I know that most countries still use overhead lines, and it is clearly an aesthetic nightmare as well as a potential risk in comparison to burying them. It seems as if there was a time in US history in which there were many overhead lines (like is seen elsewhere in the world) and suddenly they disappeared except for very urban or crowded areas that aren't worth/capable of being buried. It reminds me of how America clearly jumped from "rural state-built roads everywhere" to "interstate highway transportation" over the span of a couple of decades.

Did America collectively decide that overhead lines weren't worth looking at or having, so everyone just stopped placing them wherever it was possible? Or was there some authority (whether a president or an organization) that created a new standard that states had to stick to?

Peopel in /r/History realy dislike Jared Diamond teori that geographic luck did give European the advantages to dominate the world. I have try to ask what the main flaw of the teori is, but get som difficult to interpreted answer that say he cherry pick, he is rasist etc but no real concrete example (that I can interpreted the boot write a wall of text but I fail to see concrete example) is ther a person on AskHistorian who can give a concrete example where Jared Diamond teori fail.

Did they get help from the USSR?

Around the time of the release of the Village People song, what were social attitudes like towards the YMCA, and what impact did the song have?

Always wondered Thank you!

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Hi, so I don't want to come across as dumb, but I never really understood the concrete differences between Stalinism and Leninism. It's a little abstract to me. I'm currently studying the Russian language and am trying to get to know more about Russian history. I was never taught in dept about these political movements at school, so I thought I'd ask here. I'm hoping a kind soul can help me out.

Everything I've learned about the cold war and McCarthyism is about the dangers of a witch Hunt (and it's frequently combined with The Crucible to make the point). The problem with this is witches don't exist, communism is at least a reality in the world. Was communism an actual threat in America, and how much? Thanks!!

Were marriages between someone from the Middle East or Africa and someone from Europe common? Was there stigma against these couples? Were Julius Caesar and Cleopatra considered an "interracial" couple?

If they didn't, when did someone link trauma to PTSD, for lack of a better word?

A visiting lecturer at my college was described as having this degree. I had never heard of a doctorate describe in this manner, only of regular Ph.D.'s. Can someone fill me in here?

Is it still an active movement? How was it dealt with?

Cheers.

Indonesia is extremely disconnected from the center of Islam, so how did it become primarily Islamic even before the Age of Exploration?

Until 1989, pro-democracy protests in the Warsaw Bloc tended not to end well. East Germany 1953, Hungary 1956, Czechoslovakia 1968, Poland 1981, etc. But the 1989 revolutions were, for the most part, remarkably free of bloodshed. Why was that the case?

Why didn't Jaruzelski declare martial law again in August 1988 in response to the Polish strikes, as he had only eight years prior in an attempt to crush the Solidarity movement?

Why didn't Erick Honecker send the Stasi and NVA to massacre protestors at Leipzig?

Why didn't Red Army tanks roll into Czechoslovakia to stop the Velvet Divorce, or into Hungary to crush the movement started by the Pan-European Picnic?

I know there is some scripture indicating that Mohammed's wives began wearing some kind of veil during his lifetime, but I wonder if that is apocryphal. Seems possible women were already wearing some form of veil in that time and place.