I was wondering that the severity of repression, censorship, economic stagnation must have varied greatly across the Eastern bloc countries between 1945-1990. It may even have varied over the years in same countries. Which countries/regimes were most and least repressive? Did such variations also...
I have no idea if there is any evidence or even informed speculation about this, so I thought I'd ask the community most likely to know. Megalithic and other prehistoric structures are widely recognized as designed to align with say, sunrise on a solstice. But how did the builders know for sure t...
A user of a different stack exchange site recently mentioned a supposed polar bear killing technique devised by Inuit hunters. I found it quite difficult to find any other source for the story, but eventually managed to track down a reference to a book from 1919, Ethnography; a partial and prelim...
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