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How did people realize that America was a different continent? sigh American schools teach a lot of crazy stuff... |
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What did the Phoenician sailor trader eat? Just as a point of fact, according to wikipedia this is an oar-powered Assyrian warship, not a sail-driven Phonecian trading vessel. It could have had sails too, but we can't tell that from this fragment. |
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May the very fact that M. Thatcher was a woman well have been the most remarkable thing about her? What's more, I'm not entirely sure I agree with your analysis of his analysis... |
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Which is closer to Old Dutch? @LouisRhys is right. This is a linguistics question, not a history question. |
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Eastern and Southern Europe in the medieval time period? @Anixx - This is technically true. During the Middle ages the Byzantines never stopped referring to their empire as "Roman", whereas westerners tended to just call them "Greeks". I'm not sure what name was used for them in the east, but it was probably another name altogether. I'll rephrase a bit. |
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Why didn't the Arab states industrialize? @MonsterTruck I think you are thinking of the first paragraph in my answer to history.stackexchange.com/questions/2527/… |
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Eastern and Southern Europe in the medieval time period? Frankly, the area and the time period combine to make this just way too big a question. I'd suggest making it more explicitly just about the area around modern Romania. Trust me, there's plenty of history there. |
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Why the resurgence of Islamic powers in the middle east in the past three decades? By and large agree with this. This is also roughly when the USA and Europe started needing a lot more oil than they could get from their own collective production (thus making OPEC an effective possibility). |
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May 17 |
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When did the Arabs become a religious group? I rephrased the last sentence to be less...well...racist. Hopefully this wording was what was intended, and thus isn't fundamentally altering your question. (It could probably still use some work in this respect though.) |
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May 17 |
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Did the United States have a third atomic bomb to drop on Japan? After reading the complexity of the answers, this is a better question than I thought. |
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May 17 |
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Why didn't the Arab states industrialize? Related questions history.stackexchange.com/questions/221/…, history.stackexchange.com/questions/2527/…, history.stackexchange.com/questions/2146/…, and probably a host of others. |
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May 16 |
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Why did the United States attack Iraq and Afghanistan, but not Iran? I've rearranged the question a bit. It is a bit of a breach of site etiquette to phrase personal beliefs as facts in questions. I still don't believe this question is in our bailiwick here though. |
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May 16 |
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Resistance in 1938 Czechoslovakia IMHO This question is a bit too localized to be on-topic here. Questions on SE sites really should be capable of being of some use to somebody besides yourself. I'd suggest you tweak it to just ask what, if any underground resistance there might have been in the country after the Sudetenland was annexed, or what the various political factions (above and underground) were in the area during the period (assuming that's what you are asking about) |
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Why did the Arabs start the 1973 War during Ramadan, and did it affect their performance? @Drux Indeed my (very limited) understanding of Sawm is that it isn't absolute. You are permitted to break it if medically advisable, very incovenient (eg: if you're traveling. Invading would count as "traveling", right?), and apparently even on a whim if you're willing to perform compensory service. I could see where some Imams might consider militarily taking back a Palestinian muslim's homeland for him (from their point of view) sufficient. |
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May 16 |
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Why did the United States attack Iraq and Afghanistan, but not Iran? I'm not very conversant with what's on-topic over at Politics.SE, but given how recent these events are, perhaps this question would be more productive there? Any answer I would give would certianly be almost all about politics. |
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May 16 |
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Why was Switzerland not attacked during the two World Wars? One point to add to this. The chief advantage Germany had in the Western front over the allies was their superior armored warfare doctrine. Switzerland is just not good tank country. That would have forced them to fight on far more equal terms militarily than if they went through the low countries instead. |
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Was there a state in history where influence of sport fans on politics was greater than in medieval Byzantine Empire? @DVK - That point was wrong too, but so wrong I didn't even bother addressing it. In the USA we are pretty much used to thinking of our athletes as total buffoons in off-the-field matters (and they quite often don't disappoint in that respect). |
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May 15 |
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If Bill Clinton was impeached, why did he finish up his second term This particular topic is kind of a dog-whistle for USA citizens of a certian political stripe, and seems to have attracted more than its share of brand-new users for answers. By and large they've behaved themselves, but I still think its prudent to "protect" this question for now. |
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May 15 |
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Was there a state in history where influence of sport fans on politics was greater than in medieval Byzantine Empire? @jwenting - USA sports fandom is but a pale shadow of what you see in Latin America or Europe around their soccer clubs and national teams. If anything, the USA is the place that least comes to mind. |
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Did American policymakers seriously consider scaling down Lend Lease Aid to the Soviet Union after the battle of Kursk? The bit about Patton was in his biopic and seems in character. The rest I'd have trouble believing, but I think in this case that makes this a good question, so +1. |
