/u/screwyoushadowban's posts
There's a bit of old gun lore that later generation intermediate cartridges (5.56 NATO, 5.45x39) were adopted because they specifically caused fewer deaths but more woundings thus tying up enemy resources in medical care. Substance or complete myth?
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In the late Medieval & Renaissance periods did commoners living under a rich king or sultan have better quality of life than commoners living under a poorer king or sultan or was every commoner everywhere equally poor?
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What was it like doing archaeology and history work in China from the 1970s-90s, both for foreign and local Chinese researchers? What special challenges did the Party and its preference or perceived preferences for particular narratives present?
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Did Romans think Rome would last forever? Or did they think it likely/inevitable that they would eventually decline or be conquered by someone else? And did eschatological thinking exist in Rome before the Christian era?
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How much of the mid 20th century FBI's investigation into "subversive activities" of public figures (including people as innocuous today as Albert Einstein) actually concerned "subversion" & how much was simply digging up dirt to "screw them" in the Nixonian sense?
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How did modern policing develop in Japan and Korea? Did Japanese/Korean police forces adopt late 19th/early 20th c. European practices by large degrees or did they mostly refine and update their own traditions, practices, and norms?
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Did Romans in the first centuries BCE and CE think that Rome would last forever (or at least as long as humanity existed)? Was there pre-Christian Roman eschatological belief?
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"Flying too close to the corn chips" or: how accessible were ancient Greek (& Roman & others) myths to medieval European commoners (& commoners in the Islamic world for that matter)? If I made a passing reference to/joke about Achilles, Icarus, or Hercules would common people get it?
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Just how bad were American in-patient psychiatric hospitals in the late 1950s to early 70s? And how much did the professional perspective differ from the public perspective?
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