The Origin of That Old-Timey Accent in Classic Movies
In the 1920s and into the 1950s, Hollywood had a particular way of talking. It was called the Midatlantic or the Transatlantic accent. But we don't speak like that anymore. The accent was acquired, so there's no line tracing it back through history — but we gave it a try.
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Song, Song of the south
Sweet potato pie, and I shut my mouth
Gone, gone with the wind
There aint no body looking back again
Cotton on roadside, cotton on the ditch
We all picked the cotton but we never got rich
Daddy was a veteren, a southern democrat
They oughta get rich man to vote like that singing
Song song of the south
Sweet potato pie, and i shut my mouth
Gone gone with the wind
There aint no body looking back again
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Long Island | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
00:04:14 1 History
00:04:22 1.1 Early history
00:08:38 1.2 18th and 19th centuries
00:12:14 1.3 20th century
00:14:46 1.4 21st century
00:15:50 2 Geography
00:18:15 2.1 Geology
00:20:04 2.2 Countyscapes
00:20:13 2.3 Climate
00:25:38 2.4 Additional islands
00:26:18 3 Demographics
00:32:08 4 Economy
00:34:10 5 Government and politics
00:35:20 5.1 Law enforcement
00:36:07 5.2 Statehood proposals
00:37:05 6 Transportation
00:38:12 6.1 Public transportation
00:39:07 6.1.1 Rail
00:40:27 6.1.2 Bus
00:40:56 6.2 Roads
00:41:16 6.2.1 Ground transportation
00:41:49 7 Education
00:41:58 7.1 Primary and secondary education
00:43:14 7.2 Colleges and universities
00:44:41 8 Culture
00:44:50 8.1 Music
00:47:17 8.2 Cuisine
00:49:37 8.3 Sports
00:49:44 8.3.1 Major league sports
00:52:21 8.3.2 Minor league and college sports
00:53:40 8.3.3 Other sports
00:54:51 8.3.4 Notable sportspeople and teams
00:56:12 9 See also
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Long Island is a densely populated island off the East Coast of the United States, beginning at New York Harbor approximately 0.35 miles (0.56 km) from Manhattan Island and extending eastward into the Atlantic Ocean. The island comprises four counties in the U.S. state of New York. Kings and Queens Counties (the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens, respectively) and Nassau County share the western third of the island, while Suffolk County occupies the eastern two-thirds. More than half of New York City's residents now live on Long Island, in Brooklyn and Queens. However, many people in the New York metropolitan area (including those in Brooklyn and Queens) colloquially use the term Long Island (or the Island) to refer exclusively to Nassau and Suffolk Counties, which are mainly suburban in character, conversely employing the term the City to mean Manhattan alone.Broadly speaking, Long Island may refer both to the main island and the surrounding outer barrier islands. North of the island is Long Island Sound, across which lie Westchester County, New York, and the state of Connecticut. Across the Block Island Sound to the northeast is the state of Rhode Island. To the west, Long Island is separated from the Bronx and the island of Manhattan by the East River. To the extreme southwest, it is separated from Staten Island and the state of New Jersey by Upper New York Bay, the Narrows, and Lower New York Bay. To the east lie Block Island—which belongs to the State of Rhode Island—and numerous smaller islands.
Both the longest and the largest island in the contiguous United States, Long Island extends 118 miles (190 km) eastward from New York Harbor to Montauk Point, with a maximum north-to-south distance of 23 miles (37 km) between Long Island Sound and the Atlantic coast. With a land area of 1,401 square miles (3,630 km2), Long Island is the 11th-largest island in the United States and the 149th-largest island in the world—larger than the 1,214 square miles (3,140 km2) of the smallest U.S. state, Rhode Island.With a Census-estimated population of 7,869,820 in 2017, constituting nearly 40% of New York State's population, Long Island is the most populated island in any U.S. state or territory, and the 18th-most populous island in the world (ahead of Ireland, Jamaica, and Hokkaidō). Its population density is 5,595.1 inhabitants per square mile (2,160.3/km2). If Long Island geographically constituted an independent metropolitan statistical area, it would rank fourth most populous in the United States; while if it were a U.S. state, Long Island would rank 13th in population and first in population density. Long Island is culturally and ethnically diverse, featuring some of the wealthiest and most expensive neighborhoods in the Western Hemisphere near the shorelines as well ...