I've always considered the one use/one culture worlds as results of (fairly recent) colonial expansion.

I think one could consider the Culture (by the late, great, much lamented Iain M. Banks) as one, though it isn't an Empire in the strictest possible sense.

You are right, the language is Finnish. Additionally, YLE is the Finnish public broadcasting company.

Well, yeah. Many of these debunkings are really not that much better than the myths they claim to debunk by merely changing one simplified idea with another when the proper answer would be "it's a bit more complicated than that".

Hm. I'm reasonably sure that there are also earlier versions of "chastity belts" that were actually used as short term anti-rape devices.

Also, British propaganda of the time:

This is the relevant quote:

I think these are the relevant passages (they have a 6 year age difference):

The whole story of Tùrin Turambar is heavily influenced by the story of Kullervo. Especially the death scenes are strikingly similar. (BTW, also Moorcock was familiar with Kalevala before writing the Elric novels, and may well have also been influenced by Kullervo.)

Well, if we really want to nitpick, the origins of it are in the Kullervo cycle of kalevala, which is quite a bit older still.

Zeitgeist of fantasy my arse. Try storytelling in general. The author is here complaining about story features some of which are literally hundreds of years old. I'm specifically talking about the bloodthirsty blade wielded by Hurin, based on the Kullervo cycle in Kalevala (collected in the early 19th century, mind…

I think that some women have this idea that if only their man would do what they tell them to do things would be easier. (I suspect dating the other kind of lump, the kind that won't do their share of the chores and is also otherwise obnoxious and inconsiderate, might well be one factor in developing that idea.) Of…

Well, there is of course a chance that when he's making decisions it's a case of either not actually making decisions and just drifting into situations (she does write of feeling like being in a captainless ship) or that he's just really, honestly making bad decisions of the "doing the bare minimum" -type (for…

Even if the passenger oxygen masks did deploy, the generators they use only provide enough oxygen for some 15 minutes, which is ample time for the pilots to descend to 3000m where supplemental oxygen is not needed. Problems can arise if for some reason the crew cannot do that, e.g. through incapacitation of some sort.…

Hate to break it to you, but that was a soft, slow speed ditching, and the results really speak for themselves: majority of the passengers survived the initial impact (indeed, the majority of those who died drowned, and of those who died on impact we know that at least some were not secured in their seats), and the…

And, pray tell me, what do you imagine an actual glider to be? You can get as emotional about it as you like, that doesn't change the fact that that "half-million-pounds of thin metal" is still a functioning aeroplane, and yes, if there is a competent pilot in the cockpit the chances of a successful emergency landing…

No, a majority of the passengers who died were killed after the impact, because they drowned. Unlike e.g. AF 447, it was a crash that was extremely likely to have survivors. Also, that's a very, very small debris field that comprises mostly of fairly large segments. It's not a million bits and pieces scattered over a…

Oh, no. When you manage to get your plane to stall and fail to recover from it, it really does come down like that proverbial rock, and that's exactly what the crew of AF447 did. Even a somewhat reasonably competent descent after a flame-out is very different. As I said, gliding on a 777 will get you about half an…

Apples and oranges.

You have to remember that an aeroplane has been specifically designed to fly, and without fuel it's just a very inefficient glider. It won't come down like a rock. IIRC a 777 coming down from the ~10km cruising altitude will glide (depending on the weather etc.) for almost 30 mins and somewhat less than 200km. Sure…