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02/13/2010 03:35:18 AM · #1

Berlin, 1936
The Berlin Olympics of 1936 were meant to be a showcase for the might of Nazi Germany. And the Reich prepared for the games in true fascist fashion, starting with a drive to clear the streets of all unwanted "Gypsies." But the real innovation of the Games was its pageantry. Organizers came up with the novel idea of linking the Olympics' ancient origins with the Nazis' modern-day ideology by running the Olympic torch from Athens to Germany â�� in essence, the Nazis invented the torch relay we still use today

Before 1936, they just stood in a circle and swore to the code!~

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02/13/2010 05:22:37 AM · #2

Wow, I hate the Torch Relay even more now seeing it's a Nazi tradition. :)

Snow isn't white, it's clear, like crystal.

David Ey

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02/13/2010 06:41:24 AM · #3

What about the Seven Dwarfs?

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02/13/2010 06:43:34 AM · #4

Originally posted by David Ey:

What about the Seven Dwarfs?

what about them?

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02/13/2010 10:08:09 AM · #5

Originally posted by David Ey:

What about the Seven Dwarfs?

They were Irish.

Baxter

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02/13/2010 12:01:40 PM · #6

Keeping an Olympic theme, the summer games of 1920 was the first time mens ice hockey was an event. Canade won the gold.

zeuszen

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02/13/2010 02:02:04 PM · #7

Originally posted by Jac:

Originally posted by David Ey:
What about the Seven Dwarfs?

They were Irish.

They were German, too, just like the original Olympic torch bearers.;-/
Most likely they were miners before populating a fairy tale.
The mirror, likely, was a so-called "talking mirror" (with a motto carved into its frame) manufactured in the area in the middle ages.
Several castles, some reduced to ruins, spar for the reputation to have been "Snow White's" home.
There is a historic record providing a reasonably good match to the character and fate of "Snow White" in what is now Rheinland-Pfalz in West Germany.
This would make the "wild forest" the "Spessart", a notoriously fabled location now dissected by the autobahn.

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02/13/2010 02:11:40 PM · #8

See, I didnt know any of that, I think it is totally interesting. Off to google

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02/13/2010 03:26:28 PM · #9

Interesting facts zeuszen.

Before coming up with with the names of the dwarfs, there were other ideas such as Awful, Biggy, Blabby, Dirty, Gabby, Gaspy, Gloomy, Hoppy, Hotsy, Jaunty, Jumpy, Nifty, and Shifty.

Glad they didn't go with these. :)

Louis

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02/13/2010 03:41:38 PM · #10

But much better than the less popular Gassy, Boozy, Belchy, and Barfy.

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02/13/2010 05:37:35 PM · #11

In the original version by the Bros. Grimm (who merely recorded and retold local tales from along the Weser mountains), the dwarves have no names. The names are a Disney overlay.

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02/13/2010 05:57:37 PM · #12

Mickey Mouse's first role, Steamboat Willie, was a total ripoff of another movie. But now anyone who even comes close to using anything like Mickey Mouse's likeness gets mercilessly sued by Disney, including daycare centers.

Kermit the Frog is dead. So is Bugs Bunny.

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02/13/2010 06:00:16 PM · #13

Kermit is dead, when did that happen?