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    Why were the German's referred to as "Huns"???

    I've got my Grandfather's high school US history textbook. He graduated from Salinas High School in 1918 here in California. It has a fair amount of detail and covers some things like race relations that we today think were ignored. Still, US History is largely based on legal decisions and...
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    Hitler's globe turns up in Oakland rumpus room

    When I first saw the headline of this story, the picture that flashed through my mind was of Charlie Chaplain playing with the globe of the World in _The Great Dictator_. Haversack.
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    Why were the German's referred to as "Huns"???

    reetpleat asked in regard to the World War One generation's appreciation of the insult value of of 'Hun', "wre they just that much more educated?" I would have to say yes. In Britain, the upper class and a substantial portion of the middle class all had Latin as a basic part of their...
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    Why were the German's referred to as "Huns"???

    As I opined above, the WWI association of Germans with the Huns of the Migration Period was inspired by the Kaiser's speech some 15 years prior to 1914. It was however gleefully seized upon very early in the war by British propaganda organizations, (of which there were several), as a way to...
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    Why were the German's referred to as "Huns"???

    reetpleat wrote: "Interestingly, I found some info on German mythology in which Atla, (Atilla) and other elements of the Huns have become a part of German Mythology and stories, so there might be an element of that too." Oh, of course. Attila, or Atli, is one the main...
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    Why were the German's referred to as "Huns"???

    I tend to believe that "Hun" was picked up from the Kaiser's speech. Ethnic caricature was a staple part of popular entertainment such as the music halls and world events provided grist for their mills just as they do today for comedians. Additionally, the British operated a very succesful...
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    L.A. Confidential Star James Cromwell sat in my 1941 Buick!

    Cromwell is also great on the stage as well. I was lucky enough to see him play A.E. Housman in Tom Stoppard's play, _The Invention of Love_ a few years back. Haversack.
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    If you could solve just one mystery....

    My vote would be for uncovering and publicizing the names of the industrialists who tried to recruit retired Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler to lead a military coup against President Roosevelt in 1934. Haversack.
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    I'm Just a Square (In a Social Circle)

    While her work for Preston Sturges is gut-wrenchingly funny, I think my favourite bit of Betty Hutton is her role as Polly, the studio receptionist in the 1942, "everybody on the Paramount lot", revue, _Star Spangled Rhythm_. The part where she was trying to get over the studio wall with the...
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    All Hallows Eve is bigger than Christmas

    I find it interesting that the US has proved fertile ground for just two of the eight Christian/Pagan/Seasonal holidays. Christmas/Yule/Winter Solstice for one. Halloween/Samhain/Autumnal Cross-Quarterday for the other. Why is that? In other countries some of the other C/P/S holidays have...
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    Keeping the Faith

    I think the perceived danger of lane-splitting is based on perspective. From the car driver's point of view, a lane-splitting motorcycle, especially on a freeway, appears alarmingly fast and recklessly threads between cars. It is not what you usually look for. From the motorcyclist's point of...
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    35% HEMP...will feel like what?

    Depending on how the threads are woven, a cotton/hemp blend shirt should pretty much feel like a cotton/linen blend shirt. Both linen and hemp are bast fibers and have very similar properties. The hempen fabrics currently available in the US tend to use bulkier treads for a more rustic or...
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    Any one seen "The World At War?"

    nobodyspecial wrote: "The scene that sticks out in my mind is someone frying an egg on a tank in the desert." That was a film made by some members of the Afrika Korps to show friends back home how hot it was. They used a blow torch on the tank fender first to make the story better. What I...
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    PBS "The War" Series

    A major factor to bear in mind about how Americans approached WWII was the transition that took place from a peace-time economy to mobilized war-time production. This is not something we have really seen since. In 1941, the US military was quite small and the defense industry as we know it...
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    Captured German Aircraft - Video

    Related to the above, I recently came across a site that compiles all of the German drawing-board aircraft circa 1945. http://www.luft46.com/ Some are truly weird like the assymetrical Blohm & Voss flying boat. Some clearly influenced US designs, (The A-10 Warthog in particular) Haversack.
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    Special Features

    One of the best (and oldest) special features I've seen was on the VHS tape release of Douglas Fairbanks' 1926 _The Black Pirate_. It was a feature made at that time on how they did all the stunts, to include the one where he is on a yard, puts his knife through the sail and rides it to the...
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    Movies And Their Profanity

    Using the adverb "French" as a euphamism for someting considered loose, libertine, or sexual in the English language, (French-leave, -letter, -kiss), is part of the rivalry/emnity that has existed between the two peoples for several centuries. And it goes both ways, until recently, le Malaise...
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    Ok...Here's my rant! Lady is sexist?

    "Meine Damen und Herren, Madames et Messieurs, Ladies and Gentlemen,..." All are terms of respect used in public when one wishes to be polite. Even if they technically are not "My Lady" and "My Lord", (which is the literal meaning of the French and German), using the higher status honourific...
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    Period Films in Period Times

    In regards to period piece movies made in the 1930s-50s, I often notice how the extras, properties, and set are correct to the period. It is obvious that someone had cracked open a history book to get something approaching the right look as opposed to being creative and original. Even in...
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    I blame whole wheat

    Growing up and going to public school in Sacramento in the '60s, THE field trip that everyone looked forward to took place when you were in the Thrid Grade. This was a tour of the Wonder Bread factory out next to I-80 across from where Cal Expo is now. Besides it being a field trip and all the...

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