What is the most violent film on record?
The 1984 film Red Dawn, directed by John Milius, takes top honors for the most violent film on record.
It contains 134 acts of violence per hour, or 2.23 per minute.
The 1984 film Red Dawn, directed by John Milius, takes top honors for the most violent film on record.
It contains 134 acts of violence per hour, or 2.23 per minute.
The gypsies probably came from India. Romany, the Gypsy language, is Indic; but it is not known when or why the Gypsies left India. Living as aliens in every country, they reached Persia by A.D. 1000 and northwest Europe by the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
For the first 19 years of his life, George Washington (born in 1731) celebrated his birthday on February 11. After the British parliament replaced the Julian calendar with the Gregorian calendar (in 1752), Washington celebrated his birthday 11 days later, on February 22.
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