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German aircraft carriers in WWII | Aside from acting as dog-treats for the Royal Navy, what would Germany do with a carrier? Where would they send it? What would it do?
They could easily use bases in Germany to bomb Poland and then bases in Poland to bomb Russia. Holland, Belgium are a hop-skip-and a jump away. Once you had bases in Northern France, y... | {
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How did people wake up before the alarm clock? | Richer people had servants to do it for them. For many others (in England at least) there were people who would come by and knock on the shutters of people's houses to wake them up. This gave rise to [the expression to "knock up,"](http://www.thefreedictionary.com/knock+up) which now could be used to mean "to be woken... | {
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Is there any evidence of a pro-Dorian struggle in the Lyceum? | This is an extremely specialised question, and I'm not familiar with the book, so I can't offer a completely informed opinion. However, here's a snippet from a contemporary review by a very respected classicist, William M. Calder, in *Gnomon* 41 (1969) 229-233:
> Else then proceeds to an error of emphasis that unne... | {
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Letter from Gerald of Wales to Pope Innocent III, January 1203 | http://parkerweb.stanford.edu/parker/actions/manuscript_description_long_display.do?ms_no=400
*edit* that's about as primary source as you can get baby! | {
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Japanese-Spanish interaction in the mid-late 1800's | There was no interaction that I ever heard about. When the Spanish conquered the Phillipines, Spanish traders in Japan boasted about bringing another colony to Christ. The Japanese response was to close their borders, which weren't opened until Perry's expedition in the 19th century. The Japanese maintained only limite... | {
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What is the percentage of secret society information that has made its way to the indexable internet? | http://www.sacred-texts.com/mas/index.htm
This should be a good place to start. I admittedly know nothing about Freemasons, but this is a great website and probably has what you are interested in. | {
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How long ago was there a time in which the common citizen was subjected to excruciating pain? Was there an adaptation to compensate for it? | Anesthetics have been used for thousands of years in the forms of plants, but they weren't widely used in pre-modern times because it was too hard to get the correct dosage. (the wikipedia article has a quote from the sixteenth century doctor Fallopius reading :'When soporifics are weak, they are useless, and when stro... | {
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Where can i get first hand sources like hand written letters and journals? | First of all, this depends on where you live and what kind of sources specifically you are looking for. I am now going to assume you are living in the US. I have no first hand experience of how archiving of private documents work over there. However, I can describe how one would go about if one were to live in a Scandi... | {
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Was Leibniz gay? | He wasn't gay or asexual. He was a mathematician. | {
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Who was the first monarch? | The oldest monarch almost certainly lived in ancient Mesopotamia or Egypt.
The oldest datable monarch that we can be certain existed historically is currently [Lugalzagesi of Umma](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lugal-zage-si) (2341-2316 BCE) who was the first city-ruler of an ancient Sumerian city to rule as hegemon ov... | {
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How to Professional Historians Compensate for suppression of Evidence? | Ok, buddy, this isn't meant to be judgmental in any way, so don't take this personally, but you have only the vaguest idea of what historians actually do.
It is our job to be conscious of our sources. It is true that historians try to limit their conclusions, etc, to things they can back up with hard evidence, often b... | {
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When a primary source document is translated, is the translation still a primary source or does it become a secondary source? | The document itself is still considered a primary source but the historian must take the translation process into account. This is why the translator of a work is often noted in the citation.
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Otto Hahn, Nobel winning genius or credit-stealing douchebag? | I found [this link.](http://scienceweek.com/2004/rmps-32.htm) But since I found it through Wikipedia, you were probably already aware of it. | {
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Is there a non-USA-ocentric version or equivalent of the History News Network ( http://hnn.us ) ? | Play around on [h-net.](http://www.h-net.org/) There's almost certainly something there that will interest you. | {
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World War II war prizes | This is an interesting one! I haven't seen the actual guidelines, if there even were any. I imagine this would just fall under the general guidelines for what servicemen overseas could bring back with them. I have read quite a few interesting accounts of GI's bringing back skulls, swords, etc. In one of the more fa... | {
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Louisiana Purchase | 1) It was just a colony, as were a lot of places in Northern America. It really wasn't that populated and only ruled by the power of New Orleans on the Mississippi. The Mississippi was slowly carrying culture and settlers further inland though as the current population will show.
