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T.E.D.

Nov 26, 2024 16:21

> These editions were primarily intended to be cheap and convenient, and read until worn out or repurposed as wrapping paper (or worse), rather than high quality objects kept in a library.

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T.E.D.

Nov 26, 2024 16:21

Found this fun sentence in the WP page for Shakespeare's Plays (while looking into the above question):

T.E.D.

Nov 12, 2024 14:12

Yeah, dude was definitely one of THOSE guys. Having a top leader who's a total narcissist is kinda like being stuck on a derailed train that just won't stop.

Martin Sleziak

Aug 22, 2024 03:30

Thanks for unfreezing!

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T.E.D.

Oct 1, 2024 19:12

For someone whose job is (theoretically) communicating, I find it remarkable that reporter doesn't know what the word "incredible" means. Seems quite credible to me. He's lucky he didn't get shot.

T.E.D.

Aug 24, 2024 14:41

Indeed.

T.E.D.

Apr 2, 2024 13:36

Moderator election official notice up:

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SPavel

Jul 31, 2024 01:11

But of course ignoring context to come up with a contrarian take based solely on qual data is very Nate

SPavel

Jun 6, 2024 20:24

Few know of the third theatre of WWII, the so-called Cnute front

SPavel

Jun 5, 2024 19:51

It seems that "X wrote about Y a century later, and we only know about that because Z quotes him another 100 years later and Y's original text does not survive" is relatively common for sources regarding antiquity

T.E.D.

Jun 5, 2024 18:11

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A: How to rebut Holocaust denial argument?

The right response is to laugh at it. I don't think this can or should be directly rebutted. Arguing details of a theory that is that far from the mainstream implicitly puts it on equal logical ground with every mainstream analysis. This is ceding it ground it has not earned. There are still so...

SPavel

May 16, 2024 18:26

T.E.D.

Apr 30, 2024 13:47

Yes, few realize dabbing was invented on the spot to avoid looking at evil saloons. The Dover Boys were quite fashion-forward.

The Professor

Apr 24, 2024 20:15

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Q: 2024 Community Moderator Election Results

Moderator election #2 on History has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the new moderator is: They will be joining the existing crew shortly — please thank them for volunteering and share your assistance and advice with them as they learn the ropes! For details on how the voting p...

SPavel

Apr 1, 2024 14:47

Well there's your problem

SPavel

Feb 27, 2024 15:12

Toss a coin to your myrmidon,
Oh, Valley of Plenty

T.E.D.

Jan 23, 2024 15:07

While its beautiful, if you click the picture and zoom into it at full size, you'll also quickly notice it doesn't look like its in a great state of repair.

SPavel

Dec 23, 2023 13:24

@MartinSleziak I didn't know freezing was a thing!

T.E.D.

Dec 18, 2023 14:35

Myself and another mod used to post a "this day in history" thing here, but it was a lot of work (research roughly equivalent to a short question answer) for little reward.

justCal

Aug 10, 2023 12:22

An interesting dig at a site in Oregon is indicating the possibility of 18,000 year old human habitation in NA.

LаngLаngС

Jul 20, 2022 10:41

Was pointed to "A Brief History of Nobody Wants to Work Anymore" and kept wondering why we haven't had a question about that topic yet? The above link is satisfied with newspaper clips going back to 1894. Have a hurried hunch of finding this trope on clay tablets as well…

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The Historian

Jun 23, 2022 06:08

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sempaiscuba

Sep 16, 2020 18:48

I think - as a general guide - I would always suggest checking to see if Wikipedia has a page on the subject, and if it doesn't, then say that in the question. If it does, but that page doesn't answer the question then say that.

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LаngLаngС

May 5, 2022 23:09

This is a 3200-year old attendance sheet found in Deir el-Medina, Egypt. Reasons for worker absence include "embalming brother", "brewing beer" and "bitten by scorpion"

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LаngLаngС

Apr 7, 2022 11:03

> He invented electricity by rubbing cats backwards and declared, "A horse divided against itself cannot stand." Franklin died in 1790 and is still dead.

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SPavel

Feb 15, 2023 17:40

Haha sorry I was being sarcastic

The Professor

Nov 29, 2022 15:34

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Q: What new community roles should we ask for?

