I came across this claim in a deposition this morning in which the deponent stated that a ship he once served on was (paraphrasing but accurate representation) "sold to Gillette and they turned it into razor blades and ruined the whole thing."
It's such a bizarre - yet potentially viable - claim that it immediately piqued my interest. I spent a while Googling for some actual proof but have only found anecdotal evidence so far. The Snopes post is okay, but since I don't trust message boards with 404'd military buff fan sites, rabbit hole comments, and credentials that include a signature with animated emojis, I'm hoping to get a qualified answer.
In that link, it's claimed that "turned into razor blades" is Naval jargon for being decommissioned or scuttled, which seems plausible. But I found it strange that in a legal transcript, the deponent was oddly specific referencing Gillette in what doesn't t seem to be a cheeky remark. I was also very surprised that searching reddit for variations of this phrase yielded no relevant posts.
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In an article Zhukov wrote, he mentioned a rather off hand that Bulganin, trying to curry favor with Beria, disbanded the Red Army soccer team TsSKA, and sent all the best players to the Dynamo Moscow, which was affiliated with the NKVD. It was a casual aside, part of his description of internal corruption on the part of Beria and Bulganin, who he hated, but got me thinking...
If these sports teams were affiliated with government agencies, what happened to them as they transitioned from state run organizations to private ones? Dynamo is now owned by VTB Bank apparently, so at some point it got privatized, but Wikipedia kind of skips from the '70s to 2008. Soccer teams were what sparked my interest here, but I imagine similar answers would fit for Hockey clubs, so I'm cool with that too!
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So my mom's aunt was recently moved into assisted living. Her late husband was eighteen at the end of WWII, and he felt the call to service. He was sent to the IMTFE, and all I know about it is that it was where Hideki Tojo was found guilty, along with many other military officials of Japan. So my question is, is there any way to make money off this? Sounds selfish, but my great-aunt could really use the money. If there's no money because of quality (just about everything is taped or glued down), what should be done with it all? To me, I'm assuming the patches are the most valuable, but I'm not a historian.
Also, the album is a bit outdated because I tried posting in /r/history and didn't read the rules a while ago.
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Did it have something to do with the succession laws at the time, or was it by conquest? Or was France also similarly fragmented - just that it was unified to a better degree than the HRE?
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I think the speech is in order, but I have been confused by the headings of each section. Sometimes they are single paragraphs, other times they are more.
The headings read as follows:
1I. When, O Catiline, do you...
2 Shame on the age...
3 What? Did not that most illustrious...
4II. The senate once passed a decree...
III. For what is there, O Catiline, that you can still expect...
IV. Listen while I speak of the night before...
9 O ye immortal Gods, where on earth are we?
So this has been confusing for me. Neither the regular numerals nor the roman numerals seem to follow one another, and they don't seem to be subsets. My guess would be they're compiled from two sources; and only surviving parts of each source are outlined, which account for gaps in the numerals as well as overlap in them.
EDIT: also more details, without adding the whole text; in section III, in the same paragraph there exists regular numerals preceding sentences:
7Do you recollect that on the 21st of October...
8What? when you made sure that you would be able to seize Praesneste
So this seems to make the regular numerals follow, as 5 and 6 are found embedded in the preceding 4II section. This makes the regular numeral 9 that follows consistent with how these regular numerals progress. So really its two sections of numerals progressing, nothing seems to be lost here. What does each type of heading represent?
EDIT: the work with the headings can be found here
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In only about 20 years after the prophet's death, the first three caliphs take over pretty much the entirety of the Middle East as we know it today. The regions I mentioned were conquered when they were booming centers of thriving civilizations around major river systems, while Arabia was for the most part a desert populated by nomads. How did they manage to conquer such bigger regions so quickly?
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I'm guessing it had to do with similar political ideologies but I'm curious as to why the government was not ashamed to be associated with the Nazis(refusing to extradite them, ect) even after the scale of their terror was discovered after the war.
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I've read many times about Ancient Rome and their propensity for crucifixion as a form of capital punishment, as well as using prisoners or Christians in gladiator fights.
I was wondering how that changed over time, such as what constituted a death penalty offense and if the accused get a defense? I've also read that this changed significantly from the Republic to the Empire, and that Claudius instituted legal reforms, though I can't find anything too specific.
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EDIT: Four classical elements (fire, earth, water, air), although I wouldn't mind learning about the effects of modern science on Asian cuisine!
Or more generally put: nowadays we have all of these ideas about what is considered a healthy meal based on our understanding of chemistry and biology. How did we reason about what went into a healthy meal before that? What was the average person's understanding of food and nutrition?
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