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| bio | website | quantdev.blog.co.uk |
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| age | 33 | |
| visits | member for | 1 year, 8 months |
| seen | Jun 10 at 15:33 | |
| stats | profile views | 7 |
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Jun 10 |
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Did people have better nutrition before agriculture? Re teeth: big reason why eating grain-based foods was so bad for the teeth in ancient times was that the grains were ground with stones, and the flour contained lots of, effectively, sand which damaged the teeth terribly over longer time. (Source: old Scientific American article) |
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Dec 15 |
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Why was the Western Front so static in World War I? @FelixGoldberg They needed armour, doors opening to the front so that the soldiers could immediately run out of the boat and stability in shore water. |
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Nov 13 |
answered | What factors contributed to the U.S economy flourishing during the early cold war period? |
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Oct 25 |
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Was the US Navy larger in 1917, and if so, why? I'm not sure if the US has the only blue water navy in the world. Both France and the UK can project naval power across the globe, although at much smaller scale. The UK did it during the Falkland War, for example. See also: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/… |
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Oct 25 |
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Why did Hitler declare war on the USA? Lend-lease was not an act of war. |
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Oct 12 |
awarded | Yearling |
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Oct 5 |
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Does the number of legs in the air of a horse statue indicate how its rider died? @Sardathrion But that kills the humour. |
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Oct 1 |
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Why did Operation Market Garden go ahead when the allies knew German armor was in the area? Another person warning against following the original plan of attack was Polish general Sosabowski. |
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Aug 23 |
awarded | Nice Question |
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Aug 2 |
answered | Book on history of international trade |
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Jul 25 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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Jul 24 |
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What would be the problem if Turkey admits Armenian Massacre? Republic of Turkey is the successor of the Ottoman Empire. |
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Jul 24 |
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Why doesn't Russia maintain significant numbers of Aircraft carriers? @DVK Coming back to the topic: why do you think that Afghans need US help to develop their gold resources? Gold is not going to disappear from Aghanistan if it is excavated later, by their own mining companies once they are developed. |
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Jul 24 |
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Why doesn't Russia maintain significant numbers of Aircraft carriers? @DVK "A few of my best friends are Jews" |
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Jul 24 |
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Was the Titanic tragedy at least partly avoidable? @mgb True, but undoubtedly the class differences also played a role. |
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Jul 24 |
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Why doesn't Russia maintain significant numbers of Aircraft carriers? @DVK What is certain is that the opium trade surged after the Americans arrived: online.wsj.com/article/… |
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Jul 24 |
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Why doesn't Russia maintain significant numbers of Aircraft carriers? @DVK "Note that they didn't steal a working mine from poor natives." Of course it's not about the mine itself, but the gold mined therein. By taking over the resources they prevent the Afghan nation from mining it independently in the future. (Of course your racist assumption is that Afghans would never be able to do it by themselves, right?) |
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Jul 23 |
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Why doesn't Russia maintain significant numbers of Aircraft carriers? @DVK You wrote: "never mind that only an idiot would assume they intended to get any resources out of Vietnam or Afghanistan". Well, they did. |
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Jul 23 |
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Why doesn't Russia maintain significant numbers of Aircraft carriers? @DVK It is not true that the US did not at least try to extract resources from Afghanistan. American companies (JP Morgan, backed by Pentagon) were looking for gold there, for example: management.fortune.cnn.com/2011/05/11/… |
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Jul 23 |
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Why doesn't Russia maintain significant numbers of Aircraft carriers? @Luke Do you really need sources to point out that Russia is more land-locked than the USA? |