California was discovered but not yet p... | {
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What determines whether a given civilization will survive and prosper? | If this could be answered in a few short paragraphs, there wouldn't be an entire market for the books on the subject, or people who stake a career on studying this.
There is no short answer.
My recommendation is to go start with Jared Diamonds, "Guns, Germs, and Steel", then his book "Collapse" as primers. Now you h... | {
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Locating a passage from Pliny | The Younger or the Elder? | {
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Why hasn't the US ever invade or buy the Bahamas | 1) War with England = Bad.
2) England didn't want to sell.
3) What is it worth? To small for large agriculture, can't reintroduce slavery into a free territory. No natural resources to speak of.
4) Benefits of England owning it outweigh the US owning it. During 19th Century would be a bitch to keep smugglers a... | {
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Has there ever been a human society where "sexual surrogate" or "surrogate partner" was a common profession? | I believe they prefer to be called "companions". | {
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What nation-state has held the biggest territory without losing any, for the longest period of time? | I think it would be either the United States or Canada, based on various criteria.
Depending on your opinion of Canadian nationhood, it could be argued that they were an independent nation-state starting with the British North America acts in 1867. Or you could say that Canada wasn't really a nation state until 1981 ... | {
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Should I be concerned my University Course in History uses a book written by a Marxist who argued things such as the Holodmor being justified as it's "bible"? | I'm very, very surprised that many of you are unfamiliar with Carr's work. Regardless of his other writings, his "What is History?" is *key* to understanding the modern historiographical canon. If you read Carr's work, it becomes much easier to understand developments in the discipline - such as the cultural and postmo... | {
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“If your government had backed you sooner, the Battle of Britain would never have happened” | Topics such as this can be difficult as they represent something a lot of historians don't typically do, speculating how things would be if events had transpired differently.
Frank Whittle's early jet engines are, without doubt, impressive and represented a huge advance in aerial propulsion. However, it should be not... | {
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What if Jesus never happened? How different would our world be today? | Impossible to say, really. | {
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while we're on the subject of Carr's What Is History?... | It's longer, maybe a bit beyond high school, and a-not-so-thinly-veiled polemic against the cultural/liguistic turn, but Geoff Eley's *A Crooked Line* is highly informative. | {
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Why is it important to study history? | "If you don't know history, you don't know anything. You're a leaf that doesn't know its part of a tree."
Not sure where the OP is from, but I was born in the US. Generally speaking, I like my country, and almost every other American I meet likes the US too. Isn't it such a wonderful coincidence that almost all the pe... | {
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How were elderly slaves treated in America before the Civil War? | Most slaves didn't live long enough to be old age, they were worked to death long before, unless they were servants who worked in the house. By the time they had gotten older they might have become supervisory slaves, slaves that supervised and monitored other slaves, but not overseers. They would also work in the sl... | {
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Famous Roman General / Battle: Phrase Dealing With total defeat? | From Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrrhic_victory
"A Pyrrhic victory (/ˈpɪrɪk/) is a victory with such a devastating cost to the victor that it carries the implication that another such victory will ultimately cause defeat.
The phrase is named after King Pyrrhus of Epirus, whose army suffered irreplacea... | {
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How is the Boer War portrayed in the UK and South Africa? | Australian here. Your question asks how the war is portrayed in UK and South Africa, but i will try and give an Australian perspective. The war is almost never referenced in popular culture so its difficult to say how it is portrayed in a popular way - all the information comes from official sources which tend to be (a... | {
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Is there a place to find documents from a specific time? | [Handwritten letter from the Duke of Wellington](http://berryhillsturgeon.com/Archives/Britain/Wellington/MourningLetter1831ALS/Wellington1831.html).
