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Jun 25 |
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Was there ever a single train that ran straight from San Francisco to New York City, or any that ran truly from coast to coast? move one sentence to bottom |
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Jun 25 |
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Was there ever a single train that ran straight from San Francisco to New York City, or any that ran truly from coast to coast? added 157 characters in body |
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Jun 25 |
answered | Was there ever a single train that ran straight from San Francisco to New York City, or any that ran truly from coast to coast? |
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Jun 22 |
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How much oil was spilled by the naval combatants during WW2? To put this in perspective... Deepwater Horizon was up to 0.2 billion gallons spilled. Exxon Valdez was about 0.01-0.03 billion gallons. |
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Jun 6 |
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What's the advantage of the infantry column formation in the Napoleonic Wars? @Fitri I didn't read all the Hornblower series but there is a good chance that the book (actually, just a chapter) was en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Midshipman_Hornblower#Quiberon |
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May 5 |
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What role did the space race play in reducing the nuclear threat during the 1960s? added 59 characters in body |
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May 5 |
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What Was the State of German Tank Design In Between the World Wars? Indeed, Germans were always quick to adopt the enemy's weapons, but they didn't value Char B1 at all. Quite a number of them was conquered, but if I remember correctly they were never put into the front line use by Germans. |
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May 5 |
answered | What role did the space race play in reducing the nuclear threat during the 1960s? |
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Apr 18 |
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Why the USSR insisted on ban of the 1943 German film Munchhausen in Nuremberg? What is the source of the said Soviet Nuremberg proposal? I've been unable to confirm it. |
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Apr 13 |
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What was the argument for the Japanese pursuing the Northern Expansion Doctrine during WWII? OP asked for the origin for northern expansion doctrine, meaning long before WWII. I don't think he meant 1941-1942. |
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Apr 12 |
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Did Demosthenes complain about inflation of prices in philippics? @T.E.D.: As a completely unrelated observation, you sure seem to have missed some great books by O.S. Card :) |
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Apr 12 |
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Did anyone warn about the potential for stock market crashes in 1929, and if so why were their warnings ignored? I think the notion of "overheated" market is flawed. It all boils down to this: at one moment shareholders are confident (not OVER-confident, just plainly confident) and then suddenly they are not. That's it. That's how we, people, work. If we lose confidence, we lose it suddenly. It isn't productive to say "Oh, they were over-confident, at that time they should have been slowly begin to doubt, but not too much, silly! They should have been introducing more and more doubts in a very steady manner so the stock prices would drop gradually". |
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Apr 11 |
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What was the reason of extreme anti-Communism in the first half of 20th century? I wonder if you know what does "S" stand for in "NSDAP". |
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Mar 4 |
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Has a book ever caused the ousting of a dictator? -1 Not only false information, but falsification of reference. "It was originally published [...] in Bangkok, Thailand in 1993" so good luck with toppling dictators in Estonia, Latvia, etc. |
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Feb 22 |
awarded | Enlightened |
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Feb 22 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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Feb 7 |
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Sources on common people history @Gangnus, I remember I've read "Grammar of civilizations" and I was generally disappointed with how quickly Braudel jumps to (over-) generalized conclusions, with a little regard to proper sourcing and without drawing any lines between facts, educated guesses and wild-ass guesses. He also tends to climb into useless and unfalsifiable high level abstractions. Is the "Civilization and Capitalism" any better in this respect? |
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Feb 4 |
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Were there any war movies made during WW2 that were well regarded by front-line American soldiers? @Rose Ames no; the book does say explicitly that soldiers disliked Bogart in the war time, but does not mention what appearance (he starred in many films although Casablanca is most known). |
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Feb 3 |
answered | Were there any war movies made during WW2 that were well regarded by front-line American soldiers? |
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Feb 2 |
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Why aren't the Americas named after Christopher Columbus Please do provide references - interesting. |
