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1 day agoJapanese submersible aircraft carriers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine_aircraft_carriers_of_Japan
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Typewriters didn’t destroy calligraphy and cameras didn’t destroy painting.
9·4 days agoBack in the day, Gloria Vanderbilt was the richest girl in America.
She was invited to dine with the young Queen Elizabeth. Gloria asked one of her friends what Elizabeth had that Gloria didn’t?
When they got to the dinner, there was a servant behind every guest to pull out their chairs.
Gloria noticed that Elizabeth was the only one who didn’t bother to look behind to see if the servant had put the chair back.
2·4 days agoI hope they use younger actors. ‘Space Cowboys’ had younger actors lip synching Eastwood and Jones for the early scenes. Either that or do it an an animation, the way they brought back Adam West to do a final Batman movie.
I hate deaging.
More than five ‘executive producers.’
Heat is as good as people have been telling you.
There’s also a novel, Heat 2, written by the movie’s director that serves as a prequel and sequel.
In every possible way, ‘The Venture Brothers’ is the superior viewing experience.
In “Space Cowboys” they had younger actors lip sync to Eastwood, Sutherland et al.
I’d like to see something like this.
King Conan tells a few tales of his younger days to warriors around a fire on the eve of battle.
Before Virginia seceded Lincoln offered Lee control of the Union Army.
If you aren’t intimately familiar with the Watergate saga you’ll want to keep notes.
They’ll casually throw out a line about Jeb McGruder or Spiro Agnew and you’ll have no idea where those guys fit in.
13·7 days ago[off topic]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Patrick's_Battalion
St. Patrick’s Battalion.
A lot of Irish immigrants were recruited to fight against the Mexicans.
They got to Mexico and realized they liked the Catholic Mexicans better than the Protestant Americans [who reminded the Irsih of their English oppressors.]
Back in the day, some places had laws against begging. A poor person would buy a dozen pencils for a nickel and ‘sell’ them to passersby.
Mr. Bigshot is treating the beggar like a young MBA looking for an important job.
Two good stories.
We know exactly where they stopped because Lewis would dose the men with mercury, and we can detect the latrines where they passed mercury laden stool.
The captains took along enough liquor to get the men drunk until they were too far from civilization to turn back.
They were all healthy folks in the prime of life.
They’d all lived in the wilderness before.
Lewis had been trained as a doctor before leaving.
Jesse Ventura has entered the chat and he’s carrying a steel chair!
3·10 days agoThe X-Babes have entered the chat
Depends on what kind of werewolf.
Some weres look exactly like a normal wolf, and others are part human-part beast.
“The Maltese Falcon” by Dashiell Hammett was the novel that created the hard boiled private eye genre. Hammett was a real life Pinkerton operative before turning to writing. He served in WW1 and WW2 and ended up in jail because he refused to name names during the Red Scare.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dashiell_Hammett
Maltese Falcon movie
I’m only mildly obsessed with WW2.
Anytime I think I’ve found everything, there are fifty more rabbit holes waiting.