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Christopher Plummer, who was a concert standard pianist with a fine musical ear, was furious when his singing voice was dubbed in “The Sound Of Music” (1965), and went on a drunken rampage through Salzburg. (He told me in an interview that the dubbing incident was one of the reasons he was rude about the film.) This is Plummer’s original vocal performance of “Edelweiss” - a chance to hear the song as he recorded it.
For example, in the era of post-Han collapse, civil war & barbarian takeover, Qingtan/清談 "Pure Conversation" became widely popular. It seems to have been similar in spirit to Greco-Roman symposiums, where spontaneity, wit & learning were combined in a public performance.
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"if Appalachia was a third world nation for white people"
You'd get an economy roughly the size of Spain's, divided among half as many people, giving you a GDP per capita comparable to Finland or Canada.
Finance & manufacturing are the top industries (15.6% & 14.1% of regional GDP, respectively). Note the irrelevance of tourism (3% of GDP) compared to other 'third world nations.'
Appalachistan would have a slightly lower Gini coefficient (less income inequality) than the U.S. as a whole. The unemployment rate is ~4%, comparable to the rest of the U.S. & half of France's.
Counting associates degrees + bachelors, Appalachistan would have a tertiary educational attainment rate of 39%, higher than the EU.
Counting bachelor's degrees only (4 yrs in the U.S. vs. 3 yrs in the EU, so biased toward EU), Appalachistan's educational attainment is comparable to Germany (29% vs 30%).
crazy that out of all the countries on earth there appears to be only one national flag that is not rectangular or square: the flag of nepal. no one else thought it was worth it or interesting to explore other shapes.
@SinoLithography@ShaambaBaashdi I mean majority Europæan descent. A great number of Latin Americans are more indio than Europæan, so sometimes it’s hard to say.
Yeah, nuance is good. Still, there have been “pan-European,” civilizational commonalities. If “the West” is a thing (it is) then it’s something like that. There are also certain Anglo-isms that a nation United by centuries of English language and common law traditions will inevitably express. We can easily nuance this puppy right up!
@KirkegaardEmil The funny thing about all the emphasis on race not existing, only clines these days, is that there was absolutely no cline across the Atlantic Ocean south of the far north in 1492.
This shouldn't be an obscure bit of knowledge, but these days it is.
Anti-realists about race like to put Ashley Montagu in their curriculums for his book The Myth of Race. The trouble is that by their own definition, Montagu was a racist. He explains it himself quite clearly:
best way to read the bible is. Get your heathen ass to page whatever, Romans, Job, Bigger Luke. No context dive in. Yes the LORD smote them again for building a tabernacle wrong. Yeah. You're nodding along. You're not getting it but you can feel your Jesus Points accumulating
🇱🇧 Israeli strike on Arab Salim kills woman, wounds six, including child
Lebanon’s Health Ministry said an Israeli attack on Arab Salim in the Nabatieh district killed one woman and wounded six people Thursday, including a child, another woman and two elderly people.
Israel first bombed the center of Arab Salim around 7:30 a.m. ET, then carried out at least one additional strike. Several homes were destroyed.
Arab Salim lies roughly seven kilometers north of the heavily contested Ali Taher heights and outside the territory currently occupied by Israel’s self-declared buffer zone.
Residents told local media that the woman killed had recently married and moved to the village.
You can see how far our cherished democracy has fallen when you look at older campaign literature. Mario Cuomo, when he was running against Ed Koch for NYC mayor in 77, handed out substantive fliers like this. They didn’t talk about grocery stores - they tackled the hard issues.