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Why is an Emperor appealing to Confucian values to legitimize the state a recurring motif in Chinese history? (Which is to ask, I suppose, "Why does it work?")
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Two possibly related questions: Is there a consensus on Gustave Whitehead's purported 1901 and 1902 manned, powered, and sustained flights? Does the Wright-Smithsonian contract hinder research of early airplanes?
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I read "Eagles of Mitsubishi" and now have a zillion questions about 1930s Japanese industry/aviation and the Second Sino-Japanese War. (Not least of which, any other recommended [English translated] memoirs and the like about 1930s Japan?)
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Deke Slayton commented about the aftermath of WWII that "The Marines fought their way up and they fought their way back, and they said we just took it. But most of the Japanese were still there. The Army was more methodical than the Marines. When they took something, they held it." Is that accurate?
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