The only scientific study that I can remember off-hand was done in New York and found that Protestants had a statistically significant, controlling for all other factors, higher incidence of depression. The authors hypothesised that because Catholics had the practice of confession, they were...
Yeah, I think that the whole white powder Anthrax circus has made people drastically overstate the deadliness of Anthrax. Anthrax was weaponised because it's spores can be safely and easily be warehoused for years in bombs and artillery shells, so it fit well into the military logistics chain...
Not true. Under Justinian the system, culture, language, etc... was the same as under Diocletian. After the re-conquest of North Africa one could walk from the Red Sea to the Atlantic without noticing anything too different. Sure, Europe was totally different, but Africa and the Levant were the...
The PLC was structurally fucked in that a foreign power had had to buy just one nobleman on parliament to gridlock the entire system(every MP had veto power), that even if they got lucky once, someone else would be along soon.
Considering that the nobility considered this their god given...
Very interesting article that I came across on /r/history:
I wonder how history could have been changed if someone thought up a good Camel harness earlier, they don't seem to be too complicated:
Yeah and after WW1, it was only the sea based empires that any economy to spare. Without the war, Russia and Germany would be amongst the big boys,so even less need for seaplanes.
You're a bit wrong here, the Muromets first flew in 1913, but wasn't scheduled to go into service until August 1914 on the Moscow-St. Petersburg route until August 1914, just as the war broke out. But yes, airliners in service from 1914, would have arguably led to greater progress in...
Depends on who wins WW2.
Before they started losing the war and decided on extermination, the German were keen to send all the Jews to Madagascar.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madagascar_Plan
Uganda of all places was favoured by Zionists for a while.
Not strictly a history, but this book:
really deepened my understanding of the reasons for the history.
Grand strategy of the Roman empire was also very good.
You're wrong there, the Russian empire was always mindful of the fact that they were under-populated and made immigration difficult unless you were undesirables like Jews. The vast majority of poles and Ukrainians who emigrated to America and Canada before ww1 were from Austria Hungary (and...