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Why were balls used on the Medici coat of arms?
I've heard they represent the weighted balls used to measure goods, alluding to Florence's history as a commercial city and the Medici family's history as merchants and bankers. I've also heard that ...
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What is history?
I've downvoted several questions because I don't think they are about history. It strikes me that I may be in error - I may be making false assumptions about history and historiography. Most things ...
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Do historians agree with Dominic Sandbrook's historical analysis about Margaret Thatcher?
BBC History Magazine published an interesting article according to which Dominic Sandbrook, a historian and author of the book "Season in the sun: The Battle for Britain, 1974-1979", answering to the ...
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What did the Phoenician sailor trader eat?
I am not a historian my self, but I like to read history, ancient history. I am reading now about Phoenician civilization.
I noticed in Wikipedia :
the Phoenicians were the major naval and trading ...
2
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In England, how many Jews died during the persecutions of the crusades during 1190-1200?
As is well known Steven Runciman, a British historian known for his work on the Middle Ages, definitively clarified what the Holy War had been: "The Holy War itself was nothing more than a long act of ...
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The role of the two world wars in the evolution of fordism
What is the role of the two world wars in the evolution of fordism ?
I've read that fordism entered Europe due to the WW I, but I've also read that the fordism began to be effective after the WW II. ...
6
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Why does the monarchy of Belgium still exist after Leopold 2?
I was browsing the internet and came across the post Which Dictator Killed the Most People. It seems that Leopold 2 had a lot of people killed.
This got me thinking, I don't see for example heirs of ...
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What was President Jimmy Carter's role in the Iranian Revolution?
Iran was a friend to the USA until Carter traveled to Iran and immediately afterwards Iran faced revolution. Khomeini went to Iran from France.
On November 4, 1979, an angry mob of young Islamic ...
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1answer
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Was there discrimination against Jewish people at the entrance exams to the most prestigious universities in the USSR?
The most prestigious universities in the USSR discriminated against Jewish applicants. Tanya Khovanova (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA) wrote:
This is a special ...
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Are the swords in the Oath of Horatii all Roman?
In looking at the Oath of Horatii image
I can see three swords in the hand of the father, I see what looks to be a gladius in the center, but the two swords on either side of it do not look to be ...
4
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Which is closer to Old Dutch?
The Dutch dialects spoken in Belgium and the Netherlands are diverse, but if a general statement can be made, which, as spoken today, is closer to the root of the language?
15
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432 views
What form of home address did Romans use?
Were the buildings in an ancient Roman city numbered, named or something else? How would they tell each other where they lived? Were the numbers painted on the walls? Did they have apartment numbers? ...
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What is the origin of current indian brahmins
I know that Brahmins are part of Hindu caste system. Why I asked this is, their physical type is different from the Dravidian(May be natives).
Most of the resources in the net explains the origin of ...
5
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How does Argentina view the inhabitants of the Falklands?
What does Argentina think of Falkland islanders (kelpers)?
legally as in, do they believe they have a right to inhabit the islands regardless of whom governs them.
Were they (or was going to be) ...
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2answers
82 views
How did India join the Soviet bloc during the cold war?
How did India end up joining the Soviet pole during the Cold Wars and Pakistan joined US pole?
6
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246 views
Why didn’t Britain use its vast navy to get past trench warfare?
Before the start of World War I there was a large arms race between Britain and Germany and although Britain didn’t come out with the largest army – they had by far the largest navy in the world. This ...
3
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Epoch of an item with anchor symbol with the letters N and D
I found in an antique shop in France the item seen below and would like to know more about the age and origin and material based on the logo/mark.
The seller told me it is from the Napoleon III epoch ...
5
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2answers
84 views
Eastern and Southern Europe in the medieval time period?
What were Eastern and Southern Europe like in the medieval period? Did Southern and Eastern Europe have knights and castles like Western Europe? I've never heard for example of Italian knights in the ...
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1answer
41 views
The effects of war on the workforce
It seems to me that a war have two opposite effects on the post-war workforce :
it decreases the active population because of the deaths
it increases the active population by mobilizing women (who ...
4
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2answers
107 views
U.S. Marine Corps and Why does the Navy’s army need its own air force?
A recent interview by C-SPAN host Brian Lamb with Washington Post staff writer Rajiv Chandrasekaran touched on many controversial issues of the F-35 acquisition program where evidently a lot of pork ...
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2answers
196 views
Is there a possibility that the Islamic civilization visited America before Colombus?
Islamic sources claim that there is historical evidence that an Islamic explorer visited America before Colombus and the Age of Discovery. An example. Columbus Was Not The First To Cross The Atlantic. ...
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1answer
123 views
Why did the Arabs start the 1973 War during Ramadan, and did it affect their performance?
The Arab-Israeli War in 1973, besides the Jewish Holiday, also took place during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, during which practicing Muslims observe mandatory daytime fasting. Did this affect ...
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2answers
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Parable of the broken window and 1929 crisis
I've read that, in 1938, economic crisis was taking back, and that it's the war effort that finally closed the 1929 crisis.
Is it not a version of the parable of the broken window ? How a war effort ...
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69 views
Is there a commonly-accepted book or a site that explains the history-of-everything? [closed]
I don't know if i am allowed to post such question however i want a e-book or a site where i can start to understand the civilization and how it started. i mean i know a lot of ancient historic ...
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4answers
58 views
What other pairs of wars have had a ~25 year interval?
The I and II world wars are 25 years apart, which is within the length of one generation. This is interesting, because it creates a premise for an entire part of a generation to be both without ...
9
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0answers
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What was it like for a coastal village to experience a viking raid in around the tenth century?
