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True | yodatsracist | null | I have removed this question as there's no way to answer it without speculating. From our rules:
>Questions should be about what did happen, not what could have happened. Questions of that type should be posted in r/HistoricalWhatIf.
Perhaps you can ask it in a different way, as in "How important was the assassination of Franz Ferdinand to the outbreak of World War I? Obviously, it was the spark that set the wheels in motion, but were all the great powers just itching for a fight? Were there other close calls in the lead up to WWI that also nearly resulted in a massive war between the great powers, or was this event particularly significant?" Things along those lines, asking what actually happened, are fine. | null | 0 | 1382251142 | False | 0 | ccvhecn | t3_1otl2e | null | t1_ccvhecn | t3_1otl2e | null | 1429066820 | 1 | t5_2ssp3 | null | null | null |
True | cagetheblackbird | null | Do you mean from a written history point of view of a recorded point of view?
As an anthropology major I work with the "oldest known subject" of a species often. We have a lot of knowledge of species which have been extinct for a very long time, but we never give a very concrete "end" date to those species.
We like to say from "so and so to around 1.8 million years ago." or "latest specimen dated was to..." Because of how little the earth was travelled it would be very difficult to say that someone saw the extinct of a species (and recorded it correctly) because there could have been other groups of that species that they just were not seeing. It is hard for us to say that we are seeing the absolute latest of a species because there may not be very many specimens that were preserved or we may just not have found them yet.
The first animal recorded on the wikipedia article to go extinct with a specific date on extinction was the Moa in the 15th century. However, I know this list is incorrect as it is only counting non-hominid species. It is counting what we would consider "animals."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_extinctions | null | 0 | 1382251211 | False | 0 | ccvhevp | t3_1osx3k | null | t1_ccvhevp | t3_1osx3k | null | 1429066813 | 10 | t5_2ssp3 | null | null | null |
True | toryprometheus | null | Doubtless not all of the tiny states were viable as independent states, but Hyderabad definitely was. It is disingenuous in the extreme to pretend that there were no feasible options besides the India that currently exists. | null | 0 | 1382251235 | False | 0 | ccvhf3e | t3_1os090 | null | t1_ccvhf3e | t1_ccv7pqa | null | 1429066810 | 2 | t5_2ssp3 | null | null | null |
True | sgtwonka | null | I believe it may have been in the 60s. I'll have to confirm that. And thats just how my grandmother explained it to me. Maybe people didnt like that a USAF Colonel was walking around looking for stuff, i don't know. I guess he described it as really tense. | null | 0 | 1382251275 | 1382251775 | 0 | ccvhfec | t3_1otj5x | null | t1_ccvhfec | t1_ccvhaa3 | null | 1429066806 | 3 | t5_2ssp3 | null | null | null |
True | HeloRising | null | Part of it was they simply didn't. Kings did take part in battles but one of the slivers of truth that tends to shine through from Hollywood is the big squad of heavily armed men that surround a king who does go into battle. They're there for his protection, both to keep him from getting wounded and to pull him out if it gets too hot. Not that a king wouldn't fight, but they'd usually do their fighting in a relatively controlled environment created and maintained by people who would yank him out at the first sign of real trouble.
As far as exercise, monarchs had many of the same habits that the nobility had. There was a wide variety of games and other forms of physical activity they could and did engage in. Horseshoes, a proto form of football, wrestling, archery, fencing and other types of sword fighting, riding, bowling, and dozens of others were quite popular. | null | 0 | 1382251294 | False | 0 | ccvhfja | t3_1otivw | null | t1_ccvhfja | t3_1otivw | null | 1429066805 | 3 | t5_2ssp3 | null | null | null |
True | typicalr | null | Ah, didn't know such a subreddit existed, thanks. | null | 0 | 1382251329 | False | 0 | ccvhft6 | t3_1otl2e | null | t1_ccvhft6 | t1_ccvh6zn | null | 1429066801 | 1 | t5_2ssp3 | null | null | null |
True | toryprometheus | null | According to What Hath God Wrought, southern slaves had better life expectancy than northern immigrants for much of the early republic. | null | 0 | 1382251359 | False | 0 | ccvhg1t | t3_1otbz3 | null | t1_ccvhg1t | t1_ccverrk | null | 1429066798 | 1 | t5_2ssp3 | null | null | null |
True | yodatsracist | null | >they had dire wolves and dragons.....
