Showing posts with label lists. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lists. Show all posts

Saturday, May 27, 2023

May 27 2023 - Listverse

 

Metaverse is a trend in words that have verse in them.  I recently found a site named Listverse.com - it is full of lists.

How do you keep someone scrolling through lists?  They have to have interesting topics, and there needs to be variety so that you continue to read through them.  The list of lists itself needs to be interesting. 

There are subject areas - movies and tv, weird stuff, our world, travel, history, creepy, technology, humans, crime.

In the Weird Stuff area, one list is 10 male leaders who had surprisingly high-pitched voices.  They include George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. 

Here's the entry of Adoph Hitler:
 

When it comes to “shrill-voiced speakers,” a lot of people’s minds probably wander to Adolph Hitler. Hitler’s speeches were characterized by his shrill, angry, maniacal tone as he sought to rile up the crowds and keep them enthralled in his Nazi ideology. He is basically the embodiment of the “screaming dictator” trope.

However, Hitler had a secret. He was very careful about making sure that no one recorded him speaking in his normal voice. Despite this, there exists a single known recording of Hitler speaking in a conversational voice. The recording in question involves Hitler speaking to Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, the military leader of Finland, in 1942. The recording was made in secret by a Finnish broadcasting engineer. When Hitler’s guards realized he was being secretly recorded, they surprisingly did not demand the tape be destroyed. They instead demanded it be “hidden away, never to be opened.” 

The tape was kept from the public for nearly 15 years but was finally released in 1957. In contrast to his crazed, high-pitched voice when speaking to a crowd, Hitler’s conversational voice is deep, even, and almost smooth. Above, you can hear Adolph Hitler’s normal, rarely-heard speaking voice

 
Wouldn't they have high-pitched voices on a model railroad?  Everything in scale.

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Saturday, December 5, 2020

Dec 5 2020 - Christmas Lists

 

The Christmas List - something of wonder in our current times. It began in ancient times as a tradition symbolic of the Three Wise Men and their gifts. It has moved on to include the year's "Best of {fill in anything}".  The lists have started in the Globe and Mail.  

The gift-giving of Christmas is historically tied to the 12 days of Christmas tradition, with a gift given on each day. Christmas is the Twelfth Night.  That's the gift that Shakespeare gave in writing his play Twelfth Night - it closed the Christmas season with an entertaining comedy.  Scholars think that it was written specifically to ge performed for Queen Elizabeth 1. There is other speculation that the play was written for a group of lawyers of the Inns of Court. It is thought that it was performed on January 6, 1602.

That seems an amazing Christmas gift, so I wondered about gifts throughout history - given we've got since 336 for such wonders to be given.

I found an article on Christmas gifts through history HERE.  They include the Statue of Liberty, the City of Savannah, a White Elephant (to Pope Leo X in 1514), a bowling alley in the White House, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, The Trojan Horse, Faberge Eggs.  Some gifts don't seem to be related to Christmas (and two are gruesome).  But that's what you get with metalfloss.com

Christmas presents along the lines of what we expect today all relate to what's most expensive  Here's the descriptions for this list HERE.
  1. The Orlov Diamond – Priceless
  2. Evalyn’s Jewels, Star of the East and Hope Diamond – Upwards of USD 250 Million
  3. Twenty-Two-Year-Old’s USD 88 Million Christmas Present - real estate 
  4. Diamond and Ruby for Liz – USD 4.2 Million - Liz Taylor
  5. Spend It Like Beckham – USD 3 Million - a necklace
  6. HK Superstar Aaron Kwok’s USD 2.6 Million Christmas Present - 
  7. Tyson’s Moment – USD 2.3 Million a gold bathtub
  8. Aaron Spelling’s White Christmas Gift – USD 2 Million -  snow machine making snow in his Beverly Hills backyard
  9. The Waterfall Gift – USD 1.6 Million - to build a Frank Lloyd Wright Fallingwater house
  10. Mastiff Gem – USD 1.5 Million - a rare dog
A snow orchard image today. The snow has almost melted.  That means I can finish raking the leaves that are still coming down from the trees.

 
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