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Ancient statue I found near my place 1) Where are you located? (Which city are you in or near?) 2) Are there any ruins or old buildings or sites near you? What cultures do they belong to? 3) We really need a clearer photo, and please photograph all sides of the object. |
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Epoch of an item marked with anchor symbol with the letters N and D Notre Dame actually translates to "Our Lady" not "Our Mother", sorry. |
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May 20 |
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Epoch of an item marked with anchor symbol with the letters N and D This is a souvenir of someone's first communion - the ND probably stands for Notre Dame, "Our Mother", which is a Roman Catholic reference to the Virgin Mary - and the name of a few dozen churches, cathedrals and chapels dating back to that period in francophone countries worldwide. The logo is probably of the church, parish or bishopric... will require some shoe leather to run that down. |
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May 20 |
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U.S. Marine Corps and Why does the Navy’s army need its own air force? Ehh. Things have changed - the emphasis is now on Special Forces for targeted missions to begin combat operations. The CIA SAD are the first combatants into any given theater nowadays, followed closely by units from the Special Forces from the various branches for specific, targeted strikes. The first conventional forces on the ground in both Afghanistan and Iraq were the Marines. |
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May 17 |
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Did the United States have a third atomic bomb to drop on Japan? Edited to remove commentary irrelevant to an otherwise interesting question. |
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May 13 |
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What is this strange uniform? Here's another visual reference - seems a match for the original image: uniformsotw.com/products/35/58%201.jpg |
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May 7 |
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Specialization of labor among the ancient Maya @FelixGoldberg - Here's a well cited blog post on the topic of Mayan war that covers it: ancientamerindia.wordpress.com/2012/12/14/… |
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Apr 28 |
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Military training in the Hijaz during early Islamic era Umm. Arab tribalism is utterly unlike Native American tribalism, and the Rashidun army was recruited largely from urbanized and well established Arabian city-states, not mercenary nomads. |
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Apr 24 |
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Why is our planet called Earth? @jwenting - Standard mandarin isn't the native language of a very large section of Chinese speakers - and there are a ton of Mandarin subdialect "mother tongues." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/… |
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Apr 23 |
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Has there ever been an attempted military takeover of a democracy in the western world? -1 Conspiracy theory masquerading as history for thinly veiled political reasons. Finland was never a dictatorship, and they fought the Red Army to a standstill in the Continuation War, too. |
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Apr 23 |
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Why is our planet called Earth? @MarkC.Wallace - Surprisingly, no - there are more English speakers than standard Mandarin speakers: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/… |
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Apr 18 |
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What were Hispanic people called in the US in the 1800s? Disagree. Here in the Northeast, any Spanish speaking immigrant was known as Spanish, regardless of their country of origin - Spanish Harlem (actually Peurto Rican), the old Spanish Bakery in Providence (actually Dominican), etc - trying to run down something more definite. Will post an answer once I do. |
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Apr 17 |
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Could Columbus have suspected the New World lay on his path to India? This is actually an interesting question, that needs better phrasing - "Could Columbus have suspected the New World lay on his path to India?" The answer is, actually, "Maybe, but probably not" and involves a survey of Renaissance Italy, Basque, Irish, Scandanavian and African culture, and how well they cross-polinated, if at all. |
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Apr 9 |
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Was there more than one way for anti-aircraft fire to shoot down a dive bomber in World War II @jwenting - The point of the time-delay fuse was that a somewhat-near miss would still result in a kill, as the explosion and schrapnel would be enough to do the plane in. A direct hit is much harder to achieve. |
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Apr 5 |
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Which is the oldest language in the World? As much as I like a good wiki entry (and I do - when wiki's good, it's gooooood), the better reference was the "Ask a Linguist" - the answer really should be pared down to a summary of that link, and a corroboration with the well cited wikipedia page. +1 anyway. |
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Apr 2 |
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Who was the last US president who did not start a war? This answer is incorrect - Ford ordered military action against the Khmer Rouge - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayag%C3%BCez_incident |
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Apr 2 |
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Who was the last US president who did not start a war? Moral or immoral is irrelevant to the question. I believe any initial deployment of military resources resulting in combat should count, whether the war was declared or not. |
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Mar 28 |
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How did Mongolian nomads acquire metal weapons? 1) Where would they get the skills as weaponsmiths? It requires specialization to devote the time to learning the trade, something really only possible in settled communities. 2) Where did they get the raw materials? How could they trade for enough steel to equip a conquering army with a nomadic lifestyle? |
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Mar 28 |
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Why did Chinese use high tin bronze for swords? @DVK - The Indians had iron weapons by 1500BCE, and were beginning to dabble in crucible steel by 500BCE. China was using bronze long, long after other cultures made the change to iron, and refined bronze-making techniques that just weren't applicable to civilizations with iron weapons. |
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Mar 27 |
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How did Mongolian nomads acquire metal weapons? This is a good question - it could probably apply to most pastoral nomads turned conquerors across history: where'd they get their weapons from? |