Help us identify new roles for community members The above meta question asks what new roles are needed on Stack Exchange sites - that is, other than moderator. I've made a suggestion that we should ask for a role that can award large bonuses to users who ask good questions or make good answers o...

feature-request

T.E.D.

May 29, 2020 02:29

On that one, I think my druthers would be to get rid of "Crusaders". I'm not sure it has any legit use separate from "Crusades", and in some parts of the world "Crusader" is used as an epithet.

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T.E.D.

Feb 22, 2022 14:46

If anyone sees another one of these same spam messages pop up, I'd suggest flagging them as such. Spam is kind of special, in that it trips pretty much every notification feature the site has. That will get it taken care of more quickly, which in turn makes generating it less rewarding for the spammer.

justCal

Feb 3, 2022 20:22

@LаngLаngС I deleted that answer because I did not have a full understanding of the numbers it was representing. I also figured anyone who might care would have enough rep to see the deleted answer anyways...

mmyers

Oct 8, 2013 19:26

Note to self: Troll early users to improve site

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Steven Drennon

May 14, 2012 14:36

Welcome to The Time Machine. If you are a first time visitor, then welcome. If you are a returning visitor, let us know what you think! Give this message a star if you like the new name of our History chat room, and thanks for visiting!

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T.E.D.

Aug 1, 2019 22:03

@TheProfessor A round of virtual Ice Cream and beer for everyone!

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CowperKettle

Jun 14, 2021 08:06

T.E.D.

Mar 22, 2019 15:15

> This is a sensitive and heavily-trolled topic, so questions on this subject have a much stricter standard to meet.

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sempaiscuba

Mar 12, 2019 02:29

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T.E.D.

Jan 15, 2021 22:30

When we get plagiarists here, and wonder at the amount of effort they went through (basically saving no time over just doing the work themselves), well, this dude has them all beat.

LаngLаngС

Jan 12, 2021 20:10

We spent this ginormous amount of money, almost all researchers seem to be infected mentally, all join the bandwagon and pump out papers, many of them of extremely low quality, yet the basic first semester stuff of proper study design in epidemiology is all forgotton?

LаngLаngС

Jan 12, 2021 20:08

An insane testing regime of asymptomatics keeps up the numbers, yet, a representative monitoring with randomised sampling is largely missing. From our pathology I know that 20% of Covid deaths are going into the stats, despite autopsy showing clearly no causative relationship. Only the devil knows how that number translates into 'not autopsied/died elsewhere'.

LаngLаngС

Jan 12, 2021 20:05

But what really bugs me about this is that there is really no systematic effort to properly study this now (or the past year in fact).

T.E.D.

Jan 10, 2021 16:31

After some cursory googling, I'm not real sure why anyone would consider that person that important, but I guess it depends on the goals of the class.

Pieter Geerkens

Jan 1, 2021 00:21

Happy New Year everyone.
May your 2021 be better than 2010.

Semaphore

Jun 3, 2018 19:35

Well, as a friend said when I showed the crackpottery to her, "conspiracy theories like this exist to make stupid people feel enlightened".

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T.E.D.

Nov 8, 2020 00:08

Knight admires Chappo

Nov 5, 2020 07:37

Can I know (if yes then how) the curriculum of History course in Harvard University?
I mean what they teach, how they have divided the history into ancient, medieval and modern category and what’s their particular stress on.

Pieter Geerkens

Oct 24, 2020 19:16

@T.E.D.: Did you ever talk to any soviet vets?
because every death camp was in the east, in Poland, Ukraine, or Belorus.
The camps liberated by American, British, Canadian and French troops, for example Bergen-Belsen and Dachau, horrid as they were, were only slave labour camps and not Death" or "Extermination" camps comparable to Auschwitz, Chelmno, and Treblinka.

The Historian

Sep 19, 2020 06:42

sempaiscuba

Sep 16, 2020 18:45

@uhoh In fairness, even well-established, high-rep users here get challenged from time-to-time when they post a question which appears to be readily answered by Wikipedia, or some other standard resource.

jmw

Jan 30, 2018 21:40

The ACM paper: aclweb.org/anthology/Q16-1006

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T.E.D.

Sep 1, 2020 13:12

So if you think 2020 is batshit, it appears that now its official.