[Google image search for Napoleons handwriting](https://www.google.com/search?q=napoleon+handwriting&hl=en&rlz=1C1CHKZ_enUS433US433&prmd=imvnsb&source=ln... | {
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Is the process of building the Great Pyramid of Giza still an unexplained mystery or do we know how ancient Egyptians managed to build it? (crosspost from r/askscience) | I'll post my response to the original thread here as well, as i would be interested in finding out other peoples thoughts on the Houdin theory.
Original Post:
I believe Jean-Pierre Houdin’s Internal Ramp Theory is quite widely accepted.
Platforms and strange cavities in the construction have helped, to an extent, in... | {
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Guys need major help! answering the question "how great a threat was the Huston Plan to the constitution?" | Not nearly as great a threat as the Patriot is. Maybe you should ask /r/Law? | {
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Any good primary sources detailing religious worship during Imperial Japan? | Primary documents? I am not really sure about that.
But I can recommend a couple good books:
*Shintō and the state, 1868-1988* by Helen Hardacre - good general history of state shintoism
*Japan's modern myths: Ideology in the late Meiji period* by Carol Gluck - on how the Emperor was introduced to the people (Prior... | {
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Prussia in the 18th century: why was it so successful
militarily? | Disclaimer: I'm not an expert, but I've studied the period in school and am currently studying history at uni. A professional historian should be able to provide a better, more accurate and detailed answer than me.
About victory of Austria... If you mean the 19th century: The Battle of Königgrätz was (as far as I know... | {
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What percentage of the English/UK population were 'nobility'? | "In England, the nobility were divided between the peerage and the gentry. The peerage held titles, were members of the House of Lords, and had a limited range of judicial and fiscal privileges. In the mid-eighteenth century, there were only 190 British peers, while the gentry numbered more than 20,000." | {
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I have at least 4 photos my great uncle took in Nagasaki about a week after the bomb dropped. Original prints. What should I be doing with these? Should I scan and send to a museum? Or.... | Donate them to an archive/special collections. They will have the expertise and equipment to preserve them and you can easily get really nice high res scans in return.
Like this: http://www.archives.gov/research/military/ww2/photos/
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Will future historians thank us for the internet and social networking? | I'll kick of this bad boy. This is a deep question on many levels, and there are a couple of things to consider.
First, there is a recent trend where phenomena get studied closer to the time where they take place - we probably will not have to wait to 2050 for someone to write a large work on the Arabian spring, for e... | {
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i would like for you to follow this thread and add your two cents... | The historical answer to your question is: The Silk Road. The economic links between Europe and China, through Central Asia, carried not just silk and spice, but scientific information, philosophy, and military technology. I see it as a multi-continent society in terms of cultural advances, which means it can go much q... | {
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Kings of the Black Forest? | Black forest region would have been the states of Baden and Wuerttemberg prior to German unification so for general info you want to research those.
They were separate areas with separate rulers so you need to get a bit more specific than 'black forest' to have any chance of finding the link your best course of actio... | {
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What was the training and diet regimen of an ancient Greek Olympian like? | It is actually really hard to find information on this! I'm going to keep on searching, but in the meantime here's the (very limited) information on training conditions that I found in the *Oxford Classical Dictionary*:
> The need for athletes to have a suitable diet was widely recognized (Hippocrates *De vetere me... | {
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Is
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The abolition of slavery (around the world) was a huge expense for a lot of governments. Which countries escaped this and why? | In addition, slaves were not just the facilitators to a cotton economy, they were wealth. Much of the fear of ending slavery in the South was that wealth was often tied up in slaves. It was somewhat stable because children of slaves were also slaves and represented a dollar amount. The economy of the south was not as l... | {
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Seeking reliable information on the Middle Ages. | That article is shit.
Here is why:
1) Low taxes? Most of the national infrastructure relied upon the wealth of the lords and kings. Yes, you paid no taxes, but if your lord was poor the bridges weren't maintained and there were no guards for the roads. You also had few if any public support structures outside of ... | {
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What was the situation of the feudal system in Eastern Europe | Hah, the most surefire way to piss off a medievalist is to mention the word "feudalism". The economic systems of Europe varied enormously both through time and through place. Anyway.
