Re: If someone gave you the entirety of Wikipedia from 100 years in the future for only 10 minutes, what would you read?

WereSpielChequers <[email protected]>
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Putting my 1890 hat on I would say Romanov, as much of the shape of
European history is decided by the player with the most options.

WSC

On 12 February 2013 23:41, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 12 February 2013 23:05, Carcharoth <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > PS. You might find that the page(s) you chose to read had been
> > protected for years, or was in the middle of an edit war. Or that the
> > entire encyclopedia had been 'checked' and published and was
> > 'finished'? Would that be a cause for celebration or not? OK, I
> > suppose this is all missing the point of the question...
>
>
> It's interesting. If you were in 1890, and you got ten minutes' access
> to an Encyclopedia Britannica from 1990 - what would you look up?
>
>
> - d.
>
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