![]() military base in Qatar in an effort to use the military database to discover the location of Megatron and the Cube, but they do not succeed. In the present day, the rest of the Decepticons-Blackout, Scorponok, Frenzy, Barricade, Starscream, Bonecrusher, and Devastator-have already landed on Earth and assumed the disguise of Earth vehicles. The still-frozen Megatron is moved into this facility, and is reverse engineered to further advance human technology. Sector Seven, a secret organization of the United States government, discovers the Energon Cube and builds the Hoover Dam around it to mask the energy signal. Megatron's navigational system is unintentionally activated, and Archibald's eye glasses are imprinted with the coordinates to the Cube's location. Captain Archibald Witwicky and his crew of explorers stumble upon Megatron's body in the late 19th century. ![]() Megatron discovers the Cube on Earth, but crash-lands in the Arctic Circle, becoming frozen in the ice. The book begins with the history of Cybertron's destruction at the hands of Megatron, and his quest to obtain the Energon Cube. ![]()
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She has shown her work at the following universities and institutions: University of Lleida (UdL), Tunis University, University of Jaén (UJA), International University of Andalucia (UNIA), Spanish National Research Council (CSIC-Madrid), The Sysmän Kirjasto Library in Finland, The Shanghai Writers’ Association (SWA), Fudan University in China, The East China Normal University, Sinan Mansion, The Instituto Cervantes in Shanghai, the Conrad Festival in Poland, the Massolit Bookshop, Bar Bazza and the Instituto Cervantes in Krakow along with other libraries and secondary or higher education establishments. Núria Añó is a Catalan/Spanish writer, translator and speaker at international conferences, where she usually talks about literary creation, the cinema, cities or authors like Elfriede Jelinek, Patricia Highsmith, Salka Viertel, Alexandre Dumas fils, Franz Werfel or Karen Blixen. ![]() ![]() Crowned Waterstones Book of the Year 2015, The Fox and the Star has been widely regarded as one of the finest illustrated children’s books of all time, winning accolades the world over for its visuals, story, and embracing of the ‘classic fable’ approach. ![]() They are the starting point of a new exhibition, opening today, that documents the process behind the instant classic. ![]() First sketches of Fox © Coralie Bickford-Smith ![]() ![]() ![]() But she is a ghostly shadow of her former self, and with scars across her body - wide, deep burns, as though she had been attacked by a monster who breathed fire.Īlex, growing from young girl to fiercely independent teenager, is desperate for answers, but doesn't get any. ![]() Then Alex's mother disappears, and reappears a week later, one quiet Tuesday, with no explanation whatsoever as to where she has been. 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