chgoliz
December 23, 2013, 8:56pm
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OMG: Olivia De Havilland is still alive! Who knew?
daneel
December 23, 2013, 9:12pm
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She’s not even the oldest living Oscar winner…
Luise Rainer (/ˈraɪnɜːr/; 12 January 1910 – 30 December 2014) was a German and American film actress. She was the first actor to win more than one Academy Award, and at the time of her death, the longest-lived recipient. Rainer began acting in Germany at age 16, being trained by Austria's leading stage director, Max Reinhardt. Within a few years, she had become a distinguished Berlin stage actress with Reinhardt's Vienna theater ensemble. Critics "raved" about her acting quality. After years of a...
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daneel
December 23, 2013, 9:22pm
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Also, her sister only died last week.
Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland (October 22, 1917 – December 15, 2013), known professionally as Joan Fontaine, was a British-American actress best known for her starring roles in Hollywood films. Fontaine appeared in more than 45 feature films in a career that spanned five decades. She was the younger sister of actress Olivia de Havilland. Born in Tokyo to British parents, Fontaine moved to California before she was two years old. She traveled there along with her mother, Lilian Fontaine, and siste...
Oh, you’re a bad person and you’re going to hell. That was brilliant.
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There is a thought his life represents a clear triumph of Communism over Capitalism. If you only consider the sales figures its a slam dunk.
And for an utterly exhaustive read on the history and development of the Kalashnikov, “The Gun”, by C. J. Chivers, is a good start.
Salgak
December 24, 2013, 11:06pm
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And there’s currently a joke running around:
The Russian Army plans on burying Kalishnikov in a large mud pit.
After a week or so, they plan on excavating him, hosing him off, and they expect him to be as good as new !!!
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Raybert
December 24, 2013, 11:29pm
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I was trained using the H&K G3, but weapons training also covered the AK-47 as that was the rifle the, uh, competition were using. I always thought it clever that the AK-47 could fire the G3’s cartridges, but not the other way round (different length). Allegedly the AK-47 was supposed to be a bit more accurate when the barrel was slightly rusty (after those three days in the mud)…
beschizza
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December 28, 2013, 4:33pm
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