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Home Alone's film-within-a-film, Angels with Filthy Souls, comes off as a convincing imitation of 1930s gangster films. Would its mild profanity ("get the hell outta here") and non-gory but gleeful ultraviolence have passed the censors in the actual 1930s (both pre- and post-Hays Code)?

197 upvotes • JJVMT

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Does the youth of today really read less books than the previous generation ?

197 upvotes • Leponneur

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How much of the available World War 1 combat footage is authentic vs. staged?

197 upvotes • Ditka_in_your_Butkus

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My great grandfather fought in World War 1 as a cavalryman; what sort of activities made up his day-to-day life? How should I keep researching him, given that my country was not yet formed in 1914?

197 upvotes • torvim

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In the USA during the World Wars, women entered the workforce after men were drafted. Who looked after their children during working hours? What was the state of childcare during these times? Could an average family afford childcare?

197 upvotes • Suboutai

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there's a scene in HBO rome where Pompey is having a portrait bust made and the artist is making a sort of rough draft in clay rather than directly carving marble. Is that Authentic to how Greek/Roman busts were made?

197 upvotes • grapp

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Why is the Caucasus so linguistically diverse while Norway only has Norwegian + the Sami dialect continuum?

197 upvotes • JakeYashen

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Were there any pockets of self-identifying Romans in Western Europe akin to those of Greece/Turkey?

197 upvotes • itokunikuni

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What language was spoken in England before the Roman invasion, and was it still used after the invasion, or was the Romans language (Latin?) used instead?

197 upvotes • Rocky-bar

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What in the historical context pushed the Dead Kennedys to compare Jerry Brown to Adolf Hitler?

197 upvotes • stopstopimeanit

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Title	Upvotes	Author	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
Home Alone's film-within-a-film, Angels with Filthy Souls, comes off as a convincing imitation of 1930s gangster films. Would its mild profanity ("get the hell outta here") and non-gory but gleeful ultraviolence have passed the censors in the actual 1930s (both pre- and post-Hays Code)?	197	JJVMT
Does the youth of today really read less books than the previous generation ?	197	Leponneur
How much of the available World War 1 combat footage is authentic vs. staged?	197	Ditka_in_your_Butkus
My great grandfather fought in World War 1 as a cavalryman; what sort of activities made up his day-to-day life? How should I keep researching him, given that my country was not yet formed in 1914?	197	torvim
In the USA during the World Wars, women entered the workforce after men were drafted. Who looked after their children during working hours? What was the state of childcare during these times? Could an average family afford childcare?	197	Suboutai
there's a scene in HBO rome where Pompey is having a portrait bust made and the artist is making a sort of rough draft in clay rather than directly carving marble. Is that Authentic to how Greek/Roman busts were made?	197	grapp
Why is the Caucasus so linguistically diverse while Norway only has Norwegian + the Sami dialect continuum?	197	JakeYashen
Were there any pockets of self-identifying Romans in Western Europe akin to those of Greece/Turkey?	197	itokunikuni
What language was spoken in England before the Roman invasion, and was it still used after the invasion, or was the Romans language (Latin?) used instead?	197	Rocky-bar
What in the historical context pushed the Dead Kennedys to compare Jerry Brown to Adolf Hitler?	197	stopstopimeanit