In an ongoing effort to cull open Wikipedia tabs...
Hi-Point firearms was from looking up gun production numbers, and confirming the names of the companies who manufacture the various pistols sold under the Hi-Point brand. (Beemiller, Iberia, and Haskell.)
Society of the Cincinnati was the end of a wikiwander that started out looking at the early Roman civil wars that, in retrospect, foreshadowed the eventual death of the republic.
Can't remember why I was looking up Qutb.
Abscam was because Shootin' Buddy and I went to see American Hustle on Christmas Eve. Excellent movie. Brilliant... no, career performance by Christian Bale.
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Egypt outlawed the Muslim Brotherhood, it is news. That's possibly why you looked up Qutb.
Your third and fourth links go to the same place. Just thought you would like to know.
Fixed. Thanks!
I've really been enjoying the History of Rome and Twelve Byzantine Rulers podcasts. Probably slightly remedial for you, but they're good listening on a car ride. You might check them out.
http://12byzantinerulers.com/
http://thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/
Back when I first turned 21, a Haskell .45 was my very first gun purchase.
Two decades on, that...THING*... is still sitting in it's original box, with the bright orange warning sticker still affixed to the grip. At first I was afraid to fire it...then I realized the only way to strip it for cleaning required a roll-punch.
* It is an abomination unto Nugent.
Interesting to see #2 and #4 on the same page.
I LOVE public corruption stings, they should run constantly and be a terror to our masters.
And Pressler's comment is truly great.
For extra points (and no Googling), what was the name of Cincinnati before it was renamed in honor of the Cincinnatus Society?
Christian Bale has already had his role of a lifetime. I do not think he could possibly exceed his work in Equilibrium. He is the post apocalyptic Orwellian statist ninja cop we deserve.
Yeah, but it seems like almost every role he's played after that has been a variation on it.
I went into this movie cold and walked out of the theater not even realizing I'd been watching Christian Bale, twenty feet tall and right in front of my nose, for the last two+ hours. It was an amazing performance.
I think the finest compliment one could pay to an actor would be to call him "protean", after the Greek shape-shifting god. Robert De Niro is legendary among actors as being able to completely enter the character he is playing. Kevin Spacey is a close second (maybe it's a tie). I first realized what was happening while watching Martin Landau in "Ed Wood", as he "became" Bela Lugosi.
--LCB, I had to cheat, but while reading it I remembered reading about that in one of Allan Eckert's historical novels about the settling of the Ohio River Valley. Maybe the Frontiersman, but I can't be sure.
Windy,
Yes, the Frontiersman is where I first heard it. I had a great Ohio History teacher in Jr. Highschool that had us read parts of the Frontiersman. Got me very interested in Frontier History.
LCB, it was called "Losantiville." I can even tell you where the name came from, if you like. :)
LCB, it was called "Losantiville." I can even tell you where the name came from, if you like. :)
Dang it Casey...I used to know who named it Losantiville...but now I'd have to look it up. Hoisted on my own petard, so to speak. :-)
Doesn't quite roll off of the tounge like Zinzinnati, does it.
The most "protean" actor I know if is Gary Oldman. He just seems to seamlessly disappear into roles. For a while I didn't even realize that the villains in Air Force One, The Fifth Element, and The Professional were all played by the same guy.
You want to see Christian Bale before he was Christian Bale, watch Empire of the Sun and Henry V.
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