#history

Fun video from Aaron Alon demonstrating what English would sound like if it were phonetically consistent. It explains a lot of the different ESL accents you come across.

This study explores the impacts of the Chinese Communist Revolution on wealth disparity. While it did equalise wealth in the short term, in the long term, the same families who were on top before the revolution ended up on top again.

As per the responses, this is imperfect. But, still very interesting to see how these alphabets cross over. I’ve always been curious about the Greek and Cyrillic crossovers, but never looked into it. The discussion in the replies is as good as the original tweet.

According to this study, it is very difficult to predict whether an event will be historically significant while it’s happening.

This book delivers exactly what it promises — a condensed overview of Soviet history.

It seems that in places where religion and government was the biggest obstacle for feminism, communism had a massively positive impact. However, in places where the biggest obstacle was prejudice or culture, it did very little to help. In fact, it may have supressed feminist movements that would’ve otherwise taken off.

One of the main rivals of the Aztec Empire—a city-state called Tlaxcallan—was a republic ruled by an assembly of commoners & nobles.