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What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
(January 3, 2024 at 2:52 pm)Angrboda Wrote: She reminds me of a certain NPC in Baldur's Gate.

Which one?
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
(January 3, 2024 at 2:54 pm)Foxaèr Wrote:
(January 3, 2024 at 2:52 pm)Angrboda Wrote: She reminds me of a certain NPC in Baldur's Gate.

Which one?

The witch, when she's in disguise.
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
(January 3, 2024 at 2:54 pm)Angrboda Wrote:
(January 3, 2024 at 2:54 pm)Foxaèr Wrote: Which one?

The witch, when she's in disguise.

I figured you might go there. You are so mean. Tongue
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
Nazis weren't always 'Nazis'. National Socialists in Germany, both before and during WWII, referred to themselves as either 'Sozis' (from 'socialist'), or as 'Nasos' (national socialist).

'Nazi' was a derogatory term used by opponents of the Hitlerites, notably German-American journalist Konrad Heiden. It's a Bavarian word meaning 'simple minded country bumpkin'.

Boru
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
Another weird curveball in my quest for a Travis Jacket that fits: I found out that the original is on display in the Harry Ransom Center in Austin, Texas.



As someone who’s spent the last couple weeks looking over the minutiæ of the humble M65 jacket, I can safely say it’s clearly not an M65.
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
(January 4, 2024 at 5:58 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Nazis weren't always 'Nazis'. National Socialists in Germany, both before and during WWII, referred to themselves as either 'Sozis' (from 'socialist'), or as 'Nasos' (national socialist).

'Nazi' was a derogatory term used by opponents of the Hitlerites, notably German-American journalist Konrad Heiden. It's a Bavarian word meaning 'simple minded country bumpkin'.

Boru
Afaik "Sozi" was (and is) a derogatory term for the "real" left of the center Socialists only, not the Nazis.
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
(January 4, 2024 at 11:49 am)Deesse23 Wrote:
(January 4, 2024 at 5:58 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Nazis weren't always 'Nazis'. National Socialists in Germany, both before and during WWII, referred to themselves as either 'Sozis' (from 'socialist'), or as 'Nasos' (national socialist).

'Nazi' was a derogatory term used by opponents of the Hitlerites, notably German-American journalist Konrad Heiden. It's a Bavarian word meaning 'simple minded country bumpkin'.

Boru
Afaik "Sozi" was (and is) a derogatory term for the "real" left of the center Socialists only, not the Nazis.

I accept the correction.

Boru
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
Muslin cloth came from the name of Iraqi city of Mosul, because Marco Polo first described the fabric and claimed it came from there. In actuality most Muslin cloth came from India and Bangladesh.
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Silk has been made in China since 4000BC.   The Indus Valley civilization in north India was also making silk by around 2500 BC.   However knowledge of silk manufacturing appears to have been lost in India after the collapse of the Indus Valley culture at around 1500 BC, leaving China with a virtual monopoly in silk production for the next 2500 years.
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
Most of the surviving pages of the original draft of Darwin's 'On The Origin Of Species' are covered with doodles. As Darwin revised the work, he gave the pages to his children to doodle on.

https://www.themarginalian.org/2016/04/0...f-species/

Boru
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