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  1. martinsantos

    Russia posts Katyn Forest documents

    Interesting, sad and tragic. Tks for sharing.
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    Unfortunate food, fortunately forgotten

    My grandmother made the same kind of food almost all her life. Used a lot of gelatine - but only for candies. usually her fruit candies were marvelous - but I remember very well one (she called it as "mighty pinky" or something like that. Have the aspect of a pink spounge) that walways put me in...
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    What Are You Reading

    "The Trial of Socrates" by I. F. Stone. The most interesting book about Socrates' ideas I have read. Certainly is impossible to desagree with the author. Now I'm trying to find anything else by him...
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    What are you listening to?

    This LP is just marvelous! Love it.
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    What are you listening to?

    Completely agree with you, Rue! Great song, make rain, make sun... But here is raining a lot too, and looks like a sad Monday. Here I'm with Glen Gray playing Hoagy Carmichael.
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    You can do better ....

    I don't know if this is the truth or not... But as I hat user, I prefer to listen people believing this!
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    Does vintage make you look.... *older*?

    Agree with you. An example of a good change. At the days of Erasmus of Rotterdam, the "good manners" formulae to thanks someone because opened a door for your would take around 15 minutes. The translation of the word "thanks" in portuguese is "obrigado". The origin of the word is the...
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    Misconceptions of World War II

    Don't forget that Brazil's dictator at that time, Getulio Vargas (1930 - 1945), had much more ideological proximity with Mussolini than with democracy. At the same time, he needed USA's help. USA was the biggest market for brazilian products - followed for a narrow margin by Germany. His trully...
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    Does vintage make you look.... *older*?

    Usually "boring people" are those folks who like to talk about things you don't want to chat about. For example, if I want to talk about Glenn Miller in a group of Nirvana fans, probably they won't like... and call me "boring" (exactly what happened with me at high school).
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    Film Noir?

    Doug, I certainly will take a look in these films you are recommending - noir or not noir, good they must be! I saw Body Heat. Really it has "inspiration" on classic noir and specially "Double Indemnity", as you pointed. But as good as this inspired photography can be (and really it is...
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    Film Noir?

    It would be an interesting and enormous thread!! There is a lot of academic works about film noir and exactly it would be. One of the most intersting I've read selected around 150 films, putting a lot of others as "grey" films category, not noir. But this is just one author's idea.
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    Film Noir?

    John, I belive that a lot of folks didn't really see the whole production. But saw enough to know the most sparkling features, specially the technical ones... Not much time ago I saw an horrible "tutorial" about "how to make noir photography". Something to make the old masters come back from the...
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    I remember when.....

    Liberdade blocks stopped in XIXth Century. There are some very interesting places and legends around, specially about ghosts and so on (near Liberdade Avenue was the very first cemetary in SP, from XVIth Century). But near the Court and these streets I told about is where you can find the 30s to...
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    Does vintage make you look.... *older*?

    I always had much more contact and friendship with older people, easier to talk. Maybe is this what your psychologist talked about. Everybody used to say that i was a "very mature" kid, considering my age. A secondary efect in liking vintage things?!
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    What are you listening to?

    After a sucessful attack in a 2nd hand record store came to home with a large pack of LPs... The first one is very curious. "Skippy Martin and his abollitionists" with music inspired by the "The Untouchables". One of those LPs where you can really feel all musicians getting fun with that. By...
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    Film Noir?

    Widebrim, A storyline is just a storyline. A silly producer can ever make a comedy over a true tragedy. The idea you put could be a great "noir"? Yes. But it will be always something made "as a noir movie". We can't scape from the cultural reference from those films. Then the result will be...
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    Film Noir?

    I think the answer is "no". Sometimes can appear a "tribute" or something like that - more or less what happened in 70s. But the "real thing" probably no more. About colors... I think that a trully noir must be in black and white. "noir" is a whole serie of caracteristics. The caracters...
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    Vintage televisions, anyone? Post pics here!

    Absinthe, thanks for the link! Loved this site! Fletch, thanks for explaining. Made me very clear the little article in the magazine I wrote about. And the youtube video is really very interesting and fascinating, as an old technology getting on way again. More than everything, at those...
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    Stetson Employee Handbook

    Just loved this! Thanks for sharing! (and made me to want a Stetson!)
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    Misconceptions of World War II

    A interesting misconception of WWII before those days (newspaper article translated and published in january 1937), by a certain Mr W. Churchill. That the airplanes wouldn't be a decisive weapon in case of a war. UK wouldn't have to apply any efforts about airplanes, and the navy would be the...

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