I've talked with a lot of Chileans about their experiences during the coup and a lot of the older generation share the opinion that it was good that Pinochet took power because Allende was responsible for the economic shortages. In their narrative, Allende ruined the economy and Pinochet stepped in, took over, and saved the day. In the narrative of the younger generation, Allende was a hero trying to rectify generations of inequality, but the United States sabotaged the Chilean economy and was responsable for the poor economic conditions before the coup. Which of these narratives is more correct?

Did Allende's policies actually aid in improving the welfare of the poor or did they lead to recession? To what extent did Pinochet save the Chilean economy when he took power? Did the United States have any role in creating the economic conditions in Chile in 1973?

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So, I'm aware that generally a round of "games" could be sponsored by an emperor or noble but was there ever a gladiator sponsored by a particular patron or group and put forward as their champion?

Basically, beyond being the organiser of a whole Games, were there opportunities for sponsors to attach their name to proceedings?

I remember wondering about this when I visited the ship last February.

What exactly is tape Q875 (found at Jonestown)? I know it's special as it's made after the deaths of Congressman Leo Ryan but I don't really know what's special about it and why it's studied. Does it reveal something different about the events of the last day? I would listen to it but... sorta spooks me.

I'm not a music theory person, but I've played guitar obsessively over the past 10 years, so I have a good grasp of practical applications of the instrument.

It seems like the overwhelming majority of the songs I've learned on guitar (ones written from the 1950s-present) are tuned to Eadgbe. Most of the time this is just referred to as "standard tuning". If I had to put a percentage on the percentage of songs from 1950-present where the guitar and bass have standard tuning, I'd put the number at around 80% - extremel, extremely prevent.

What confuses me about this is that other tunings don't make the instrument sound drastically different. You still know it's a guitar, and most people would have no idea the tuning is different unless they play the instrument. You'd think there'd be a lot more variety.

Stringed instruments have been around a long time, but when did standard tuning become standard?

Quote from Margaret Macmillan's Paris 1919, talking about the strategic importance of Mesopotamia. Presumably the bubbling sludge and gas fires had been observed prior to oil being such a vital resource for power and transportation. What, if anything, did people think of it?

Good morning, everyone. I'm posting today to get some good recommendations for learning more about Theodore Roosevelt. Any assistance is appreciated!

Recently I took an interest in family history and found out through my parents that my mothers grandfather was supposedly a driver for the SS up until the end of the second world war. How would I go about finding out more about this guy and were there even dedicated drivers that were a part of the SS? If it matters all I have is his last name which is Schultz.

I understand that the electoral college system was put in place to "protect" the southern states, whose slaves could not vote. In debating whether to have a direct national election, they pointed out that the north would always win because they had so many voters. But that only explains the formula for the number of electoral votes each state gets; it doesn't explain why the states don't get to directly say who those votes are cast for, but rather appoint actual people as electors who will meet to cast their votes.

Originally, in the late 18th century, a couple of reasons for this that I've read about were:

• They didn't envision a party system, they envisioned the electors would be educated informed people who could select a good president based on their own judgement.

• Communications across large distances were slow, so people wouldn't really know who they were voting for directly.

However, by the early 19th century when the 12th Amendment was passed, effectively tinkering with the electoral college system, both of those reasons were weak. By then, there were political parties, and people were generally voting for their party's electors, who would be expected to vote for their party's nominee for president.

So why, at the time the 12th Amendment was passed, did they keep the mechanism of having human electors, rather than say that each state gets to decide directly which candidate for president and vice president that state's votes would go for? What was the role of the human electors supposed to be, at that point?

In more or less anything fictional about Vietnam War, you tend to see massive amounts of Hueys flying in the sky, dozen if not more. Were they actually used to this extent?