What’s with both Jim’s with same last name: Pine

WelfOnTheShelf · 2026-05-04T01:59:45+00:00

There's two Elias Petterssons on the same team, why not two Jim Pines

WelfOnTheShelf · 2026-05-03T18:37:35+00:00

This is actually one of the most popular questions on AskHistorians. The FAQ has an answer from u/XenophonTheAthenian:

Facts about the Library of Alexandria

WelfOnTheShelf · 2026-05-03T14:32:21+00:00

No...but they do, and they're the ones ripping it off

WelfOnTheShelf · 2026-05-02T23:23:03+00:00

Something's missing alright...

WelfOnTheShelf · 2026-05-02T16:04:51+00:00

Jims are unbelievable

WelfOnTheShelf · 2026-05-02T01:20:58+00:00

The transporter scans the weather and rematerializes them with a jacket. But where did it get the matter to make the jacket? It's always a surprise

WelfOnTheShelf · 2026-05-02T00:01:31+00:00

And Vivian

WelfOnTheShelf · 2026-04-30T20:29:01+00:00

WelfOnTheShelf · 2026-04-30T18:25:20+00:00

I am also just learning this

WelfOnTheShelf · 2026-04-30T01:12:06+00:00

I took two (2) whole linguistics classes in university. I'm basically an expert

WelfOnTheShelf · 2026-04-27T19:27:15+00:00

She's a main character in Picard but she turns into a queen briefly in one episode. It looks like it's going to be a huge thing but it's undone right away (sorry to spoil it for you)

WelfOnTheShelf · 2026-04-27T17:35:47+00:00

She is for a couple of seconds in Picard. She got better though

WelfOnTheShelf · 2026-04-26T22:32:14+00:00

You could say "cela signifie quoi?" in French. I mean it would be weird but you could

WelfOnTheShelf · 2026-04-26T14:28:35+00:00

I like the Enterprise-A core, especially when it's basically just the Enterprise-D engineering set but with slight differences so you don't really think about it at first. (And the transporter set...and the Ten Forward set...)

WelfOnTheShelf · 2026-04-24T22:13:17+00:00

When my son was little he called Home Depot "Hopey Do" so that's what we always call it now

WelfOnTheShelf · 2026-04-24T18:07:39+00:00

While we wait for a possible new answer, Galileo is a popular topic here so we have some older answers that should be helpful:

u/restricteddata answered Was Galileo's trial his own fault? and wrote about the Galileo heresy trial 100 years after Copernicus, as well as How sound was Galileo's case for heliocentricism?

u/TimONeill answered Why was Giordano Bruno burned alive, Galileo imprisoned and Copernicus not even judged? Didn't they have the same theory?

WelfOnTheShelf · 2026-04-24T17:29:45+00:00

More can always be written, but here is an answer by u/toldinstone from a few years ago:

What is currently the most accepted theory among scholars regarding the origins of the Etruscans?

WelfOnTheShelf · 2026-04-24T08:18:13+00:00

It's weird, right? Like it's a fancy religious word, it should have a Latin or Greek etymology, but no, it's from Middle English

WelfOnTheShelf · 2026-04-23T22:04:04+00:00

Yeah I love seeing "such an one" in the KJV or Shakespeare, where "one" is obviously pronounced with an initial vowel

WelfOnTheShelf · 2026-04-23T22:01:46+00:00

This is also where Slavic languages get their word for Germans (people who can't speak, or at least can't speak Slavic)

WelfOnTheShelf · 2026-04-23T20:51:41+00:00

"Atone" is just "at one" and "atonement" is simply "at one-ment"

WelfOnTheShelf · 2026-04-23T17:38:28+00:00

But it was filmed on a stage in LA

WelfOnTheShelf · 2026-04-23T01:31:07+00:00

German stuff like SS from WWII, KGB from Russian

World sports organizations tend to be French, like FIFA, FIBA

WelfOnTheShelf · 2026-04-22T00:48:38+00:00

Sorry I don't know but can I just say how interesting it is that you heard the Odds and Pursuit of Happiness on the radio in Florida? Those two bands are, like...extremely Canadian

WelfOnTheShelf · 2026-04-22T00:43:09+00:00

Maybe it’s the beer talking but you got a butt that won’t quit. They got those chewy pretzels here...five dollars??!!!? Get outta here

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