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    Would Russia be a world power?

    The so-called democracy of 1917 was quite different from the so-called democracy of 2004. Managing a country to achieve a dominant role on the planet really has nothing (or almost nothing) to do with democracy. Not to mention parliamentary democracy is a very young chapter of history. One could...
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    NATO vs Warsaw Pact

    Yes, there’s improbable the allies of USSR would have joined an aggression against NATO countries but it is also improbable when the military and political leaders of those WTO countries considered the possible paths that could trigger a war they believed they could stand and watch. The...
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    NATO vs Warsaw Pact

    Afghanistan population is estimated at 27 million and some in 2003. At the beginning of USSR invasion was less than this figure. There was in no way a loss of 1/3 of the population. The Russians didn’t use indiscriminate bombing or mass terror tactics against civilian population and the Afghan...
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    Have you read: "The name of the rose" by Umberto Eco?

    Fiction. Talent and the literary style (called inter-textualism or something like that) makes it seem real. Good book of fiction, with some real history characters or places etc. Eco's professional background helps too. Worth reading anyway. Better writen than Foucault's Pendulum that throws in...
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    worst place to live

    The last option is very well put. It also contradicts the whole purpose of the poll and shows the poll is, well, I’m tired of euphemisms, stupid. Too bad, because the last option would have found its place in a poll with some common sense. Trying briefly to clarify my point. Let’s say the poll...
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    Dacian Falxmen

    Sica & Falx
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    Dacian Falxmen

    Dacians (or Gets, depending on the source who named them) are a branch of Thracians indeed (north of Danube) and they've been in contact with the Celts, not so much around 100 AD though when the Romans conquer part of Dacia, Burebista – the most important Dacian king – crushed them 150 years...
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    Dacian Falxmen

    Comati carrying children on their shoulders.
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    Dacian Falxmen

    If you mean the common people were naked torso, you're wrong.
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    Dacian Falxmen

    Thank you, Gogf! :) "Comati" - "long haired" (Dacian commoner) carrying a shield with a characteristic symbol.
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    Dacian Falxmen

    2 "tarabostes" (Dacian noblemen) sculptures.
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    Dacian Falxmen

    Dacians lived in a continental climate, a large part of their territory is mountainous, the core of the Dacian kingdom was in Transylvania which is surrounded by mountains. Ovid complained of the harsh winters near the Black Sea and the climate is softer there than in the higher plateau of...
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