Search results

  1. Questions Regarding Cereal Grains

    Buckwheat (Technically a psuedocereal) seems to have been particularly well used in East Asia, especially in cold and mountainous regions such as Tibet and parts of Northern China; Soba noodles in Japan, for example, are a common food made from it. The Americas similarly had the psuediocereals...
  2. Spots in the New World that are bound to become large cities

    Most of Africa south of the Sahel seems to, along with Australia and probably most of the rest of Oceania. Technically, by the definition though, parts of the Southwestern US and the Mississippi watershed might not count, in addition to large parts of Mesoamerica.
  3. MotF 63: Those Strange Tongues - Voting thread

    Certainly there wasn't a weak entry among the lot, although none of them really blew me away either to be honest. Well, until Ares' map. :)
  4. MotF 63: Those Strange Tongues - Voting thread

    I was not; I was curious about that as well when MotF 59 voting was ongoing, so I went and tallied up every MotF round to that point. Majorities in bold; (Note MotF 8, in which Bruce Munro managed to get nearly a two-thirds majority, which presumably would've granted him the right to...
  5. Reagan pulling a Nixon?

    Cuomo almost ran; supposedly he had a plane waiting on the tarmac in 1992, fueled and ready to take off in case he decided to run. However, in 1992 (And perhaps to a lesser extent 1988?) Bush was seen as essentially a shoe-in and it was difficult to find an A-list Democrat who wanted to run. At...
Top