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What are your favourite 80s fantasy movies?
  • And the witches with the horribly mangled faces and pin-up girl figures :) A wild movie!

  • Marie Curie, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person to win a Nobel Prize twice, and the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two scientific fields. (Credit: Getty Images)
  • Not trying to start an argument, friend. I was trying to relate my observation of how many Poles emphatically do not want Skłodowska-Curie’s Polish heritage to be overlooked or forgotten.

    I think it comes down to her maiden name being omitted broadly in the public. For example, look at the title of the post—it is the French version of her name. I’m not laying any blame on OP, however. My science classes all the way through high school never gave her full, hyphenated surname. I had assumed she was French until I was taught otherwise by Poles.

    I’m glad you already knew. Good on you!

  • Marie Curie, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person to win a Nobel Prize twice, and the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two scientific fields. (Credit: Getty Images)
  • Obligatory historical note: her full name was Maria Skłodowska-Curie. She was Polish and proud of it. The first element she discovered she named polonium in honor of her country (which had been broken up and annexed by Russia, Austria, and Prussia). Go to Poland and Poles will be sure to let you know. They view it as a matter of stolen intellectual valor, practically.

  • What are your favourite 80s fantasy movies?
  • The Beastmaster! The only film I know where Rip Torn squares off against ferrets. The best sword and sorcery movie of all time, I think.

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  • There's a Studs Terkel podcast that is just the raw recordings of his interviews. Brilliant stuff!

  • The bloody labor crackdown Paramount didn't want America to see
  • There’s a Studs Terkel podcast that’s just his raw recordings. Brilliant stuff!

  • The bloody labor crackdown Paramount didn't want America to see
  • There’s a Studs Terkel podcast that’s just his raw recordings. Brilliant stuff!

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