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May 6	comment	Did the Germans lose the U-Boat war in World war II because of a shortage of quality, rather than quantity? Note: von Trapp did have seven children before being widowed and hiring Maria Kutschera as a tutor, so those things were not fictionalized.
Apr 3	revised	The destruction of the mycenaean palaces and the sea-peoples delete duplicate sentences
Apr 3	suggested	suggested edit on The destruction of the mycenaean palaces and the sea-peoples
Feb 20	answered	How did the “Forty Niners” get to California in 1849?
Feb 11	awarded	Notable Question
Feb 4	awarded	Nice Question
Nov 13	awarded	Popular Question
Nov 1	revised	Which battle enabled Andrew Jackson to become the President of USA? edited tags
Oct 26	awarded	Yearling
Jul 10	comment	How much faster were the printing presses than hand writing? The Gutenberg bible had on the order of 625 words per page, which at 22/min is about 28 min. If printing were 0.166 min per page, it would be about 170 times faster for an infinite press run. (However the Gutenberg bible had a run of 180 and took 12 people 3 years, which is about 28 minutes per page also.)
May 27	awarded	Commentator
May 27	comment	Does the number of legs in the air of a horse statue indicate how its rider died? @DVK: I wasn't making fun of any one. I was pointing out the pun for everyone, and included a dictionary link for those who missed it because of a lack of English knowledge.
Mar 8	comment	Would the original readers of Lewis Carroll's books have made connections between the experiences in the books and drug use? yes, but your initial answer says (it seems) that 60s culture did not link drugs with Alice-i-W, and that the idea that it did make such a link was stereotyping and lazy journalism.
Mar 8	comment	Would the original readers of Lewis Carroll's books have made connections between the experiences in the books and drug use? There's enormous amounts of stereotyping and lazy journalism around, but you think there is no 60s link? Are you aware of the well known Jefferson Airplane song White Rabbit? Sample lyrics: "One pill makes you larger, one pill makes you small, and the ones that Mother gives you don't do anything at all. Go ask Alice when she's ten feet tall."
Mar 6	comment	In what language did Caractacus deliver his speech to the emperor Claudius? Could it be as simple as the speech was translated by an interpreter?
Dec 31	comment	Does the number of legs in the air of a horse statue indicate how its rider died? Pretty much everyone dies "due to decease"
Dec 23	awarded	Scholar
Dec 23	accepted	Why did the southern states secede from the U.S.?
Dec 23	answered	What was the first successful mass tank battle of WW1?
Dec 23	comment	What other countries besides the US participated in keeping African slaves? What are we to make of the entries in the table labeled "British America (minus North America)" versus "English Americas"?