Monday, November 18, 2019

Answers to Mohammed Saiful Alam Siddiquee on Quora


First I am posting his questions withut answers, while checking a thing. These are (except my changed page lay out and skipping intervening notifications) how the questions looked in the quora notifcations I had.

Check done. When I am not logged in, the filter does not activate my being logged in. Now, I'll log on and start answering, and this post will be updated.

Q N° I

Mohammed Saiful Alam Siddiquee
Question for You · 23h
How much do architectural historians make?

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Q
How much do architectural historians make?
https://www.quora.com/How-much-do-architectural-historians-make/answer/Hans-Georg-Lundahl-1


Hans-Georg Lundahl
none/ apprx Masters Latin & Greek, Lund University
Answered just now
That would depend on what capacity they are being so in.

Writers? Would depend on how popular their book is, which might depend on what publisher printed it …

Professors or other at a university? Would depend on what university and what position.

Q N° II

Mohammed Saiful Alam Siddiquee
Question for You · Sat
How old was Antoninus Pius when he became an emperor?

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Skipping myself
and believing the following:
Q
How old was Antoninus Pius when he became an emperor?
https://www.quora.com/How-old-was-Antoninus-Pius-when-he-became-an-emperor


Timothy Roberts
former Retired High School/college Teacher
Answered Sat
52

Q N° III

Mohammed Saiful Alam Siddiquee
Question for You · Sat
Who first spoke English?

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Q
Who first spoke English?
https://www.quora.com/Who-first-spoke-English/answer/Hans-Georg-Lundahl-1


Hans-Georg Lundahl
amateur linguist
Answered just now
Whether you mean Anglo-Saxon or English since Chaucer, the answer would be some generation previous to either St. Cuthbert (first Anglo-Saxon poet, wrote Verse Genesis) or Chaucer, and the speech becoming a language it had not been previously would be too gradual to notice in the speech itself.

It’s just that after both came someone actually trying to write it.

Q N° IV

Mohammed Saiful Alam Siddiquee
Question for You · Fri
What was the name of the wolf that raised Romulus and Remus?

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Q
What was the name of the wolf that raised Romulus and Remus?
https://www.quora.com/What-was-the-name-of-the-wolf-that-raised-Romulus-and-Remus/answer/Hans-Georg-Lundahl-1


Hans-Georg Lundahl
none/ apprx Masters Latin & Greek, Lund University
Answered just now
It’s not a fairy tale, but history, about feral children.

If only one had been raised by a wolf, he would probably not have become functional socially, when coming to human society, that they had some social functionality was because they were two human children.

Even so it destroyed sufficiently of it to make them end up provoking and killing each other. (Or, one provoked and the other killed him).

In real life, as opposed to Kipling’s Djungle Book, she wolves don’t have names.

Q N° V

Mohammed Saiful Alam Siddiquee
Question for You · Thu
Is the cultivar name usually written in Latin or English?

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Skipping
and do not know which one of the answers given by others to promote.

I didn't even know what "cultivar names" are.

Q N° VI

Mohammed Saiful Alam Siddiquee
Question for You · Nov 11
How are decades counted?

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Q
How are decades counted?
https://www.quora.com/How-are-decades-counted/answer/Hans-Georg-Lundahl-1


Hans-Georg Lundahl
none/ apprx Masters Latin & Greek, Lund University
Answered just now
Decades and centuries are counted in two different ways.

The one closest to how they do it in Swedish is this:

1900’s, 2000’s for previous and this Century;
2000’s and 2010’s for previous and this Decade.

It’s weakness is, a phrase like 2000’s can refer to both a century and its first decade.

They count like this : 1900 - 1999, 2000 - 2099 for centuries, 2000 - 2009, 2010 - 2019.

The other version is like this:

20th C, 21st C for previous and this Century
1st decade of 21st C, 2nd decade of 21st C for previous and this Decade

They count like this : 1901 - 2000, 2001 - 2100 for centuries, 2001 - 2010, 2011 - 2020 for decades.

Or did you mean Rosary decades?

Q N° VII

Mohammed Saiful Alam Siddiquee
Question for You · Nov 11
What did the Romans use domes for?

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Q
What did the Romans use domes for?
https://www.quora.com/What-did-the-Romans-use-domes-for/answer/Hans-Georg-Lundahl-1


Hans-Georg Lundahl
none/ apprx Masters Latin & Greek, Lund University
Answered just now
A lot of different things, one of them being temples.

They were also used in palaces, perhaps even in some purely practical buildings.

Q N° VIII

Mohammed Saiful Alam Siddiquee
Question for You · Nov 11
What does the crown of thorns represent?

