I like how songs used to be recorded while the rain was audible in the background.

Don't you like the sound of rain behind a song? I do. I wish I could hear rain behind the likes of Pharrell Williams, Selena Gomez, Bieber (would be liked better with rain behind him, maybe), Jonas Brothers, Green Day, Metallica, and other modern song artists.

Anecdote: This video autoplayed after that song, and there's rain behind that too, even though it's a non-sung speaking clip.

So apparently they wanted to record people's speeches amongst a rainy auditory backdrop too.

That begs the question:

#Why don't we like to record rainy background noises in our song and speech recordings anymore?

Am I part of a minority who thinks recordings in the rain (or with a rain sound if not in a rain) sounds nicer and more calming than recordings that don't include rain sounds?

Recently, I was linked to a post by Fred Clark/Slacktivist claiming that white evangelicism is white nationalism. The argument in the post was that the "sola scriptura" "plain sense reading" theology of Protestantism actually allowed white slaveholders to justify slavery through prooftexting via "clobber passages".

However, I know that my white evangelical friends would counter that leading abolitionists were evangelical (e.g., William Wilberforce.)

I looked at some of the denominations of abolitionists like Wilberforce and saw that he was an evangelical Anglican, which doesn't seem to match up with a denomination I would normally think of when I think of modern evangelicalism.

I am somewhat aware that the splits that created what we now call "evangelical" vs "mainline" denominations occurred a bit later than the conflicts over slavery so it makes sense that there shouldn't necessarily be 1-to-1 relationships, but is there any correlation? For example, is it historically accurate to say "denominations that supported abolition tended to become mainline"?

I just saw this graph from Carl Bialik of fivethirtyeight.com Why did voter turnout drop to 10% in 1820? http://i0.wp.com/espnfivethirtyeight.files.wordpress.com/2016/11/bialik-turnout-1.png?quality=90&strip=all&w=1150&ssl=1

I saw it in this segment here. He also claims that not even Constantinople's fortifications were as formidable as an average Chinese wall. Do historians agree with Tonio Andrade and is he a trustworthy historian or someone like Gavin Menzies? Idk I just find it kind of ridiculous.

http://imgur.com/a/KhFPt

Cheers!

Edit: There is a very slight chance this is not the brother who died on that day!