>you don't mess with them if they can burn down your castles or bite off your fingers during feasts
This comment has been deleted as per our rules.
>A post should not consist only of a joke, a humorous remark, or a flippant comment. You can certainly include humour as part of a full and comprehensive post, but your post should not be made solely for the purpose of being funny. | null | 0 | 1382251362 | False | 0 | ccvhg2s | t3_1ot7ov | null | t1_ccvhg2s | t1_ccvhc0e | null | 1429066798 | 25 | t5_2ssp3 | null | null | null |
True | toryprometheus | null | wow, they really rode that guy down. Thanks for this. | null | 0 | 1382251544 | False | 0 | ccvhhey | t3_1ornsh | null | t1_ccvhhey | t1_ccv1jvz | null | 1429066780 | 1 | t5_2ssp3 | null | null | null |
True | BullNiro | null | >100% of the gene pool wiped out, of the Tasmanian Aboriginals.
I am fairly certain that this is a racist old myth about the death of the last "full blooded" Tasmanian Aboriginal. | null | 0 | 1382251598 | False | 0 | ccvhhtb | t3_1os231 | null | t1_ccvhhtb | t1_ccvfkcc | null | 1429066774 | 3 | t5_2ssp3 | null | null | null |
True | sgtwonka | null | No prob | null | 0 | 1382251600 | False | 0 | ccvhhtr | t3_1otl2e | null | t1_ccvhhtr | t1_ccvhft6 | null | 1429066774 | 1 | t5_2ssp3 | null | null | null |
True | BullNiro | null | >too
It's a different language. Same family.
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True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1382251752 | False | 0 | ccvhiwx | t3_1otir6 | null | t1_ccvhiwx | t3_1otir6 | null | 1429066760 | 3 | t5_2ssp3 | null | null | null |
True | minnabruna | null | That may very well have changed now. Without details I couldn't say for sure but the situation is very different.
However, between multiple languages, confessions, countries, shifting borders, wars, internal migrations and forced movements, police states, governments and political systems, systematically collecting, standardizing, and digitizing historical family records never really happened. Also, the pre-revolutionary family record keeping for many was never on the same level as Western Europe's so the records that you seek may never have been in a central records hall or religious administration anyway. | null | 0 | 1382251861 | 1382252145 | 0 | ccvhjqy | t3_1otj5x | null | t1_ccvhjqy | t1_ccvhfec | null | 1429066750 | 5 | t5_2ssp3 | null | null | null |
True | BullNiro | null | >Indian in Plymouth
Do you mean Plymouth in the USA? And Native American?
EDIT: Also since when are protestants the only bastards in Christianity. In Australia prominent Catholics want the nation to go back to the 50s. The PM, Joe De Bruyne. | null | 0 | 1382251907 | 1382265876 | 0 | ccvhk36 | t3_1os231 | null | t1_ccvhk36 | t1_ccvdrzt | null | 1429066746 | 2 | t5_2ssp3 | null | null | null |
True | Dry_Gulch | null | > And there was plenty of misleading propaganda about how bad the British were to the Irish that neglects how the British treated other groups as well.
