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coldfarm t1_j9uqn5m wrote
Reply to comment by MrSquigles in TIL residents of Tangier Island, 12 miles off the coast of Virginia, have remained so isolated they still speak a dialect similar to the original colonists from the 1700s by emily_9511
The accent continuum in the whole Tidewater and Chesapeake region is strongly rooted in the West Country. It also vanishes once you get more than a few miles from the Bay, excepting the Eastern Shore.
coldfarm t1_j33ux3d wrote
Reply to comment by dvoecks in TIL that all the gold that has ever been mined in all of human history could fill about three Olympic-sized swimming pools. by westondeboer
I am old enough to remember when the Gatlin Brothers performed that live on TV and changed it to “in Kenny Rogers’ name”.
coldfarm t1_j1luo3h wrote
Reply to TIL of Jeanne de-Valois-Saint-Rémy, a frenchwoman con-artist who tricked a Cardinal into buying a $15.1m diamond necklace pretending to be a confident of Marie Antoinette. This led to irreparable reputational harm to the Crown, bringing further support to the French Revolution. by DoctorKynes
There’s a pretty bad movie about this starring Hillary Swank.
coldfarm t1_iycdbii wrote
Reply to comment by aimless_meteor in TIL the guy who played Nick the bartender in "It's a Wonderful Life," Sheldon Leonard, became one of the most successful TV producers in history, having created the Andy Griffith Show, Dick Van Dyke, among many others. As a tribute, the two main characters on "Big Bang Theory" were named after him. by latchkey_adult
coldfarm t1_iybhhb4 wrote
Reply to comment by billyjack669 in TIL the guy who played Nick the bartender in "It's a Wonderful Life," Sheldon Leonard, became one of the most successful TV producers in history, having created the Andy Griffith Show, Dick Van Dyke, among many others. As a tribute, the two main characters on "Big Bang Theory" were named after him. by latchkey_adult
The famous scene where he is essentially having a nervous breakdown was not acting. Some of his angry outbursts were also a lot more intense than anticipated (when he yells at the kids, for example). Watch the other actors’ faces in some of those scenes and you can tell they're picking up on it.
Tangential bit of trivia; the actor who played Mr. Gower was really drunk and hit young George so hard he really made his ear bleed.
coldfarm t1_is0p13d wrote
Reply to comment by Cissyhayes in TIL of Henry Paget, Earl of Uxbridge, who had his leg blown off by a cannon in the Battle of Waterloo. It was put in a shrine in the garden of the house where he was amputated, becoming a local tourist attraction. by 1945BestYear
Who was Wellington's sister-in-law. It made things awkward during the Hundred Days (Waterloo) Campaign when Uxbridge was defacto second-in-Command.
coldfarm t1_jbt3qrn wrote
Reply to Kaiser Wilhelm II, 1913. by Salem1690s
Does anyone else see Mel Brooks dressed as the Kaiser?