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Mar 5 |
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Are there other ancient human rights (surely in its ancient consept) documents like the Cyrus Cylinder (c. 500BC)? revised proposed edit to be closer to original wording, adjusted tag |
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Mar 1 |
awarded | Enlightened |
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Mar 1 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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Feb 27 |
answered | Transatlantic Zeppelin Flight Time |
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Feb 26 |
reviewed | Approve suggested edit on Why and how did some Germans choose to join the Stasi (Staatssicherheit)? |
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Feb 26 |
answered | Why have officers in the U.S. army tended to “top out” at the level of Major? |
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Feb 25 |
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Why did Ford pardon Nixon? @mgb Except when it is. |
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Feb 25 |
reviewed | Approve suggested edit on Why did Ford pardon Nixon? |
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Feb 25 |
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Muslim population in Islamic Iberia @t-e-d Though the Almoravids and their successors were less tolerant of religious minorities than the Umayyads, there is no record of anything comparable to the Spanish Inquisition to convert or stamp out non-believers. I don't, therefore, think we can assume that the non-Muslim population would have been reduced to a marginal population. They might have been <1%— but they might have been 10% or more. |
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Feb 25 |
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Muslim population in Islamic Iberia But I think the OP also wants to know, of the 4 million in 737 or the 9 million in 1346, do we know how many or what percentage were Muslims as opposed to Christians (or Jews or other)? |
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Feb 22 |
answered | Nymphodorus of Syracuse |
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Feb 22 |
answered | When did Harvard give its last entrance exam? |
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Feb 20 |
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What is “quarter column” @LouisRhys I'm sure that is how the term originated, halving the half. At such distances it was probably easier and more consistent to count paces than to eyeball one half of one half of the width of the column, but that is just speculation on my part. |
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Feb 20 |
answered | What is “quarter column” |
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Feb 19 |
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How did the “Forty Niners” get to California in 1849? What exactly are you looking for in an answer? There are only three possible answers: 1) over land, via the California Trail or another western trail; 2) by water, by sailing ship around the Cape or across the Pacific for Asians and Latin Americans; or 3) by a combination of the two, sailing to Mexico or Panama, crossing the continent by land, then sailing to San Francisco from the Pacific side. If you mean "how" as in "how was it humanly possible," there were assuredly worse human experiences in 1849 than a 6-month journey to California. I think they could manage. |
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Feb 15 |
answered | Did Bismarck have any influence on Hitler? |
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Feb 15 |
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What repercussions did Agrippina's murder have for Pompeii? @FelixGoldberg Yes, the last three block quotes are excerpted from the Google Books preview. |
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Feb 15 |
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What repercussions did Agrippina's murder have for Pompeii? added 13 characters in body |
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Feb 15 |
answered | What repercussions did Agrippina's murder have for Pompeii? |
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Feb 13 |
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Were Soviet warships allowed to use the Panama canal? news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/country_profiles/1229333.stm says "The canal was shut to the Soviet Union during the Cold War." Even if there was no official policy, the Panama Canal Zone (encompassing the entire canal) was an overseas U.S. territory until 1999, and the U.S. could have simply declined requests for Soviet naval ships to enter its territorial waters. As for the quotation, it reflects the political status of the canal in 2008, not during the Cold War. |