That sentence needs clarification and some examples. Otherwise, it's nonsensical. | null | 0 | 1382251981 | False | 0 | ccvhkn3 | t3_1os231 | null | t1_ccvhkn3 | t1_ccv54q8 | null | 1429066738 | 2 | t5_2ssp3 | null | null | null |
True | vinterstum | null | Where does this "baggage" come from? Is From Beirute burdened with this baggage? | null | 0 | 1382252024 | False | 0 | ccvhkyu | t3_1otcdl | null | t1_ccvhkyu | t1_ccvdwen | null | 1429066734 | 1 | t5_2ssp3 | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1382252042 | False | 0 | ccvhl3n | t3_1ot03u | null | t1_ccvhl3n | t1_ccvcl8v | null | 1429066733 | 1 | t5_2ssp3 | null | null | null |
True | Dry_Gulch | null | Helpful only in that it would narrow his question and ,quite possibly, ruin any good answer. | null | 0 | 1382252066 | False | 0 | ccvhl9s | t3_1os231 | null | t1_ccvhl9s | t1_ccv1knx | null | 1429066730 | -1 | t5_2ssp3 | null | null | null |
True | sgtwonka | null | So is there any possible way to learn who they were or where they lived? | null | 0 | 1382252148 | False | 0 | ccvhlwd | t3_1otj5x | null | t1_ccvhlwd | t1_ccvhjqy | null | 1429066722 | 2 | t5_2ssp3 | null | null | null |
True | idio3 | null | Sorry. I based my answer on a few logical conclusions:
1. We have no physical information on the common ancestor of all life, which means that it went extinct.
2. It would, by definition, be the oldest organism on the planet.
3. Due to the lack of sources (we haven't discovered the earliest life yet), there is no way to answer this question without speculating.
PS. If someone could provide an evidence-based answer to this question, I'd be shocked. | null | 0 | 1382252256 | False | 0 | ccvhmpr | t3_1osx3k | null | t1_ccvhmpr | t1_ccvh2cv | null | 1429066711 | -2 | t5_2ssp3 | null | null | null |
True | spoonsofjericho | null | That may be true, the same way farmers take better care of their horses than factory owners took care of their workers, but no northern immigrants ever voluntarily went south to be a slave, because nobody wants to be property. | null | 0 | 1382252443 | False | 0 | ccvho0l | t3_1otbz3 | null | t1_ccvho0l | t1_ccvhg1t | null | 1429066695 | 2 | t5_2ssp3 | null | null | null |
True | xaphoo | null | You are referring to the "Howards" as a pre-Norman, and even pre-Roman family. Quickly looking this up in Wikipedia, it says that the first occurrence of this name in English is in 1221, and that it may be related to Scandinavian names or to Norman-French ones.
Then how could this family be pre-Roman, when Britain was not Germanic? And, if the family has post-Roman origins, then why did their name not occur until long after the Norman Conquest?
I'm very interested - please clarify this. | null | 0 | 1382252613 | False | 0 | ccvhp8c | t3_1ot7ov | null | t1_ccvhp8c | t1_ccvf5kp | null | 1429066679 | 12 | t5_2ssp3 | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1382252660 | False | 0 | ccvhpk6 | t3_1otkuc | null | t1_ccvhpk6 | t3_1otkuc | null | 1429066675 | 1 | t5_2ssp3 | null | null | null |
True | minnabruna | null | I don't know enough about the specifics of your family or resources in Riga to know for sure. If records exist they probably won't be digitized though, and research will require effort by a person who at least reads the relevant languages and handwritings. | null | 0 | 1382252710 | False | 0 | ccvhpwy | t3_1otj5x | null | t1_ccvhpwy | t1_ccvhlwd | null | 1429066670 | 2 | t5_2ssp3 | null | null | null |
True | ezabi | null | Well, it's not like iron was unheard of until the Iron Age; as a matter of fact it was everywhere. This is the reason why the Bronze Age even gave way to the Iron Age, not because iron was better(it's only better when it's steel), but because iron was *everywhere*. | null | 0 | 1382252726 | False | 0 | ccvhq0u | t3_1otir6 | null | t1_ccvhq0u | t3_1otir6 | null | 1429066669 | 17 | t5_2ssp3 | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Well, each title was generally assigned to a man and his male line heirs. Often, these lines would die off, and the title would escheat to the king.
However, not all titles were passed down only in the male line. In one interesting example, Charles II created a Scotsman an Earl in 1662, with the title to pass to his male heirs, and if they failed, his female heirs. In 1792, the last male heir, the fourth earl, died, and the title went dormant.
Then, in 1985, a distant descendant of the eldest daughter of the second earl successfully claimed the title. After almost 200 years, there is again an Earl of Annandale and Hartfell.
