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22. A Quiet Place (film) 11,914,129. The sole scary movie of this year's report (a sharp contrast from the three that appeared in 2017) is a rare case of Hollywood going unconventional: most of the dialogue is in American sign language and many scenes are silent, because the villains are monsters who hunt by sound.
The man behind one of America's biggest 'fake news' websites is a former BBC worker from London whose mother writes many of his stories. Sean Adl-Tabatabai, 35, runs YourNewsWire.com, the source of scores of dubious news stories, including claims that the Queen had threatened to abdicate if the UK voted against Brexit.
Russian Revolution, 1917–1920. In 1920, Walter Lippmann and Charles Merz investigated the coverage of the Russian Revolution by The New York Times from 1917 to 1920. Their findings, published as a supplement of The New Republic, concluded that The New York Times ' reporting was neither unbiased nor accurate, adding that the newspaper's news stories were not based on facts but "were ...
The 2018 Sunda strait tsunami ( Indonesian: Tsunami Selat Sunda 2018) occurred on 22 December 2018 at around 21:38 local time after large parts of the southwestern side of Anak Krakatoa collapsed onto its caldera. [5] The landslide spawned a massive tsunami wave that struck multiple coastal regions in Banten and Lampung, including the popular ...
2145 or 1764 or 992. Unix time. 1514764800 – 1546300799. 2018 ( MMXVIII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2018th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 18th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 9th year of the 2010s decade.
In 2018, protests against gun violence in the United States increased after a series of mass shootings, most notably at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on February 14 that year. An organized protest in the form of a national school walkout occurred on March 14. March for Our Lives was held on March 24.
2 January – Rail passengers face their biggest price increase for five years, with average tickets rising in cost by 3.4%. [1] 2–4 January – Storm Eleanor causes widespread disruption across the UK, with flooding and gusts of wind reaching 100 mph (161 km/h). [2]
27 January – Kendrick Lamar 's song "HUMBLE" tops Triple J's 2017 Hottest 100. [82] 12 April – Alexis Wright wins the 2018 Stella Prize for Tracker, her biography of Tracker Tilmouth. [83] 11 May – Yvette Coppersmith wins the 2018 Archibald Prize for her painting Self-portrait, after George Lambert.