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Jul 27 |
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When was Silver ever more valuable than Gold? +1 like how the answer is sourced |
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Jun 27 |
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Is there any evidence to support the claim that the US Strategic Defense Initiative played any significant role in undermining the USSR? This theory looks false to me. The identical "profound loss of spiritual faith" would also disintegrate China, and it didn't. |
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Jun 26 |
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What was Finland's position in World War Two? -1: Answer is misleading. There is no attempt of objectiveness. Historical facts are mentioned very selectively, vaguely, and without references. |
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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 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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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 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 2 |
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Why aren't the Americas named after Christopher Columbus Please do provide references - interesting. |
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Jan 1 |
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What is modern criticism of Nazism? Do you think Hitler gained massive support of ordinary people (he did win democratic elections) because they simply wanted to have a lot of terror, concentration camps, and another world war? |
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Jan 1 |
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What is modern criticism of Nazism? I would be careful not to get into unscientific thinking here, using magical words that tend to justify themselves. I would like to see the answer that explains how the ideology started small and simple (and as I presume with all good intentions) and which of the basic assumptions caused it to develop into such monstrosity of nationalism + socialism + fascism + racism + lebensraum + totalitarianism. |
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Dec 29 |
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Did Reagan really conspire to drop oil prices? Updated my answer with one more source. I will get back to it if I decide it needs some more work. As of now, it doesn't. |
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Dec 29 |
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Did Reagan really conspire to drop oil prices? The original question is about export. It is not about import or causative relationship between USSR import and export. So is my answer. |
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Dec 29 |
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Did Reagan really conspire to drop oil prices? OK let me rephrase. If I wanted to be convinced I would just count it myself. |
