This is a fascinating history. Also, seeing the color alone, even knowing it's mauve, my brain runs back and forth trying to determine if it's link, purple, or gray. youtu.be/16-xQ-Dt2mk?...

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There are children in middle school today whose parents were not yet born the last time James Carville was relevant.

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The gunfire for Master & Commander was recorded by firing live projectiles over mics at the artillery firing range at Camp Grayling, MI.

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There were 27 miles of rope used for rigging in Master & Commander. Modern rope naturally coils in the opposite direction of rope made during the Napoleonic wars. So the production paid a shop to make period accurate cordage.

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Take a moment to think about what this image shows. That's a glint of sunlight, reflecting off a lake of liquid ethane and methane, on a moon that's larger than Mercury where the average surface temperature is –180°C, orbiting a giant ringed planet 1.4 billion kilometres away.

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