What are some events in history that most people would be surprised happened in parallel or at least within the same time period?
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I mean it makes perfect sense. From her perspective, I would just pull it out of my pocket and start gently rubbing it carefully with my finger, or prodding softly at it. She just thought it was weird. Why are you doing that? Okay, your device's principles are strange.
She actually never got completely used to "buttons" as she called it, any kind of machine that you had to use a separate control setup for other than just the direct valves or levers involved. Turning the steering wheel makes sense, turning the knobs on the stove makes sense. Any time she put something in the toaster oven, though, with its multiple modes and controls, she would just savagely twist or push any knob she could find until the thing started making heat, and then when she was done, she would remove the object and leave the door open to let the thing gradually figure out things out on its own and shut off. "Life is short, man, don't bother me with your goddamn buttons, I don't care."
When my mom got her first smartphone, she had such a hard time with buttons. She would either poke at the quickly and tentatively (she thought she'd get a shock), or push really hard. She finally figured it out, but it took far too long.
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Another really great, and highly underrated film about the end of the Old West, is The Shootist.
It's John Wayne's last movie, and it serves as a metaphor for his acting career. He plays a legendary, but aging, dying gunfighter who is determined to go down shooting, and other gunfighters come to town to test him. It also features late performances by Lauren Bacall and Jimmy Stewart, and an early film performance by Ron Howard.
A truly great, quiet film, that most people have never heard of.
I'll need to check that out - have heard of it, but never seen it. Not usually a fan of John Wayne, but it sounds a good premise. Thanks!
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I'll need to check that out - have heard of it, but never seen it. Not usually a fan of John Wayne, but it sounds a good premise. Thanks!
I'm not a big fan either (a few exceptions), but this is definitely his best performance. He's The Duke all the way, but it is a character that he nearly invented, so he's perfect in it.
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I'm not a big fan either (a few exceptions), but this is definitely his best performance. He's The Duke all the way, but it is a character that he nearly invented, so he's perfect in it.
Will definitely keep an eye out for it, thanks again for the tip, I likely would never even have considered it otherwise!
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American Old West: 1803-1912
I had no idea it was that young.
This lead me to this fun fact: The last stage coach robbery was 2 years after WWI began.
Last stage coach robbery was 1916
Also, Titanic had already been sitting at the bottom of the Atlantic for 4 years (1912) when that stage coach was robbed.
Oh yeah it involved trains and was interrupted by the civil war
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Battle of Little Big Horn was in June, 1876.
The first telephone call was made March 10, 1876.
Man Walked on the Moon in 1969. A few weeks after the Stonewall Riots.
The summer of 1969 was three of the most influential months in American culture. June: Stonewall riots; July: moon landing; August: Woodstock music festival.
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Thanks for raising the LGBT community people don't realise how awful our history is
How‽ Maybe I just spoke to my elders when I was younger, but even as a baby queer I knew that we were mocked as we died en masse, that we weren't released from the concentration camps after WWII, and that we used to get arrested for anything and everything related to queerness.
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Galileo, the homeboy who discovered Jupiter’s moons and Saturn’s rings, was 43 years old when the first British settlers landed at Jamestown.
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How‽ Maybe I just spoke to my elders when I was younger, but even as a baby queer I knew that we were mocked as we died en masse, that we weren't released from the concentration camps after WWII, and that we used to get arrested for anything and everything related to queerness.
Yep IME they often think it's ancient history though, they don't realise how recent it is
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They Might Be Giants probably wrote more than one.
I can't think of one specifically about math, unless you wanna count the Advil bit at the beginning of Til My Head Falls Off or the "count the arms the legs and heads and then divide by five" part of Certain People I Could Name. Or most of the tracks on Here Come the 123s, but those are more about numbers than math itself.
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The last execution by guillotine in France happened while Star Wars A New Hope was already in theaters.
And Christoffer Lee (Saruman) was at the execution!
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Wasn't the 'exodus' just 5 families or something?
Wasn't it more of an eviction?
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Yep IME they often think it's ancient history though, they don't realise how recent it is
wrote on last edited by [email protected]I'm only 30 and gay men my parents' age were few and far between when I was a kid. You didn't have old trans people who were open about their life unless they were either sex workers or exceptional enough to be in the public eye. Damn near every lesbian my parents' age was some kind of psychologically broken or she wasn't really involved in the gay community.
The survivors are still around. Anyone who hasn't listened to them should while they're still here because the clock is ticking and hard lives often arent long ones.
Also anyone interested should listen to ths podcast Making Gay Historty which is interviews with influential queer people, many of which were done during the height of aids
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I think many people lump him in with the Italian Renaissance, because the name. And many people don't know quite when the Renaissance happened.
All of this makes it more confusing, not less
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And Christoffer Lee (Saruman) was at the execution!
Christopher Lee?
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This was very surprising after having seen a few Western movies from the 1940s. They were already making movies about the period which was in living memory for a lot of people.
I suppose it makes some sense. We were making 1970s throwback shows and movies as early as the 1990s.
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There were humans who lived through both the final fall of the (eastern half of) the Roman Empire (May 29, 1453) and the European discovery of the Americas (October 12, 1492). The time between these two critical milestones in European history seems like it should have been much longer than 39 years, 4 months, and 13 days.
Romans saw the Americas
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Anne Frank and Martin Luther King Jr were born in the same year, which made them 3 years younger than Queen Elizabeth II and Marilyn Monroe
Julius Caesar and Cleopatra died 40-30 years before the birth of Jesus Christ
Well, Julius Caesar and Cleopatra were an item, so it is not that surprising they were contemporary.
I knew that Elizabeth II and Marilyn Monroe were less than two months apart with their birthdays (21 Apr 1926 vs. 1 Jun 1926), but it was always a bit surreal. Can you imagine a 80 year old Marilyn Monroe in 2006?
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And Christoffer Lee (Saruman) was at the execution!
He was at the last public excecution which happened in 1939, after this one they were still done but not publicly
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The German ship Blücher was sunk during WW2 by a Whitehead Torpedo.
Buffalo Bill likely passed within a few hundred yards of one such torpedo while visiting Britain.
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