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Responses to more common hazards weren't addressed to nearly the same degree, if at all. Off the top of my head: pressure and elevation to control bleeding; Heimlich maneuver if choking; don't swim out to a drowning person, throw them something instead; lightning position; don't…
A 12-20 mile march in the infantry is exhausting. The idea of completing that and then immediately building a fort sounds super human. Did the legions do this every time, or was it more of an official doctrine that was not necessarily followed every campaign?
Before anyone jumps in to correct the premise (sorry, character limits in the title don't permit much nuance). I know there is variation between federal states and also that your placement at age 10 does not solely, formally, irrevocably seal your educational and professional fa…
Wouldn't upper crust people ask why Baron von Fangmouth never shows up to the gentlemen's social club for afternoon cards or why no one ever sees him about town despite the fact that his pallid and very unhealthy looking doorman always says he's unavailable when visitors come by…
What if the mental illnesses we have today are just the ones that managed to survive natural selection? Were there mental illnesses in ancient humans that didn't survive until today?
Hi, so i just heard about how King Louis XIV’s wife(Maria Theresa of Spain) gave birth to a dark skinned baby in 1664 and then the court literally blamed it on her drinking too much hot chocolate(did she tell the king that she ate too much chocolate?) I know the baby allegedly d…