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How do paleontologists know when they're missing a tailbone in a dinosaur fossil?
Please forgive me if this is the wrong forum in which to ask this question - I would appreciate being redirected if there is a more relevant community for my topic. I was recently at the American ...
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Why does the English, French and Dutch speaking Caribbean speak Creole languages while the Spanish speaking part speaks largely standard Spanish?
Why do the English, French and Dutch parts of the Caribbean speak Creoles (Guadeloupean Creole, Papiamento, Bajan Creole, Haitian Creole, Patois, Sranan Tongo etc) which are largely unintelligible to ...
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Why weren't Latin Americans ethnically Hispanicized the same way the populations of MENA and Anatolia were Arabized and Turkified respectively?
The conquests of the Americas by the Spanish and Portuguese are similar to the conquests of the MENA region and Anatolia by the Arabs and Turks respectively in that the conquered populations took on ...
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What is the meaning of this road sign?
In the movie Die Schweizermacher of 1978, this road sign is seen several times. However, I couldn't find any information about it.
The location from the movie is visible here, but the sign is no ...
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What was the opposition to the Contra War in the U.S.? [closed]
What was the nature of the opposition in the U.S. in the 1980s to the Contra War against Nicaragua?
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What role, if any, did Japanese anti-aircraft fire play at MIdway?
It is well known that at the battle of Midway, American torpedo bombers arriving first at the Japanese battle fleet were annihilated by Japanese fighters. That had the ironic result of "setting ...
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Why did India conduct Islamic burial rites for Pakistani soldiers after the Kargil War when Pakistan did not reclaim the bodies?
During the 1999 Kargil War between India and Pakistan, Indian armed forces engaged Pakistani troops who had crossed the Line of Control and occupied positions in the Kargil, Dras, and Batalik sectors ...
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How did the relative supply situations between Chinese and Japanese forces change after the opening of the Ledo Road in 1945?
Actually, the opening of the Ledo Road in January 1945 connecting Allied supply bases in India to the Burma Road leading to China was as much a symbolic, as substantive event. The reason was that the ...
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What was the context around John Quincy Adams's quote about the "art of making love" with "the thermometer at Zero"?
I recently came across an old John Quincy Adams quote:
The art of making love, muffled up in furs, in the open air, with the thermometer at Zero, is a Yankee invention.
I'm just wonder, does anyone ...
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How was column size determined in the scrolls of the Classical Romans and Greeks?
A recent question on Literature SE discussed the orientation of text in Greek and Roman scrolls of the Classical Period. However, that discussion brought about another question, why were the scrolls' &...
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Were "non-combat" troops disportionately represented among the survivors at battles such as Stalingard?
By "non-combat" troops, I refer to support troops like food preparers and distributors or transport and communication specialists. By "battles like Stalingrad," I refer to high-...
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Was it true that the LTTE carried out 80% of suicide bombings between its founding in 1976 and 9/11?
In 2019, Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan claimed that
The gunman in NZ; such people have this indoctrination that terrorism has something to do with Islam. Before 9/11, 80 percent of ...
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Was the criminalization of suicide in India inherited from British colonial law, or did it exist in pre-colonial Indian legal traditions?
Across Indian history, there are well-documented instances where suicide or self-inflicted death appears to have been used as a form of moral, political, or religious expression, such as:
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What uniform is the man in this photo wearing?
I'm trying to figure out something about the uniform my relative is wearing in this photo. It doesn't look like US so any help would be appreciated.
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Why did the Japanese break the Washington Treaty limitations earlier with aircraft carriers than with battleships?
In the Washington Naval Conference of 1921-22,America, Britain, and Japan agreed to limit the tonnage of their capital ships in the ratio of 5,5,3 respectively. In battleships, that could mean 15, 15, ...
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