/u/hazysummersky's posts
Why don't planets twinkle as stars do? My understanding is that reflected light is polarised, but how it that so, and why does that make the light not twinkle passing through the atmosphere?
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How would Jesus as the son of a carpenter in a backwater have been able to speak Latin well enough to converse with Pontius Pilate? Pretty sure they didn't have latin classes in Bethlehem schools.
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14-year-old skateboarder Arisa Trew has become Australia's youngest ever Olympic gold medallist. Ms Trew says she is 'stoked' to have clinched gold in the women's park final in Paris.
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Before Jaws was released in 1975, is there any record of societal attitudes towards sharks? Am I incorrect in feeling those movies generated an unprecedented phobic reaction around the world leaving a most often harmless creature with a permanently bloodstained reputation?
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How effective were the huge campaigns in 1984 of 'Band Aid' in the UK and 'USA for Africa' in the USA in helping with the famine in Ethiopia? I have heard the government at the time was given funds and misused them. Was it just a misguided western 'pat-on-the-back' fest or did it actually help?
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My father has traced our family tree back to the 1500s, but has hit a wall with Elizabethan handwriting. Can anyone discern from this text the names of the sons and daughters of Sampson Harse/Hurse? Apologies if this is the wrong place to ask.
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How do we come about the pronunciation of the names of characters from Ancient Egypt like Rameses or Khufu, given hieroglyphs aren't phonetic?
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