Galleys and Slavery
Contrary to Hollywood Greek and Roman galley rowers were free men (it was the only branch of the Roman military open to an ex-slave) but later both Spanish and Turkish galleys used slave rowers. Not...
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bgile wrote:That might work well in your kingdom, but in a democracy one of the functions of schools is to teach people about their history, government, critical thinking, and so on. You do expect...
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ChrisPat,I love the word: educationalists. I'll have to remember that.To my mind there is no problem using calculators or computers to get answers. I still shudder at those tests in high school...
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Agreed, try getting a nineteen year old to tell you how many mags a man if he's got 48 mags in an eight man section. Unless he's from the Caribbean - they still teach and test mental arithmetic. It...
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On the subject of how many transportees there were to the American colonies, a point to remember is that quite often going to the Americas under an indenture was offered by magistrates as an...
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"A much larger proportion of Americans are descended from convicts than would like to admit it. US historians tended to ignore transportation until recently." Recently? Not hardly. Hotten's...
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It's not that ironic, after all, it was black Africans who were selling black Africans to Europeans and Arabs as slaves. Slavery was common in equatorial Africa at the time, and selling excess...
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ChrisPat wrote:Contrary to Hollywood Greek and Roman galley rowers were free men (it was the only branch of the Roman military open to an ex-slave) but later both Spanish and Turkish galleys used...
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Odd pointsI have read that the Muslims did not traditionally use slaves in galleys but started using them after the hospitallers did. The Hospitallers had few fighting men and a small base for...
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jonnm wrote: My own feeling is that many Americans have been brought up to believe they have a superior democracy to others and have lost the initive to insure theirs remains vital. In many ways the...
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"Carter runs an organization that moniters elections, he said he couldn't because the US does not meet the minimum institution requirements for fair elections." Like that pathetic failure's opinion...
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jonnm wrote:Carter runs an organization that moniters elections, he said he couldn't because the US does not meet the minimum institution requirements for fair elections. Do you have a link to his...
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IcelofAngeln wrote:(Incidentally, although pre-Reform Act about 5% of Britons nominally had the vote, the borough system rendered it effectively moot for most of them.)Not all the boroughs were...
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Ahoj! This thread inspired me to do some reading on wiki - FWIW. The 1832 did exclude some existing voters in some consituencies. But those who were previously eligible to vote retained this right...
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Ah, I didn't know that, my history books didn't care about individuals. I guess maybe some people lost the voting qualification then got it back with one of the later reform Acts while all the while...
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The comment from Carter came during an interview and was not the main focus of the discussion so he didn't elaborate. He was responding to a question from the interviewer. While you might not like...
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bager1968 wrote:jonnm wrote:Carter runs an organization that moniters elections, he said he couldn't because the US does not meet the minimum institution requirements for fair elections. Do you have a...
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While this is far, far off-topic, I do believe every USian will agree with the statement that deliberate voting irregularities exist. Virtually everybody will agree with the statement that some of...
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emc wrote:[snip]it's certainly not inconceivable that somebody could maintain simultaneous voter registrations in Maine and Alaska1. [snip] 1: I just picked these two states because I think they're...
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Pengolodh wrote:Escape Maine's winter for Alaska's winter?! Sure. Don't have to worry about running out of snow. I probably meant to type "Hawaii." ;(
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