I remember hearing that Hussein nationalized his oil, or refused to trade with the U.S. before 9/11. Is this information inaccurate?

I'm talking about snow storms that occur maybe only every hundred years or so and drop feet of snow over a relatively short period of time. I'd imagine some tribes were more accustomed to large snows than others, but what about tribes that lived in areas that weren't? How would they survive this? I would think gathering any type of food with maybe the exception of wild game would be close to impossible. Did they have the food reserves to survive weeks? Simply traveling in feet of snow would be exhausting without proper footwear. The snow would probably last for quite sometime, assuming the temperature stays even relatively cold. Would snow of this caliber have been devastating or simply a mild inconvenience?

Ive heard that the Romans threw citizens with disabilities or other medical conditions off of a cliff. Is this true?

Hello there,

I am a non-native English speaker. I have no intention of offending anyone or their views, neither do I want to start a war of words over here. I am simply curious. Therefore, kindly do not take offence and excuse my grammatical mistakes.

I was wondering: Was it common for people to kill each other on verbal insults (or abuse) or blasphemy during the time of Muhammad? Was this a common accepted practice among the tribes and people over there?

Did he? Would most generals of antiquity fight alongside their men, was it common to see happen?

I have always been curious about what Colonization of Indonesia must have been like. After all, they are the original motivation for Europeans to begin exploring the world. I often wonder how they were exploited once they were found.

Would it be anachronistic to use modern concepts and apply them to ancient empires?

When looking at World War II fighter aircraft, it seems that fighters with in-line engines (eg. Spitfire, P-51, Me-109 and others) were much more likely to be seen in the European theater than in the Pacific, where radial engines were more common. Was there any specific reason for this discrepancy?

The only style of wrestling I'm aware of is Greco-Roman, but I heard recently that that style only emerged in the mid-1800s, so I'm curious what type of wrestling Abraham Lincoln might have participated in. What were the rules? How was it officiated? And would wrestling have been a popular pastime on the American frontier at the time?

I recently heard this in a Youtube video and would like to learn more about the reasons for the introduction of simplified Chinese characters. Is the following true?

The People's Republic of China simplified the Chinese writing system in the 1950s, allegedly to make it easier to learn for the mostly illiterate population, but actually with more Orwellian intentions: Elements from traditional characters were removed or replaced by simplified versions. In this process, a lot of original meaning of the characters was lost, including traditional Chinese values represented in those removed parts. Also, formerly illiterate citizens of China who were thought the simplified characters could no only read texts written with simplified characters and therefore could not texts written before the introduction of them, i.e. text which might contain ideas not in line with the Communist Party of China, text containing the "4 Olds" the communists sought to eradicate: Old Customs, Old Culture, Old Habits, and Old Ideas.

I am curious because I have read the unofficial number of failures during training was at least one a week. With so many thousands of paratroopers involved in D-Day surely the rate of parachute malfunction would have been far higher.

Have these figures ever been calculated?

As a pointer: Given the number of nations that use alternative weapons/caliber an so forth, is it practical to pick up the gun from a dead enemy and use it in combat?

Or is NATO the best common denominator?

What did he actually manage to do to Berlin's poor district? Did he ever evict the urban poor? Did he convert slum area to industrial complex or capitalist enterprise and enforce the conversion with violence like how business and politics intertwining usually do in third world countries? (see Philippines and Indonesia for example)

From what I understand, the Victorian era was where psychoanalysis and the study of mental illnesses first began in a scientific context. How has the attitudes on conditions such as bipolar disease, ADHD, and others changed over time?

Most of the sea is unexplored so is it a possibility that ruins of atlantis can be found on the bottom of the ocean? Does it exist any proof that it have ever existed or was it a myth from the beginning?

Edit: typo in the title should be chance.