Were fishing villages really completely at the mercy of these vikings, or could they defend them selves? Did villagers have their own weapons? Could they expect any support from a Lord or Land Baron? ...
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Syphilis affecting e.g. noble courts and wider society in 17th century
I've read that one reason that the nobility attending e.g. the French kings' court in the 17th century had a passion for wigs, powdered faces, and gloves was the then prevalence of syphilis (the ...
15
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2answers
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How popular was Mozart in France before WWII and after it?
Another intriguing statement by Robert Paxton:
I was surprised myself to learn that Mozart had been little played in
France before 1940, and that his prominence since 1945 in the French
...
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2answers
544 views
How would slaves have addressed their masters in Ancient Greece?
In Ancient Rome, slaves addressed their masters as Dominus or Domina (male or female, respectively).
Would the slaves (or servants) of Ancient Greece have used a similar title, or would they have ...
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Is there parallelism between Aztec cannibalism and ingestion of the flesh and blood of Jesus Christ that Catholics practice in their Communion ritual? [closed]
As is well known, recent studies present Aztec cannibalism within the basic debate in anthropology between "materialists" and "idealists," and it seems that it is difficult to definitively prove ...
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1answer
49 views
What uncertainties and questions surround the death of Attila?
Merriam-Webester's Concise Encyclopedia says
Attila died on his wedding night, possibly murdered by his bride.
What uncertainty does the word possibly imply there about the death of Attila?
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2answers
42 views
Land division to soldiers
In what times and places was it common to give land to soldiers, as a form of payment for their army service?
I have learned in school that this was common in Rome. However, in the wikipedia article ...
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Origin of land-lottery system
A report from 1894 describes the Musha'a land tenure system in the Arab villages of Palestine: the agricultural lands of the village are considered common property, and they are divided each year ...
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1answer
62 views
Do Navy Seals die in training? [closed]
I didn't know where to ask this but i've heard that sometimes Navy Seals die during traing? Is this true? The same goes fro Green Berets.
7
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2answers
114 views
Why didn't the Arab states industrialize?
Why didn't the states of the Arabian peninsula industrialize around the time that Europe and East Asia were? Was it simply a lack of accessible natural resources? Why not import coal?
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0answers
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Were any “Native American” attacks able to annihilate any European American settlements?
Were all attacks upon European settlers as unsuccessful as the initial attack upon Jamestown?
Was the 400 strong Paspahegh attack that was easily repelled by half strength, Malaria infected English ...
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Has the feminization of the labor force continued after WW1?
I've read that during the World War I, the labor force has experienced a strong feminization, in order to compensate the lack of men (engaged in the army).
At the end of the war, has the rate of ...
8
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3answers
178 views
What was the foreign policy of 1791 France?
Having done some research on my own had yielded little to no results on pre-radical revolutionary France regarding foreign policy.
I am specifically looking for arguments during the constitutional ...
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1answer
50 views
Why the resurgence of Islamic powers in the middle east in the past three decades? [closed]
Why has Islam made such a resurgence in the Middle East?
Why did it began with Iran? (while Islam originally came from Saudi Arabia)
Is there any relation between US President Carter's open political ...
7
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2answers
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Popularity of knight-robbery in the 15th century in Germany, Poland and Silesia
I've found the term Raubritter (German), which is translated to Robber-knight, and I was wondering - was it a popular thing in the 15th century? Were there many such knights? If they were tolerated by ...
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1answer
50 views
Why has the United States not attacked Iran in the past thirty years? [closed]
Why didn't the United States of America even try to attack Iran to change it's Islamic regime through a lightning war like Iraq war in past three decades?
According to my own opinion the Islamic ...
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When did the Arabs become a religious group?
Immediately after the Mohamed death the Arab conquests began and they proceeded with extraordinary rapidity.
But in "History of Western Philosophy" Bertrand Russell wrote
"The Arab Empire was ...
6
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1answer
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Did the United States have a third atomic bomb to drop on Japan?
On 15 August, six days after the bombing of Nagasaki, Japan announced its surrender to the United States, signing the instrument of surrender on 2 September, officially ending the war.
The question ...
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Why did the United States attack Iraq and Afghanistan, but not Iran? [closed]
Why did the U.S choose to attack Iraq and Afghanistan?
It seems to me that the threat of a nuclear Iran was more serious and Iran was a more serious enemy to U.S. Now U.S is not able to attack Iran ...
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20 views
The manuscript Summa Logicae (William of Ockham)
The Summa Logicae (Latin, in English it's the Sum of Logic) is a textbook on logic by William of Ockham (1323). There are articles about the Summa Logicae in Wikipedia and in Logicmuseum.
It was ...
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Were well-connected Germans able to park their sons in Norway during WWII?
Reading Antony Beevor's "The Second World War" he makes the point several times that a peculiar obsession of Hitler's was the defence of Norway and that there were close to half a million German ...
5
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Resistance in 1938 Czechoslovakia
I wonder if someone might help me. I'm writing a novel. My protagonist is a dual national (English born, German parents) bio chemist contracted to work for Freiburg University 1938. At the time ...
3
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1answer
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What uniform did the Supreme State Arbiter of the USSR wear?
What uniform did the Supreme State Arbiter (главный государственный арбитр) of the USSR wear?
I think I saw it on a site before but I cannot find it now.
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1answer
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What area of Los Angeles does this historical map depict?
What area of Los Angeles does this historical map depict?
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1answer
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Is There A Term For The Old Maps That Had Lines Connecting Pin-Wheels?
Many old maps have lines like below. Is there a term for a map with that type of lines?
(from http://r-russell0912-dc2.blogspot.com/2011/01/pirate-maps-and-old-maps.html)
My best hypothesis is that ...
