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Aye one of the main reasons why "Italian" spoken among Italian-Americans over here in the US sounds so "funny" is because it's mostly a mix of the Napulitano, Sicilianu, and Calabrese languages – all of which are closer related to each other than to Standard Italian. And that's because most of our immigrant communities came from the south.

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They did occasionally venture in the peninsula.

I meant Sicily as south. Should have worded it better, my bad.

They also started their own law firm. Blame-o.

Muslims conquered part of continental italy? Always thought they never went further than the islands

Outside of cheering on their national soccer team, Italians pretty much still identify with their regions.

I have only a slight idea of Italian and German history, however, if I had to guess I would say that Italy has a stronger degree of "cultural division" because historically it's regions had very different influences. The south of Italy remained under Spanish rule for a long time, and had more contact with the Arabs, as for the North it experimented more"freedom". They were safer from the Spanish and other influences, and were able to develop "by themselves". Central Italy was ruled directly by the pope for ages. Also, we can't forget that the sense of "cultural identity" comes from the 19th century, before then language was not a major cultural marker, but because modern Italian has very distinct dialects, they might have remained aa means to locals maintain the fragmentation that once existed. That's a wild guess tho.

Well, Germany wasn't that unified in that the unification of Germany as such was only achieved by cutting ties with Austria, which traditionally had been a core part of Germany.

But there had been a strong desire for unity for decades. The Prussian king had been offered an imperial crown decades earlier but didn't want a crown that was offered to him by the common rabble - if he was to be emperor and unify the country, then it had to be under his terms in a top-down approach.

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I was issued a Mattel manufactured M-16 in basic training long ago

I wrote most of it so yes

So unified Germany younger than the United States.

It was an interesting question. Rarely bought up. Romans, everybody in the area back then, enslaved entire cities, I've not heard this of the Chinese. It likely happened. My Chinese history is sketchy.

2 for sale on gunbroker.... wow there's so many!

Also not to be confused with WHABOOM

In 1956, the purchase price of $19.95 would buy you almost 22oz of silver (@$0.91/oz), which would be worth $462 in 2022 (@$21/oz).

The inflation calculator you used that says it would be $220 is absolutely lying to you.

I thought all Frisbees were kinda shitty until I started playing Ultimate Frisbee in hs. Those discs are great and actually fly in a very satisfying way.

No prob! What you wrote seemed low, since I normally think of a 50% increase as the inflation from about 20 years ago, so I wanted to look it up. Loved your post btw, thanks for sharing

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Weird! The inflation calculator I originally used is totally inaccurate. Thanks for pointing that out!

Fun there's one for sale on gumbroker I kinda wanna buy it now lol