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Oct 22 |
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Why were there “hussars” all across Europe? @Russel Battle of Somosierra is a curiosity, known precisely for the unreasonable use of cavalry. |
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Oct 22 |
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The value of spice trade during the age of exploration +1 really cool source |
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Oct 19 |
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Why China was able to unify and not Europe I happily provide more "misinformation" for you to ignore. This covers October-November 1918 when thousands of people (undoubtedly incited by British and French, no?) in a matter of days or weeks disarmed German units and formed their independent states: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Polish_Republic#The_beginnings, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origins_of_Czechoslovakia. Here is what the local people decided: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_Silesia_plebiscite |
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Oct 19 |
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Why China was able to unify and not Europe I disagree. If Rome "attacked the strongest of the Germanic tribes" then it was "conquer" and not "Divide and Conquer". Should lead straight to unification, not to division. Why Chinese fractions didn't try to divide China? And most importantly please do check your facts: Medieval Europe under British hegemony!?! Germany rising in 1880!?! Czechoslovakia and Poland created out of thin air in 1919!?! |
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Oct 19 |
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What is the purpose of the bridge to the Russkiy island? Year 2008 seems more in scope of Skeptics than History. |
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Oct 18 |
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Why China was able to unify and not Europe Europe culture was as unifying as Chinese. What you have today is directly built on Roman roots, and ultimately, Greek. It is not at all based on "three main cultural" groups; it is based on one. Both Chinese and European elites could understand their lingua franca at all times (common people seem unrelated to the matter). So, again, why is Europe divided into states for such a long time already, and China is not? |
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Oct 16 |
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What was the motivation for the Gregorian Calendar? Leap second is related to the subject: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second |
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Oct 16 |
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Where does the name of the country “Belarus” come from? -1 this does not answer the question about Belarus, only about Bela- and -rus. There is a book (in Belorussian) over the Internet that cites not less than a dozen different scientific theories of the origin of the name, compares the arguments behind each, concluding that neither can be singled out as more probable. |
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Oct 3 |
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What role did the space race play in reducing the nuclear threat during the 1960s? I see some sources re. US prospects on Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonization_of_the_Moon, but no sources for Soviet prospects. |
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Oct 3 |
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Was “Blitzkrieg” at least partly intended for trapping the Jews? "somebody had to starve" - this is oversimplification. I would say "somebody had to be repressed"; this had nothing to do with food, and everything to do with totalitarianism. |
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Oct 1 |
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Why didn't Imperial Japan attack the Soviet Union during World War 2? I think they would rather go for Kolyma River and these gold mines, if anything. But as you say a big place with not so many resources close to Japan. Anyone can check on the map where were Norilsk nickel mines, or where was Chelyabinsk with all the tank factories. Long long way from home. |
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Sep 29 |
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Was “Blitzkrieg” at least partly intended for trapping the Jews? I was meant to say "in June 1941, they didn't know...". True, that mass shootings followed closely, but the first extermination camp (Auschwitz II - Birkenau) was established in October. This was the moment when Germans turned genocide into "industry". |
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Sep 27 |
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When did aircraft carriers eclipse battleships as the “King of the seas”? +1 although answer would benefit from more references. |
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Sep 25 |
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How would one have gone about setting up a business during Communist Revolutionary China? heiring?... hiring? |
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Sep 12 |
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Did the end of the British Raj in India create an economic loss for Britain? The bigger country (in terms of production, market, and population) the more it can push others around and profit from it. So letting control of India was a great long-term economical blow. An extreme example - dismantling United States into single states. It might not have any immediate effect on unemployment in Wisconsin (or other local metrics). But today Wisconsin implicitly benefits of the equilibrium that power of US enforced on other countries, and they would quickly lose these benefits. |
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Sep 12 |
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What was the religion of the Arabic people before conversion to Islam? +1 for providing the source, as unobjective as it is. |
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Sep 9 |
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Why did Britain and France not declare war against the Soviet Union when it invaded Poland in WW2? My opinion is that Britain neither provided "all the support and assistance in its power" in case of German invasion or in case of USSR invasion. Your opinion may differ. |
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Aug 26 |
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Which cultures did *not* produce alcohol? Ugh... I would rather use racist term, than FALSELY suggest that some information is sourced when it isn't. Current source says "Eskimo", so if you say "Inuit" please reference some other source or leave it unreferenced. |
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Jul 27 |
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How was life in the Iron Age different from life in the Middle Ages? +1 for creating tag "everyday-life" :) |
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Jul 27 |
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How was life in the Iron Age different from life in the Middle Ages? I don't think that facing any court or learning written laws qualifies anywhere near ordinary "everyday life" (unless that of a lawyer or a judge). |
