Gangnus

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Senior developer, algorithms master, PM, analyst, applied mathematician.

The Three Little Daughters Raiser

Hobbies:
logics, history, psychology, sociology, pedagogics, photo, cycling, hiking.

In past:
space-/astro- geodesist, cartographer, astronomer, teacher, radiometrist on the liquidation of the Chernobyl catastrophe in 1986.

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Apr 16	comment	Most fought over piece of land? @PeterFlom. please, say exactly, what are you searching for - participation in war? Battles on that territory? The summary time of that? The longest piece? The number of battles?
Apr 16	comment	Most fought over piece of land? But were there so long wars as many hundred years war between England and France, as in the case of Calais? The time was the subject of the question, not times
Apr 16	comment	Most fought over piece of land? Any history is partly mythology. And deeper into the past, the larger this part becomes
Apr 16	comment	Most fought over piece of land? Troja of course, sorry
Apr 16	comment	What is the source of this quote about Demosthenes by Philip II of Macedon? Plutarchos in his [biography of Demosphenes] (http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/…*.html) does not have this info.
Apr 8	comment	Could the Confederates have done better at Gettysburg if they had put cavalry in front of, rather than behind, Pickett's charge? No. Bad logic. The cavalry moves faster than infantry. Rifles allow kill faster, but it is the proportion of KIA that matters
Apr 8	comment	Harvard Architecture: How did Harvard Mark I separate data and instruction? Without any doubt, the question belongs to the "Cultures and historical practices" of the FAQ. So, its closing was totally unfair.
Mar 26	comment	Effectiveness of Cossack cavalry Yes, at this time even cossack cavalry resembled later dragoons.
Jan 15	comment	When and where did socks become common? In the Russian Army the socks have been promised to be allowed to use just this week!
Jan 15	comment	Who were the first to relatively measure the length of the year precisely? You should correct the question - to measure what year (sun, moon, stellar) in what units (moon months, sun days, stellar days?)
Jan 14	comment	Why does the monarchy of Belgium still exist after Leopold 2? @FelixGoldberg In absolute numbers - very possible, for Belgian Congo was very populated area. But as for percentual numbers, I think, the champions in annihilation of the whole ethnics were Americans in the Indian Wars. And Spaniards in Carribeans.
Jan 14	comment	Why does the monarchy of Belgium still exist after Leopold 2? One interesting example from Russia. Kyrgyzs lived on Yenisey river till 16th century. And migrated to nowadays Kyrgyzstan to escape from Russians. To be again conquered by them in 19th Cent.
Jan 14	comment	Why does the monarchy of Belgium still exist after Leopold 2? @soliloquyy Thank you for the info. I have rephrased a sentence in the post. But sorry, even such autocratic monarch as Russians ones were not dictators. There were some laws above them. (about marriage or throne heirs, for example) So, they were not dictators, as I see it.
Jan 14	comment	Why does the monarchy of Belgium still exist after Leopold 2? @FelixGoldberg From my school program I remember a witness description of mass murder of a whole village in Vietnam about at 1860-ties. And German genocide of some african ethnics. (Herero and Hottentots). And what about Indian wars in USA? With the use of biological weapons?
Jan 14	comment	Why does the monarchy of Belgium still exist after Leopold 2? I think, it is very hard to guess the correct numbers in these situations. These guys didn't like the correct statistics for their crimes. But I do remember the info on Leopold II's genocide in Belgian Congo in our history books at school.
Jan 9	comment	Why didn't the silk road run north of the Black Sea? Marco Polo returned by Silk Way to Cafa. From the North of the Black Sea :-)
Jan 9	comment	Why didn't the silk road run north of the Black Sea? Are you sure that these cities can explain the placing of the Silk Way? Maybe on the contrary, there were cities because of the existence of the Silk Way? And so, they can't explain the placing? After Vasco de Gama both way and cities degenerated fast enough.
Jan 9	comment	Historical examples of significant no man's lands between states in perpetual conflict @RISwampYankee try to look for the info on Ivan the Terrible and Crimean Tartars - you will get the info on these conflicts. The Wild Fields themselves were empty these times and so there are no much information on them
Jan 9	comment	How many hours per day did a Sumerian farmer sleep? @defaultlocale Yes. In Russia before electric lightning, woman massively spinned during the dark time. It doesn't take much light.
Jan 1	comment	Are there any communist leaders without a record of acts we consider as a crime (against humanity)? @astabada And? Where is equality between Marx and Lenin? Or for you, Nizsche should really answer for Hitler's crimes?