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| bio | website | owenblacker.wordpress.com |
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| location | London, United Kingdom | |
| age | 37 | |
| visits | member for | 1 year, 3 months |
| seen | Apr 18 at 8:33 | |
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Head of development at an ad agency and Umbraco Certified Developer. Director and trustee of mySociety and a director of the Open Rights Group, having sat on the Advisory Council since the organisation was created. Also an avid Wikipedian.
Chef de développement chez une agence de publicité, certifié en Umbraco. Administrateur de la société et de la RUP de mySociety et administrateur de la société de l'Open Rights Group, ayant membre du Conseil Consultatif depuis l'organisation fut créée. En plus, suis éditeur des Wikipédias. Je peux contribuer avec un niveau avancé de français, mais plutôt j'utilise l'anglais, ma langue maternelle.
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Feb 23 |
awarded | Commentator |
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Feb 23 |
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Why did Canada not join the American Revolution? Great answer. Thank you. That's a lot of stuff I didn't know. American history has never been a strong point :o) |
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Feb 23 |
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Why did Canada not join the American Revolution? Retitled question to make context clearer |
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Feb 23 |
suggested | suggested edit on Why did Canada not join the American Revolution? |
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Feb 23 |
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What aternative locations were considered for the United Nations? @MichaelF: Before the UN, the USA was broadly disinterested in events outside the Americas. Certainly the USA was not "the lead in these organisations" before the UN. But the "United Nations" was a term first used to mean the Allies of WW2; it was only gradually that it was conceived to replace the moribund League of Nations (moribund partly because of US isolationism). The USA was, however, the most powerful of the Allies by war-end, which makes it much less surprising that the UN bureaucracy ended up in Manhattan. The League, of course, had been headquartered in Geneva. |
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Feb 22 |
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Why are many African nations poor? @LennartRegebro: We appear to be using different definitions of Socialism. Wikipedia would appear to agree with my terminology: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism#After_World_War_II. We're going to have to agree to disagree here. |
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Feb 22 |
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Why did the USA stay out of the League of Nations? Improved formatting and persuaded Markdown to link the hyperlinks |
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Feb 22 |
suggested | suggested edit on Why did the USA stay out of the League of Nations? |
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Feb 22 |
awarded | Critic |
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Feb 22 |
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Why wasn't the Republic of Ireland invaded (by either side) in WW2? More on the close ties: during "The Emergency", German airmen in the Republic would end up in the Curragh, whereas Allied airmen would find their way across the border into Northern Ireland. Indeed the D-Day landings were decided by a weather report from Blacksod Bay, Co Mayo. See Irish neutrality during WW2 on Wikipedia and JP Duggan, Herr Hempel at the German Legation in Dublin 1937–1945, ISBN 0716527464 for more. |
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Feb 22 |
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What language(s) were spoken within the Holy Roman Empire? @Noldorin: Yes, that's a fair point, though the cities within areas of the Empire we now consider Slavic but founded during the Ostsiedlung tended to be quite Germanised, even if their hinterlands were still Slavic. But yes, I think I'm being more pedantic than is helpful :o) |
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Feb 22 |
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Why are many African nations poor? I would strongly disagree there. Whilst Scandinavia is more social-democrat than socialist, it's probably the best examples in Europe of socialism without that being a cypher for Leninism. That "socialism doesn't work" is very much ideology, not fact. That Leninist policies claiming to be socialist (regarded by the West as communist) don't work has indeed been proven by the Bolshevik experiment last century, but there are plenty of socialist policies that are still both definitely popular and that work -- better than neoliberal capitalism by some estimations. But this is not the place :o) |
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Feb 21 |
awarded | Revival |
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Feb 21 |
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What language(s) were spoken within the Holy Roman Empire? Wow. An excellent answer. To be slightly pedantic, there would have been little Polish in the area on the map (which was broadly Germanised until after WW2, and Poland-Lithuania was its own powerful state to the east of the Empire.) There were (and, to a lesser extent still are) a handful of West Slavic languages in what is now eastern Germany and western Poland. Whilst Switzerland was only nominally within the Empire by 1600, Romansh probably counts too. |
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Feb 21 |
awarded | Suffrage |
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Feb 21 |
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To what extent did Native American cultures develop metalworking for tools and weapons? I should caveat that it's also a massive oversimplification of Jared Diamond's book, which is well worth a read by anyone interested in why certain civilisations ended on the top of the pile and why Native Americans and sub-Saharan Africans are still substantially poorer than the Eurasian civilisations that colonised their lands. |
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Feb 21 |
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To what extent did Native American cultures develop metalworking for tools and weapons? Thank you. Trying to acquire reputation on these sites is something I find quite frustrating given my time constraints, particularly on sites where I'm pretty new (like this one). This happened to be something I know about that I noticed as I had time to kill last night ;o) |
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Feb 21 |
answered | Which country ruled flanders in the 16th century? |
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Feb 21 |
awarded | Teacher |
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Feb 21 |
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Why are many African nations poor? I think Scandinavian nations would disagree that socialism prevents prosperity. Whilst the basis of this answer is fair and accurate, there is a definite ideology at work here. Wikipedia would not consider this NPOV :) |
