On this /r/todayilearned post about the pyramids having 8 sides, some guy showed up and soapboxed about "politicized" archaeology and the pyramids being built by a different civilization (with no details on that.) Without further ado here's a link. How much of this is false and is there anything factual to his claim?
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I was just drowning in tvtropes and in The Time of Myths description, I noticed this: "...the concept of such an age is Older Than Dirt. Much myth and literature was written about a supposed time period in the distant past (i.e. before the Iron Age) that was chock full of ten-foot-tall warriors and interesting monsters to kill."
I was wondering, then, how those before the Iron Age looked back on the past? Did Bronze Age folks see the Stone Age as a Time of Myth, or was it viewed as barbaric, or was it not regarded any particular way?
Were Stone Age people mythologized anywhere/by anyone? Are they referenced in creation myths?
Thanks.
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Well, i really like that time. Can anybody give me pros and cons about that?
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I've always been retty hazy on this. I've gathere that Hitler was pointedly anti-Communist, but I don't know why.
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I know the infamous case of Worcester V Georgia but, was there any disputes in the 1930's? I know the Supreme Court had issues with the FDR administration, was there anything that was a result of the Cherokee people that caused a split between the two in the 30's?
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Are there any accounts of people meeting Jesus outside of the ones depicted in the bible? Were they positive or negative? Can they help us shape what Jesus was really like? Is there any weight to his "resurrection"?
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Ross Perot eventually won 18.9% of the popular vote in 1992, which was the strongest performance of a third party candidate since 1912. At one point in the whole campaign, Perot was even leading both Clinton and Bush in the polls!
Was he given a proportional amount of attention in the media, or did the media treat him exclusively like a spoiler, and thus not take him very seriously?
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Here's the article:
march 6, 1867, Indiana Herald
A fellow named Wiley accidentally shot his brother, inflicting a serious wound. He was engaged in the pastime of shooting a negro and missed his mark.
1867 would be post slavery (13th amendment was ratified in 1865). Even during slavery, for all of its vileness, killing a slave in the US could result in murder charges (google turns up numerous cases, pre- and post-civil war in the US - e.g. this article from 1864 Richmond (probably Richmond, Michigan, since it was in an Ann Arbor paper)). While I'm not trying to diminish the horrible history of race relations in the US, I'm a little skeptical that someone could have a pastime of shooting at (free) blacks without serious legal repercussions.
Could someone explain this?
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Obviously his judgement by a Jewish state is highly poetic, but considering his crimes against humanity were not committed in Isreal or Palestine, was there any criticism of the trial not getting carried out by, say, the UN?
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I was wondering how the people of Bosnia and Herzegovina's personal and day to day feelings change prior to the war.
Like, they lived in harmony for a long time - and then shifted to disliking them.
Was there any propaganda used?
Did the people stop selling to them, like the Germans and the jews in the second world war?
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Considering how big Russia is and communicative technology wasn't very advanced, were there any small isolated towns that remained free market in the early years of the USSR? Were there any places that didn't even know about the Revolution and subsequently the economic system of communism because they didn't get word of it?
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And if so, when approximately did we switch from beer to water?
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G-grandfather mentioned it but I can't find anything on it. He was in Europe for WWII.
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What is the Earliest version?
What has been changed and removed?
What has been altered to have different meaning/tone?
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Nassau : The infamous Pirate haven on New Providence island that had some of history's most famous Pirates visit it, such as Blackbeard, Vane, Rackham, Bonny, Hornigold, and Read, etc. Nassau's history is always centered in the years between 1715 - 22 (as that I know). But was Nassau like before it was the "Nassau" that we heard of? What was it like before 1715? Like, the earlier 1710's or late 1700's (as in 00's, like 1705 for example).
Was it a getaway for Pirates before 1715? What wars in the Caribbean was it involved with (if any)?
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As I understand it the vikings would of had contact with the greeks who had plays, yet they never wrote any (that we know of I suppose). I would think it would be natural for them to have plays as they had the oral tradition of sagas which could of been adapted to a play format. But no, it seems the vikings didn't have plays, nor did the Gauls, or the natives. Why did theatre not take off in these other ancient civilizations?
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The Soviet Storm documentary boasted of the IS-2 tank that it had been so good it remained in service until 1995. All I could find online was that the South Ossetian Army operated some IS-2s until 1995. Why were these antiquated tanks still in service?
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How was the POTUS involved? What did he have to sign? Which button did he have to push?
Follow-up: How would the process go today, in case for example the US decided to launch a nuclear warhead? (This is of course hypothetical but I would love to know the actual system)
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