The Latest Generation

Ep. 65 - Austin Powers and Rip Van Winkle


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Considering why Austin Powers and Rip Van Winkle see so much change, how it's relevant to the amount of time that passes for each of them, and what it means for countries that are trying to understand what change they might see.

 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum_on_Security_Assurances

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Rip_Van_Winkle_(Irving)

Back to the Future at IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088763/

Blast from the Past is another movie that similarly uses a 35-year time period to show a significant change, in its case from 1962 to 1998: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0124298/

There are a number of Treaties of Paris: I was speaking of the one in 1783: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Paris_(1783)

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