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I recently read that during the Second World War actor David Niven was the only British actor who had been a star in Hollywood prior to the war who served in the military during the war. According to what I read, the British Embassy advised all British stars in Hollywood to remain there for the duration of the war. Meanwhile it seems that folks who had been minor actors prior to the outbreak of the war, but who never achieved stardom prior to the war, may not have been so advised. How true is this?

Okay, since it's June 6th I decided to pop in "The Longest Day" and watch it. Midway through the movie, I believe it's after the Point Du-Hoc scenes, General Blumentritt informs Field Marshall von Rundstedt that the panzer reserves have not been released and suggests a call from the Field Marshall to Hitler himself would get the reserve release. In response to this Rundstedt calls Hitler "that Bohemian corporal" and refuses to even crawl on his knees to him to get the panzers released. Now I already know one of the problems The Germans faced in Germany was that they had to ask Hitler to release the panzer reserve, so that's not the question. The question is is that how Rundstedt really felt about Hitler or is it something Hollywood felt would be appropriate? Rundstedt had ordered earlier in the movie to send word to Berlin to release the reserve and at that point in the movie he's angry about how the battle is progressing so it could just be something Hollywood put in, but I'm curious if Rundstedt didn't really have that kind of contempt for Hitler in real life.

I posted this rather late a few days ago and am trying this again. Here is what I posted before.

"I'm working on project for a child of one and am looking for paints for the project. Because the project is the making of wooden toys, I realize that there is more than a slight chance the child in question will be putting these toys in their mouth and biting down on them. I'm less worried about them swallowing and choking on the toys as I've been making sure there are no small parts and the toys are solid. But I'm more concerned about the paint on the toys being a hazard. What would be child/baby safe paints I could use? "

Please help, this is something I'm working on for Christmas.

I looking to possibly do a video on the Lincoln Funeral Train for Halloween and Math isn't exactly my strong suit. Folks familiar with the train have probably also heard of the ghost stories associated with it. One particular story is about a doctor who lived in the Albany, NY area some time in the last century as the doctor is depicted driving a car in the story. He'd had to make a house call one night in late April and it was around 10:30 PM while on his way home from that call that he came to the tracks and supposedly witnessed the train. The train appeared to be traveling at 20 MPH. The story does make it clear the doctor had to travel thirty minutes from home so it wasn't in Albany he witnessed this.

For years I paid where it took place no mind, it was just that it had to happen late at night. But as I said I'm thinking of doing a video for Halloween that would feature this story and got to making a map of the route. And I found this site, http://www.lincoln-highway-museum.org/WHMC/WHMC-LF... which included times for the train's arrival in various towns. The train reached Albany April 25, 1865, but the night before seems to suggest the doctor's story happened April 24th. What I'm looking for is around what town this might have been as it arrived in Hudson at 9:45 PM then passed through Stockport, Stuyvesant, Schodack, and Castleton before arriving in Greenbush at 10:55 PM. If it was going 20 MPH that night, about what town would have been reached at 10:30?

Ok folks go trick-or-treating. They decorate their house and yard. They have Halloween/costume parties. They go to haunted attractions. They read Halloween themed stories. They wear costumes. They make Halloween themed food. But those are all thing done around where you live or in towns and cities you may visit. I'm talking about doing something and posting it online to share with folks you may never meet.

Like for me I've posted ghost stories online. And within the last couple of years after having answered some questions on here about things to make for a Halloween party I've considered posting up themed menus using recipes from some of my Halloween cookbooks.

I got an Extended Life Battery Kit for my PSP2000 and the battery seems to be bulging a little. The cover the instructions say to use with the battery won't close with it in place. I remove the battery and it closes just like the cover that came with my PSP. The battery was in a hot room recently and I'm afraid this may have caused this bulging of the battery. Is this normal and is there a way to et the bulging to go down or is this battery a lost cause. I just opened the kit today.

