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According to my physics teacher, people believed that all earthly objects moved in straight lines from when Aristotle said so until he was proven wrong in the renaissance. But to aim an arrow or a catapult accurately, you need to account for curved flight path. What gives?
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Why is the history of the middle ages taught so decisively from an Anglo-French perspective while the Holy Roman Empire, Grand Duchy of Lithuania, etc, etc are sidelined?
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Marx & Engels wrote a book on the American Civil War while it was ongoing. Karl Marx and Abraham Lincoln both had formal acquaintances and they had both communicated with each other directly. What was the extent and the result of the relationship between Marx and Lincoln?
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