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"The old milita army had similarly been very noisy as it advanced, the legionaires yelling and banging weapons against shields. The professional army adopted a differant approach, advancing slowly...

Its rather hard to find concrete evidence that vampires don't exist, when they don't exist and thus there is no evidence. Its like if I asked you to prove my imaginary friend existed, the better...

Kissinger was given the peace prize, but it would be laughable to call him a peaceful man.

Arafat allowed the Palestininans to use Terrorism against Israelis which alone makes him a villain. And...

At the second battle of Cremona, a ballista halted the Flavian advance until a couple of soldiers diguised themselves as Vitellians and managed to disable the weapon.

Artillery was pretty nasty,...

This of course depends upon the Europeans launching an amphibious assult on a nation 3000 miles away and quickly sweeping the Americans away. The Europeans will also have to learn from their...

I think your talking about the Christmas Truce on the Western Front in 1914. It seems a little strange that the Turkish soldiers being majority muslim would hold such high regards for Christmas.

Nicias' decision to not finish his wall at the Siege of Syracuse.

Just about cost the Athenians the Peloponnesian War.

I realize that the sacking of Jerusalem was in keeping with the mores of that time. However I personally feel that the Crusade, being a "holy" mission, should be held to higher standard.
Its the...

And the U.S. Navy has more tonnage than the next 17 countries combined.

I don't doubt that a host of other nations could defeat the US army. However it would be costly, because while American...

I'm fairly sure that swords were common among knights uptill about the mid/late 14th century when plate armor rendered the sword obsolete against knights.

I'm also sure that knights used swords...

Worse then the Holocaust?

Honestly, whats the big deal? Peopel argue about the bomb all the time but as others have noted completely ignore firebombings that kill just as many people.

If there is denial I have not seen it. I remember spending a week on the Trail of Tears alone in 8th grade. America tends to be a very PC country and it seems that the textbooks work very hard to...

Thats quite the leap.
People make mistakes, anti-homosexuality laws were wrong, however this has nothing to do with the case at hand. Anti-homosexual laws were inacted due to bias. Rape laws...

The crime is not about the criminal but the victim. I could care less what the rapist is thinking, all that matters is that he is a raping a girl.

It seems by your logic that if a man killed...

Can anyone fill me in the history of this unususal nickname and its pronounciation? I have always pronounced it as Boo-See-Cot but I can't really be sure if thats correct.

I really find these chimps interesting. They can communicate 3-4 word ideas in sign language (I.E. I want to go outside with you) and I was just reading about how a pack of chimps took care of a...

I realize its not a speech but Augustine might be a good choice for information. I'm sure his writings reflect the system of logic used in the late empire. You can probably find him online too....

Not to nitpick, but you got a few details in that video wrong.

The two were stuck in a fire fight between a group of Paelstinian and Israeli soldiers, they were not actually being specifically...

Try Yooper or Pennsylvania Dutch for hard to understand American accents, a shame they're so hard to find though.

During the enlightenment all of Europe's nobility spoke French. Russian aristocrats spoke French and Frederick the Great corresponded in French with Voltaire.
Now English is the Lingua Franca,...

Yet thats what you're doing.



The Dawes Act disproves your point. No matter how disastrous the act was, it shows that Americans did not believe Native Americans to be savages, but misguided...

Yeah, I'l do well in life, more so due to my parents than me though.

As long as I keep good grades and work hard I'll be a partner in my Dad's firm (he is the managing partner) by 33ish.
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It does not matter that it was "misrepresented" by several countries, what matters is that it did in fact represent the Soviet Union. Its on their flag, everyone sees the hammer&sickle as an almost...