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> Do you mean a username that is distinct from email or phone number? No, he means a unique user id, generated by the server when you sign up for the service. Then for every login …

> Yes, the Germanic tribesmen were climate refugees. Not quite. Those germanic tribes were fleeing the huns. The crossing of the danube in 376 by the goths (as war refugees) and th…

I think the OP argument is: if you have less energy available, then you will manufacture fewer things. Hence the advice to seek long lasting, energy efficient, replaceable/repairab…

The roman/latin name for peaches was malum persicum (persian apple). The romans got the fruit from the persians, but the persians themselves got it from central asia or china.

It is the other way around. The sweet potato is natively from America, but it made it to Polynesia, unclear how.

As a former subscriber I can point this out: One gigantic error: they have not seen the 2007/2008 crisis coming. Their policy recommendations are always the same: "cut red tape", p…

how so? care to explain?

The keyboard layout (inherited form the typewriters) comes to mind.

Do you have photos of the sword? Were there any other artefacts? Where did they end up?

The way I see it, there are two factors for the origin myths: The misidentification of various people. Practically every barbarian horde descending from euro-asian steppe into euro…

Nitpicking here: Linear A is a language script, we don't know whether rongorongo is a script or just decoration. Also, the character set of Linear A is pretty much the same as the …

I am not sure about these "facts". Why would quebec accent stay the same for centuries? Languages are unstable, especially their pronunciation. Consider also the extraordinary dive…

Copper was readily availble in cyprus. So, no, that's not what happened.

Can you point me to the information sources for this theory?

The name is older, it comes from the philistines, one of the people that emerged after the bronze age colapse. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philistines

I propose that Planet 9 (when/if is found) to be named "Big Ben"

The greeks adopted the phoenician alphabet, even though phonologically phoenician and greek languages have a lot of differences. I have read of a theory claiming that greeks simply…

"A new life awaits you in the Off-World colonies. The chance to begin again in a golden land of opportunity and adventure!" (Blade Runner)

There is something puzzling about the existance/presevation of the word in Tocharian B. The tocharian people were living in the tarim basin, a dry land, far away from any ocean. We…

What books do you recommend on bronze age in general and greek bronze age in particular? There doesn't seem to be much material available. I have a book on Linear B queued up for l…

I enjoyed reading the Anabasis. The writing felt more like recollections of past events. Xenophon gives account of details by accident. For example, the greek army has marched deep…

Out of curiosity, were there attempts/proposals for adopting the Orkhon script (or variant)? Wouldn't it be more natural/easier to use for a turkic language? Link to Wikipedia: htt…