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Jul 6 |
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Can One Use Attrition Tactics When There are No Other Clear Means to Win a War.? IMHO This might technically be true, but was just a bit of nuance meant to save face with Meade and the rest of the army brass. Nobody at the time had any doubt who was really in control, nor should we now. |
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Jul 5 |
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Was there a bronze age in the Americas? @Bryce - I do know that the first bronzes in the near east were arsenic based, not Tin based. In their case at least, it appears Tin may have been only added to achieve the same effect with ores that didn't naturally have enough arsenic in them and when arsenic wasn't available to be added. It could be that development of bronze use in the Americas was slowed by not having natural arsenic bronzes available to get them started. South America, it turns out, is one of the places where natural arsenic bronze alloys are found. |
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Jul 5 |
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Was there a bronze age in the Americas? Hmmm. For some reason I had it in my head that he'd said "North American", not "New World". I'll see what I can dig up... |
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Jul 5 |
answered | Was there a bronze age in the Americas? |
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Jul 4 |
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Who first combined the lateen and square sails that led to the carrack? @Luke - I'd love to see that expanded into an answer. Particularly if you could come up with a link or two supporting it. |
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Jul 4 |
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What do I need to know about Syria's history to understand the 2011-2012 uprising? @DVK - Tweak your statement to "trying to finance it", and I'd agree with that actually. But it could be argued the other way too. At some point they want the tide of this thing stopped before the uprisings move into their country. Again, this isn't a political discussion board, and such debatable statements should be in answers with supporting evidence, or not made at all. |
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Jul 3 |
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Could the anti-Napoleonic forces have done better by uniting earlier before Waterloo? @TomAu - Right. This was perhaps at least in part thanks to Napoelon's false intelligence though, so we are back to Napoleon. IMHO an enemy commander would have to be nearly as ham-handed as Bull Halsey at Leyte before I'd take the step of blaming him for being taken in by enemy deception. Lord knows I probably would do worse. |
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Jul 3 |
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Does prohibition of polygamy always correlate well with democracy? @DVK - No. The point is that I need documentation of this supposed gaining plural marriage movement about to take over the USA. I could make (and some have made) a plausible-sounding documentation-free argument that Sharia Law is about to take over Oklahoma. However, I believe here on this site any such bizarre assertion of imminent change should come with documentation, not just hand-waving. – T.E.D. 4 mins ago |
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Jul 3 |
answered | Could the anti-Napoleonic forces have done better by uniting earlier before Waterloo? |
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Jul 3 |
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Does prohibition of polygamy always correlate well with democracy? We are talking about culture, not transgressive subculture. The subcultures were around 150 years ago. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oneida_Society |
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Jul 3 |
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Are there examples of well known medieval battles with very little archaeological evidence? @DVK - I'm not entirely sure the claim requires evidence. Metal is valuable, and can always be melted down for new uses. Even today, most cities have people who go around scavenging discarded metals. Try leaving a large mass of copper lying around unguarded and see how long it lasts before someone makes off with it. |
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Jul 3 |
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How was life in the Iron Age different from life in the Middle Ages? Admittedly, an Iron Age person would have been damn impressed by a Medeval castle. Still, I was gonna complain about the lack of info on farming differences (which is really the vast majority of the daily activity for people in both eras). Then I hit your last two paragraphs. Good answer. |
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Jul 3 |
awarded | Convention |
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Jul 3 |
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What is the history of the “root” user in Unix computing? Sadly, this is a dup of unix.stackexchange.com/questions/7960/origin-of-root-account over on the Unix.SE site. |
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Jul 3 |
awarded | Enlightened |
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Jul 3 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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Jul 3 |
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Does prohibition of polygamy always correlate well with democracy? I don't do this much, but I'm actually downvoting this. It's not because I strongly disagree with the second bullet, but because it engages in the sleazy rhetorical trick of covering a very questionable assertion by saying "obviously". You do not get to magically shift the burden of proof off of yourself that way. Prove it, or remove it. |
