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When eight-year-old Amy Erdman Farrell moved with her family to Akron, Ohio, in 1972, she found herself adrift in a sea of taunting boys and mean girls. Shy ...

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An old question that I saved at the time because this kind of primary source heavy ‘experience’ question is fairly fun. I’ll answer for New Zealand, so I’ll move the time period to the early 19th century, as guns only started to be used around 1806 and in serious numbers from 1819 or so.

It pretty much is that the US is a bigger market. While the NHL was formed in 1917 with 4 (quickly down to 3) Canadian based teams, it added its first American team, the Boston Bruins, in 1924. T

I am not familiar with this specific story, nor do I have knowledge of any Cherokee teachings outside what is published in the field. I can, however, discuss the transitions in the U.S. Southeast that saw the collapse of Mississippian cultures and the rise of coalescent societies like the Cherokee, Choctaw, Creek, and Chickasaw.

You're correct to point out that subordinate leaders in the Napoleonic Wars had greater scope to exercise their own judgement than their counterparts in the wars of Frederick the Great. In most of Frederick's battles, he did attempt to work out a set idea to govern the whole concept of the attack. However, it's important to underscore that this stemmed from the fact that once the battle proper began, he would have little control over the forces actively engaged, which comprised most of his army

The very short answer is: planes, trains, and automobiles (and ships). The extremely long answer happens to be something I've been working on for a while (very slowly) that, so far, hasn't quite got to Yalta, but for what it's worth:

The modern relationship between the Vatican and the State of Israel is rooted in longstanding historical and theological tensions between...

Given what is known about the practical and theoretical knowledge of medicine and related field around mid-14th century, not only in Europe but generally in the world, it can said with quite a high degree of certainty that there were no efficient curative for any internal bacterial or viral infection.

There are plenty of books like this in the pop literature form trying to explain why certain patterns from history are inevitable, almost all of them tend to lack a degree of rigor and often contain many mistakes.

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Many of the Historically Black Colleges and Universities in the South were actually founded during the Reconstruction period in the aftermath of the American Civil War, as part of an effort by the victorious Union, Northern missionaries and activists, the Black community, and Southern Republicans to bring education to the South as a requisite for the establishment of free labor and through that of social, economic and political progress.

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This is not quite a true story. There's been some telephone-game distortion with the original source, which is, for the record, a 1986 book by Valery Fefelov in Russian, entitled В СССР ИНВАЛИДОВ НЕТ! which translates to There are No Disabled People in the USSR!