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System Metternich posted:My castrati post made me wonder what other interesting "lasts" I could find I love this. More please, if anyone has any
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# ? Jan 31, 2016 01:06 |
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RenegadeStyle1 posted:Are you telling me Paul Bunyan wasn't really a giant?!? To give an example of how much heights can be exaggerated - this is Siah Khan, who was unfortunate enough to suffer from both Proteus Syndrome and Gigantism. He was reported to be 11'3" (sometimes even 12') when in fact he was 7'3", a full 4' shorter.
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# ? Jan 31, 2016 01:13 |
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Holy. That was painful and wonderful to watch.
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# ? Jan 31, 2016 01:35 |
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System Metternich posted:
This has no connection I could tease out from the West Indian dance style/rhythm of the same name. How disappointing.
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# ? Jan 31, 2016 03:15 |
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Don't forget Sylvia Browne: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKyzBe0CA2Q Also predicted that she would die at 88, but whoops, it was 77 instead.
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# ? Jan 31, 2016 04:33 |
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System Metternich posted:Castrati were extremely popular in European music throughout the Early Modern Era, especially when it came to Italian opera. Historians estimate that at its peak in the 1720s and 30s more than 4000 boys were castrated - per year. This practice only declined in popularity from the late 18th century on. The last role explicitly written for a castrato was in a 1824 opera. In 1861, the newly unified Kingdom of Italy forbade castration. The practice lingered on in the Vatican, but even there no new castrati could be hired by papal decree from 1878 on. Alessandro Moreschi, he last papal castrato (and probably the very last altogether) continued to sing in Rome until 1914. He's also the only one who was recorded: The quality of the recording and pitch of his voice reminded me of those terrifying recordings made for Edison dolls. System Metternich posted:
AD
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# ? Jan 31, 2016 05:04 |
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Oops! Yeah, AD, sorry. I also forgot to say just when Göldi was killed: it was in 1782 - at the same time the Enlightenment was in full swing someone thought it to be a good idea to kill his lover by accusing her of witchcraft.
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System Metternich posted:I also forgot to say just when Göldi was killed: it was in 1782 - at the same time the Enlightenment was in full swing someone thought it to be a good idea to kill his lover by accusing her of witchcraft. Well, it worked, didn't it?
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System Metternich posted:The Witchcraft Acts only made it illegal for any person to claim to possess magical powers, though That doesn't really make it less stupid though.
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# ? Jan 31, 2016 17:34 |
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DavidAlltheTime posted:This has no connection I could tease out from the West Indian dance style/rhythm of the same name. How disappointing. Etymonline says that they're related linguistically through the chain: Beguine -> Beghard -> beggaert -> béguin -> beguine
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# ? Jan 31, 2016 18:41 |
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System Metternich posted:There are exactly two people still living who were born in the 19th century: Susannah Mushatt Jones from the US and Emma Morana from Italy. Both were born in 1899. (I know that formally speaking the year 1900 still belongs to the 19th century if we count that too, the number of still living people rises to four with Violet Brown from Jamaica and Nabi Tajima from Japan added to the list) It strikes me as a neat coincidence that the upper limit of human age is just about 1,000,000 hours (just shy of 114 years and two months). The first person verified as passing that mark was Matthew Beard in 1985; even with generally increasing life expectancies there are still less than ten living people (a little more than one billionth of the population of the planet) confirmed as having joined the million-hours-plus club..
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# ? Jan 31, 2016 19:04 |
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Hogge Wild posted:He's not. And he's also not a racist and he doesn't absolve Western countries from the things they have done, some goons just don't like him because he's popular. Everything he wrote isn't true, but Guns, Germs and Steel isn't some modern day Mein Kampf. Thankfully, we have Newt Gingrich on the case for that! In Defense of Belgian Education in the Colonial Congo
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# ? Jan 31, 2016 19:30 |
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Alhazred posted:At age eight Sun Yaoting was castrated by his father so that he could serve the Chinese emperor as an eunuch. Eight months later the emperor was deposed. quote:He was castrated at the age of eight by his father[1] with a single swoop of a razor, mere months before the final emperor was deposed.[2][3][4] Yikes.
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# ? Jan 31, 2016 23:04 |
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DavidAlltheTime posted:Now I have to add 'Straighten Coolidge's tie' to my list of Time Machine goals. I've seen quite a few pictures of people from the 20s with crooked ties. Maybe it was in fashion.
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# ? Jan 31, 2016 23:30 |
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Aesop Poprock posted:Not exactly an unstoppable force of charisma was he
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# ? Jan 31, 2016 23:36 |
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Abraham Lincoln had a very high pitched voice sometimes described as sounding like a tea kettle. He was also possibly gay making him the second gay president after James Buchanan.
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# ? Jan 31, 2016 23:45 |
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Not sure if this was mentioned already, but I find this to be kind of a neat trivia question. Bugs Bunny is the only cartoon character in history to hold a US Military Rank at Master Sergeant for the short "Super-Rabbit" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super-Rabbit) during World War II.
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# ? Jan 31, 2016 23:48 |
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FreudianSlippers posted:Abraham Lincoln had a very high pitched voice sometimes described as sounding like a tea kettle. He was also possibly gay making him the second gay president after James Buchanan. Thomas Jefferson had severe nerd voice and was almost certainly on the spectrum.
