Culture and Media
Riverdance featured in the video for the song Explosion by the German band Fotos.
'Riverdance' appears in the 2006 film 'Ghosts', directed by Nick Broomfield, based on the 2004 Morecambe Bay cockling disaster. Chinese immigrant Ai Qin is smuggled from Calais to Dover hidden inside a van aboard the ship.
The salvage operation was the subject of an episode of Salvage: Code Red, a National Geographic Channel documentary series.
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“Whatever offices of life are performed by women of culture and refinement are thenceforth elevated; they cease to be mere servile toils, and become expressions of the ideas of superior beings.”
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