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Old 11-11-2014, 11:10 PM   #36 (permalink)
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What? Bad for aerodynamics? Here's a sphere that has been prolated in two dimensions, to a very high level of accuracy.



Wasn't China traditionally isolationist*. Taiwan was part of China after 1662, just as Crimea was part of Russia from 1921.

Remilitarization of the Rhineland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia was an interesting read. Great Britain was about likely to side with Germany against France after the Franco-Soviet pact. But then it was Great Britain and France that dropped http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Rydz like hot potato in Poland. I blame Churchill, the genocidal alcoholic.


*yeah, I know—Tibet.
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