Did this change over time throughout the empire?

Did Sparta colonize like other Greek city-states? How similar were these colonies to Sparta itself?

So everyone knows that the daddy of Communism is Marx and the most well known schools of Marxist thought is Leninism and Maoism. Then you start getting into increasingly more diversified ones. There's Trotskyism, Hoxhaism, Guevarism, Ho Chi Minh Thought, Khrushchevism, Juche, Luxemburgism, on and on.

Communist thought is as rich and diversified as any other school of political thought like Monarchism, Democracy, or Anarchism. So, what are these different schools and how and why did they form?

Tell me your favorite stories of historical people and groups who beat ALL the odds and refuted ALL the naysayers to triumph (at least for awhile).

Next Week: Out-of-Context Quotes

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In Massachusetts, let's say.

He called it "the whole Austrian scandal" and threatened the Austrians with "sending Hitler's remains home to Austria". Why?

Before asking this question, I did my homework and tried to look into this question myself, but the best I've found were homework help websites with little to no sources, and a Wikipedia page almost completely devoid of citations. I'm trying to learn about Latin American history (as it is a part of the world I don't really know anything about), but I'm having trouble investigating this particular event.

I have read that a "pony express" system was used for important government communication. Was this true across the empire? What about mail between regular citizens?

Over the years, how much has the bible 'evolved'. And who ensures that things are not taken out of context.

My medieval buckler replica, made through old school blacksmithing by a HEMA group, just arrived by mail today. It reminds me of a statement I saw a HEMA practitioner made........

"Weapons are often used in tandem with shields for this reason. The shield bears the brunt of most the attacks, but even then the weapon does a lot of defensive work. If all you have is a weapon, it has to do double duty. Because contrary to what you might think, when you're legally justified to use a weapon, it's because someone is trying to kill you."

I am curious, why is the weapon just as important as the shield is in defensive action? I cannot tell you how people often think of using sword and shield as simple as "wait for the enemy sword to land on your shield, let the sword bounce from impact, and you immediately follow with a strike against your now defensive enemy who's still trying to recover his grip on his sword from the impact".

Seriously popular media portrays it this way from movies such as 300 to video games such as Legend of Zelda and live TV such as Deadliest Warriors. Even and educational sources and serious academic studies portray it this way. Can't tell you how many times I seen the History Channel have people test the effectiveness of a shield by banging swords, warhammers, and other heavy weapons against them and there are videos of university experiments you can see on Youtube where they test a shield's effectiveness in precisely the same manner.

So I am confused.What is meant by the above quote? I mean if scientists and historians with PhDs are saying a shield is enough for defensive action and the sword is pretty much a purely offensive weapon, why is there a need to learn parries, feints, blocks, etc as you stated in your earlier post? I mean real university experiments portray defensive moves with sword and buckler as merely "let it land, bounce off, than follow up with a sword cut or thrust) as universal standard when it comes to discussing about defensive actions!

Is there more to it than simply putting your shield to cover the area that you anticipate will be hit and simply awaiting to hit it while standing still like a stop sign on an intersection?

Nixon acknowledged and worked with the Communist Chinese government so the two of them could prevent Soviet influence from spreading to Asia, yet when the Soviets invaded Afghanistan they did nothing as far as i am aware.

Am I able to move around freely without harassment?

Can I get a job?

Can I get an education?