I’m sure it’s been mentioned here before but apparently Lenin spoke English with an Irish accent:
ETA Beshoff’s chip shop(s) are of course hugely famous here so the above is well known. Our local chip shop is 50M away and they do gluten free, they and the restaurant at the mosque are the shops that know us all by name!
I wish footage of that existed…
There certainly seem to be enough buried clues (literally) backing up the theory.
And why not? It’s the sort of thing Vikings did, no matter their gender.
Yeah, their thing was sea navigation. Old fashioned notions that they couldn’t navigate (or other premodern cultures) out of sight of land were utterly dumb in the first place (that’s not how navigation works if you don’t want a lee shore eating you alive) and utterly debunked by the accumulation of evidence.
But was it a Unisex Chip Shop? Inquiring minds want to know!
Looking at my Oslo aunt and my Bergen cousin - extremely plausible.
Via the IP list:
Celebrating in particular, Genevieve Grotjan Feinstein, who was key in cracking the Japanese PURPLE cipher and cracking Russian cyphers for the Venona project.
Also, just in case you haven’t downloaded anything from an NSA computer today, 
here are two reports on her work:
There was a moment in that article, where they were quoting the (same year, 2014) WaPo piece on the subject, which began:
The word has surprisingly black roots
And no, they did not mean African, they were using the term to mean negative/bad.
2014 isn’t that long ago. The Smithsonian should have known to not leave the quote as-is without some sort of editorial comment.
Not exactly the smaller stuff, but I didn’t know where else to put this.
Was just coming to post this same story…
Today is also the International day against fascism and antisemitism…