Ok, 2013 is just weeks from closing now and I got to thinking about all the hype on the "Mayan calendar predicting the end of the world" (and how many times going into last December did I have to post that whole explanation about the interpretation of predictions and the reason the calendar was ending), kinda laughing to myself about how we're still here despite what folks were claiming. But tat got me to thinking about all the "end of the world" predictions that have made the headlines in the past twenty years. These people have made something of a name for themselves in this day and age. Harold Camping predicted the world would end in September. 1994, October 1994, March 1995, May 2011, October 2011, obviously none of which came true. Then you had all the folks predictingY2K would be the "end of the modern world." As I've pointed out numerous times over the past several years, we watched as midnight, January 1, 2000 came to each time zone on New Years Eve, 1999 without seeing any sig of the predicted collapse. Ronald Weinland predicted September 2011, May 2012, and May 2013 would all see the end of the world. The Japanese cult and terrorist organization Aum Shinrikyo predicted a nuclear war fought between October and November 2003 would be the end of the world. Marshall Applewhite, leader of the Heaven's Gate Cut, predicted the world was going to end in 1997 but that a "spaceship in the tail of Comet Hale-Bopp" would take the faithful away as long as they committed suicide first (so he and 38 of his followers committed suicide in arch '97).

As I got to thinking about it my mind turned to someone who is perhaps one of the most famous prophets of all time, Nostradamus. This past July 2 marked the 447th anniversary of his death. The fact is that Nostradamus's "prediction" are written in such a vague way that they can be interpreted in different ways. I've pointed out time and again that the vast majority of the time people claim he supposedly predicted 9/11 they say the prediction was "a giant bird would crash into an enormous building." Only about 1% or 2% of the time do they say the building collapsed, just leaving I as a crash could also be interpreted as 7/28/45. On that date a B-25 crashed into the Empire State Building. Interpretation, interpret a prediction one way and one set of events mean it's come true, interpret it another and another set of events means it's come true. And for the past 447 years Nostradamus has been famed for his predictions because of how people have interpreted them.

We're still talking about Nostradamus today. And he's not the only famous prophet people are still talking about. Come January 3 it will be 69 years since Edgar Cayce passed on. Cayce supposedly predicted Black Tuesday, i.e. the stock market crash of 1929 that led to the Great Depression, just months before it happened. And a few years before September 1, 1939 Cayce predicted WWII. He also made predictions on such things as polar shift and blood as a diagnostic tool, some of his predictions supposedly either have or are coming true. But in his lifetime he's been said to have scoffed at the idea of being a prophet and making these prediction (he could have probably pointed out that the WWII and stock market crash predictions were just observations of someone living at that time).

So will any of these failed "prophets" of the end of the world be remembered seventy or even 400 years from today the same as Nostradamus and Cayce? And what about those who have made predictions whose dates haven't come yet, will they be remembered that far into the future? Keep in mind we do have historical examples to say prophets aren't all forgotten. But for every Nostradamus or Edgar Cayce there's at least 10 million forgotten prophets.

For about a week or two now I've been having difficulty trying to access Civil War Interactive. At first I could get onto the front page and the get an error message when I tried navigating the various sections. But lately I'm just getting an error message. Anyone else having that problem?

Ok, so I enjoy Lesley Pratt Bannatyne's "A Halloween How-To" but it is a bit dated. After all it just turned 12 this July. So what does that have to do with this question? Well the book is about costuming, decorations, places to visit, things to do, ideas for parties, and music and movies. This includes a list from Reel.com on what the say are the "Ten Scariest Movies of All Time." Their list:

"1. Don't Look Now (1973)

2. Rosemary's Baby (1968)

3. Suspiria (1977)

4. Halloween (1978)

5. Alien (1979)

6. The Hills Have Eyes (1977)

7. The Exorcist (1973)

8. The Hitcher (1986)

9. The Evil Dead (1982)

10. The Tenant (1976)"

I'm quoting directly from the book, please don't tell me I got the dates wrong cause it wouldn't be me that got the dates wrong (under kid's movies "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" is listed as a 1986 movie when it's actually a 1966 movie). But dates aside, I'm more interested in what you folks have to say are the ten scariest movies to date. Not of all time because that's a little foolish in my book, it's basically saying there will never be any new movies scarier than what's on the list.

