"Michael Collins" is a story about the birth of a nation, and there is no happy ending.

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They will be there to attend a ceremony on Saturday to mark the birth of a new nation.

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And when they made it through the most difficult time which may have determined the difference between the birth or extinction of a nation, they gave thanks.

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Director DW Griffith (of Birth of a Nation fame) discovered the sunny village of Hollywood in 1910 while filming the 17-minute long motion picture, In Old California.

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People who have been following the torturous birth-pains of eBook-nation will instantly recall that this very same feature caused a bit of a fracas when Amazon included a text-to-voice feature in the Kindle 2, which it released in February 2009.

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