What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Full disclosure: I was inspired to look this up after watching The Incredibles for the first time in donkeys and realising that, apparently, a babysitter's decision to play a Mozart CD (one that doesn't seem to include either of the two Mozart pieces, let alone the Yanni one) is enough to awaken Jack-Jack's latent superpowers.

That was the joke, yes. Her hippie shit was in tune with the whole super-being meme. I mean, where else would those powers come from. And using an extremely powerful composer would naturally produce an extremely power rug rat, if the genes were right.

[Fake Messiah]

When Tom Hanks was in a boot camp, preparing for the role in the movie "Saving Private Ryan", he was nicknamed Turd 1 by the drill sergeant.

[Anomalocaris]

runic script, the earliest written form of Germanic languages, seems to be derived from Etruscan script, an undeciphered but greek derived script of a pre-roman native language from central Italy.

the mystery is the earliest attested Runic script was from the end of first century A.D., But the height of a Truscon cultural influence was 4 centuries before that, and by the beginning of first century A.D., only a few antiquarians and the scholars in rome could still read the Etruscan script. how did the Germanic people come to adapt the form of Etruscan script for their own alphabet?

[Anomalocaris]

Masabumi Hosono was a japanese diplomat posted to Russia in 1912. He was the only japanese person aboard the titanic.  When Titanic went down he was offered a seat on a life boat and he took it.

For surviving the wreck he was fired from his job and vilified and ostracized in japan for the rest of his life because he failed to adhere to the women and children rule and thereby lives when women and children died.

although he died in 1939, his shame is not over.   When the James Cameron’s Titanic was screened japan, Japanese media dredged up his shame again and his descendants  had to publicly attempt to defend his honor

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

runic script, the earliest written form of Germanic languages, seems to be derived from Etruscan script, an undeciphered but greek derived script of a pre-roman native language from central Italy.

the mystery is the earliest attested Runic script was from the end of first century A.D., But the height of a Truscon cultural influence was 4 centuries before that, and by the beginning of first century A.D., only a few antiquarians and the scholars in rome could still read the Etruscan script.  how did the Germanic people come to adapt the form of Etruscan script for their own alphabet?

Not much of a mystery. The earliest attested Runic script doesn’t necessarily mean the first Runic script - it’s just the earliest one we know of. It’s possible that the Germanic people were using runes well before 100AD, which, coincidentally is roughly when the remaining Etruscans abandoned their script for the Latin alphabet.

Boru

[Anomalocaris]

runic script, the earliest written form of Germanic languages, seems to be derived from Etruscan script, an undeciphered but greek derived script of a pre-roman native language from central Italy.

the mystery is the earliest attested Runic script was from the end of first century A.D., But the height of a Truscon cultural influence was 4 centuries before that, and by the beginning of first century A.D., only a few antiquarians and the scholars in rome could still read the Etruscan script.  how did the Germanic people come to adapt the form of Etruscan script for their own alphabet?

Not much of a mystery. The earliest attested Runic script doesn’t necessarily mean the first Runic script - it’s just the earliest one we know of. It’s possible that the Germanic people were using runes well before 100AD, which, coincidentally is roughly when the remaining Etruscans abandoned their script for the Latin alphabet.

Boru

It seems likely Etruscan script was transmitted to the Germans via a Celtic intermediary at an earlier date when Etruscan cultural and commercial influence in Northern Italy was still strong, maybe before 2nd - 3rd century BC.  the mystery is we have no other evidence if it so we don’t know how that happened.    We know by 60AD Etruscan has fallen completely out of daily use and the number of people who could read Etruscan script or even understand the spoken language was very few, and the Emperor Claudius felt compelled to compiled a dictionary to preserve the language because many of Rome’s traditional religious rites and texts were inherited from the Etruscans,  and these still held a revered central role in Roman religion despite the effective death of the language itself.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Not much of a mystery. The earliest attested Runic script doesn’t necessarily mean the first Runic script - it’s just the earliest one we know of. It’s possible that the Germanic people were using runes well before 100AD, which, coincidentally is roughly when the remaining Etruscans abandoned their script for the Latin alphabet.

Boru

It seems likely Etruscan script was transmitted to the Germans via a Celtic intermediary at an earlier date when Etruscan cultural and commercial influence in Northern Italy was still strong, maybe before 2nd - 3rd century BC.  the mystery is we have no other evidence if it so we don’t know how that happened.    We know by 60AD Etruscan has fallen completely out of daily use and the number of people who could read Etruscan script or even understand the spoken language was very few, and the Emperor Claudius felt compelled to compiled a dictionary to preserve the language because many of Rome’s traditional religious rites and texts were inherited from the Etruscans,  and these still held a revered central role in Roman religion despite the effective death of the language itself.

Rome had a presence in Germania from about 12BC. It’s not unreasonable to suppose that there were some Etruscan auxiliaries (or at least some Roman levies who knew Etruscan) among the legions.

Admittedly, that’s a bit of a stretch. I think your notion of a Celtic intermediary is much more likely. By 500BC, the Etruscans had expanded north of the Po, very near the border of Gaul, which was absolutely lousy with Celts. Five or six centuries would be ample time for the diffusion of Etruscan script and its modification into German runes.

Boru

[MR. Macabre 666]

Masabumi Hosono was a japanese diplomat posted to Russia in 1912. He was the only japanese person aboard the titanic.  When Titanic went down he was offered a seat on a life boat and he took it.

For surviving the wreck he was fired from his job and vilified and ostracized in japan for the rest of his life because he failed to adhere to the women and children rule and thereby lives when women and children died.

although he died in 1939, his shame is not over.   When the James Cameron’s Titanic was screened japan, Japanese media dredged up his shame again and his descendants  had to publicly attempt to defend his honor

That's really fucked up.

[MR. Macabre 666]

Napoleon invented the card game solitaire when he was exiled.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Napoleon invented the card game solitaire when he was exiled.

Which card game called "solitaire"?