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Where can I read more about the history of the concept of "standing the test of time"?
There's a popular notion that an artwork's enduring popularity is a measure of its value. A lot of people talk about certain media not "holding up" and even reviews of current media will ...
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Did projectiles start being rifled before barrels?
I think this is a better fit here than on engineering SE (which has a firearms tag), because it pertains to firearm development more so than firearm capabilities.
In any case, I always found the ...
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What is the true history of the blue bricks of Old San Juan?
During a recent visit to Old San Juan, I was told that the distinctive blue bricks on its streets (see here) were cast from steel byproducts, served as ballast in Spanish ships, and were nearly ...
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When did the Great Leap Forward famine become widely known? Was it not widely known c. 1975?
Gale Johnson (1975):
For the entire twentieth century to the present, there have probably been between 12 million and 15 million famine deaths
As late as c. 1975, was the Great Leap Forward famine ...
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Was there a famine in China in 1906–07 that killed 20–25 million?
Wikipedia has a page on this but its "factual accuracy is disputed":
This Chinese famine was directly caused by the 1906 China floods (April–October 1906) ...
Two modern commentaries ...
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What is the Julian day number of the flood of Noah? [closed]
In the Torah, in Genesis 7:11 it states
"In the 600th year of Noah's life, on the 17th day of the second month-on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the flood Gates of ...
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What is the genealogy of the Mrudah Clan?
I'm working on a project of the family tree and origins of the House of Saud, the ruling family of Saudi Arabia. According to Wikipedia, the last recorded ancestor of the House of Saud is Mani' ibn ...
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Why were the Christians anti-Semites? [closed]
The first Christians such as Justin Martyr, the Church Fathers such as Augustine, the Reformers such as Luther were all anti-Semites. Why was that so?
Here are some quotes:
Luther: "Accordingly, ...
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Were ancient Greece tridents different designs from other historical examples?
For a tattoo, I'm researching the trident as a spearfishing tool and a weapon. The one I'd like to depict should be one from ancient Greece, preferably around 400 BC (the time when Plato lived).
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Does USA MAGA movement resemble Castro's Cuba, or France's Vichy government during WWII, or USA confederacy during the civil war? [closed]
In it's opposition to much of the US government and Constitution, MAGA Republicans court alliances with nations often considered to be foes of the USA (as did Castro's Russian alliance, Vichy's with ...
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How was the performance of the Imperial Russian Army during the Seven Years' War
I am interested in the performance of the Russian military during the Seven Years' War, what were their strengths and weaknesses? How was the performance of traditional Russian units vs non-...
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Who said, "I want to live long enough to see what becomes of Napoleon"?
My memory is that someone in very poor health (a literary figure? or an exile?) was asked by a visitor (with more curiosity than tact, I imagine) how he was managing to keep hanging on, and that he ...
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Has there ever been a country in which the people have decided that they didn't want a monarchy and the king/queen has stepped down without bloodshed? [duplicate]
The only examples I can think of are commonwealth (of the UK) countries who chose not to have the UK monarch as head of state which is not the same thing.
I want the name of a country where "the ...
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Did traditional lithography produce continuous shading (tones) without halftone dots? [closed]
The Smithsonian Design Museum and the University of Minnesota, among others, claim that lithography is incapable of producing smoothly continuous shades without the halftone technique of tiny solid ...
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Why and how did the British justify invading so many countries? [closed]
Did they think they bring some kind of light, they have 'divine mission', white burden to civilize?
What was the 'great cause' - Protestant ideas, spread Christian religion like Spanish?
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