However it's important to note that lands and titles are different. A British monarch can theoretically create an unlimited number of titles. | null | 0 | 1382252791 | False | 0 | ccvhqge | t3_1ot7ov | null | t1_ccvhqge | t1_ccvghxa | null | 1429066662 | 2 | t5_2ssp3 | null | null | null |
True | Reedstilt | null | > I have no sources for this, it's just a guess, so who knows how long this post will remain here
For the record: five minutes. | null | 0 | 1382253063 | False | 0 | ccvhsbg | t3_1otkuc | null | t1_ccvhsbg | t1_ccvhpk6 | null | 1429066639 | 35 | t5_2ssp3 | null | null | null |
True | idio3 | null | Yep, this. On top of that, there were some incredibly weird cases, such as Prussia, which was forced to become Protestant as part of a peace deal with... Catholic Poland which wanted to remove the constant threat of Catholic Tectonic knights, who were supported against the Polish state by other Catholic Germans.
Of course, it later came back to bite Poles lethally, but not at the time | null | 0 | 1382253079 | False | 0 | ccvhsfd | t3_1ot2hf | null | t1_ccvhsfd | t1_ccvh0g4 | null | 1429066638 | 3 | t5_2ssp3 | null | null | null |
True | krush_groove | null | Ha, TMI? | null | 0 | 1382253153 | False | 0 | ccvhsxz | t3_1os231 | null | t1_ccvhsxz | t1_ccv1mbw | null | 1429066630 | 0 | t5_2ssp3 | null | null | null |
True | Acritas | null | >Did other Russians view those who left for America as traitors?
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Yes, most of times, up until ~1986. Then a concerted media campaign was launched - "to reconcile emigrants with motherland" as a part of Perestroika.
>standard of living in the U.S.was higher?
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That's debatable - for few it was higher in USA, for many it wasn't - YMMV, depending on what you do for living and who you are.
Some of USSR perks - university education for free (a student actually get paid a stipend, based on grades). House and car for nothing - just for performing at work and not getting into trouble. Free healthcare - etc.
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True | Ada_Love | null | I'm sorry, I didn't mean pre-Roman, but Roman. The Howard family did in fact claim legendary descent from pre-Norman (thus presumably Roman) descent.
Looking up the Wikipedia page for the [Howard surname](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_%28surname%29) will NOT get you accurate results. Even a slightly more pointed search would have pointed out the obvious: the Howard family claims descent from Hereward the Wake of Mercia, who resisted the Norman conquest due to his own descendence from Oslac of York.
For future reference, don't use cursory searches of names to research history, as names are very malleable and in Old and Middle English, they are predominantly phonetic. | null | 0 | 1382253685 | False | 0 | ccvhwks | t3_1ot7ov | null | t1_ccvhwks | t1_ccvhp8c | null | 1429066590 | 26 | t5_2ssp3 | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | But the original question (which he attempts to answer - this is AskHistorians, remember) was "why did the British treat the Irish so badly".
He doesn't explain this and instead gives an answer which isn't compatible with subreddit rules nor with logic (his argument being "the English language", almost to say the Irish are the only ex-British Empire nation to use English). | null | 0 | 1382253885 | False | 0 | ccvhxxr | t3_1os231 | null | t1_ccvhxxr | t1_ccva14r | null | 1429066565 | 1 | t5_2ssp3 | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1382253893 | False | 0 | ccvhxzo | t3_1oth85 | null | t1_ccvhxzo | t3_1oth85 | null | 1429066565 | -7 | t5_2ssp3 | null | null | null |
True | toryprometheus | null | oh, I agree completely, but if its true it testifies to a very high standard of living in the pre-war south, and makes understandable the defense of that system by non-slave owners. | null | 0 | 1382253922 | False | 0 | ccvhy6n | t3_1otbz3 | null | t1_ccvhy6n | t1_ccvho0l | null | 1429066562 | 1 | t5_2ssp3 | null | null | null |
True | sithlordofthevale | null | There's no officially accepted origin that I can find. It appears the earliest recorded use of the term is 1758. However, there's a popular theory:
>Most linguists look to Dutch sources, noting the extensive interaction between the colonial Dutch in New Netherland (now largely New York State, New Jersey, Delaware, and western Connecticut) and the colonial English in New England (Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and eastern Connecticut).