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Question merged
You were redirected because the question What does the crown of thorns represent? was merged with this question.

Q
What was the crown of thorns made of?
https://www.quora.com/What-was-the-crown-of-thorns-made-of/answer/Hans-Georg-Lundahl-1


Hans-Georg Lundahl
none/ apprx Masters Latin & Greek, Lund University
Answered 1m ago
To general question : it was made from thorns.

To question as asked : it is primarily a historic relic, over and above what it may represent to someone subjectively.

As it is a relic of the passion of Christ, it represents Christ and His sufferings for our salvation.

You may guess
that I don't approve of the question being so merged, that is why I answered the first one very briefly.

Q N° IX

Mohammed Saiful Alam Siddiquee
Question for You · Nov 10
What are three Roman cultural achievements?

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Q
What are three Roman cultural achievements?
https://www.quora.com/What-are-three-Roman-cultural-achievements/answer/Hans-Georg-Lundahl-1

Hans-Georg Lundahl
none/ apprx Masters Latin & Greek, Lund University
Answered just now
I’ll add three other ones (to previous answer):

building excellent roads

converting its people to Christianity

converting a Pagan imperial power to Christianity

Q N° X

Mohammed Saiful Alam Siddiquee
Question for You · Nov 9
What purposes did the earthwork mound of the Adena and Hopewell serve?

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What purposes did the earthwork mound of the Adena and Hopewell serve?
https://www.quora.com/What-purposes-did-the-earthwork-mound-of-the-Adena-and-Hopewell-serve/answer/Hans-Georg-Lundahl-1


Hans-Georg Lundahl
none/ apprx Masters Latin & Greek, Lund University
Answered 1m ago
It seems the site giving its name to Adena culture was used for graves, burials:

Adena Mound - Wikipedia

On the other hand, this is not necessarily the case with all Hopewell sites:

Portsmouth Earthworks - Wikipedia

So, some guess many had other ceremonial uses than just burial.

Here are the wikis on the two cultures, anyway:

Adena culture - Wikipedia

Hopewell tradition - Wikipedia

Q N° XI

Mohammed Saiful Alam Siddiquee
Question for You · Nov 9
What are the decades of the 20th century?

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Q
What are the decades of the 20th century?
https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-decades-of-the-20th-century/answer/Hans-Georg-Lundahl-1


Hans-Georg Lundahl
none/ apprx Masters Latin & Greek, Lund University
Answered just now
See this other answer, there are two ways of counting:

Hans-Georg Lundahl's answer to How are decades counted?

Q N° XII

Mohammed Saiful Alam Siddiquee
Question for You · Nov 9
What is the Mississippian period known for?

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Q
What is the Mississippian period known for?
https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-Mississippian-period-known-for/answer/Hans-Georg-Lundahl-1


Hans-Georg Lundahl
none/ apprx Masters Latin & Greek, Lund University
Answered just now
The so called Mississippian “period” is known for certain types of fossils.

In North America, where the interval consists primarily of marine limestones, it is treated as a geologic period between the Devonian and the Pennsylvanian.

Mississippian (geology) - Wikipedia

I consider the marine limestone as from the Flood.

I also consider this is just one of the deposits of the Flood.

And since the question was posed by a probable Muslim, I consider the one surviving with his family is better represented by Noah in Genesis than by Nooh in the Quran.

Q N° XIII

Mohammed Saiful Alam Siddiquee
Question for You · Nov 8
What are the three Greek words for love in the Bible?

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Q
What are the three Greek words for love in the Bible?
https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-three-Greek-words-for-love-in-the-Bible/answer/Hans-Georg-Lundahl-1


Hans-Georg Lundahl
none/ apprx Masters Latin & Greek, Lund University
Answered just now
There are four Greek words, I am not aware one of them was missing.

It is possible erân is always omitted, I found it neither in St. Paul’s description of shameful desires, nor in the book of Samuel about King David’s adultery.

The other Greek words are stergein, philein, agapân.

Affection, friendship, sacrificial or unselfish love.

Q N° XIV
One more, not from Mohammed Saiful Alam Siddiquee this time, but related to one of his:

Q
Why was the Western Roman Empire so ineffective in dealing against barbarians?
https://www.quora.com/Why-was-the-Western-Roman-Empire-so-ineffective-in-dealing-against-barbarians/answer/Hans-Georg-Lundahl-1


Hans-Georg Lundahl
none/ apprx Masters Latin & Greek, Lund University
Answered 32m ago
While it was administrationally split up, I don’t agree this is necessarily ineffective, since it involves converting barbarians to Romans as well as to Christians.

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