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David Boreanaz was born on May 16, 1969 in Buffalo, New York, USA. During his school years, David Boreanaz practiced various sports at a good level but at the Ithaca University he graduated in cinema and photography in 1991 with the intention of starting an acting career.

The great change in David Boreanaz’s career came when he was cast to play Angel in the TV show “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”, which began in 1997. Starting in 2005, David Boreanaz played FBI agent Seeley Booth in the TV show “Bones”. In 2017 David Boreanaz started playing Jason Hayes in the TV show “SEAL Team”, which follows the missions of a Navy SEAL unit.

Danai Gurira in 2017

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On March 31 the 9th season of the show “The Walking Dead” ended.

The 9th season was produced and broadcast in the format that have become usual: 16 episodes of which 8 were broadcast in October / December 2018 and the other 8 in February / March 2019. Now the ratings decline are no longer news but after an overall negative season like the eighth one more people abandoned the show with a consequent decline even among the ones who recorded the episodes. Angela Kang, already author of several of the show’s episodes, was added to the showrunners for the ninth season and for the tenth, since the show was renewed at least for another season.

The eighth season of “The Walking Dead” told the war between the group of Alexandria, Hilltop and the Kingdom and Negan’s Saviors. A year and a half after the end of the war, the communities are working on a reconstruction but not all of them share the same ideas on how to move forward and who should be the leaders.

Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman

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The novel “Good Omens” by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman was published for the first time in 1990.

Aziraphale is an angel while Crowley is a demon, although they’re part of the opposite factions among them a sincere friendship developed and both of them enjoy their life on Earth, where they have lived for millennia. For this reason the Apocalypse is really a nuisance for them and, despite the fact that it was carefully planned since the Creation, the two them are looking for a loophole to avoid it.

The Antichrist is about to reach the age when he will start manifesting his powers and the only hope for Aziraphale and Crowley is that he grows in a way that never leads him to perform the acts needed to start the end of the world. The plan could work despite the signs of the impending Apocalypse if the child the two are trying to influence was indeed the Antichrist.

Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer

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The novel “Annihilation” by Jeff VanderMeer was published for the first time in 2014. It won the Nebula and Shirley Jackson Awards for best novel of the year. It’s the first book of the Southern Reach trilogy.

A biologist, an anthropologist, a surveyor and a psychologist are the 12th expedition into Area X. After the dramatic results of the previous expeditions, the four scientists hope to finally get a success in understanding the transformations that occurred in that area and the others strange phenomena that happen and that changed members of previous expeditions as well.

The four women have the minimum knowledge of each other needed to the expedition, linked to their respective skills. During their exploration they discover what the biologist calls a tower that doesn’t rise into the sky but sinks into the ground. In their exploration they will be forced to face not only the weirdness of Area X but also their inner problems.

Edgar Allan Poe in 1848

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Edgar Poe, this was his birth name, was born on January 19, 1809, in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

Edgar Allan Poe’s life was complex since he was very young since his father abandoned his family in 1810 and his mother died of tuberculosis in 1811. Little Edgar was entrusted to the merchant John Allan, hence the change of his name. His new family was wealthy and had him study in Great Britain.

Initially, Edgar Allan Poe’s works were partially successful because some were successful but others received a lot of criticism. Stories that today we would call detective fiction such as “The Gold-Bug” (1843) gave him more fame in the short term than his horror stories. For the author luck was evanescent and his personal situation got worse when, in 1842, his wife Virginia started manifesting serious symptoms of tuberculosis, which got worse until her death, which occurred in 1847.

For years Edgar Allan Poe had problems with alcoholism and the last years of his life were particularly tough. His death seemed one of his stories because, on October 3, 1849, he was found in delirium in Baltimore and was taken to a hospital, where he died on October 7. The exact cause of his death is still the subject of discussion.