>The Dutch given names Jan ("John") and Kees ("Cornelius") were and still are common and the two sometimes are combined in a single name, e.g. Jan Kees de Jager. The word Yankee is a variation that could have referred to the Dutch Americans.
>Michael Quinion and Patrick Hanks argue that the term refers to the Dutch pet name Janneke or Janke ("Johnny"), which – owing to the Dutch pronunciation of J as the English Y – would be Anglicized as "Yankee". Quinion and Hanks posit it was "used as a nickname for a Dutch-speaking American in colonial times" and could have grown to include non-Dutch colonists as well.
For a cheery, interesting read about how we have no idea where the word "Yankee" comes from, check this out:
http://www.word-detective.com/2011/07/yankee/ | null | 0 | 1382254018 | False | 0 | ccvhyu9 | t3_1otkuc | null | t1_ccvhyu9 | t3_1otkuc | null | 1429066555 | 20 | t5_2ssp3 | null | null | null |
True | postmodernpenguin | null | The term most likely comes from the Dutch who settled in New Netherland before the land was overtaken by the English. The Dutch name *Jan* (pronounced *Yan*) was extremely common during this time. There are two main theories from this point:
1. The name was often augmented as *Janke*, just as John is sometimes stylized Johnny. This would be Anglicized as "Yankee".
2. The Dutch name *Kees* was also extremely popular at the time, leading to several people having the name *Jan Kees*, which could also potentially be Anglicized as "Yankee".
While the term may have originally been used exclusively to refer to Dutch colonists, the term became widespread and the people of New England adopted it as a neutral way to describe themselves. The British similarly adopted the term, but as a derisive way to describe the colonists. During the Revolutionary War, many people in the North took pride in calling themselves Yankees to spite the British, and 'Yankee' reached an apex.
In the South, the term was not used in the same manner, instead it was only used to describe northerners. During the Civil War and the Reconstruction era, the term Yankee was revitalized and used once again to mock people living in the North. | null | 0 | 1382254023 | False | 0 | ccvhyv9 | t3_1otkuc | null | t1_ccvhyv9 | t3_1otkuc | null | 1429066553 | 14 | t5_2ssp3 | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Punch was a newspaper with strong tendencies towards parody and exaggerated caricatures that were known for their amusing - but as you also discovered, insulting on occasion - lithographs. My grandfather had a collection of those issues he bought as a little boy back in the thirties, but they were lost to damp and rot during a particularly nasty flood.
A contemporary would be something like the Private Eye, or to a lesser extent, the toe-curlingly ghastly Viz. | null | 0 | 1382254036 | False | 0 | ccvhyy4 | t3_1os231 | null | t1_ccvhyy4 | t1_ccvfdik | null | 1429066553 | 1 | t5_2ssp3 | null | null | null |
True | antifolkhero | null | That blew my mind. Not that I would know the entire lineup at Woodstock. | null | 0 | 1382254188 | False | 0 | ccvhzyr | t3_1oof4u | null | t1_ccvhzyr | t1_ccvadu3 | null | 1429066540 | 1 | t5_2ssp3 | null | null | null |
True | rosemary85 | null | *Where appropriate*, I said! The kind of evidence one needs for this answer is obviously very different from the kind of thing you need for a response based on *written* history. But that doesn't mean there's no such thing as evidence! Your revised answer is a bit more robust (though I'm still not sure it'd be up to scratch for /r/askscience). | null | 0 | 1382254286 | False | 0 | ccvi0k0 | t3_1osx3k | null | t1_ccvi0k0 | t1_ccvhmpr | null | 1429066532 | 3 | t5_2ssp3 | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1382254370 | False | 0 | ccvi12g | t3_1otkuc | null | t1_ccvi12g | t3_1otkuc | null | 1429066526 | 1 | t5_2ssp3 | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1382254422 | False | 0 | ccvi1eg | t3_1ot7ov | null | t1_ccvi1eg | t1_ccvh7zq | null | 1429066521 | -7 | t5_2ssp3 | null | null | null |