I'll admit I am not a Medievalist and know even less about southern Romania, but I know a bit about Transylvania. The problem with Trans... | {
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Can someone explain the Cold War as if they were talking to an idiotic 5 year old? | Once upon a time there was a forest, and in this forest there lived a giant eagle and a giant bear. The eagle thought all the animals in the forest should live like eagles, and the bear thought all the animals in the forest should live like bears. The eagle and the bear were not friends at all.
The eagle sat in his ne... | {
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What are some good histories of the US written by non-US historians? | I thought *The American Future: A History* by Simon Schama (British) was a very interesting and accessible read. It's written in the context of Obama's election, and it tries to trace certain themes in American politics from the moment of the founding of the US to 2008. It's more pop-science than anything else, but pre... | {
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Why did the US intelligence community perform so poorly in Vietnam? | My understanding is that McCarthyism in the US had a negative impact on the intelligence community during this era. Most of the experts on Asian countries were forced out of the government for being suspected of communism, so when the US began to become involved with Vietnam, there were no experts left to clarify the ... | {
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[Book Request] Rise and development of Prussia | Try:
http://www.amazon.com/Iron-Kingdom-Downfall-Prussia-1600-1947/dp/0674031962/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1326745727&sr=8-1 | {
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Do you believe the US gov killed MLK? | No. | {
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Can anyone concisely explain the Battle of Hastings and what it ultimately meant to the history of England? | In very simple terms:
In 1066 the ruler of England was Harold Godwinsson, who was a descendent of (essentially) Vikings who had invaded several hundred years prior and become the rulers.
In 1066 England was invaded firstly by a Norwegian army (under another Harold, Harold Hardrada) which was defeated in the north of ... | {
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Books about the presidents that served under the Articles of Confederation? | There was no real "President" under the articles, there was only a congress. The Presidency was a completely new concept created by the Constitution. The congress had various presiding chairs, but there was no one person who was given any real power in the post Revolutionary period. This was actually one of the reaso... | {
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How did Hitler and Hirohito make money? | When they both conquered the lands around them, they did not have to tax people to gain money and goods. They could simply take them from the occupied lands. Metals in the Netherlands were scarce. Bikes had wooden wheels because the iron had to be turned in.
In general, about the war itself, the Axis never really sto... | {
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WWII Hitler and Russia | As far as I am aware, the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany opposed each other in most ways. Stalin is very difficult to place on the political spectrum, but Simon Sebag Montefiore signifies him as a Menshevik more than as a Bolshevik in *Young Stalin*. While he might not have really acted in any way to reflect the politic... | {
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18th Century England France. | France was FAR more absolutist than England, and in a way always had been. After the English Civil War, which solidified the role of Parliament in the English government as "the executor of the Kings will", the role of the monarchy in England was on a continuous downward trajectory. By the late 18th Century especiall... | {
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Looking to start reading about the frontier/wild west. | If you have access, the *Western Historical Quarterly* has lots of good stuff.
If you want a classic, F. J. Turner's *The Frontier in American History* is [on Gutenberg.](http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/22994)
Susan Johnson's *Roaring Camp* is interesting, if a bit controversial. Won the Bancroft in 2001, FWIW.
Also... | {
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How did the Articles of Confederation "fail"? What events led to that conclusion? | Somebody else mentioned Shay's rebellion, which was a significant event that illustrated the weakness of the Articles of Confederation. I don't like the lack of detail they offered, though. It isn't just that it worried people, but it brought up the point that the nation had no way of preserving itself as a nation. Sta... | {
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What is the difference between social and cultural history? | In terms of academia, social history more often refers to Marxism (as it relates to historical studies). Although there are a lot of variants and nuance to be accounted for, social history often tries to examine events from the point of view of class relations and, if they want to get teleological on our asses, the slo... | {
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Can anyone recommend a great history of Japan? | I'm by no means involved in the field, but from what I've heard, Andrew Gordon's A Modern History of Japan is a pretty good survey book on the subject. I think there are a few historians of Japan on this subreddit, so they might be able to give more insight. | {
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Intellectual History: How much influence did the writings and thought of Nietzsche have on Hitler and the NAZIs? | Nietzsche's sister was married to an SS officer. Nietzsche personally despised nationalism, and while some of his writings were used to uphold the Nazi philosophy, he was insane (then dead) by the time his sister introduced his work. Probably the most abused quote is Nietzsche's "great blond beast" and the ubermensch a... | {
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Which countries would you define as European in the 19th century? | The question of where Europe ends and Asia begins is relevant, because there's not really a border there.
