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Dead soldiers' teeth reveal diseases that doomed Napoleon's army

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Re: Dead soldiers' teeth reveal diseases that doomed Napoleon's army

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Post by cryptonector »

cryptonector wrote: post #79
lostlogin wrote: post #78

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You're correct and I'm wrong. Germany started negotiating Russia joining but this seems to have been disingenuous from Germany and part of the lead in to the attack on Russia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German–Soviet_Axis_talks

It's more complicated than that. Go have a listen of the Mannerheim tape with Hitler. Hitler basically confesses to Mannerheim that Stalin was blackmailing Hitler with oil and that this was the casus belli for Hitler, but then Hitler had no idea of Stalin's tank manufacturing prowess and he says that if he had known he wouldn't have invaded Russia. Super interesting. You get the impression that though Hitler hated Ru…

On the other hand, read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German%E2%80%93Soviet_Axis_tal... I wonder just how explicit Stalin's oil blackmail was.

Re: Dead soldiers' teeth reveal diseases that doomed Napoleon's army

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Post by zingababba »

purple_basilisk wrote: post #7

Check out the perfect set of teeth on the skull of the soldier shown in the article. Amazing how human dental health has changed since then.

Weston A. Price thought it was from K2 -> https://www.westonaprice.org/health-topics/vitamin-k2-mk-4-d...

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Post by cenamus »

aleph_minus_one wrote: post #39
jjallen wrote: post #22

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Exactly. If it is used a certain way by enough people, that is also an accepted definition. Dictionaries lag actual speech and language I suppose.

> If it is used a certain way by enough people, that is also an accepted definition. This mentality seems to be prevalent in the USA, in Germany, on the opposite, many people see this topic differently - just because a lot of people use a certain word/term wrong does not make it right.

And it annoys me endlessly. People can't let go of the genitive, even if it's dead in loads of dialects.

If people knew how many words were just "made up" in the last couple centuries to match the vocabulary of Latin or French... they'd lose their mind

Re: Dead soldiers' teeth reveal diseases that doomed Napoleon's army

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Post by georgeburdell »

lithocarpus wrote: post #71
georgeburdell wrote: post #67

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Do you have any proof? A doctor once mentioned this to me, but then I talked to an orthodontist and he called it BS

Not proof, but logic: Without machinery to do the work of processing food, it has to done by hand or not at all, which leads to a lot more jaw work. Especially if you're eating a lot of animals where you'll be eating off of bones. But even with plants too.

Where is the feedback mechanism that ties extra jaw exercise to straight teeth?

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Post by travisjungroth »

georgeburdell wrote: post #84
lithocarpus wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not proof, but logic: Without machinery to do the work of processing food, it has to done by hand or not at all, which leads to a lot more jaw work. Especially if you're eating a lot of animals where you'll be eating off of bones. But even with plants too.

Where is the feedback mechanism that ties extra jaw exercise to straight teeth?

The strengthening of the jaw during childhood leads to a larger jaw, and more room for teeth. Our jaws are too small. "Straightening" (like I said earlier) isn't exactly correct.

This whole topic is debated.

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