Because looking up was a lot easier than traveling thousands of miles.

That's a nope. You walk into the office and see the pillar. You look away. Wait a minute. You look back. This time it registers that the pillar is bent. Nope, you collect your things and leave the office.

You'd call him by his name when speaking to him and by his title when speaking to others.

No. Can't stand dubs.

Hmm, no the anime didn't come until I was in high school. When I was 10 there were only shows like Animaniacs, Bonkers, Rocko's Modern Life, and Captain Planet.

A bit misleading. The second part dates this to the settlers in the now New England area that showed up just after a major epidemic. The natives which were living in many areas suddenly found their population reduced, drastically. So there were literally large swaths of land that were "traditional" lands for tribes that now didn't exist or now had no use for. They agreed to let the new settlers live there for a couple of reasons. First they were afraid of the newcomers gods which they believed to be stronger than their own since the settlers weren't killed off in the sicknesses spreading through the populations. Second, they didn't have the same concept of land that Europeans did. If a tribe needed more land and it wasn't available they just went to war with a neighboring tribe and eliminated them man, woman, and child. They routinely practiced genocide, it was a fact of life for them. They most likely expected the same thing to continue when they regained their numbers

He was one of the most racist presidents we've ever had. He's responsible for the rewriting of history books to remove all prominent black persons. He replaced them with a extremely racist caricature depicting them as little better than apes. He was president of Princeton at the time and his history books were widely distributed based off the reputation of Princeton. Which is truly a shame because there were several books written by his contemporaries that highlighted prominent blacks and their influence in the country. Instead those got buried and are only found in a few museums today. When he became President of the US he fired every person of color that worked in the white house except one to act as the token black person.

It's not so much that they're horrifying monstrosities as beyond our ability to truly comprehend what we're looking at. In several incidents they appear as just men so they do possess the ability to appear normal if it's warranted of them. They just don't or it isn't in many depictions of them in the bible. The best description of the idea I've seen in modern literature is in C.S. Lewis's Space Trilogy.

Nothing like trying to compare today's cultural standards and morals to ones hundreds of years ago. It was also a time when most of the world held slaves including most of Europe. Not that it's in the same category but let me give you an accurate example. To all most anyone currently living using a car, bus, or plane is completely acceptable and even desired. If in 250 years they have moved beyond fossil fuels and find the very idea revolting and immoral because of the damage it does to the environment there will be people who can't understand why we didn't just all give up using fossil fuels completely simply on principle. Those people would find all of us immoral, horrible people. The fact that people can't understand cultural standards change is just idiotic. And if anyone thinks they would still hold the current day's values if they were raised and lived in a past era they are moronic in the extreme.

Unfortunately, depending on where you live, you most likely wouldn't be able to have your skull removed, cleaned and sent home. If you donate your body to a university or science group they can do whatever with it but private individuals or family members cannot.

This is actually a common and well known phenomenon when it comes to stuttering. Doesn't make it any less cool or helpful but it's something any speech therapist knows. It's not a cure and we don't really know why it works but it does in most cases. Affecting an accent is has also been found to reduce stuttering.

Reminds me of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuTkgi7scKo

I find it funny when they show the script and you know the language cause they just used a modern one and it says something like "Stop, no entry. Leave this area." and they translate it as a death curse will be placed on any who enter.

Every time I see this it cause me to eye roll. Yes, the metric system does make things easier but, imagine just for a second what it would cost to convert every official document, sign, and book just to make things a little easier. The US is a big country the sheer scope of what it would take to make that change is mind boggling.

This is still commonly practiced in many parts of the world.

Executions were, and some still are, forms of public entertainment in most of the world. It's really only in the last hundred years or so that it's fallen out of favor to perform them in public. This is also what some people ascribe too with it's failure to become a deterrent to crimes in that same time period.

Then there's the two lions that the movie The Ghost in the Darkness portrayed. It was based on the book The Man-Eaters of Tsavo which was based on the protagonist's account of what actually happened. The two lions in that case killed and ate over 130 people before they were killed.

How about anyone is a service industry? Most of those are open 6-7 days a week.