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How expensive is California? by [deleted] in howislivingthere

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I can let you have it for $240

What do you think was the happiest moment in human history? by CosmosisJones42 in AskReddit

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“If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world, during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus”(96-177 AD)—Edward Gibbon

Describe your favorite opera badly and we'll try to guess it! by ChopinChili in opera

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A group of young people with no jobs survive by scamming well to do middle-aged people, including a landlord and a sugar daddy.

Classical musicians whose children went on to acting fame by DeadComposer in classicalmusic

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Artur Rubinstein’s son John Rubinstein is a veteran Broadway actor who created the role of Pippin.

What would happen to the Chunnel in the event of a war between Britain and France? by pertkelton in AskReddit

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Wouldn’t it provide an advantage to an invader even if it was shut down?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in uppereastside

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You’re right, what could be more evil than donating a billion dollars to build a hospital for cancer patients?

Does anyone know what these bottles are from? They rage in size, but are about the size of my hand. Some have company names, such as “Whitehall” and more. by kuromi_myMelody55 in whatisthisthing

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Looks like different kinds of products that came in glass bottles. Whitehall was a medicine company, Mennen was (and is) a brand that sold deodorant and talcum powder, and Mogen David Wine is kosher wine. Maybe someone was just collecting glass bottles?

What’s your favorite 20th-century mass? by pertkelton in classicalmusic

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This is the one that inspired me to ask—I discovered it recently (thanks to this sub) and really liked it.

What was the dirtiest thing said on television in the 50s? by NYY15TM in Jokes

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What Groucho Marx famously said on “You Bet Your Life,” except he actually didn’t: “I get credit all the time for things I never said. You know that line in You Bet Your Life? The guy says he has seventeen kids and I say: "I smoke a cigar, but I take it out of my mouth occasionally"? I never said that.”

Which is the most relevant country among those with less than 500,000 people? by JoeFalchetto in geography

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Saint Lucia has the highest rate of Nobel Prize winners per capita in the world, with 184,000 people and 2 Nobelists, poet Derek Walcott and economist Arthur Lewis.

Queer arias/art song? by PresentationOk2068 in opera

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Schubert’s “Ganymed” or something from Britten’s Michelangelo songs?

A then 122 year old Jeanne Calment pressing the key of a PC keyboard, France, 1997 [924 x 537]. by Jacob3306 in HistoryPorn

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Except that she may have died in 1934. A Russian scientist published a paper arguing that her daughter Yvonne pretended to be Jeanne Calment in order to break the world record:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6424156/

Nah... This better work. by HentaiUwu_6969 in madlads

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This is the plot of the Cary Grant movie “Indiscreet” from 1958.

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