The Australian mainland is such a large landmass to be occupied by only one country. Especially considering there are three countries on great brittan (a considerably smaller island), and the number of countries in europe that occupy the same size of land as Australia. The same is true for Canada, the USA, Mexico and other "new world" countries.

So I was wondering if the natives of these places lived in their on countries or if the concept was introduced by european invasions or another factor.

Why Egyptian and not other nationalities? What could one stand to gain, and why were the authorities so worried about it? Was this a common occurrence?

It seems as though early cars made little effort to be aerodynamic. Surely they knew that wind resistance is a thing, and it seems with cruder engines it would be even more beneficial to lower resistance.

I also wonder what a 1920's person would have thought of a Corvette. Would they have though of it as obscene or did the sexualization of those kind of shapes come later?

I often see posts on reddit about how 90% of the wealth is in the hands of 1% of the population (not those exact figures but along those lines). Was that the main idea or catalyst behind the French Revolution? Was it unequal wealth distribution pushed to the extreme or was it something else?

I know that modern historians consider Octavian to be the first emperor but he was a princep of Rome and the Roman republic still existed for some time after that but with a de-facto emperor. So my question is when did Rome become a legal official empire where they actually called themselves “Imperator” or “Emperor”

Hi all,

After seeing a photo in /r/europe of the Austrian army watchfully guarding the Yugoslav border in case of spillover from the turmoil there, I wondered if there were any incidents or scares on the borders of any of the nations adjacent to Yugoslavia at the time.

For pedantry's sake, I should mention that, though the title only mentions Italy, Romania and Austria, I am well aware there are several more countries that bordered Yugoslavia at the time, and I am interested in any or all of them, not just the three in the title.

Thanks!

Such a thing seemed as if it would be completely plausible, but how widespread was it? If it did occur, how zealous were prosecutions after the war was over when such people were found?

Before the institution of a national identity system, i.e. a social security card, it seems like it would have been pretty trivial to assume a new identity by just moving further away?

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are there any resources that talk more deeply about December 25 1914

Has anybody done an isotope analysis survey on the tin in bronze that can be accurately dated to before 1200 bc in the eastern mediterranean? I've heard that this test can give an indication of the original source of the tin.

I'm only in my 30s, so I've never known what life is like in a real "war" in the US, and US citizens have always been able to travel to the areas that we're supposedly at war with. Was that the case during the Civil War?

Could someone take a day trip to the CSA? Could someone from Tennessee take a vacation to New York?

What was the day to day interaction like between average citizens of these two countries? Or was there any?

Recent revelations suggest humans hunted animals as endurance hunters, running pretty into the ground by way of our superior cooling ability.

But we lose significant salt through sweat. One random Google page suggests you might sweat 1,000mg per hour.

Yet supposedly prehistoric diets were extremely low in salt, in the range of 650mg/day and no major dietary source seems to exist aside from rock salt or sea salt, which hunter gatherer Man did not have.

How did early Man get enough salt to fuel endurance hunting in the heat?