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Nobody forced peasants off the land and into factories. They did it because it improved their lives.

Industrialization gave us tractors, fertilizers, insecticides, trucks, airplanes, refrigeration, and plant breeding that multiplied crop yields enormously. The factories paid workers so they could afford the ag products.

Life spans have over doubled since 1800.

Yeah, sure. I suppose if you ignore the Dark Continent, Myanmar, Central and South America and a few other isolated instances. In late breaking news the Saxons and Franks have signed a treaty. (although Macron seems to be doing his best to piss off Germany)

.. and did those feet in ancient times...

Same here in the German Saar county where I live. Industry was iron & coal and the workers families used to have at least a goat. They were "Bergmann-Bauern", miner-farmers to survive.

Yes, enforced by British military. That makes friends for a hundred years. Not.

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Finland was on the German side in WW2 because they hated the Russians.

I'm not sure the Blue Mink theory will stand Mendelian genetics, or it will require even more miscegenation.

India might disagree. The US certainly would. Argentina really wished you'd go home and Eire sent you home.

Please keep it in your part of the country.

Yes.

BULLSHIT.

That's a ready made product rather than a kit of parts. A bit cheaper:

Kenya seems to be relatively stable no thanks to the Brits that insisted on incorporating Somalis despite a plebiscite. Funny how plebiscites are only valid if they come out 'right'.

That's Asda. People complain the rolls won't fit in their holders now.

Most things would sneer at my air rifle.

Several counties where I grew up limited deer hunters to 12 gauges, either with buckshot or rifled slugs for the same reason. Even in the areas where rifles were allowed the heavy undergrowth effectively limited the range to

We put most of the above in ours, also onions and horseradish.

There used to be a guy on sci.chem who said something like: The only countries worth anything were the ones that had felt the tread of the Roman Empire.

He allowed the U.S. because the Founders deliberately imitated Greece and Rome.

He's talking about what we used to call "Indians" when we were young.

I'm going to prove my non-PC bonafides:

"How, white man. Where can red man find firewater?"

I don't see how that could have happened. That was even before MySpace, let alone Facebook.

Historians are divided on whether Bismarck trolled the French into declaring war to promote German unity or if he only made use of the windfall. It was quite a coup since the predominantly Catholic southern Germans don't particularly like the Protestant northerners. Bismarck was astute enough to roll back his Kulturkampf to hold it all together. It also helped with the alliance with Austria.

Whatever, that wrote paid to the Second Empire. Britain sat that one out since it had the traditional suspicion of France. Napoleon had managed to piss off Russia and the US, so no help there. Hubris is a common condition for nations but France seems especially endowed.