What about what’s the difference between the French Revolution and the American revolution. Who googles that. One is in France, one is in America, it doesn’t take a phd to figure that out
I don't think these are necessarily dumb questions at all. People know there IS a difference between WW1 and WW2 in the same way they know there's a difference between Lenin and Stalin. They want to know what that is - e.g. more deaths in WW2, Japan fighting against the Western Allies rather than on the same side, USA as a formal Ally rather than an Associated Power, far greater role for strategic bombing... All sorts of things that could actually be linked to quite complex enquiries.
Probably but I guess there battles which don't fit the conventional picture either and are more like wars. It might make more sense, for example, to call the Battle of the Atlantic a war. It's perfectly legitimate to ask 'why isn't it?'
Some of the people googling these things might be nine years old. They might be non-native English speakers. The people who are googling these things are trying to acquire knowledge. No one should be looking down on them.
I'm not even British but thanks to you, I'm now stuck with Willie Maley in my head. And they gave us James McGrory and Paul McStay. They gave us Johnstone, Tully, Murdoch, Auld and Hay...
sinn fein are/were the political mouthpiece of the IRA and supported them and assisted with their funding. Might just as well ask the difference between the Nazi party and the Waffen SS
Is it just me, or the folks who ask the "Huns and X" question are guys that were misled by Disney's Mulan? (The animated one, of course. The nice one with Mushu stealing the show)
Did not know about Potsdam. Tried Yalta and Versailles, even Yalta and Malta, no luck. I also tried Huns and Hungarians, but that was closer to Jane Austen than Google it seems.
I'm hoping people are Googling it to find out how their literary styles and themes differ. But at the same time, they're so often grouped together, and often used pen names as well, so it's not unreasonable that there are people who think they're the same person.
Stumped by Roanoke due to my lack of knowledge of US history, and I'm off to Google 'Ronin,' probably due my lack of interest in waving swords around!
Thanks.