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In an early version of "Cinderella", the main character's name is Ella. One of the ugly stepsisters decides to rename Ella due to Ella's habit of sitting among the cinders. Thus Ella is briefly referred to as Cinderslut. The other stepsister butts in an suggests Ella should be called Cinder-Ella. This name then quickly becomes a one-word name.
With the word "s-l-u-t" being used in a children's story I can only assume the word did not have the same nasty connotations back then as it does today.
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It used to mean dirty and untidy/slovenly
 
Due to its short existence, photographs of the Titanic are rare. Thanks to one passenger travelling from Southampton to Queenstown in Ireland, some iconic photographs of its only voyage in 1912 exist. One of the most famous is of a young boy playing with a spinning top on the deck, while his father and his father's friend watch on, the scene actually recreated by James Cameron in Titanic in 1997.

The boy in the photograph is Douglas Spedden, who was aged 5 at the time and travelling in First Class with his parents back to America, and who would sleep through most of the disaster in a lifeboat. So what happened to young Douglas Spedden after the Titanic sank? Sadly just three years later in 1915 at his family home in Maine, Douglas ran out into the road and was hit and killed by a passing motor car, earning himself an unfortunate place in history as Maine's first recorded automobile fatality.

This case just seems to be one to fit into the 'When your time is up, your time is up' file.
 
Dogs and cats famously have trouble getting along unless raised together from a young age, but I recently read that the main reason that dogs and cats don't get along so well is because they have opposite body language.

For example, dogs wag their tails when happy or excited, while cats wag their tails when angry. So a cat sees a dog wagging its tail as angry and issuing a threat, while a dog sees a cat wagging its tail and thinks its happy and thinks that approaching it is a good idea.

Another is that dogs open their mouth frequently, while cats do it less frequently mainly to eat or to hiss at a threat. So cats are alarmed to see a dog with its mouth open taking it as a threat gesture, while a dog will not be alarmed by a cat opening its mouth to show its teeth while hissing. Obviously this doesn't go very well.
 

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emuboy said:
Dogs and cats famously have trouble getting along unless raised together from a young age, but I recently read that the main reason that dogs and cats don't get along so well is because they have opposite body language.

For example, dogs wag their tails when happy or excited, while cats wag their tails when angry. So a cat sees a dog wagging its tail as angry and issuing a threat, while a dog sees a cat wagging its tail and thinks its happy and thinks that approaching it is a good idea.

Another is that dogs open their mouth frequently, while cats do it less frequently mainly to eat or to hiss at a threat. So cats are alarmed to see a dog with its mouth open taking it as a threat gesture, while a dog will not be alarmed by a cat opening its mouth to show its teeth while hissing. Obviously this doesn't go very well.
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Ditch the cat and keep the dog.
Can't beat a wagging tail.
 
At the age of 114, she was interviewed by KBC in September 2017.[18] Tanaka has said that she would like to live to the age of 120, crediting her faith in God, family, sleep, hope, eating good food, and practicing mathematics for her longevity.[5][19][20][21][22] She was also supposed to hold the Olympic torch at the 2020 Summer Olympics, although she pulled out of it due to concerns regarding an increase in COVID-19 cases in Japan.[23]

On 9 March 2019, Tanaka was officially presented with the "World's Oldest Living Person" and "World's Oldest Living Woman" titles by the Guinness World Records, verifying her longevity claim.[1] On 19 September 2020, she broke the record of longest-lived Japanese person ever, as well as the third-oldest person ever in the world, after surpassing Nabi Tajima's age of 117 years, 260 days.[3] On 2 January 2022, Tanaka celebrated her 119th birthday, becoming only the third person to have verifiably lived to 119 in human history. Kane's longevity has since contributed to the maximum lifespan for humans debate. Her age has been compared with Jeanne Calment's and Sarah Knauss', to the 115–125 year window that is speculated to be the possible maximum lifespan range.[24]
 

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In these current days of reality TV and streaming services, the soap opera is a dying form of TV show.

The USA, England and Australia still have soaps on the air and while they still rate, all began many years ago and no new soaps have been attempted for some years.

What is interesting is the differences between soaps in these three countries. In America, the more successful soaps have featured rich and powerful characters; in England their more successful soaps have traditionally been set in poorer urban areas; while Australian soaps have mainly dealt with ordinary Australians in suburbia or regional towns.

There are exceptions but they are rare. For example, Sons and Daughters was an Australian soap in the 1980s similar to the American super-soaps of the same era and it was a success, but very much a product of its time. Attempts to do something different usually resulted in failure. In England in the early 1990s there was an attempt to make a soap called Eldorado about wealthy Brits living in Spain, but it was such a flop that it became a by-word for failure for years afterwards.

It's odd how the soap opera genre evolved so differently in the three countries. A soap set on a bleak UK housing estate would seem to be a recipe for success in England, but an Australian soap opera set in housing commission high rise flats or an American soap set in the projects would not work.
 
The leap years Kane Tanaka's lived through:

2020.
2016.
2012.
2008.
2004.
2000.
1996.
1992.
1988.
1984.
1980.
1976.
1972.
1968.
1964.
1960.
1956.
1952.
1948.
1944.
1940.
1936.
1932.
1928.
1924.
1920.
1916.
1912.
1908.
1904.

That's 30 leap years for Kane.
 

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There is no such thing as pear cider. Only apples make cider.
Fermented pears make a drink called 'perry'. It popular in Britain in the 19th and first half of the 20th century, and was rebranded as 'pear cider' in the 90s to boost sales.
 
Mofra said:
There is no such thing as pear cider. Only apples make cider.
Fermented pears make a drink called 'perry'. It popular in Britain in the 19th and first half of the 20th century, and was rebranded as 'pear cider' in the 90s to boost sales.
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From memory it's treated differently under licensing law from other booze.
 
Mofra said:
There is no such thing as pear cider. Only apples make cider.
Fermented pears make a drink called 'perry'. It popular in Britain in the 19th and first half of the 20th century, and was rebranded as 'pear cider' in the 90s to boost sales.
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RedmanWasHere said:
Further, Kane Tanaka's the first verified 119 year old in history since American Sarah Knauss in 1999.
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If she was an Aussie living in Melbourne, she would have seen all 21 AFL/VFL clubs including University in action. As it is, Kane Tanaka would have seen Halley's Comet twice in her lifetime - as a 7-year-old girl in 1910 and at age 83 in 1986. She was 70 when the World Trade Center was completed in 1973, and 98 when it was destroyed in 2001. She was 9 when the Titanic sank in 1912, and 82 when the wreck was found in 1985.
 

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