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| location | Kraków, Poland | |
| age | 46 | |
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Dec 29 |
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What form of home address did Romans use? @Anixx: Street addresses arrived with modern postal systems, basically 19th century. |
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Dec 29 |
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Did Reagan really conspire to drop oil prices? Although exports to non-socialist countries dropped with 6 million rubies in 1986, so did imports. I'm not convinced this is depending on oil price, although it certainly is possible. |
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Dec 25 |
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Why is national identity important? When the concept arose, when it got popular, etc are on-topic questions here. Why it is important is not. But the answer in any case: It isn't important. |
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Dec 23 |
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What other countries besides the US participated in keeping African slaves? Slavery was in fact illegal in many European countries at this time. Which didn't stop them from participating in the trade or having slaves in their colonies. |
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Dec 23 |
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What was the first battle in history fought by vast-majority-% “distance-shooting” non-mechanized force? I'm sure stone age people fought minor "battles" with slingshots/blowpipes/arrows/whatever. As such this is just a question of degrees. What is a battle? What distance is "from a distance"? |
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Dec 12 |
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How much tax did Romans pay? I didn't say it was low or high. They taxed wealth, because taxing income requires much more extensive state control than what they had. |
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Dec 6 |
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Hitler's Death: Fact or Fiction @Slomojo: Since these groups have very different goals and their stories corroborate each other, it rather strengthens it. It would only be a problem with witness credibility of you assume some sort of Nazi-KGB conspiracy, which I find patently absurd, especially since the only goal of such a conspiracy would be to fake Hitlers death. And what use would that be today? None. Unless of course, there is a secret Nazi Army with Nazi UFO's at the south pole, or something, preparing to take over the world. :-) |
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Dec 6 |
answered | Where did the money come from to build the Colosseum? |
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Dec 6 |
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Is there any evidence that the catholic church reduced innovation during the middle ages? @DVK: In the end, the church delayed publishing of scientific works, and the punished that publication, because the science contradicted the church's tecahings. That is an open and shut case of the church slowing down and working against science. Claiming anything else requires serious blindfolds. |
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Dec 6 |
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Is there any evidence that the catholic church reduced innovation during the middle ages? @DVK: I'm sorry, but I have to say that this sounds like you are making up excuses. The reason he got sentenced was that his science undermined the authority of the church by showing it to be wrong. Obviously this is political, that's the whole point. The church controlled publishing and refused to let him publish a book on the subject, until he agreed to include arguments both for and against. But his book was very biased and made fun of the arguments against, so he ended up in court. That may have been stupid of him, but without the church trying to stop science, it wouldn't have happened. |
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Dec 4 |
answered | What would be accurate illustrations of vikings and viking culture? |
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Dec 4 |
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Is there any evidence that the catholic church reduced innovation during the middle ages? @DVK: He was sentenced by the inquisition as a heretic for his scientific research. I though about making a question about it, but I'm sorry, DVK, but that is a pretty damn obvious case, and it is impossible for me to even write the question in a sane way. |
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Dec 3 |
answered | First evidence for replacement of barter trade by local abstract currency? |
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Dec 3 |
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Buying/Renting/Leasing houses during history? @roman: The reason for that change is elevators. :-) |
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Dec 3 |
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Buying/Renting/Leasing houses during history? @roman: That makes no sense. Why would he make a one-year lease for one shekel and then take possession of it? He could just buy it for one shekel in that case. And in any case, the fith of Tammuz is not only the date of possession, but also the date of the signing, so that's not ownership, it's the day he moves in. |
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Dec 3 |
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Is there any evidence that the catholic church reduced innovation during the middle ages? I haven't heard this regarding innovation, but I have heard it regarding science and natural philosophy, where the dominance of the catholic church quite clearly slowed down the progress (case in point: Galileo). |
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Dec 3 |
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Buying/Renting/Leasing houses during history? @roman: I can't find anything on how common it was for lower classes to rent before roman times. I suspect we just don't have enough information to know that for sure. |
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Dec 3 |
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Buying/Renting/Leasing houses during history? @DVK: You mean "Closed-end leasing" (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed-end_leasing) . The word "lease" by itself does not mean anything else than renting. And in any case, you can't assume that ancient Babylonian would have the same sort of implications and differences between two words. The contract in itself contains nothing about property transfer, and must therefore be assumed to not include it. Hence it is a rental contract, nothing else. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lease |
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Dec 3 |
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Buying/Renting/Leasing houses during history? I would guess that the idea of "leasing" in DVK's meaning (ie Closed-end leasing) is much newer that renting, so that makes for a more challenging question. |
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Dec 2 |
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