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[Leo Enticknap]

According to my history teacher in high school, we were told that Finland is the only country that repaid its WWII debt to the U.S. from the Lend-Lease program.

Depending on when you were in school, that might have been correct at the time. The UK made its final payment on December 29, 2006.

I believe that Finland was almost unique, in that it fought both for the Nazis and the Allies during WWII. Their principal enemy was the USSR, hence changing sides (the USSR entered World War II as an Axis power, and ended it on the side of the Allies). Finland's involvement was in three phases: the "Winter War" from August 1939 to March 1940, which was defensive against an attack by the USSR; the "Continuation War", from December 6, 1941 (when the UK formally declared war on Finland resulting from Finland's military support for Nazi Germany, following the breakdown in the Nazi-Soviet Pact) until September 1944, and then finally the "Lapland War," in which Finland fought the Nazis, from December 1944 until April 1945.

So if there was any Lend Lease from the USA to Finland, it can't have been very much, because the two nations weren't even fighting on the same side until only five months before the end of the war.

[Frank Cox]

Undercover Santa and Elf on a drug raid in Peru

https://youtu.be/BtJbkhc6cFk

[Randy Stankey]

According to my history teacher in high school, we were told that Finland is the only country that repaid its WWII debt to the U.S. from the Lend-Lease program.

Okay... So Finland is a small country and they probably didn't have much debt from Lend-Lease but it's not the money that's important.

Have you ever known a person who, if you take them out to lunch, they always ask whether they can pay their half of the bill, even if you say, "My treat?"

Finland is like that guy.

It's not so much about the money but more about the gesture and the respect that goes with it.

I'd take Finland out to lunch, again, any time.

[Helmut Maripuu]

Made inFinland

[Helmut Maripuu]

Made in Finlan

[Frank Cox]

This 81-year-old Italian man couldn't visit his wife in hospital, so he serenaded her from the street

If music be the food of love, play on -- especially when coronavirus restrictions leave you with little other option.
Prevented from visiting his sick wife in hospital, 81-year-old Stefano Bozzini decided to take to the street outside to serenade her on his accordion.
While Carla Sacchi, his wife of 47 years, watched from a second-floor window of the hospital in Castel San Giovanni, a town in Italy's northern Emilia-Romagna region, the sprightly troubadour played a medley of love songs on his accordion below.

https://www.facebook.com/100008039495680/videos/2832340390377250/

[Tony Bandiera Jr]

I love this video, the recording of Universal Studios' 100th Anniversary Logo music. The newer orchestral arrangement and the addition of the choral voices really makes this theme epic. Not since the "Cinemascope Extension" to the 20th Century Fox logo has a opening logo given me chills.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UG7x89vX2hk

[Frank Cox]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCqZQUhBBHw

This has to be the most absurd song I've ever heard.

[Marcel Birgelen]

You don't have to look far for some real-life endorsements of those same batteries.

Everything Old is Old again

I reserve the right to steal that quote.

[Frank Cox]

Bruce Willis advertising Die Hard batteries

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7kFGGFI9Xo&feature=youtu.be

[Martin McCaffery]

Welcome to 2020, everything that happened before it is considered retro.

Everything Old is Old again

[Marcel Birgelen]

1999 is Retro?

Welcome to 2020, everything that happened before it is considered retro.


Regarding the current pandemic, I stumbled upon this little video from a few months ago. Kudos for the creator for the simulations, but it's somehow scary how things worked out in the end... I guess things like science and logic are still the best way to approach the world around us...

[Martin McCaffery]

Instead we step inside this Retro Movie

1999 is Retro?

[Leo Enticknap]

This is also a news story, but the point of it is really the video, so posted here.

The Polish military was trying to defuse a 5,000 ton UXB that had been discovered at the bottom of a harbor (it had been intended to destroy a Nazi warship, but missed its target and sunk without detonating), and accidentally detonated it in the process.

The military spokesman also managed to nominate himself for the most obvious statement of the year award, when he told a press conference shortly afterwards that "the bomb is now considered safe."

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[Jim Cassedy]

Greenburgh Multiplex Cinemas in Elmsford NY, as revealed in one of the comments

D'oh! Thanks. Actually, I had looked in the comments, but since I watched the video & read the
comments within the 1st 24hrs or so of the video being posted, that comment wasn't there yet.