s 21-year military rule – a period lauded by the current president

After they were arrested by military policemen in 1977 for leaving leftwing pamphlets outside a Brazilian factory near São Paulo, Márcia Paes and Celso Brambilla were tortured for 10 days straight.

“Where are the weapons?” their captors repeatedly asked them, as they attempted to link them to leftist guerrilla groups who had taken up arms against Brazil’s military rulers.

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Campus Theater, vertical, Manhattan Avenue, Manhattan, Kansas (LOC)

The Library of Congress posted a photo:

Campus Theater, vertical, Manhattan Avenue, Manhattan, Kansas (LOC)

Margolies, John,, photographer.

Campus Theater, vertical, Manhattan Avenue, Manhattan, Kansas

1977.

1 photograph : color transparency ; 35 mm (slide format).

Notes:
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer.

Margolies categories: Movie theaters; Main Street.

Purchase; John Margolies 2008 (DLC/PP-2008:109-2).

Credit line: John Margolies Roadside America photograph archive (1972-2008), Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

Please use digital image: original slide is kept in cold storage for preservation.

Forms part of: John Margolies Roadside America photograph archive (1972-2008).

Subjects:
Motion picture theaters–1970-1980.

United States–Kansas–Manhattan.

Format: Slides–1970-1980.–Color

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication. For more information, see “John Margolies Roadside America Photograph Archive – Rights and Restrictions Information” www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/723_marg.html

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

Part Of: Margolies, John John Margolies Roadside America photograph archive (DLC) 2010650110

General information about the John Margolies Roadside America photograph archive is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.mrg

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/mrg.01212

Call Number: LC-MA05- 1212