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Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one.
Henry David Thoreau
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(War Guilt Methodology) Was Germany solely to blame for WWI? +1 Outstanding answer. Going off on a tangent, and please do not feel obliged to answer: Are the assassination of Austrian archduke Ferdinand in Sarajevo and 9/11 parallel events in that they both set off major wars by igniting a powder keg that was ready to go off? (I would not ask this as a question here because it does not fit the Stackexchange format.) |
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Do photos of Wernher von Braun and Neil Armstrong exist? Have they ever met? Your best bet would be to visit Nasa.gov, look for a page with "contact" information, and ask. |
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Jun 14 |
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Where was the furthest extent of Arabian trade explorations? What centuries are you asking about? |
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Jun 13 |
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Patriotism and how it contributed to the recruitment process in WW1 +1 on the "peer pressure"... which came in various forms, including the law. In Schenck v. United States, Oliver Wendell Holmes jr. wrote the unanimous opinion holding that there was no right to oppose the military draft if such speech constituted a "clear and present danger". |
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Jun 13 |
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Was there a single ancient religion that all others sprang from? Hagarism by Crone and Cook may be the book you're thinking of. |
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Jun 13 |
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How much time would have been required to launch a nuclear counterstrike? @Carlo I'm sure you read at a high level, and a slowdown by a factor of four is an exaggeration, but inevitably it will take you longer to read a scholarly text in English than one in Italian. No shame in that, in fact you deserve respect for taking on this extra difficulty. If you weren't here there would be something missing. But please consider asking fewer questions and spending a good deal of time on research before you post. |
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Jun 13 |
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How reliable were Warsaw Pact members should war break out in the 80's? O.K., downvote retracted. Frankly, though, I'd be a lot happier if OP had done the work of rewriting the question themselves. |
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Jun 13 |
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How much time would have been required to launch a nuclear counterstrike? Why is two hours asking too much, Tom? You may be able to cobble together an answer from search engine results and Wikipedia in as little as 30 minutes... but due to his language handicap, Carlo needs a multiple of your time. It is his choice to post on an English-speaking site, though. (Btw, it is a mystery how anyone could decide that this question shows research effort; it is useful and clear.) |
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Jun 12 |
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How much time would have been required to launch a nuclear counterstrike? May I suggest that you spend at least two hours (120 minutes) doing a Web search for combinations of keywords such as Brezinski, Odom, counterstrike, response time, the football, president? |
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Jun 12 |
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How much time would have been required to launch a nuclear counterstrike? What research have you done to answer your questions? |
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Jun 12 |
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How reliable were Warsaw Pact members should war break out in the 80's? Thank you for replying, @Tom. (By the way, writing words in ALL CAPS is often considered "shouting" on the Internet, I hope you did not mean it that way.) |
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Jun 12 |
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How reliable were Warsaw Pact members should war break out in the 80's? Agree with @TomAu's comment above. But the edit he made to the question... is it part of the History.SE culture that this is acceptable? To my mind, it replaces the question asked by the OP with a different one. |
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Jun 12 |
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What did Mesopotamian beehives look like? @Anvar Don't forget the famous maggot cheeses of Europe (yum yum). |
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Jun 11 |
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Who gave Charles the Bold his nickname and why? Perhaps Sir Walter Scott said it best, in Quentin Durward: "Charles, surnamed the Bold, or rather the Audacious, for his courage was allied to rashness and frenzy, then wore the ducal coronet of Burgundy, which he burned to convert into a royal and independent regal crown. The character of this Duke was in every respect the direct contrast to that of Louis XI. The latter was calm, deliberate, and crafty [...]. The genius of the Duke was entirely different. He rushed on danger because he loved it, and on difficulties because he despised them." |
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Jun 9 |
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What right/legitimacy did Normans have to a kingdom in Southern Italy? Well that would be interesting, wouldn't it? And if I knew enough about the topic to answer, I would. But if you already know these things, and more besides, why not work them into your question? Then people will learn something. And focus your precise question on a particular aspect that interests you but that you have not found discussed in the literature that you've researched. |
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Jun 9 |
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What right/legitimacy did Normans have to a kingdom in Southern Italy? Because they could? Or, more seriously, because it served their geopolitical interest to have a bastion on the Mediterranean sea and because there was no one to tell them that they were not allowed to? |
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Jun 9 |
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Did America ignore British patents during Industrialization @YannisRizos That sounds like the Chomsky we all know, feeding his paying audience's "guilt trip" over the crimes of the western world. Downvoting this question for now, with a mental bookmark to retract once it is edited by the Asker. |
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Jun 7 |
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How did the Romans build straight roads that stretched very long distance? In fact, now that this Answer is at +2 votes, I should downvote it! Just kidding, @RISwampYankee (I think...) |
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Jun 7 |
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How did the Romans build straight roads that stretched very long distance? @YannisRizos I hesitate to be the one to start a Meta thread ;) Yes, I would agree that "link only answers are not preferable". Nor was I asking for a policy unique to History.SE. But even a naked link to a useful web page can be more helpful than no information at all. So taking that into account and human dynamics being what they are, I am suggesting that an immediate downvote accompanied by a comment quoting SE policy may be less productive than the conciliatory approach suggested in that answer on MSO that I linked to. That's all, for my part. I will shut up now :) |
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Jun 6 |
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Homo Sapiens Sapiens: Are genetic studies to be trusted? +1 Interesting. |
