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@VonSkippy: "The Japanese are emotionally repressed xenophobic sheeple that couldn’t create/invent their way out of a wet paper bag."

Not everybody needs to be creative. If there's anything I've learned from graduate studies, it is that you need one creative guy (the prof) and many, many, many technically adept people (grad students, post docs) working for him.

Too many creative people actually ruin things (artists colony, anyone?)
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@Skipweasel: You can’t “decimat(e) up to a quarter of the population”.

Decimate also has another (more commonly used) meaning: to kill a large part of a group.

Until today, the disease that decimated ancient Athens has yet to be identified.

@Liz O: Scientists try to identify historical diseases in order to better understand what happened. For instance, the description of the Black Death matches well with the bubonic plague, so most scientists agree that the plague is the culprit in that pandemic.

So far, no one was able to identify the disease described by Thucydides.
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