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Well, here, anyway, you don't need massive industry.
An example is in the days of siege warfare after high-
mass catapults and related weapons were developed.
Diseased horse carcasses were catapulted into the

Lands of Red and Gold #35: Blooming Flowers
"The Nangu fear neither God nor danger.  They care for naught but
lucre and glory."
- Vasily Mikhailovich Stolypin

What caused the perversion of traditional political definitions in
American culture?  Everything means the opposite of what it used to
FOR EXAMPLE:
LIBERTARIAN-Traditionally recognized that corporations are quasi-

What British leaders wanted more than anything in November 1917 was to win
World War I. What Britain attempted was to bribe Germany's ally, Turkey, to
leave the war. To do this they offered Turkey territory and money. Turkey
was interested but after numerous secret meetings it did ...

This is more sort of a research question.
Presuming a planet with more or less the same makeup of the solid
portion, the same age, and same distance from the sun,  how large or
small can the planet be to be habitable by humans? I *think* the

If you follow this thread, I think it does not seem to led very far into a
believable use of chemical warfare in ancient time.
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.history.what-if/browse_thread/thread/a9ec75e9
f2911c42/59e526362053e27?q=chemical+warfare+solomonw#059e526362053e27
During ...

Muslims Demand Islamic School Holidays
in New York City...
I say give Muslims the holidays they want;
and honor their faith by letting them chop

Resolved:
From the period of about 1250 A.D. onward to the present, the odds of
an enduring European-wide hegemony were never good.
Thesis 1.

By the late 1970s, the railroad business in the USA was little more than
moribund, shackled under the weight of an incredible load of government
regulations that made it pretty much impossible for them to compete in the
modern-day freight market.  It was so bad that a railroad ...