... medium. Another source states that the first to record a radio drama was Captain Peter Eckersly. The balcony scene from Cyrano was recorded in the Marconi studio, a wooden hut, in 1922. Twelfth Night, broadcast on May 12 1923, was the first comparatively full length production, a classic stage play adapted for radio. The first play written specifically for the medium, however, was Danger by ... life as a novel written by Arthur Hovey Davis. It was then adapted for stage, so successfully that "the police were called to restore order at the box office on opening night" It is a good exampl...

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... charge lay against them.5 This was based on the principle of divine intervention and the belief that divine forces would not allow an innocent person to be harmed. In the twelfth century England, when the Assize was first introduced, unlike the modern-day jury, the jury was just a tool for the king; the earliest recorded juries were employed to be as ... applicable to a recent case of R v McKenna14 where the jury was threatened by the judge, saying that if they did not reach a verdict within 10 minutes they would be kept all night. It was held that the court had no power to pre-empt the...

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... of the most intact and highly ornate examples of the classical Hindu architecture that remains synonymous with the Khmer empire. The initial construction of the temple complex began in the twelfth century AD and is estimated to have continued for the next fifty years. Built by the Khmer king Suryavarman the second, the Angkor complex was meant to function as the ... . This is seen every full moon in the visually compelling Ramayana Ballet. The Ramayana ballet, a traditional Javanese dance, is a centuries old dance of the Javanese court performed every full moon night in the Prambanan com...

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