The Ottoman Empire obviously had territory on both sides of the Dardanelles, the one place that Asia and Europe are actually separated. The Ottoman Empire was European to the extent that the other European powe... | {
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Looking for detailed information on earliest settlers in NYC area | 1) The fluidity of citizenship was much stronger during the period. Many Dutchmen went to England, many English went to the Netherlands. It's interesting to note the very famous Pilgrims of Plymouth Rock fame, actually had moved to Holland well before they came to America. Additionally, the area was colonized by a ... | {
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When did the handshake become commonplace? | This just gives you a lower bound in one culture only, but *The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England* by Ian Mortimer says that in the 15th century a handshake was not a greeting, but a much rarer gesture reserved for publicly closing a deal, making a pact etc. | {
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Special Operations Executive/WWII espionage? | The SOE could be considered a major contributor to the outcome of the Resistance in France, though I'm not sure how far you could say to the outcome of the war itself. The organization was responsible for providing the French Resistance with weaponry to fuel their fight against the Nazis. For example, runs dropping in ... | {
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Was the blackout day one of the most successful political protests in history? | I suspect campaigns like Ghandi's civil disobedience against British rule in India, the Civil Rights movement in the USA and the women's suffrage movement might be seen as more significant in the long run. | {
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Did cowboys really talk the way they do in movies? | I may be wrong with this but I believe True Grit is quite authentic. I remember reading they worked very closely with historians to get it right. | {
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[Text Request] What books should I read about the historical setting of early Christianity? | [Augustus to Constantine](http://www.amazon.com/Augustus-Constantine-Triumph-Christianity-Roman/dp/0664227724) and [Gods and the One God](http://www.amazon.com/Gods-One-Library-Early-Christianity/dp/0664250114/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1327178771&sr=1-1) by Robert Grant.
[The Christians As the Romans ... | {
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When did human beings start exercising? (X-Post r/askscience) | The minute Urg couldn't chase the herd off a cliff because he had been sitting in the cave to long.
Seriously though...
Exercising as fitness probably didn't begin until the Age of Enlightenment. Until that point, many of the upper class didn't need to perform manual labor. During the late middle ages, Kings and ma... | {
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[TEXT REQUEST] Muhammad | Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet by Karen Armstrong has a fair amount about the historical climate surrounding the life of Muhammad. | {
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Why aren't the English/Irish/Scottish considered Scandanavian/Nordic? | National distinctions are generally predicated on language. Icelandic is very close to the Scandinavian languages, while Irish and Scottish are both Gaelic and English is Germanic. While Scandinavian and Germanic languages are related, they are separate branches. | {
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Rough Riders: Suicides? | No idea where they found 14 suicides in the source mentioned.
[http://www.history.army.mil/documents/spanam/WS-Stat-cvr.htm](Source)
I believe the Rough Riders were the 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry. As mentioned in the aforementioned source:
>United States Volunteers were a special category, being raised ex... | {
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When did the English learn to write? | The English were not always English.
Many of the Ancient (pre-Roman) English were Celts, in which case you should look up [Ogham](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogham) | {
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Did Hitler ever go on record to say that he wanted to kill all the Jews? | In the course of my life I have very often been a prophet, and have usually been ridiculed for it. During the time of my struggle for power it was in the first instance only the Jewish race that received my prophecies with laughter when I said that I would one day take over the leadership of the State, and with it that... | {
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Roadmap to LGBTs in history? | Ok, so...
Greeks practiced Paederasty in the pure sense of the word. Older men would have relationships with younger boys, though physical penetration was largely frowned upon. Also it was unacceptable to be the "bottom" or feminine partner being penetrated.
