Suffix -dom

Forming nouns denoting the condition or state of the root word.  boredom, freedom, martyrdom, stardom

Forming nouns denoting the domain or jurisdiction of the root word.  Christendom, fiefdom, kingdom, Saxondom

Forming nouns — usually nonce words — denoting the set of all examples of the suffixed word. quotations ▼

catdom, dogdom, furrydom, gothdom, wingdom

(fandom slang) Forming nouns denoting the fandom of the suffixed word.

Potterdom, stfdom  https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-dom   

"If you give a person a book, you give him the world.  And children deserve the world, don't you think?"  “I’ve always believed that books are simply dreams on paper, taking us where we most need to go.”  See more quotes from the novel The Paris Daughter by Kristin Harmel at   https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/98135072-the-paris-daughter    

It Came from Outer Space is a 1953 American science fiction horror film, the first in the 3D process from Universal-International.  It was produced by William Alland and directed by Jack Arnold.  The film stars Richard Carlson and Barbara Rush, and features Charles Drake, Joe Sawyer, and Russell Johnson.  The script is based on Ray Bradbury's original film treatment "The Meteor" and not, as sometimes claimed, a published short story.  It Came from Outer Space tells the story of an amateur astronomer and his fiancée who are stargazing in the desert when a large fiery object crashes to Earth.  At the crash site, he discovers a round alien spaceship just before it is completely buried by a landslide.  When he tells the local sheriff and newspaper editor what he saw, he is branded a crackpot.  Before long, odd things begin to happen, and the disbelief turns hostile.  The screenplay by Harry Essex, with input by Jack Arnold, was derived from an original and lengthy screen treatment by Ray Bradbury; screen legend says that Bradbury wrote the screenplay and Harry Essex merely changed the dialogue and took the credit. Unusual among science fiction films of the era, the alien "invaders" were portrayed by Bradbury as creatures stranded on Earth and without malicious intent toward humanity.  Bradbury said "I wanted to treat the invaders as beings who were not dangerous, and that was very unusual."  He offered two story outlines to the studio, one with malicious aliens, the other with benign aliens.  "The studio picked the right concept, and I stayed on."  In 2004 Bradbury published in one volume all four versions of his screen treatment for It Came From Outer Space.   

Filming took place on location in and around the California towns of Palmdale, Victorville, and the Mojave Desert, as well as on Universal's sound stages.  The film's uncredited music score was composed by Irving Gertz, Henry Mancini, and Herman Stein.  A made-for-TV sequel titled It Came from Outer Space II was released in 1996, starring Brian Kerwin, Elizabeth Peña, Jonathan Carrasco, Adrian Sparks, Bill McKinney, Dean Norris, Lauren Tewes, Mickey Jones and Howard Morris.  Written by Jim and Ken Wheat, it was directed by Roger Duchowny, and was his final work before retiring.  The story is essentially a remake of the first film, with former small town resident Jack Putnam (Kerwin) returning and witnessing an alien craft landing.  Strange things then begin to happen, with his neighbors behaving oddly and the power going off and on.  It Came from Outer Space is one of the classic films mentioned in the opening theme ("Science Fiction/Double Feature") of the 1973 musical The Rocky Horror Show and its 1975 film adaptation.  It is also referenced in the film Night of the Comet (1984).  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Came_from_Outer_Space   

Pygmalion is a play by Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw, named after the Greek mythological figure.  It premiered at the Hofburg Theatre in Vienna on 16 October 1913 and was first presented on stage in German.  Its English-language premiere took place at His Majesty's Theatre in London's West End in April 1914 and starred Herbert Beerbohm Tree as phonetics professor Henry Higgins and Mrs Patrick Campbell as Cockney flower-girl Eliza Doolittle.  In ancient Greek mythology, Pygmalion fell in love with one of his sculptures, which then came to life.  The general idea of that myth was a popular subject for Victorian era British playwrights, including one of Shaw's influences, W. S. Gilbert, who wrote a successful play based on the story called Pygmalion and Galatea that was first presented in 1871.  Shaw would also have been familiar with the musical Adonis and the burlesque version, Galatea, or Pygmalion Reversed.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygmalion_(play)   

May 1 is celebrated as International Workers’ Day or Labour Day in many countries to recognize the achievements and contributions of workers. The American Federation of Labor chose this date to commemorate a demonstration in support of workers striking for an eight-hour work day, which began on this day in 1886,  Wiktionary   

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