True | xaphoo | null | Thanks, this clarifies everything for me. My point of reference for hereditary names comes from my field in Islamic history in which names tend to preserved identically in their written across centuries, though local pronunciations may vary strongly and evolve greatly. I was wrongly bringing this methodology into Britain. | null | 0 | 1382254457 | False | 0 | ccvi1mf | t3_1ot7ov | null | t1_ccvi1mf | t1_ccvhwks | null | 1429066518 | 16 | t5_2ssp3 | null | null | null |
True | ninety6days | null | Can I offer you a highly accurate hug? | null | 0 | 1382254540 | False | 0 | ccvi23w | t3_1os231 | null | t1_ccvi23w | t1_ccv9sg6 | null | 1429066512 | 1 | t5_2ssp3 | null | null | null |
True | hurston | null | Coal cellar? | null | 0 | 1382254672 | False | 0 | ccvi2xh | t3_1otgyf | null | t1_ccvi2xh | t3_1otgyf | null | 1429066501 | 1 | t5_2ssp3 | null | null | null |
True | Rajdeep_Sardesai | null | lies. | null | 0 | 1382254786 | False | 0 | ccvi3nc | t3_1jl47k | null | t1_ccvi3nc | t1_cbftfdu | null | 1429066491 | 0 | t5_2ssp3 | null | null | null |
True | Phoenix1Rising | null | Sounds right but do you have any sources? The mods require them. | null | 0 | 1382254799 | False | 0 | ccvi3q4 | t3_1otckz | null | t1_ccvi3q4 | t1_ccvgucg | null | 1429066490 | 3 | t5_2ssp3 | null | null | null |
True | codeic | null | It does, thank you. | null | 0 | 1382255031 | False | 0 | ccvi56x | t3_1osi5d | null | t1_ccvi56x | t1_ccv7kg4 | null | 1429066472 | 1 | t5_2ssp3 | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1382255069 | False | 0 | ccvi5fh | t3_1ot7ov | null | t1_ccvi5fh | t3_1ot7ov | null | 1429066469 | -5 | t5_2ssp3 | null | null | null |
True | codeic | null | Thank you, part about Poland was interesting to compare with my own country, Yugoslavia, when speaking about creating a new state. | null | 0 | 1382255314 | False | 0 | ccvi6z0 | t3_1osi5d | null | t1_ccvi6z0 | t1_ccva4yp | null | 1429066449 | 1 | t5_2ssp3 | null | null | null |
True | runawaylemon | null | Why downvote? D: I'm sorry if I worded it awkwardly, I meant that my own history teacher in high school left that out. | null | 0 | 1382255581 | False | 0 | ccvi8ku | t3_1or1o3 | null | t1_ccvi8ku | t1_ccux497 | null | 1429066428 | 1 | t5_2ssp3 | null | null | null |
True | FG_SF | null | Because they're generally past-related questions, and when people think "the past," they don't think "oh, ask a linguist!" | null | 0 | 1382255690 | False | 0 | ccvi98g | t3_1ot0a1 | null | t1_ccvi98g | t1_ccvf3um | null | 1429066420 | 5 | t5_2ssp3 | null | null | null |
True | Anarchaeologist | null | Pretty much the only natural metallic iron on earth comes in the form of nickel-iron meteorites. Ancient cultures who could not extract iron from common ores could still get this metal. For instance, the Greenland Inuit were able to create iron tools from the [Cape York](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_York_meteorite) meteorite.
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True | timmci | null | I've been doing a bit of a look around, and I can't find any sources for Mao likening himself to Cao Cao or Qin Shi Huang, any help?? Thanks! | null | 0 | 1382256065 | False | 0 | ccvibdo | t3_1nzbwi | null | t1_ccvibdo | t1_ccnxaxp | null | 1429066320 | 1 | t5_2ssp3 | null | null | null |
True | DeathByPianos | null | If what you're telling us is true and the iron is really that old, the iron came from iron-nickel meteorites. That was the only source of metallic iron before smelting except for small native iron inclusions found in some basalts. | null | 0 | 1382256066 | False | 0 | ccvibdy | t3_1otir6 | null | t1_ccvibdy | t3_1otir6 | null | 1429066320 | 3 | t5_2ssp3 | null | null | null |
True | Ninjastronaut | null | I feel you are misreading OP's question. The question is which was the first animal **recorded** to go extinct and not the first animal to go extinct.
