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Jul 28 |
answered | When did European building interiors partitioned into rooms become commonplace? |
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Jul 24 |
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At what point did mapmaking begin to accurately reflect what we now know about the earth? @LennartRegebro - well who wants to visit a bunch of hairy barbarians anyway? The maps were drawn by/for trading voyagers and few of them got that far (or few came back) |
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Jul 17 |
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Why are the police never responsible for guarding the Head of the State? Outside the USA most police are national rather than local, and often the anti-terrorist/intelligence agencies are part of the police |
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Jul 12 |
answered | At what point did mapmaking begin to accurately reflect what we now know about the earth? |
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Jun 25 |
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What is the Macedonian naming dispute really about? @Rory - and that isn't true of every other 'religous' dispute since Ogg the caveman argued about the sun god? |
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Jun 23 |
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When was cannabis legalized in the Netherlands? Most 'recreational' drugs were only banned in the moral outrage era of prohibition. In WWI heroin and cocaine could be bought freely in London |
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Jun 22 |
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Which European countries did not have a revolution in the aftermath of the French Revolution and why? @MoziburUllah - I think the picture is that the English civil war 'failed' since we got a king back. While the French revolution 'succeeded' in spite of them getting a succession of monarchs/emperors |
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Jun 20 |
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What was Finland's position in World War Two? Possibly fairer to say that the Finns were caught in the middle. Russia wanted the territory and there wasn't much else they could do. |
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Jun 20 |
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Which European countries did not have a revolution in the aftermath of the French Revolution and why? @quant_dev - or you could say the English civil war was the first revolution in europe. The resulting monarchy/parliament power balance even after the restoration was pretty stable |
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Jun 20 |
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Is there any evidence that the catholic church reduced innovation during the middle ages? Bruno was sentenced for his anti-church philosophy rather than cosmology and Galileo really fell foul of party politics. The others were mostly banned because they were in protestant countries after the reformation, rather like the US communist book banning in the 60s. By the 18C the church's power to really effect anything was declining. |
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Jun 20 |
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Why did Britain not purchase Alaska when Russia had it up for sale? added 42 characters in body |
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Jun 16 |
awarded | Good Answer |
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Jun 2 |
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What is the basic structure of British Politics? Officially a constitutional monarchy and cabinet government, reality a president and murdoch = same as USA |
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May 24 |
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What was the motivation for the Gregorian Calendar? The protestant parts of the rest of europe didn't follow for a century - catholic countries adopted it straight away |
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May 23 |
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What is the origin of the stereotype that Polish people lack intelligence? @stevvve - Polish is pretty much a US thing, in the UK it's the Irish, in France the Belgians. |
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May 23 |
answered | Why are the police never responsible for guarding the Head of the State? |
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May 11 |
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When did navies stop giving out a drink ration to their sailors? @MichaelF - If you are climbing up a 200ft tall mast to change sail, in a storm or under cannon fire - being "three sheets to the wind" is the last thing you want. |
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May 11 |
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Did American Indians disrupt railroads in their regions? @TED - originally the title was just Indians + Railways - which to a Brit means India. I changed it to Native Americans just to avoid confusion - I wasn't making a political point. |
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May 11 |
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Did American Indians disrupt railroads in their regions? @steven drennon - thanks I wasn't being overly PC, but using "Indians" and railways suggests an entirely different continent to the majority of English speakers in the world and "native-americans" was the existing tag |
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May 10 |
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Did Native Americans sabotage telegraph lines running through their territory? changed indians to N.A to avoid confusion |
