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I got my BA in History even though I haven't used it for employment, I have pursued my studies more for enjoyment. While I work in tech I still spend time researching and studying history, concentrating in the Colonial American period and Asian cultures.

I pursue an interest in other topics as they come up, the more you learn the more you want to know is my general theme of topics. As a historian I try to see both sides of the question, in general History is written by the winners so one often needs to look deeper into the subject to get a balanced view. Much of what I have learned growing up has already changed which goes to prove the axiom - nothing is constant but change.


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revised Were there weapons that a private citizen could not legally own in 1789 in the US?
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revised Who is responsible for the partition of Palestine?
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revised Were any of the early settlements in America attacked from the sea?
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revised What made Washington DC “dominate” politics in the USA?
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Dec
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revised Was there any connection between the Ottonians and Benedictines?
fixing the bad obvious change
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revised Why did the the US House of Representatives stop reading George Washington's farewell address on his birthday?
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revised Did the Founding Fathers of the USA really make a distinction between a Republic and a Democracy (and despised the latter)?
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Oct
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revised From where does the superstition about Friday the thirteenth originate?
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Oct
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revised To what extent was China unified?
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Oct
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revised How did Columbus calculate the size of the Earth?
fixing text and changing tags
Oct
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revised What is the single longest Presidential Campaign run in the United States?
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Oct
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revised The Great Compromise, is there analysis on the outcome?
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revised What was the average US unemployment rate for Democrat and Republican presidents?
updating the party names
Sep
11
revised What factors permitted Buddhism to be successful in Japan but Christianity less so?
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7
revised Does a Baal human sacrifice statue from Carthage exist?
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revised What caused the Iranian 1979 revolution to become Islamic?
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Aug
31
revised What caused the Iranian 1979 revolution to become Islamic?
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Aug
25
revised What options India had other than getting its independence from Britain?
cleaning up text
Aug
3
revised What is the standing arch in Nagasaki made of?
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22
revised What is the secret behind the economic success of ROC(Taiwan)?
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