Bollywood's pioneering lesbian drama

Bollywood's pioneering lesbian drama

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During the Vietnam War, North Vietnamese VietCong guerrillas built a vast network of tunnels in the south of the country as part of the insurgency against the South Vietnamese government and their American allies. The tunnel network was a key base and shelter for the North Vietna ...  Show more

How the hoverboard was created

It was Back to the Future II that made a generation of children dream of travelling by hoverboard.In the 1989 film, the hero Marty McFly escapes from his arch nemesis Biff by jumping on a flying skateboard.But it wasn’t until 2011 that inventor Shane Chen came up with the next be ...  Show more

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Le premier (The first)
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Texte:
Un nouveau film de Bollywwod, un des premiers à s'intéresser aux relations homosexuelles est sorti en Inde. C'est le premier film grand public sur une histoire d'amour homosexuelle.

Traduction:
A new Bollywood film, one of the first to focus on same-sex r ...

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