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Night-owl Nov 2022 11:30am, 11 Nov 2022 40,635 posts	Quote Pin Night-owl GregP Robert Wagner was Anthony diNozzo Sr otherwise Tony diNozzo's father in Ncis
DeeGee Nov 2022 12:37pm, 11 Nov 2022 22,220 posts	Quote Pin DeeGee Despite the recent history of the region suggesting otherwise, the term "balkanisation" is not recent, it dates from the 19th century and refers to the fall of the Ottoman Empire rather than the collapse and subsequent division of Yugoslavia.
GlennR Nov 2022 12:39pm, 11 Nov 2022 66,381 posts	Quote Pin GlennR That young people have a different definition of "recent" than I do.
DeeGee Nov 2022 12:47pm, 11 Nov 2022 22,221 posts	Quote Pin DeeGee [Are you suggesting that the mid 1990s isn't recent, or that the early 19th century is?]
Diogenes Nov 2022 1:24pm, 11 Nov 2022 74,226 posts	Quote Pin Diogenes I would not consider Balkanisation recent because the 19th version of it was part of my GCO GCE O level syllabus in the early to mid 1980s. I do not consider the 1980s recent or, in other words, it was far too long ago now.
DeeGee Nov 2022 1:40pm, 11 Nov 2022 22,222 posts	Quote Pin DeeGee My degree is in Modern European Studies. My first brush with the term "Balkanisation" was as it was happening in the Balkans, around the same time as I was studying for my degree in the mid 1990s, so I kind of conflated the two.
GlennR Nov 2022 2:50pm, 11 Nov 2022 66,386 posts	Quote Pin GlennR Everything since Cromwell, at the latest, is modern history to me. In literature Shakespeare is considered "early modern".
Diogenes Nov 2022 2:59pm, 11 Nov 2022 74,228 posts	Quote Pin Diogenes My metalwork teacher asked me if I'd heard of the modern movement. I said yes, it was a 50s dance craze. (I'll never know whether or not he knew I was joking)
Ocelot Spleens Nov 2022 3:04pm, 11 Nov 2022 35,211 posts	Quote Pin Ocelot Spleens What a genus Chrysocyon is. en.wikipedia.org
Eynsham Red Nov 2022 5:28pm, 11 Nov 2022 9,184 posts	Quote Pin Eynsham Red That playing my guitar for an hour would add 3000 to the step count on my Garmin.