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Your comment is exactly what I’m trying to point out. If data collection was easy and free, a lot of times science would prove itself wrong. Long term effects of medication for example, is massively under studied (even short term to be honest), so pharmaceutical companies just write insane list of possible side effects even if they don’t apply to you. One example of many

The main elements of the shift are that the Democratic Party built, under FDR, a coalition that could and does viably win national and state and local elections while before him, it could only do so in cases like Grover Cleveland and Wilson where the Republicans were infighting to a point a Dem could sneak in through the back door. Both parties had liberal and conservative wings. The Taft Republicans were the prototype of today's conservative Republicans, Roosevelt's wing fell apart by the Reagan era and has been dead for a long time as of the 2000 election.

The Democratic Party went from a sectional and state party that occasionally won national elections to a national party based on a coalition of marginalized groups and Black people starting to switch from GOP to Dem under the Coolidge Administration and Harding Administration. The biggest cause of the switch was Republicans having a majority in Congress and refusing to address lynching, at the time.

Just sloppy journalistic writing. They want to make it sound interesting to the general reader and don’t know how.

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You may want to go back farther than 100 years ago since cash registers aren’t exactly a new invention. It would likely be good to look at the cash registers history and work from there. Also, it is true that a cashier might have more responsibilities than today since it was manual and the higher amount of cash transactions that would have taken place back then too.

FYI, alternate history and anything less than 20 years ago aren't "history" (see Rules 3 and 5 of the subreddit). You're definitely not adhering to the former and most of the discussion of long-term consequences would violate the latter.

That being said, for the New Union Treaty to have had a chance and not just be another dying gasp of the USSR, it would have needed to at least appear to fix the perceived problems of the USSR: including (but not limited to!) too much central control and the inherent corruption in any centralized power structure. But, those in power liked those "problems" since they were the basis of their power. The fact that 6 of the 15 socialist republics weren't even invited to participate in drafting it, and that opposition to the treaty (among hardliners) focused on how it might let the Baltic states and Ukraine be too independent, says to me that the same forces that led to the anti-treaty coup would have torn the government apart from the inside, probably relatively quickly (like the USA almost did a few times in the early years, culminating in the US Civil War, or how bastard feudalism in England inevitably built competing power blocks culminating in the War of the Roses).

Plenty of knowledge has been lost; it's just not of the type that Ancient Aliens and the like imagine. Rather, it's of smaller things, like great works of literature or things that could have given us greater knowledge of the past.

For instance, the biggest reason why we know so little of the ancient Minoans is because their scripts, Cretan hieroglyphs and Linear A, are still undeciphered.

There are also numerous lost works of literature, like most of Sappho's poetry, the other six works of the Trojan Cycle, Cleitarchus' History of Alexander, Cato the Elder's Origines, Claudius' history of the Etruscans, the memoirs of Agrippina the Younger, the hypothesized Q document that served as a source for the Gospels of Matthew and Luke, and countless others.

None of these are likely to have contained instructions on how to build a nuclear fusion reactor or whatever, but it's still lost knowledge.

In advertising posters around the turn of the 20th century there is a large amount of female nudity. For example ads for bicycles frequently feature nude images of women.

What was the contemporary reaction to this? Did people find these images shocking? Do we have any contemporary writings of people reacting to the use of nude women in advertising posters?

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Probably deep under the muck where there is no air

I wonder if the owners of these treasures were on the ship that sank or would they have traveled in a more luxurious vessel.

Were they deliberately buried or was that just nature taking over?

Is there ANYTHING that could be considered an out of place artifact, lost knowledge, non-human creation or any non-traditionally accepted bits of history?

Do you believe the world would be better or worse of the 1991 New Union Treaty was signed? What do you believe would happen if it was signed?

Silver also has rather strong anti-microbial properties.

Wu Zetian’s tomb as well.

Have you ever heard the Tragedy of Galileo Galilei?

It's not a story the church would tell you.

>Radiocarbon dates indicate that the first phase of the monument was erected between 4850 and 4250 BC, and the second phase between 4450 and 4000 BC.

>“Mixed in with the remains of an adult and a younger person were bones from a horse, a dog, and what was likely a pig.”

Gotta wonder if the younger person had died at the same time as the adult, or if they were sacrificed along with the horse, dog and pig.

or a monkey beast. One or the other.

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Discovery of (insert whatever you want here I guess I don’t know) in (Insert wherever you want here I guess I don’t know) may hold key to ancient civilization.

The terminology might be a bit confusing. The Qin mausoleum is a fairly large complex that mimics the layout of the old capital city Xianyang. There are many structures in this complex, including the resting place of the emperor himself, and the outer armies statues and other ceremonial structures.

Archeologists distinguish between the emperor's tomb, which is the resting place of his body, vs the rest of the complex, which is generally called the mausoleum or the necropolis.

They have excavated parts of the necropolis and seen the damage this caused, and so they have not excavated the emperor's actual tomb. There's a whole half of the necropolis which they are unwilling to touch because they don't know what their archeological process will do to it - contemporary reports said that Qin had a relief terrain map of the whole empire set up with liquid mercury filling in for the rivers and lakes. Modern excavation techniques are still not up to the task of preserving this.

The commenter you responded to might have been using that distinction: they hope to see some day when our science is advanced enough to examine Qin's personal resting place, amidst all its riches and ceremonial finery, without destroying it.

No, it’s black and blue!