Comments by "Bruce Tucker" (@brucetucker4847) on "TED-Ed" channel.

  1. There are two kinds of people in this world, my friend... those who know how to win a 3-way duel, and those who dig. You dig.
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  2.  @HarshDude126  Paul was writing instructions for navigating a world where slavery was taken for granted, not for creating an ideal Christian society. Neither Christians nor Jews were responsible for creating the Roman civilization in which somewhere between 20% and 30% of the population was enslaved.
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  3. Nah, the captains were never Jewish. They were the owners, safe, snug, and dry back in London or Amsterdam.
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  4. Well they're all long dead, so...
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  5. If they jumped from the ships, they probably aren't anybody's ancestors.
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  6. Yes, it is wrong.
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  7. if it was realistic at all it would be rated NC-17. Have you read _King Leopold's Ghost_? It's a very good but horrifying history of the Belgian Congo.
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  8. They usually let them come out on deck to exercise in smaller groups every once in a while. Not out of any sense of compassion but because not quite as many died that way.
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  9. In the bonus riddle there are always 3 coins total.
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  10. I don't know, computers and airplanes and the polio vaccine make the world a niftier place than it would be without them
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  11. It's a little known fact that Captain John Smith, the leader who famously saved the Jamestown colony from starvation and death, had been kidnapped and enslaved by Muslim Tatars but escaped.
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  12. More like turned into racism in order to get around religion.
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  13. No they aren't. They are the descendants of the first people, just like we are. Neither of us came from the other, we came from our mutual ancestors.
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  14. Sorry, that's just nonsense. there were never any Israelites in West Africa. The lost tribes were scattered through the Assyrian Empire - guess what, the Assyrian Empire was in the Middle East, not West Africa. They only barely controlled Egypt for a couple of decades, and never any further into Africa than that. The ancient historian Josephus said that the lost tribes were beyond the Euphrates, i.e., in ASIA.
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  15. I never inherited a dime from my 19th century ancestors. Any wealth they had that survived the Civil War didn't survive the Great Depression. So there's nothing to pay back.
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  16. The US was very much a secondary and derivative market.
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  17. Maybe you just like playing with a 3-1 advantage in manpower and a 10-1 advantage in industry? ;-)
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  18. White Americans aren't any more mixed than white Europeans are.
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  19. How did these supposed "Hebrews" come to reside in West Africa?
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  20. The guns were not as decisive as the development of a professional and pragmatic military focused on systematically killing the enemy rather than the prestige of warrior status. That's what made Rome roll over the barbarian hordes just as efficiently as later European armies did. The Zulus developed a professional and pragmatic military (although one very different from the Europeans') and they rolled right over all the other African tribes they fought. Armed with spears and shields they massacred a small army of British soldiers armed with modern breech-loading rifles - sure, they had numbers to make up for the technology, but nowhere near the numbers that, say, the Persians had over Alexander. If the Europeans of the 17th century had run into the Zulus the Zulus would have slaughtered them, spears vs. muskets and cannons notwithstanding. But as advanced as West African societies were, their way of fighting war was still essentially medieval - not in terms of material technology but of mind-set.
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  21. The problem doesn't define the winner, but if the Noether wand is an option, it would stand to reason that the winner is the last one still mobile and on the field, or else you couldn't possibly win with the Noether wand because banishing your opponent to a distant mountain would never eliminate him or her. So banishing yourself to the mountain would mean you lose. The real question is whether a cat with human intelligence is able to use a magic wand. Is a verbal component necessary?
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