Ernst Rohm was a homosexual who was head of SA, the precu... | {
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When did the American accent, and more broadly SAE appear? | Well, keep in mind first of all that Americans have [very diverse accents](http://aschmann.net/AmEng/#SmallMapCanada) among themselves. However, there is a general ~~consensus~~ perception that the English spoken by people from the Great Lakes and Midwest is "correct," and this is, I believe, the accent that gets spoke... | {
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100 years ago the south voted Democrat. What's the history of the issues dividing the parties? | Most of the current party realignment can be traced to Johnson's signing of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. He famously said "we just delivered the South to the Republican Party for a long time to come". | {
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Has politics always seemed so fake in the United States? | Fake? That's a tough word. If by fake you mean theatrical, then probably. However, quick catch phrases and talking points have been around a long time (I Like Ike, Wave the Bloody Shirt). It's just that we've reached an unprecedented level of constant immersion due to the 24/7 news cycle. However, many people clai... | {
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Need help with some specialized WWII research, regarding the German occupation of France. | Although it can be terribly boring at times, John Sweets' "Choices in Vichy France: The French under Nazi Occupation" gives a very thorough look at the occupation experience of Clermont-Ferrand.
The city has two universities, the Blaise Pascal University established in 1854 and the very prestigious University of Auve... | {
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Please help me find a topic for a research paper topic on America, 1877-1917 | Well, obviously I'd tell you to do something relating to immigration - the Chinese immigration and exclusion as well as the influence of Chinese culture upon American culture, or in some senses, lack thereof, is a great topic. This is the time when Chop Suey was invented but also the same time when the fear of opium de... | {
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After Franz Ferdinand was assassinated and the Austrians went after the Serbs, what was Russia's motivation for getting involved? | It's called 'Pan-Slavism'. Russian interests in the Balkans can be dated back centuries. Austria, for all intents and purposes, held the key to beginning the war. Conflicts in the Balkans were a dime a dozen, but it was Austria's choice to issue an ultimatum to the Serbs that they knew they could not and would not f... | {
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Looking for works on oppression of religion in the Soviet Union | I'm not hugely familiar with any of the works, and nothing specifically on oppression of religion comes to mind, but you might want to consider:
Religion and modernization in the Soviet Union / edited by Dennis J.
Dunn.
Religion & nationalism in Eastern Europe & the Soviet Union / edited by Dennis J. Dunn.
... | {
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What were Adopf Hitler's Religious Beliefs? | Well, this is a somewhat complicated question. I think the correct modern day term is "Cafeteria Christian", since in a lot of cases he just picked and chose from Christian dogma to see what suited him. I think he definitely had a spiritual background but since organized religion was a threat to Nazism, he obviously pe... | {
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Can Christopher Columbus be credited with discovering America for Europe | Well, without answering hypotheticals and [what if's](/r/HistoricalWhatIf), yes, Columbus REdiscovered the New World for Europe. Of course with Vikings coming as early as the 10th Century, there was European contact, but with the relative isolation of Scandinavia as well as it's antagonistic nature with the rest of Eu... | {
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How much has the crime rate changed over the centuries? We must be a much safer society nowadays than compared to, say, they 1600's... | I'd actually like to add a cautionary note to the suggestions of Stephen Pinker's book. His use of statistics is deeply misleading, from the numbers killed in the An Lushan Revolt (which certainly did not kill 2/3 of the population of the Tang Empire), to the suppression of the Cathars (which Pinker has essentially ki... | {
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How did Carthage come to rule over all the other Phoenician colonies? | Carthage never ruled over all of the Phoenician colonies. Carthage's base of power was northern Africa, and they expanded somewhat into the surrounding area. Xenophon's Hellenica, for example, which was written in the middle of the fourth century BC, describes the early Carthaginian attempts to conquer Sicily (they wer... | {
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How come the British colonies formed a superpower(USA) yet Spanish, Portuguese colonies formed into relatively undeveloped nations. | Well, there's that whole common perception that it's because of the Protestant work ethic versus the Catholic/Iberian tendency to have "Siestas". Obviously that's simplistic and ridiculous. There are a lot of opinions about this, but I'm of the opinion that it's the essential mode which the colonies undertook economica... | {
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What was the role of the U.K. within the Cold War? | In the very funny and insightful British show "Yes, Minister" Jim Hacker, MP, says "We don't really have a foreign policy. More of an American missile base." | {
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Can anyone recommend a book that details the timeline of man from prehistory to the space age? | What type of information are you looking for and at what scholarly level?
