Yannis Rizos

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If you are a programmer and a history buff, you might want to take a look at history questions on Programmers.

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May 24	comment	British colony in Berlin As @FelixGoldberg notes, the word colony there most probably means the British expat community. However, I couldn't find a dictionary that would suggest such a definition for colony and I went ahead and asked about it on our sister site, English Language Learners.
May 23	comment	Are submarine launched ballistic missiles still inaccurate? @T.E.D. The US military uses SI almost exclusively (otherwise working with other nations' military forces would have been a nightmare). "Klick" is slang for kilometer, for example.
May 21	comment	Why were balls used on the Medici coat of arms? There's another theory that suggests the balls are actually pills, a nod to the Medicis' origins (Medici is the plural of medico, which means medical doctor).
May 19	comment	Eastern and Southern Europe in the medieval time period? I'm afraid this is extremely broad. The traditional chronology of the Middle Ages sets their start in the 5th century and their end in the 15th. That's a millenium of history, even a list of the high points would be extremely long. Could you please make this a bit more narrow and specific?
May 17	comment	When did the Arabs become a religious group? What does fanaticism has to do with your question? Are you asking when the Arabs become religious, or are you asking a question on religious fanaticism?
May 16	comment	Do Navy Seals die in training? The answer to this is obviously yes, soldiers sometimes die during training (from causes related to their training). Even basic training is an extremely intense experience, and accidents do happen. And when those accidents involve firearms or any kind of explosives, the mortality rate can be significant.
May 15	comment	Was there a state in history where influence of sport fans on politics was greater than in medieval Byzantine Empire? There are several football rivalries in Europe with political and religious overtones, perhaps the more prominent example is the Old Firm.
May 9	comment	Has history mistreated Nero? @FelixGoldberg Well, Nero lost as well (committed suicide to avoid execution), and a lot of his history was written by people he violently persecuted (i.e. Christian writers). That said, all facts about Agrippina and Nero come from the same sources, and none of the sources is a primary one or particularly trustworthy, so caution is reasonable.
May 9	comment	Has history mistreated Nero? @TomAu The new version is much better, but the last sentence still doesn't make sense. What bursts of anger? Why are you assuming anger was involved at all? By all accounts, there was nothing atypical about Nero's execution of political opponents (including his mother), that's how most Roman emperors dealt with their opponents. It was a calculated move, that came after years of political and personal tension. Agrippina was involved in a plot or two to assassinate Nero, was exiled from Rome at the time of her "suicide", and had even tried to rape a drunk Nero a few days before.
May 9	comment	Has history mistreated Nero? Almost every Roman emperor would qualify as a psychopath today, and Nero doesn't even come close to being the stranger of the lot (Elagabalus, Caligula and Commodus were far weirder). He isn't even the more violent, the sadistic Caracalla is probably the worst in that category. And since Nero is considered by some Christian writers as the Antichrist, it's worth noting that he wasn't even the worst persecutor of Christians, Diocletian and Septimius Severus were far worse. Lastly, the fiddle wasn't invented until the 16th century, so obviously Nero didn't fiddle while Rome burned...
Apr 30	comment	What were acceptance criteria/process to the Vienna Fine Arts Academy in 1906-7? @TomAu Heh, you can't know what the other person would have done if they weren't admitted. They might have been a lot worse than Hitler (hard to imagine, but you never know).
Apr 27	comment	Is speaking Russian a privileged lingual habit in Ukraine nowadays? @PersianCat Please read the site's FAQ thoroughly, questions that can be answered by a simple Google search or by a Wikipedia page are off topic. If your question is not answered in Wikipedia it's up to you to update it and explain to us exactly why it's not answered and exactly what answer you are looking for. Right now your question is anything but clear, I've no idea what you mean by "blamed lingual habit".
Apr 26	comment	Alexander's seizure of “Brahmin” towns @T.E.D. The reputation earned from acceptance isn't affected by the CW status, it always goes to the original poster. Same with bounties, the only problem (reputation wise) is with upvotes.
Apr 26	comment	Did Hitler not intend a major war while invading Poland? Hitler's long term intentions are still heavily debated. Lots of opinions, but nothing conclusive I'm afraid.
Apr 26	comment	Was Hitler's genocide of the Jews “different” from other mass killings? "The European Parliament ... recognises the Holodomor (the artificial famine of 1932-1933 in Ukraine) as an appalling crime against the Ukrainian people, and against humanity; strongly condemns these acts, directed against the Ukrainian peasantry, and marked by mass annihilation and violations of human rights and freedoms; expresses its sympathy with the Ukrainian people, who suffered in this tragedy, and pays its respects to those who died as a consequence of the artificial famine of 1932-1933"
Apr 26	comment	Was Hitler's genocide of the Jews “different” from other mass killings? @Anixx Ah, if Stalin said he didn't do it, then I guess it's true. :/
Apr 26	comment	Was Hitler's genocide of the Jews “different” from other mass killings? "I do not know about any genocide committed by Stalin" - I guess the millions of Ukrainians and Cossacks that died during the Holomodor famine weren't important enough to remember :/
Apr 23	comment	general philosophical question about history Then... rewrite the question to make it re-open worthy @DVK, and then post a better answer.
Apr 22	comment	general philosophical question about history Your answer deserves a better question. Since the question was closed, I think you should go ahead and edit it to make it fit your answer in every aspect (subject, tone, grammar, even formatting - the obnoxious bolding doesn't help).
Apr 21	comment	Are these images from Iran-Iraq war authentic? The plane in the first photo is a Northrop F-5 and the ones in the second are Dassault Mirage F1s.