Thus, it is more a question of when and where we started studying and keeping records of animals going extinct and which animal it was. | null | 0 | 1382256163 | 1382292899 | 0 | ccviby2 | t3_1osx3k | null | t1_ccviby2 | t1_ccvhmpr | null | 1429066314 | 4 | t5_2ssp3 | null | null | null |
True | vonadler | null | In Sweden, the nobility was officially created 1280 - sure, there were grand men and influential families before that, but they were not specifically noble before the Alnsö meeting 1280.
Originally, any man who could afford to raise a fully armoured soldier on horseback could become a nobleman, but it quickly became a heraditory position, where people who could not afford it retained their noble position and even if a farmer could set up a knight, he could not become a nobleman.
Initially, sons of noblemen were born as Sven (squire) and could be dubbed Riddare (knight) only by the King. The rank of Baron and Count were not created until the 16th century.
This created a situation during the days of the Kalmar Union when the Danish King (who was also ousted from Sweden although he was also King of Sweden) could not dub Riddare and there were only a single Knight in all of Sweden - incidentally, that was Sten Gustavsson (Sture), the leader of the rebellion.
Overall, the vast majority of the nobility in Sweden were not affluent enough to live off their estates and relied on their positions as officers, administrators and diplomats in the state administration for their livliehood. | null | 0 | 1382256315 | False | 0 | ccvictt | t3_1ot7ov | null | t1_ccvictt | t3_1ot7ov | null | 1429066301 | 44 | t5_2ssp3 | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1382256395 | False | 0 | ccvidad | t3_1orsto | null | t1_ccvidad | t3_1orsto | null | 1429066295 | 1 | t5_2ssp3 | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1382256430 | False | 0 | ccvidhs | t3_1orsto | null | t1_ccvidhs | t3_1orsto | null | 1429066293 | 1 | t5_2ssp3 | null | null | null |
True | MrBigHouse | null | i saw this video_[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiBfnS5N7jI ]
Please can someone verify the contents for me. | null | 0 | 1382256619 | False | 0 | ccvieiv | t3_1orsto | null | t1_ccvieiv | t3_1orsto | null | 1429066279 | 2 | t5_2ssp3 | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1382256744 | False | 0 | ccvif9v | t3_1ot7ov | null | t1_ccvif9v | t1_ccvhazp | null | 1429066270 | 1 | t5_2ssp3 | null | null | null |
True | AtomicMonkeyTheFirst | null | The nazis had the Jews, the USA had the native Americans, Israel has the palistians, Islamic states have the Jews, the United Kingdom had the Irish. You can't build a new nation state without austresising and stigmatising a few minorities.
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True | whitesock | null | Sorry, but this is indeed to recent, as all questions must be about events before 1993. Erased. | null | 0 | 1382257476 | False | 0 | ccvijcf | t3_1otmd6 | null | t1_ccvijcf | t3_1otmd6 | null | 1429066217 | 1 | t5_2ssp3 | null | null | null |
True | Forsythsia | null | I'm not expert enough to answer your question in-depth, but if you want to read more about your question as it applies to the Middle Ages I would suggest Robert Bartlett's *The Making of Europe: Conquest, Colonization and Cultural Change 950 - 1350*. | null | 0 | 1382257591 | False | 0 | ccvijzl | t3_1oph6n | null | t1_ccvijzl | t3_1oph6n | null | 1429066209 | 1 | t5_2ssp3 | null | null | null |
True | Tuna-Fish2 | null | There are some iron beads that are 7000 years old made from meteoric iron that have been found from the area of modern Iran.