For instance, a pretty good popular history on the theme of beverages is "A History of the World in 6 Glasses" by Tom Standage. It's popular from the perspective that it doesn't delve too deeply into dry and academic source citation, and gives ... | {
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Is there any record of Einstein's use of drugs or other substances? (x-post from AskReddit) | I don't know if he USED any drugs, but he was against prohibition laws.
"The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret th... | {
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Why wasn't Jefferson at the Constitutional Convention? | He was ambassador to France at the time. | {
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Any good books on JFK or The Cold War? | John Lewis Gaddis is well regarded among Cold War historians. I've read a few of his books [and this is one that suits your purpose](http://www.amazon.ca/Cold-War-John-Lewis-Gaddis/dp/0143038273/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1327708957&sr=1-1). | {
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Have you seen this cannon? Can you tell me anything about it? | It most likely is modern in manufacture, it's pretty new looking and doesn't show much tarnish or wear in this picture. Additionally It certainly was not a field gun at all. It most probably served as either a salute or signal cannon for ceremonial purposes.
If it is older than the picture lets on, it likely was a ... | {
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Monogamy | Oh god. Monogamy isn't entirely simply historic. It is also, in many ways, biological, because there is evidence that even before humans became human, monogamy existed. However, the prevalence of monogamy seems to be tied to many religions and cultures. Obviously, Christianity is a big one. There are cultures where mon... | {
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Are World War II-era RAF records available online? | This does sound like something the BNA would have in their records but I don't know if those records have been digitized and placed online. I will do a few searches and see what I can dig up. I did find with a quick Google search of the date of the raid and the city they were heading for and found [this](http://www.raf... | {
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This may be a silly question, but what did the Supreme Court do during the American Civil War? | Notable pre Dred Scott Cases.
Amistad-(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amistad_(case)
>On March 9, Associate Justice Joseph Story delivered the Court's decision. Article IX of Pinckney's Treaty was ruled off topic since the Africans in question were never legal property. They were not criminals, as the U.S. Attorney'... | {
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Let's Revolutionize Periodization | If we're going to really rethink this whole periodization, we need a heuristic that will present a set of questions, not a set of expectations. With that in mind, let me suggest using the **size** of the social group as a framework.
It could go something like this:
*under 100
*100 to 5000
*5000 to 100000
*100000 or m... | {
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In Ancient Rome, how long did it take to travel across the empire? | Nice try, Carthage | {
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How profitable was colonialism for various European powers? | Some colonial ventures were extraordinarily profitable, like French rule in Saint Domangue or British rule in India (for the most part). More about this in a moment.
At the same time, the "New Imperialism" of the late 19th century could be extraordinarily **un**profitable. From about 1870, Europeans had the technologi... | {
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Best source of history documentaries? | Documentaries generally:
http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/category/history/
More specifically...
James Burke's 'Connections' Series
http://www.youtube.com/user/JamesBurkeWeb
The Ascent of Man with
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHJrSZWFQFo
Pod-casts for your Mp3 or ipod:
Dan Carlin's Hardcore history
http://itunes.app... | {
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Did Zheng He's ships, or pre-modern Chinese ships in general, have names? What sorts of names would they have had? | Yes, Chinese vessels had names. Zheng He's flagship is called the "Tian Yuan" (peace under the sky). I'm not sure about English sources, but you can easily find it in Chinese. | {
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Do you find the more you learn about history, the less religious you become? | One thing you eventually come to realize is that religions are by and large social institutions, and like any other organization of human beings, organized religions fall victim to humanity's many vices. Like all philosophies created by men, religion too can be misused.
Personally, the study of history didn't neces... | {
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