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# ? Jan 31, 2016 23:50 |
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Many people think Lincoln had Marfan's Syndrome due to his height and long-limbed appearance. http://www.redorbit.com/news/general/1354040/was_lincoln_already_dying_when_he_got_shot/
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# ? Feb 1, 2016 00:38 |
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syscall girl posted:Thomas Jefferson had severe nerd voice and was almost certainly on the spectrum. If more autists were like Jefferson, then it'd be cool. Instead, we get bronies, and memes. We get 20-something
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# ? Feb 1, 2016 00:51 |
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Johnny Aztec posted:If more autists were like Jefferson, then it'd be cool. Instead, we get bronies, and memes. We get 20-something I'd like to see as few slavers running around as possible.
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# ? Feb 1, 2016 01:45 |
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Johnny Aztec posted:If more autists were like Jefferson, then it'd be cool. Instead, we get bronies, and memes. We get 20-something
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# ? Feb 1, 2016 01:46 |
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I hope you guys didn't trip over yourselves jumping in that fast
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# ? Feb 1, 2016 02:07 |
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Say Nothing posted:Many people think Lincoln had Marfan's Syndrome due to his height and long-limbed appearance. I have Marfan's and dude is was just a tall lanky cat people with Marfan's have a certain facial structure to them
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# ? Feb 1, 2016 02:33 |
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FreudianSlippers posted:Abraham Lincoln had a very high pitched voice sometimes described as sounding like a tea kettle. He was also possibly gay making him the second gay president after James Buchanan. Lincoln was probably not gay. None of his contemporaries thought so, and the only biographer who thinks so is a gay author who wants to sell books
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# ? Feb 1, 2016 02:47 |
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How the gently caress do you determine if a historical figure is gay or not
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# ? Feb 1, 2016 02:50 |
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goose fleet posted:How the gently caress do you determine if a historical figure is gay or not You say "historical figure was gay" and whenever someone disputes it you say "well, you can't know for sure he wasn't gay"
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# ? Feb 1, 2016 02:54 |
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George Washington was gay
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# ? Feb 1, 2016 02:58 |
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I'm not sure that's true.
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# ? Feb 1, 2016 02:59 |
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Well you can't know for sure he wasn't gay
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# ? Feb 1, 2016 03:01 |
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Hm, fair point.
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# ? Feb 1, 2016 03:02 |
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goose fleet posted:How the gently caress do you determine if a historical figure is gay or not You try to find evidence that they had sexual relationships with persons of their own gender. lol just kidding you make poo poo up and wait for the controversy dollarydoos to roll in.
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# ? Feb 1, 2016 03:06 |
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If Thomas Jefferson was born today he'd be a brony who makes really racist rants on facebook.
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# ? Feb 1, 2016 03:15 |
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In all seriousness though, here's a list of presidential voices, starting at Truman and going backwards Truman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3Ib4wTq0jY FDR: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lK8gYGg0dkE Hoover: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=126jonMQGjo Coolidge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5puwTrLRhmw (you already saw this, first president speaking on video) Harding: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXETeWS6ub8 Wilson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yb30L-NmKjo Taft: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEG0xT7fddw Teddy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhlzdjPGxrs McKinley: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6ZUneyU7Vo Cleveland: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-5Bk1Hjstc Harrison: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pU4gGEL5c8g (earliest presidential voice recording)
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# ? Feb 1, 2016 03:41 |
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It's amazing to hear the change in the 'American' accent - all the 19th century presidents sound like various shades of FDR, whose accent always sounded like an affectation. Compare that with Eisenhower, who sounds 'modern.' One wonders how differently American English sounded from today. There are a few surviving examples, like a thick Appalachian or the Tangier Island accent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upKqzxuJ5L4
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# ? Feb 1, 2016 04:46 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UV2wRCcWJa8 William Jennings Bryan recorded a portion of his Cross of Gold speech for its 25th anniversary in 1921. It's probably nowhere near as good as the original, since he was a quarter century older and speaking for studio equipment instead of a huge crowd during a tense political convention, but it's still amazing to be able to hear him deliver it.
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Unfunny Poster posted:Not sure if this was mentioned already, but I find this to be kind of a neat trivia question.
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# ? Feb 1, 2016 05:11 |
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I like how Teddy does not sound anywhere near as manly as memes make him out to be
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# ? Feb 1, 2016 05:13 |
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Mans posted:Yikes. It's a strange yet very very Chinese thing. Pre-communist China had a borderline fetishistic obsession with a sort of clean, efficient and calculated methodology. Not going to go into the extremely lengthy reasons why, but it basically has to do with the ideals preached by many of the mainstream schools of Taoism. Something as life changing and defining as lopping off your kid's nuts would definitely have fallen under that sort of thought, that a single deft cut is more poetic and therefor a better foundation for your future as a eunuch. Singular obsessions and perfection of simple craft as art is a very ingrained thing in Chinese culture, especially pre-revolution. Kung-Fu, for example, is what we usually use to describe a school of martial arts, but in the past was often used to describe anyone who had attained a sense of enlightened mastery over their defining task. Lots of Taoist parables about, like, why the farmer who spends his entire life growing a single plant in order to make the perfect fruit is a better and cooler person than the farmer who grows lots of crops so he can sell them. If you ever want to read a tale set in a world where the moral grounding is radically different, read The Water Margin, a story in which the concept of being good at kung-fu absolving you of your sins is taken to an insane degree. There are a set of characters who are cannibal serial killers who ran an Inn and kidnapped their guests in order to devour them. But then one of them learns Kung-Fu and he's a 100% heroic guy now, despite having done literally nothing else.
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# ? Feb 1, 2016 05:25 |
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goose fleet posted:I like how Teddy does not sound anywhere near as manly as memes make him out to be Speak Softly...and carry a BIIIIG Stick!
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