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In the early/mid 20th century did men really wear hats all the time, and if so, did they always have crazy hat hair?

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In Werner Herzog's "Happy People," a Russian WWII vet says that Stalin's Russian "wasn't too good." Was he not a native speaker? Was it just a different dialect? What's going on here?

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In Eco's The Name of the Rose, the abbey librarian holds a tight rein over which books the monks were allowed to read. Is this in any way an accurate portrayal of monastic scholarship?

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In the early/mid 20th century did men really wear hats all the time, and if so, did they always have crazy hat hair?	170
In Werner Herzog's "Happy People," a Russian WWII vet says that Stalin's Russian "wasn't too good." Was he not a native speaker? Was it just a different dialect? What's going on here?	75
In Eco's The Name of the Rose, the abbey librarian holds a tight rein over which books the monks were allowed to read. Is this in any way an accurate portrayal of monastic scholarship?	46