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  1. Haversack

    California Wines

    Doran wrote: "The Cal university in question is probably Davis. They offer a viticulture major, I believe [they also have a post-bac in Classics (Greek and Latin) -- how cool would that be, to combine those?]." Now there would be a project. Try to reconstruct...
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    What has happened to society?

    Another form of Blue Law restricts sales not by time but by place. Up until 1979 in California, it was illegal to sell packaged hard alchohol within a mile of any University of California campus. An exception was made for UC Davis. Because it was a agricultural school, the students presumably...
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    What has happened to society?

    Martinis at 8 wrote: "The Seven Deadly Sins have been with us from the beginning. How we camouflage our proclivities throughout time does not change our basic human character." True. There is little that is new under the sun in the realm of human behavior. But I would say that the...
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    What has happened to society?

    Feraud wrote: "If only there was a 1940s version of Cops. That would have been an eye opener. Watch the well dressed man abuse his spouse, drive drunk, and try to evade John Law." Why you just described the opening 10 minutes of a late 1940s Film Noir! Haversack.
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    What has happened to society?

    Feraud wrote: "Most of us know from experience that clothes do not make the man or woman." Yet they can influence the attitude and behavior of those around the wearer towards the wearer for good or ill. They are not mute. Haversack.
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    What has happened to society?

    I am not sure if the closure laws are still in effect, but until recently in Germany, (Bavaria in particular), shops are not permitted to be open in the evenings, Saturday afternoons, or Sundays. The exceptions are the first Saturday of the month, the four Saturdays prior to Christmas, and...
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    What has happened to society?

    Even with the increasing casualness of dressing over the years, clothes still have a language that says what group one belongs to. For some professions, in some regions, there is an interesting sartorial balance to be struck between get-your-hands-dirty pragmatism and presenting yourself as...
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    What has happened to society?

    One factor that has fed the increasing casualness in dressing is how much less expensive clothing in general has gotten over the past seventy years. It has already been mentioned that most people in the 1930s had fewer clothes than today. This was because in reletive terms, few could afford a...
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    1930s Israel

    Regarding a strictly Jewish rendering of "An eye for and eye", understood. In Judaic Law there is no maiming penalty for an offender. However, the phrase, "An eye for an eye" is also a commonly understood phrase describing a type of law found in many of the early Middle Eastern law codes...
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    1930s Israel

    Today we think that the Old Testament/Code of Hammurabi/et.al. laws that require "An eye for an eye. A tooth for a tooth." to be horribly Draconian and severe. Looked at in the context of the history of the Middle East, they are not. They are really designed to limit violence and prevent it...
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    The Abyssinian Campaigns

    I don't have any specific books to recommend reading but I would suggest that if Italian involvement in East Africa is of interest, then you could do far worse than to read about the history of Eritrea. This stretch of land on the west coast of the Red Sea became an Italian colony in 1889...
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    Nobody Can Insult Someone Like....

    From the 1933 Paramount musical _Footlight Parade_: "Outside, countess. As long as they've got sidewalks YOU'VE got a job." Haversack.
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    The three worst vices of 1950...

    Regarding the difference in the wearing of medals between the UK and US: The UK forces are relatively chairy in awarding decorations and those awarded tend to be for valourous action. The US military has a much larger slate of awards, recognitions, and campaign ribbons. Mind, it too has...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Well. Last night I finally saw the restored version of Cecil B. DeMilles' Pre-Code, sin and salvation movie, _The Sign of the Cross_. Woof. Many people have written about how Charles Laughton and Claudette Colbert stole the show as Nero and his wife Poppea respectively. They did...
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    Wartime cartoons

    Regarding the change in tolerance for nose and vehicle art in the US military: From my own experience, there have been many swings in what is allowed and what is not. After Vietnam, there was a crack-down on nose art regardless of content. It gradually crept back during the 1980s but tolerance...
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    Wartime cartoons

    I imagine that rounding up all the copyrights from the cartoonists' estate or their syndicates would be maddening. A couple of them are well known like Reg Manning of "What Kind of Cactus Izzat" fame. And you also have the problem of how Japanese, Chinese, and Africans were depicted then. The...
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    Wartime cartoons

    I recently inherited a scrapbook that my grandfather kept from 1936 to 1946. In it, he collected political cartoons concerning events in Europe, Anglo-American relations, and eventually, the war. As far as I can tell, the cartoons were cut from the local Santa Barbara and Los Angeles...
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    To the Tea Drinkers

    For tea, the two blends I prefer are the Irish Breakfast and the Best Darjeeling from Murchies up in Vancouver, BC. I also keep dried Chamomile, Rose Hips, and Peppermint on hand to relieve various forms of "feeling poorly" The bulk food section of a good "health food store" is where I get...
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    How Non-Historians Research

    A few things I would add: While Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How are important, the Historian earns his bread and butter by answering So What. As has already been mentioned, it is the historian’s job to provide context and state why something is significant. Be aware of your biases. We...
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    TV series set in the Golden Age

    Another two series which have an appeal are the BBC's _All Creatures Great and Small_ and A&E's _Nero Wolfe_. (although the later continued into the 1960s.) Haversack

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