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Sep 18 |
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Why is Spain's base timezone UTC+1? Although Franco's Spain wasn't an official ally of Nazi Germany they were BFFs |
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Sep 15 |
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What was with the “poofy” pants found in various military uniforms? @Anixx - as a possible experiment - go into a bar in London, find someone with lively cheerful clothes like a football strip and tell them they look gay. |
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Aug 26 |
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Why did Mozambique join the British Commonwealth? Especially strange when you consider the huge political influence that Mozambique otherwise had on the world stage |
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Aug 24 |
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Farmstead Inventory Roman empire would be much more varied, from large professional villa managed farms to essentially iron age tribes next door. |
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Aug 23 |
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Farmstead Inventory Well you can look up any village and it will tell you the number of ploughs, mills, cows, sheep and the number of fields. It's a little tricky because the area units aren't standard across the country - but it is at least contemporary |
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Aug 22 |
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In which situation is the broadside more preferable than every gun firing on their own time? Probably safer and overall more efficent on a noisy chaotic gun deck with cannon recoiling and powder monkeys running around to have everything happening in sync |
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Aug 22 |
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What form of home address did Romans use? Even in rural Ireland today the address largely relies on the local postman knowing which person of that surname on the "High St" the letter was meant for. |
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Aug 21 |
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What was normal attire for Hindu kings in the 15th century? Remember to a medieval european, 'almost naked' might just mean not arrayed in the same finery a C13 King or Pope would be! Perhaps a simple robe? |
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Aug 19 |
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Farming societies without calendars @lins314159 not necessarily if they always happen. A calender is important when you need to know in advance that spring will come in 3months and you have to plant now. Then it's important to know if this really is spring, or just a warm couple of days in January. |
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Aug 19 |
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Why was Khomeini in France? Who allowed him to leave and why? @choster politicians act in their own interest. If something appeals to the voters and party then you do it - if it happens to align with the nation's interests that's a bonus! Hadn't realised the shah looked doomed in advance, that would certainly be a good time to position elf to replace BP and the American oil companies in the new regime. A imagine lot of Elf executives were heading to Libya recently! |
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Aug 19 |
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Why was Khomeini in France? Who allowed him to leave and why? Was the French giving him asylum purely to annoy the UK/USA who backed the Shah, or did they have other reasons? |
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Aug 19 |
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Farming societies without calendars @MonsterTruck the first humans were hunter-gatherers, but as your population increases you need to use the land more efficiently. There were major civilisations in east africa, bigger than the Egyptians/Babylonians but haven't really been explored as much. It was harder to get to for victorian archaeologists and they didn't leave nice stone monuments. |
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Aug 16 |
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Has any foreign embassy ever been entered without permission? And en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_Embassy_siege, the UK govt decided that since the criminals weren't Iranians it was a simple crime and they could act. The Iranian govt already claimed it was all a UK/USA trick so diplomatic relations didn't really matter. |
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Aug 11 |
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What is the origin of the stereotype that Polish people lack intelligence? Ironically the same C20th circumstances gave the opposite stereotype in Britain. Poland was the brave little country that fought the Nazis and then the USSR. When a British far-right party used an image of a Spitfire in a campaign and it turned out to actually be a Free Polish Airforce ace, they lost all their support by implying that attacking the role of Poland in WWII was in any way "British". |
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Aug 6 |
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Was the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan one of the major reasons that led to the fall of Soviet Union? I'm sure the staff colleges of the west are full of analysis on the topic, but I don't think a low intensity little war had a big effect on the USSR. |
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Aug 6 |
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Was the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan one of the major reasons that led to the fall of Soviet Union? What makes you think it was a reason ? |
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Aug 4 |
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What would a Norseman in the early 11th century have worn as daily clothing? hurstwic.org/history/articles/daily_living/text/clothing.htm |
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Aug 3 |
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What are the known facts about the Great Pyramid of Cheops (Giza)? @T.E.D. - I'm not sure how sensitive the result is. A building that is 1:1.5 is too short and squat, one that is 1:1.8 is too tall. So anything around 1.62 looks good - I don't know if 1.6 or 1.65 would necessarily look too bad (although US paper size are wrong!) |
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Aug 2 |
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Continent-wide common languages in human history @MonsterTruck - Greek wasn't widely spoken as a first language, But it would be known by some people everywhere, either as a trading language (Macedonia-Roman period) or a scholarly language (Medieval). So a book written in Greek might be read anywhere in Europe - at least in monasteries. |
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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) |
