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.