Nickel-iron meteorites are quite common, and given their "heavenly" origin, metal originating from them was held in very high esteem at least until the beginning of ironworking. | null | 0 | 1382257849 | False | 0 | ccvildt | t3_1otir6 | null | t1_ccvildt | t3_1otir6 | null | 1429066190 | 13 | t5_2ssp3 | null | null | null |
True | ImAVibration | null | I wonder how much less our languages have morphed in the period after the spread of the printing press, as opposed to when language was simply passed along orally. Since we have that constant reminder in books and encyclopedia's, and official spellings have been recorded and adhered to, there must be a severe slowing of the natural changes that language takes. Especially compared to the period after the fall of Rome when they had very little written language outside of Latin bibles (unintelligible to the masses). When even in Roman times it would only be the few who could read, and very little literature available as a repository of language for the populace at large. | null | 0 | 1382257921 | 1382258116 | 0 | ccvilsn | t3_1m3p8n | null | t1_ccvilsn | t1_cc5nwmc | null | 1429066185 | 2 | t5_2ssp3 | null | null | null |
True | idio3 | null | I'm on the phone, so I can't really provide you with any major sources at the moment, but Europe was (comparatively) peaceful after Vienna. Wars weren't nearly as common, due to Great Powers very jealously keeping the "balance of power". Pretty much all the post-Vienna wars were short-term regional affairs. 18th century had Napoleonic wars and the true first world war (7 years war). 17th century had massive religious wars that wiped out colossal amounts of people. I'm not even going to mention the 20th century.
I could get you casualties' lists for the biggest wars during these centuries, or you can look it up yourself (for the 19th it would be Crimean War and the Franco-Prussian War). | null | 0 | 1382258068 | False | 0 | ccvimlv | t3_1otckz | null | t1_ccvimlv | t1_ccvi3q4 | null | 1429066174 | 1 | t5_2ssp3 | null | null | null |
True | Gadarn | null | While the Romans sometimes used the founding of Rome as a starting point for their calendar (see wikipedia's page on Ab Urbe Condita), usually they named the years after the consuls in power. For example, the year 59 BC was called "the consulship of Caesar and Bibulus" (the two consuls being Julius Caesar and Marcus Calpurnius Bibulus).
After becoming an empire, the regnal year of the emperor was used (especially later in the empire). | null | 0 | 1382258216 | False | 0 | ccvindy | t3_1otouo | null | t1_ccvindy | t3_1otouo | null | 1429066164 | 12 | t5_2ssp3 | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1382258349 | False | 0 | ccvio36 | t3_1ot7ov | null | t1_ccvio36 | t1_ccvf0kf | null | 1429066156 | 4 | t5_2ssp3 | null | null | null |
True | Vondi | null | You may be interested in reading about [Turf houses](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_turf_house), which can actually be better insulted than houses made of wood or stone. Designs vary but it's common for there to be a large kitchen, which would look something like [this](http://www.visiticeland.com/media/Thjonusta/2919_2___Selected.jpg), whose warmth would spread around the house. Maybe even livestock within the building for more warmth. Internally they would be just connected rooms and/or buildings, and might look something [like this](http://www.thjodveldisbaer.is/media/myndir/grof_grunnmynd.gif). The sleeping quarters would look [something like this](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Lk0pbu6Q6LU/UchuKf2aFGI/AAAAAAAAAxQ/KIU_A5Z89fs/s1600/IMG_1685.jpg). Note how small the beds are. It was common for beds to be shared, you'd often see them stuffed with sheepskin.
I don't have any sources on hand, this is all just from visiting and studying some of the surviving turf houses in Iceland. As for the "Poor People" part everyone in Iceland was attached to a household in some way, it was actually more usual for a poor person to be stuck in a household and unable to leave than to be without a household (A law passed in 1733 actually made it illegal for unlanded people not to work on another mans farm). So this covers at least a significant portion. | null | 0 | 1382258461 | 1382258881 | 0 | ccvionw | t3_1oto3a | null | t1_ccvionw | t3_1oto3a | null | 1429066149 | 25 | t5_2ssp3 | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1382258621 | False | 0 | ccviphv | t3_1ot7ov | null | t1_ccviphv | t1_ccvi1eg | null | 1429066138 | 1 | t5_2ssp3 | null | null | null |
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