The Lonely Planet guide book series first expanded in Asia, with the India guide book in 1981, and expanded to rest of the world. Geoff Crowther was noticed for frequently inserting his opinions into the text of the guides he wrote. His writing was helpful to the rise of Lonely Planet. The journalist used the word "Geoffness", in tribute to Crowther, to show a quality that has been lost in travel guides.
By 1999, Lonely Planet had sold 30 million copies of its travel guides. The company's creators consequently benefited from profit-sharing and expensive events were held at the Melbourne office, at which limousines would arrive, filled with Lonely Planet workers.
In 2007, the Wheelers and John Singleton sold a 75% stake in the company to BBC Worldwide, worth a guess of £63 million at the time. The company was creating 500 titles and went into television production. BBC Worldwide struggled following the loss, registering a £3.2 million loss in the year to the end of March 2009. By the end of March 2010, profits of £1.9 million had been generated, as digital profits had risen 37% year-on-year over the preceding 12 months, a "Lonely Planet" magazine had grown and non-print profits grew from 9% in 2007 to 22%.
Lonely Planet's digital presence included 140 apps and 8.5 million unique users for lonelyplanet.com, which made the Thorn Tree travel website forum. BBC Worldwide gained the remaining 25% of the company for £42.1 million (A$67.2 million) from the Wheelers.
By 2012 BBC wanted to sell itself of the company and in March 2013 confirmed the sale of Lonely Planet to Brad Kelley's NC2 Media for US$77.8 million (£51.5 million), at nearly an £80 million (US$118.89 million) loss.
In April 2020 Lonely Planet made the decision to close its Australian and London offices and lower staffing levels globally in response to the loss in the travel industry resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. The company continued to create its guidebooks, phrasebooks, maps, children's books and inspirational picture tutorials but chose to close its magazine.
In December 2020, NC2 Media sold Lonely Planet to Red Ventures for an unknown amount. Lonely Planet offices continue to work in Dublin, Franklin, New Delhi and Beijing.
Lonely Planet's online community, the Thorn Tree, was created in 1996. It is named for a Naivasha thorn tree ("Acacia xanthophloea") that has been used as a message board for the city of Nairobi, Kenya since 1902. The tree still exists in the Stanley Hotel, Nairobi. It is used by over 600,000 travelers to share their experiences and look for advice. Thorn Tree has many different forum categories including different countries, places to visit depending on one's interests, travel buddies, and Lonely Planet support.
In 2009, Lonely Planet began creating a monthly travel magazine called "Lonely Planet Traveler". It is available in digital versions for a number of countries.
Lonely Planet also had its own television creation company, which has produced series, such as "Globe Trekker", "Lonely Planet Six Degrees", and "Lonely Planet: Roads Less Travelled". Toby Amies and Asha Gill (both British TV presenters) took part in the Lonely Planet Six degrees.
Estrées
Estrée or Estrées is the name of several communes in France:
Estrées-Mons
Estrées-Mons is a commune. It is in Hauts-de-France in the Somme department in north France.
Estrées, Nord
Estrées is a commune. It is in the Nord department in northern France.
Memoir of Japanese Assassinations
Memoir of Japanese Assassinations (日本暗殺秘録, "Nihon ansatsu hiroku") is a 1969 Japanese historical drama film written and directed by . The movie was based on a 1958 novel "Secret Assassination" by historian Tadashi Suzuki. This anthology film consists of nine incidents in the late and early when assassins changed the course of .
Much like the more well-known movie , which would premiere a year later in 1970, "Memoirs of Japanese Assassins" in a docudrama, which some might find boring, but have a certain love for these types of historical films. Unlike Tora Tora Tora, this movie has no overall plot or protagonist and is just a series of scenes.
Despite being a country with low crime, political assassination has a long history in . Although not nearly as common before , there have been assassinations post-1945, most notably when 17 year old nationalist killed chairman of the Japan Socialist Party on live TV in 1960.
Japanese assassins occupied a special place in the Japanese psyche. Often times, the sincerity of their beliefs were given consideration, and if they were motivated by selfless causes, their punishments were often less severe than a nonpolitical murder. That being said, this was not the case of all assassinations, with Japanese society far more divided than some postwar historians have portrayed it as, i.e. a regimented military dictatorship.
The assassinations depicted alternate between cold detachment and a sympathetic biopic.
The film set during the 19th and 20th centuries such as the , the , the , and the . Throughout the whole story, it depicts a young assassins who is full of pure and beautiful energy of the dissident and confronts the power of time with the spirit of abandoned stones
This work focuses on the sadness of joining the clan and turning into a terrorist from the birth of the main character, Shō Onuma (played by ), and the from the assassination of in 1932.
Chiba took a break from the TV drama "", which he starred in, and devoted himself to it, awakening while suffering , and politely played Onuma in his youth. for , a radical Buddhist preacher of who leads Onuma, Jiro Tamiya for Hitoshi Fujii, a cadet officer of the who participate in the , and for Takako, an employee whom Onuma meets again. it was arranged and the sides are solidified.
Of the 142 minutes of screening time, the shooting for the League of Blood Incident chapter was about 100 minutes, and the rest is mainly the moment of assassination on the omnibus. These incidents are the (1860), the Kioisaka Incident (1878), the Assassination of Ōkuma Shigenobu (1889), the Attack on Hoshi Tōru (1901), the (1921), the Guillotine Society Incident (1924), the (1932), the (1935), and the (1936) in that order.
Chapter 1: Sakuradamon Incident (桜田門外の変, Sakuradamon-gai no Hen)
Date: March 24, 1860
Location: , , present-day
Period time: Bakumatsu era
Characters:
Chapter 2: Kioisaka Incident (紀尾井坂の変, "Kioi-zaka no hen")
Date: May 14, 1878
Location: .
Period time: Meiji era
Characters:
Chapter 3: Okuma Shigenobu Case Incident (大隈重信遭難事件, "Ōkuma shigenobu sōnan jiken")
Date: October 18, 1889
Location: , ,
Period time: Meiji era
Characters:
Chapter 4: Hoshi Tōru Case Incident (星亨暗殺事件, "Hoshi tōru ansatsu jiken")
Date: June 21, 1901
Location:
Period time: Meiji era
Characters:
Chapter 5: Assassination of Yasuda Zenjirō Incident (安田善次郎暗殺事件, "Yasuda zenjirō ansatsu jiken")
Date: September 28, 1921
Location:
Period: Taishō era
Characters:
Chapter 6: Guillotine Society Incident (ギロチン社事件, "Girochin-sha jiken")
Date: September 10, 1923
Location:
Period: Taishō era
Characters:
Chapter 7: League of Blood Incident (血盟団事件, "Ketsumeidan Jiken")
Date: 1932
Location: mainland
Period: Showa era
Estrées-sur-Noye
Estrées-sur-Noye is a commune. It is in Hauts-de-France in the Somme department in north France.
Abscon
Abscon is a commune. It is in the Nord department in northern France.
Étalon, Somme
Étalon is a commune. It is in Hauts-de-France in the Somme department in north France.
Granit Xhaka
Granit Xhaka (born 27 September 1992) is a Swiss football player. He plays as a midfielder for Arsenal and is the captain of the Switzerland national team.
Ételfay
Ételfay is a commune. It is in Hauts-de-France in the Somme department in north France.
Huế Massacre