• 1136: The role of US parties in the formation of the American state?, submitted on 2023-03-07 13:37:52+08:00.
• 1137: Would Soviet citizens in 1945 have been aware of Japanese internment camps in the United States?, submitted on 2023-03-08 14:05:58+08:00.
• 1138: Why does South Korean Christianity seem to produce so many missionaries?, submitted on 2023-03-09 09:07:08+08:00.
• 1139: [May balls] May Balls-Up: Could The B-52s have bombed a Cambridge College?, submitted on 2023-03-10 18:53:29+08:00.
• 1140: Gent is wrongly labeled as Kortrijk, submitted on 2023-03-12 22:40:50+08:00.
• 1141: [Hobby Scuffles] Week of March 13, 2023, submitted on 2023-03-12 23:01:49+08:00.

1136: The role of US parties in the formation of the American state?, submitted on 2023-03-07 13:37:52+08:00.

—– 1136.1 —–2023-03-07 15:09:43+08:00:

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1137: Would Soviet citizens in 1945 have been aware of Japanese internment camps in the United States?, submitted on 2023-03-08 14:05:58+08:00.

—– 1137.1 —–2023-03-08 19:39:38+08:00:

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1138: Why does South Korean Christianity seem to produce so many missionaries?, submitted on 2023-03-09 09:07:08+08:00.

—– 1138.1 —–2023-03-09 10:14:28+08:00:

This submission has been removed because it violates our ‘20-Year Rule’. To discourage off-topic discussions of current events, questions, answers, and all other comments must be confined to events that happened 20 years ago or more. For further explanation of this rule, feel free to consult this Rules Roundtable.

1139: [May balls] May Balls-Up: Could The B-52s have bombed a Cambridge College?, submitted on 2023-03-10 18:53:29+08:00.

—– 1139.1 —–2023-03-11 20:48:12+08:00:

mostly people from very rich families.

What’s interesting is that this reputation has persisted. At present, around 70% of Oxford’s annual intake are from state schools, with acceptance rates for both state and independent schools at around 20% (and actually slightly more generous to state schools). This is still a disproportionate figure given that 90% of UK secondary school students are at state schools, but speaking from experience the affluent toffs aren’t a particularly visible group these days.

1140: Gent is wrongly labeled as Kortrijk, submitted on 2023-03-12 22:40:50+08:00.

—– 1140.1 —–2023-03-13 01:19:12+08:00:

To be fair, it’s because there’s a maximum of one treaty port per province, and Portugal already has Macau. What’s really bizarre is that the city of Ili is not in the province of Ili.

—– 1140.2 —–2023-03-13 16:00:03+08:00:

It’s because what the game calls Treaty Ports and what Treaty ports actually were are just not even remotely close to the same, and there is no way of fixing that without fundamentally reworking the system.

—– 1140.3 —–2023-03-14 21:41:11+08:00:

Ah, so all of them?

—– 1140.4 —–2023-03-15 01:18:14+08:00:

Okay to explain the joke, because Treaty Ports do not actually do what Treaty Ports did historically, all of them are, by my definition, ahistorical.

1141: [Hobby Scuffles] Week of March 13, 2023, submitted on 2023-03-12 23:01:49+08:00.

—– 1141.1 —–2023-03-13 16:48:32+08:00:

RWBY is actually good, it’s overhated and thanks to all that hate, a lot of misinformation has been spread around it

Preach

—– 1141.2 —–2023-03-13 17:20:35+08:00:

This was actually the weekend before, but I missed the last HHW subthread – I finally ran my Shimonoseki 1864 participation game at my club’s annual show last week, and somehow my photo made the front page of the local newspaper!