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DontPressAltF4 t1_jaf19os wrote

Reply to comment by TheOnesWhoWander in TIL Captain America co-creator Jack Kirby was drafted into the U.S. Army during WWII, landing at Omaha Beach in Normandy. When a lieutenant found out he was a comics artist, he made Kirby a scout who would advance into towns and draw reconnaissance maps and pictures, an extremely dangerous duty. by geekteam6

Captain America #1 came out in March 1941.

By December 1941 it was Marvel's #1 selling franchise. (Marvel was called Timely Comics back then, but it's the same company)

Whether he was "famous" or not is subject to the same niche problems people face today. Can you name the number one comic book writer of 2022-23?

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PlasticMix8573 t1_jaf0s5e wrote

Reply to TIL exactly what it means to be “Hanged, drawn and quartered”: “…fastened to a hurdle, or wooden panel, and drawn by horse to the place of execution, where he was then hanged (almost to the point of death), emasculated, disembowelled, beheaded, and quartered (chopped into four pieces).” by CatsKittensCatsBunny

Pretty sure that was 5 or 6 pieces even though it was called quartering. Easy enough to cut off the arms and legs, head is a bit more work. It is a lot of work to cut a body into 4 even moderately symmetrical pieces.

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dplfk t1_jaf0ndv wrote

Reply to comment by No-Owl9201 in TIL In Approximately 241,000 years, Nanga Parbat #9 tallest mountain in the world located in Pakistan will overtake Everest and will become the tallest mountain in the world. by AdClemson

I must clarify that the term "Nanga Parbat" finds its roots in the Punjabi (ancient prakrit & Sansikrat) language. Additionally, it is important to note that Urdu is just Hindi which is heavily influenced by Persian, and thus has strong connections to both Hindi and Punjabi, which are both members of the Indo-European language family. These two languages share a rich history and a significant amount of common vocabulary

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FeloniousReverend t1_jaf0lyp wrote

Reply to comment by StringFartet in TIL Captain America co-creator Jack Kirby was drafted into the U.S. Army during WWII, landing at Omaha Beach in Normandy. When a lieutenant found out he was a comics artist, he made Kirby a scout who would advance into towns and draw reconnaissance maps and pictures, an extremely dangerous duty. by geekteam6

So you're saying Tarantino should have made The Bear Jew be Jack Kirby?

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WanderingPickles t1_jaezru1 wrote

Reply to comment by AnselaJonla in TIL exactly what it means to be “Hanged, drawn and quartered”: “…fastened to a hurdle, or wooden panel, and drawn by horse to the place of execution, where he was then hanged (almost to the point of death), emasculated, disembowelled, beheaded, and quartered (chopped into four pieces).” by CatsKittensCatsBunny

The Austrian method, as it became know. Still used as late as WWI.

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mcminer128 t1_jaeznzz wrote

Reply to TIL it used to be illegal for women to wear trousers in the USA by fatboyslick

When we moved to Georgia from up north, my mom made the mistake of wearing pants to a southern Baptist church. Pants were how you didn’t freeze your ass off up north. Apparently not the same rational down south. It was the late seventies, so didn’t expect this would be an issue - let’s just say that church didn’t work out.

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beachedwhale1945 t1_jaezi9k wrote

Reply to comment by enfiel in TIL Captain America co-creator Jack Kirby was drafted into the U.S. Army during WWII, landing at Omaha Beach in Normandy. When a lieutenant found out he was a comics artist, he made Kirby a scout who would advance into towns and draw reconnaissance maps and pictures, an extremely dangerous duty. by geekteam6

The reconnaissance plane then has to fly back to the UK, have the film unloaded from the rather bulky cameras, develop the film, turn it over to analysts, have the analysts create maps, get those maps across the English Channel by plane or boat, and get that map to the front lines. By which time the unit that wanted the map has already taken that bit of ground and moved on.

Kirby’s maps would be used within a day of their creation. If you want maps that fast of a particular tactical area, you use some guy on the ground, not aircraft. Photo-reconnaissance aircraft were used for grander strategic reconnaissance duties, including tracking German ships and factory outputs.

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Bardfinn t1_jaezedk wrote

Reply to comment by Narcowski in TIL it used to be illegal for women to wear trousers in the USA by fatboyslick

Yep. That’s the tactic they’re all using — passing a law that bans a narrowly defined set of behaviours, knowing they have the power to redefine a single word used in the bill-now-law to have sweeping social policing powers targeting anyone and anything that doesn’t conform to their desires.

In Tennessee, if this bill is signed into law (and the Republican governor has said he intends to sign it into law), all it would take is for a married lesbian couple (where one of them is butch - wearing pants or having short hair) to kiss in public — and puritanical morality police could arrest and charge them.

With a felony.

Even if no kids see them.

Because the law specifies that the “performance” happen where children could see them.

It outlaws Pride parades. It outlaws men with long hair. It outlaws gay men wearing makeup. It outlaws everything except what they decide it doesn’t outlaw.

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