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Yes. The March of Dimes fundraising campaign provided the funding to Salk and Sabin to create the polio vaccine.

Not an agricultural economist, but I'd bet energy prices and extreme weather. Agriculture is pretty energy intensive, both directly for machinery and also because fossil fuels are used to make fertilizer.

Yeah, but you only get the list of Spartan defeats, especially before Leuctra by counting battles that have Spartan commanders but not actually any Spartan troops. Mind you, that is a real deficiency of the Spartan system that they frequently have to fight battles with allied troops and not their own because they don't have logistical capacity, have too few hoplites, or are unwilling to have the helots unsupervised for too long, but that's slightly different from what people are saying when they mean the Spartan hoplites were generally pretty good at smashing other Greek Cities' hoplites.

Hey HN! This is my side project. One important note: the model I trained is trained just to detect unusual passages, not necessarily the most relevant and isn't intended as substitute for due diligence or investment advice or anything like that. Besides that, I'm happy to take suggestions!