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Well he also played the captain in Titanic, and I recall he had minor parts in Gandhi (as a British sergeant IIRC, had to watch that back in high school) and Valkyrie (as a Nazi general). I'm sure he had a lot more roles than that but you'd have to look for news articles listing them for more...

Bernard Hill has passed away at age 79 today. RIP, I can't really think of anyone who could've nailed the role of Théoden better than he did and while many modern actors are screw-ups of some kind, I've never heard of him being up to anything cringeworthy ever.

Also, a prophecy from Mad Magazine back in 2006.

956 brought with it not only a new, uneasy peace on Ireland but also a shake-up in the Christian Levant. Adémar de Bonne had been succeeded as the first post-Crusade Patriarch of Jerusalem by a native from Galilee, Boulos of Cana[1], but now he too was dead and Aloysius V seized the opportunity...

That RT was based in Texas in no way guarantees that they're libertarians of any stripe. They're from Austin after all, the bluest city in that state, and besides the various individual members ranting about their support for left-wing causes and hatred of right-wing ones from time to time, the...

The worldbuilding in RWBY is pretty bad, yeah. I notice that some fics & rewrite projects tend to focus waaaay too much on it to the point where they're basically creating a whole new Remnant and forget to actually do characters or the story, like uh...RWBY Alternate I believe? (Aside from the...

The Britons continued their war in Ireland through 951, though in a generally lower-intensity form than the campaigns of the previous years. Elan took advantage of Irish disunity and disillusionment among the Ulster lords with their allies to seek a ceasefire & peace talks with Muichertach...

Doesn't matter in the end. Southern blacks were also already gravitating en masse toward the Democrats due to the decline of the 'black and tan' Republicans who were in favor of civil rights; the ascendancy of the rival 'lily whites' who shat on the concept of civil rights because at best they...

A blunted Jacksonian Democracy movement (and it certainly wouldn't be called that since Jackson isn't alive to lead it) to be sure. He wasn't critical to it I'd say - Martin Van Buren, Thomas Benton, etc. all contributed significantly in their own ways and some of the trends we associate with...

That's why I said modern leftism (critical/queer theory) struck me as an especially degenerated and secularized form of Gnosticism though. It's like they tore out the interesting aspects of Gnosticism (the drive for spiritual transcendence and enlightenment) and replaced it with nihilistic...

The only place where I'm seeing a Gnostic revival in the modern day is on the left, where its fundamentally deconstructionist worldview (rejecting all things of this world because this world is supposed to be a fundamentally tainted hellscape made by an imperfect false god, the Demiurge) meshes...

That's right, for Dulebian's base I mostly looked to Serbo-Croatian, since those guys are their neighbors and I haven't found much in the way of linguistic archaeological fragments from the RL Pannonian Slavs before they got steamrolled by the Hungarians (especially not the northern guys from...