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| location | Melbourne, Australia | |
| age | 28 | |
| visits | member for | 1 year, 7 months |
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Data warehousing/ETL developer, specialising in Teradata but now mostly working with DataStage. Had a brief foray as a Ruby on Rails developer. Also making iPhone games in my spare time (Objective-C is a terrible language).
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Oct 21 |
awarded | Scholar |
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Oct 21 |
accepted | What were the Government Press Prosecutions of 1858 and why did they occur? |
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Oct 20 |
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What events led to the fall of the Zhou Dynasty during the Warring States period? edited tags |
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Oct 20 |
asked | What were the Government Press Prosecutions of 1858 and why did they occur? |
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Oct 20 |
answered | Is there any documentation regarding the use of war elephants in battles? |
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Oct 17 |
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Were Pope John Paul I's views anything that could imply a support for contraception? I think the questions posed in the text are fine, but the title sounds speculative. |
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Oct 17 |
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What factors contributed to earlier democratic states failing? Agreed. What I should have said was that the democracy was inadequate and the struggles were more intense because of it. Reforms such as the introduction of tribunes and plebeian consuls improved things a bit but the fundamental problems of land ownership remained. The deaths of the Gracchi demonstrated that trying to address this within the confines of the system was not very viable. |
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Oct 16 |
answered | What factors contributed to earlier democratic states failing? |
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Oct 15 |
awarded | Quorum |
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Oct 15 |
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Which 11 countries were democratic in 1941? Weren't Estonia and Latvia part of the USSR by 1941? |
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Oct 15 |
awarded | Analytical |
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Oct 15 |
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Why did non-monarchic rule meet with so little success in ancient China? The Mandate of Heaven could be viewed as just another philosophical concept. Why did a pro-monarchy philosophical concept like this hold so much primacy that philosophies in favour of aristocratic or democratic rule found little acceptance or were not even considered at all? |
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Oct 14 |
awarded | Critic |
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Oct 14 |
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Why did non-monarchic rule meet with so little success in ancient China? But why, in spite of the many schools of philosophy, did this concept meet with little challenge? |
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Oct 14 |
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How many recorded incidents are there of attacks on Australian soil? They certainly took over the country, but I'm not so sure that their actions can be characterised as attacks. I'm not aware of there being any conflict during the establishment of the major settlements. Later conflicts with the indigenous population were by settlers who had been in the country (if not the particular territory) for a while, so they're not really comparable with the WW2 attacks by Japan. |
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Oct 14 |
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Why did non-monarchic rule meet with so little success in ancient China? What were the oligarchic ones? I know of plenty of instances when the government was effectively under the control of a group powerful officials, but they still maintained a figurehead ruler as though anything other than monarchy was illegitimate. |
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Oct 14 |
asked | Why did non-monarchic rule meet with so little success in ancient China? |
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Oct 13 |
answered | What events led to the fall of the Zhou Dynasty during the Warring States period? |
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Oct 13 |
awarded | Organizer |
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Oct 13 |
revised |
Who were the Huns and/or Xiongnu? edited tags |
