Did you know you can't actually see the Great Wall of China from space? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Wall_of_China I mean, ya, with modern satellite imagery where you can see individual people… (View Post)

Timur The Lame, better known as Tamerlane https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timur destroyed the qanat system in Persia, and the region has definitely never recovered. Iran used to be a much more fertile … (View Post)

The list on that page you linked to shows the Halifax Explosion as the largest before nuclear weapons. The Heligoland/British Bang was 1947 and The Minor Scale and Misty Picture tests were 1987. Thos… (View Post)

I've got to disagree on it being specifically western progress. Advances have been spread and inherited from a huge amount of cultures. The Greeks and Romans were inheritors to science and culture of… (View Post)

First off, that was mainly in response to the statement Zaghoul that "Didn't think they could handle their freedom." I think Jefferson was completely wrong on that point, but it was a legit… (View Post)