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Was there a real Phantom of the Opera? Gaston Leroux wrote the novel of The Phantom of the Opera, publishing it first as a serial in 1909. Though it was not based on fact, he wrote an introduction supposedly explaining that he carried out his own inquiries into the strange events that had occurred in the famous Opera House in the 1880s. He wrote of visiting the huge underground lake where the Phantom hid and of stumbling upon the skeletons of "some poor wretches who had been massacred under the Commune in the cellars of the Opera." Although the book was far from a best-seller, in 1925 it was made into a movie, starring Lon Chaney, which was a hit. Andrew Lloyd Webber wrote a musical based on the story, which opened in London in 1986 and in New York in 1988. On this date in 2006, the Broadway production of The Phantom of the Opera surpassed Cats to become the longest-running show in Broadway history; to date, there have been over 9,100 performances. More than 100 million people have seen the show in 124 cities in 25 countries, and it's the highest-grossing entertainment production of all times.
Everyone agrees that in mid-April the arrest of the leader of an unorthodox religious sect led to bloodshed. But the scale of it is hotly disputed. The official version is that members of the “Light of the World” sect killed nine unarmed policemen who had come to arrest the sect’s leader. But Angola’s main opposition party says that 1,080 members of the sect were massacredhttp://econ.st/1ItLaKb
BP Challenges Settlements in Gulf Oil Spill
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The oil company asserted that thousands of claims were either inflated
or nonexistent in ads that are to appear in three major newspapers
Wednesday.
The Phantom Province in China's Economy
February 07, 2013
Massacre Reported in Syria as Security Council Meets
By RICK GLADSTONE and NEIL MacFARQUHAR
The death toll of nearly 200, if confirmed, would make the killings in
the village of Tremseh the worst massacre yet in the increasingly
sectarian uprising against President Bashar al-Assad.
Our Lady of Lourdes is a title of the Blessed Virgin Mary invoked by Roman Catholics in honor of the Marian apparitions which are said to have taken place before various individuals on separate occasions around Lourdes, France.
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
― Oscar Wilde
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
― Oscar Wilde
apparition[ap・pa・ri・tion]
- 発音記号[æ`pəríʃən]
[名]
2 突然現れたもの［人］.
3 [U]出現.
ap・pa・ri・tion・al
[形]massacre[mas・sa・cre]
- 発音記号[mǽsəkər]
[名]
2 ((略式))完敗.
━━[動](他)
1 〈多数の人を〉無差別に殺す, 虐殺する.
2 ((略式))…をこてんぱんにやっつける.
［古フランス語macecler （macher打ち割る＋col首）. △SMASH］
-crer
[名]lake
n.
- A large inland body of fresh water or salt water.
- A scenic pond, as in a park.
- A large pool of liquid: a lake of spilled coffee on my desk.
[Middle English, from Old French lac and from Old English lacu, both from Latin lacus.]
phan·tom/ fan·tom (făn'təm) 
also n.
- Something apparently seen, heard, or sensed, but having no physical reality; a ghost or an apparition.
- Something elusive or delusive.
- An image that appears only in the mind; an illusion.
- Something dreaded or despised.
- Resembling, characteristic of, or being a phantom; illusive.
- Fictitious; nonexistent: phantom employees on the payroll.
[Middle English fantom, from Old French fantosme, probably from Vulgar Latin *phantauma, from Greek dialectal *phantagma, from Greek phantasma. See phantasm.]
phantom
- 音節
- phan • tom
- 発音
- fǽntəm
- phantomの変化形
- phantoms (複数形)
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The Myth of Consensus Politics
By SAM TANENHAUS
For most of the past century, consensus in American politics has been more phantom than fact.
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