/u/thefourthchipmunk's posts
How was Helen Keller's English so good? Did she actually somehow develop a strong vocabulary and sense of style? Or did she have a ghostwriter who rewrote her remarks?
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Where can I learn more about the concept of "sealed train cars" for Germans passing through the Polish Corridor after WWI? (i.e, the psychological significance to Germans -- was it perceived as stigmatizing, or what?)
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When is the last time that a country extracted war indemnity from the country it defeated? Has this practice come to lose its legitimacy?
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Why was the Nazi nuclear program so much less successful than that of the allies? Is there anything they could have done differently to greatly increase their chances of producing a bomb?
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If I lived in the USSR during the purges, were there any choices or steps that I could take to guarantee my survival, and to what extent could this not require moral compromises like denouncing innocent neighbors?
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Which books by Churchill are his best (I.e. which should I read)? I mean mainly in terms of his literary style, but of course also in terms of the quality of his historical work.
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As an American, I was taught many examples where we stood up & the Soviets backed down (Cuba, Berlin, Afghanistan) but I can't think of any significant examples the other way around (West backing down from the Soviets). Are there any??
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In order to communicate with a small, distant object (say, for Earth to focus on Voyager or vice-versa), how precisely must angle be controlled? In other words -- is it important to be extremely precise in where we are pointing, or are we just blasting in the general direction?
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