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May 9 |
awarded | Popular Question |
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Apr 3 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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Mar 28 |
awarded | Nice Question |
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Mar 15 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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Dec 17 |
awarded | Nice Question |
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Dec 14 |
awarded | Civic Duty |
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Dec 8 |
awarded | Nice Question |
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Dec 6 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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Dec 4 |
awarded | Taxonomist |
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Nov 26 |
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Did the communication lag become a problem for the ever expanding Roman Empire? thx, added the wiki link. The mixture of federalism <-> centralism in todays states brought me to this question |
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Nov 26 |
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Did the communication lag become a problem for the ever expanding Roman Empire? added link |
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Nov 21 |
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No speed limit on German highways - why? added info |
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Nov 20 |
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No speed limit on German highways - why? @YannisRizos This is the first local district president from a green party ever here in Germany, of course speed limit is no timeless law here, the status character of cars here vanishes too, smartphone is more important than own car for many kids here nowadays. Nonentheless I strongly doubt a nationwide speed limit will be introduced in Germany in the next 2 decades. The green party won in this district because of Fukushima and a environmental political agenda know plays a more important role for the voters here, but this can also be just a temporal effect until Fukushima is forgotten... |
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Nov 20 |
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No speed limit on German highways - why? @kubanczyk I cannot really name empirical or rational arguments,as this is a matter of culture, similar to weapon ownership in US. It just did grow this way (there was ever a strong automobile industry in Germany, machine engineering is one of the most important industrial sectors here). A french car doesn't have the status character of a german Mercedes, BMW, Audi, Porsche all over the world. Formula One is a very popular sport here too. I cannot explain why the french like it so much to eat and bake baguette bread, this is simply culture grown over decades and because they invented good food |
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Nov 20 |
answered | No speed limit on German highways - why? |
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Oct 26 |
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Where the did the concept of “smear campaigns” originate? @choster I have a source ;) youtube.com/watch?v=ExWfh6sGyso I had to read Cicero in Latin, do you remember a special passage? You cant really avoid rumours, the question is where these oral campaigns organized and determined by leading roman politicians like it's nowadays done in newspapers. Was it only rumours or real controlled propaganda? |
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Oct 26 |
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Where the did the concept of “smear campaigns” originate? @Sardathrion the concept of "smear campaign" is probably as old as the concept of "lying" or spreading rumours :) Nonetheless a free press/printing and at least 2 political movements are imho necessary. Maybe the Romans did oral smear campaigns, but the system was probably anyway too aristocratic and defined mainly by money, power, ancestry of single politicians to make smear campaigns worth the effort |
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Oct 26 |
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Where the did the concept of “smear campaigns” originate? Interesting question, reminded me on story of citizen kane. Starting point might be Guttenberg printing technique history.stackexchange.com/a/1121/65. It's seems kind of natural evolution that political parties have their "own" press newspapers, so probably arose in europe short after invention of the printing technique... |
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Oct 22 |
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Why did Austronesian/Polynesian people not colonize Australia? Why distinct things did not happen belongs to the trickier questions in history ;) |
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Oct 11 |
awarded | Yearling |
