History
Exploring "Why" questions about History
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Why is America so known for slavery and racial inequality, while England (from where America originally came), is not?
One aspect is how it got resolved. In the UK it was "Hmmm, slavery is bad. We shouldn't be able to own slaves." "Yeah ok, lets stop owning slaves." America had a whole civil war over it.
Why does CPR sometimes revive a dead person, and sometimes does nothing? what is the deciding factor in it working?
It doesn't revive a dead person. That's a movie thing. It's to keep blood pumping around the body until medical personnel arrive and can administer drugs that get the heart pumping again on its own.
Why does tapping on the top of a can (beer, soda) after shaking it up, cause it to not explode?
Well, the short answer is, it doesn't. The long answer is the same as the short answer.
Why do political parties try to be opposites of each other instead of working together to solve problems?
It's much harder to get elected that way. If I'm running for office and you're not sure if you should vote for me, which sounds more convincing: "Hey, vote for me or the other guy, we'll each tackle t
Why is calling a political figure “anticolonialist” taken as an insult in America, a country that has its roots in fighting colonialism?
It suggests that you have animosity for this countries' success and think that America owes the people that it supposedly "stole" from in order to gain as much wealth and power as it did. The far left
Why is there so much meat on chickens when all they do is stand around clucking all day?
Chickens today are bred to have larger breasts, AND they usually get pumped full of hormones to make them grow quickly. I live in an area with many commercial chicken farms, and they all can take a ch
Why have we not yet automated parachute packing?
I'd have to think that there's little to no demand for such a process, mostly because I think most people simply prefer putting their life in the hands of something they packed themself.
why do smokers spit so much when they are smoking?
Possibly because of the taste a smoke tends to leave in your mouth. I dont do this but my boyfriend does. .
Why do people try to time pictures instead of taking a video and capturing the parts they want?
Pictures will typically have a higher image quality than frames of a video would have. Videos will often use the fact that we can't distinguish detail as much in a video as we can in a still.
Why was Colonial Europe’s civilization so much more powerful than the rest of the world?
Check out a book called *Guns, Germs, and Steel,* by Jared Diamond. His thesis is that a natural abundance of domesticable animal and plant species, coupled with advantageous geography, helped mankind