Ok, the Halloween cooking samplers and recipe magazines are hitting stores now. In fact I just picked up a couple samplers last week and (one being the pil Favorite Brand Name Recipes' "Halloween Food &" Fun and the other being Gooseberry Patch's "Best Halloween Treats") and today I just bought Taste of Home's "Ultimate Halloween." And as I got to thinking about it began to wonder what recipes folks have to have during Halloween time. That "my holiday just isn't the same if I don't have this at least once during October." For me it's Witches Brew. There's various different recipes, mostly drinks of one kind or another, that are called Witches Brew, but only one is for me. I first encounter this one in 2002 in FBNR's "Frightfully Festive Halloween Recipes & Party Ideas" sampler and since then I've picked up a ring bound Halloween cooking and crafting book at Target and rediscovered it in this year's FBNR sampler. It's very simple to make:

"2 cups apple cider

1 1/12 to 2 cups vanilla ice cream

2 tablespoons honey

1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon

1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg plus additional for garnish

Combine cider, ice cream, honey, cinnamon and 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg in blender or food processor; blen untilsmooth. Pour into glasses, sprinkle with additional nutmeg, if desired. Serve immediately.

Makes four servings.

Serving suggestions: Add a few drops of orange or red food coloring to ingredients in blender to make a scary brew.

Hint: Reduce the fat in this tasty brew by replacing vanilla ice cream with reduced-fat or fat free ice cream or frozen yogurt."

Tasty isn't the right word, this is delicious, it's basically a milkshake made with apple cider instead of milk. Kinda a creamy light brown or tan in color. And I have to have it at least once during October or else Halloween just isn't the same.

What about you folks. What recipe must you have or else Halloween just isn't the same? Please share.

Is it true there is a Christmas Carol that was originally about the American Civil War? If so then what carol and who wrote it?

Ok, the answer crew posed the question about setting foot in a haunted house, and not the attraction but the real thing. However that seems to be for Twitter users to post in. And it's just if you would set foot in a supposedly haunted house, not if you actually have. My question is would you do so or have you done so already?

For me I have to say I have.

Exactly as the question says, what's the worst school massacre in US history. Additionally when did it happen and who commited it.

In 1894 Joseph Stalin enrolled in the Orthodox Seminary of Tifilis when he was just 16. Years earlier his father had cut him and his mother off financially. Now this is important because in 1899, the year he would have gradutated and become a priest the Seminary raised it's fees right before he was to take his final exam. Unable to pay his fees or for the final exam, Stalin didn't take the final and was expelled. It's was after being expelled that he heard of Lenin and decided to become a revolutionary.

But what if Stalin's father had never cut him off? What if he'd had the money to pay his school fees and became a priest? Would he still have learned of Lenin and become a revolutionary or would he have been too devoted to the priesthood?

Exactly what the title says. When did the following come out and what is it about

"And we learned fast

"To travel light

"Our arms were heavy but our bellys were tight"

and

"And it was dark

"So dark at night

"We held on to each other

"Like brother to brother"

I'm looking for the numbers on the black and color cartridges

I mean in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Holmes stories. Does Doyle ever describe Holmes' physical apperance?

I'm thinking baking soda, want to make sure I'm right.

I'm not talking issueing orders to the generals in the field from the White House here. I'm talking Lincoln actually being in the field commanding troops himself the same year his son died.

I've seen a few answers to several questions on here and I'm a little curious to see what kind of answer I get to this. How many aircraft carriers did the US Navy have in 1941 and had carriers been at Pearl on December 7th how long would it have taken to get a carrier into the Pacific?