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Cover Art of “Álbum de la Revolución Cubana”
On the cover of the famous "Álbum de la Revolución Cubana":
Who is the person whose face is painted in the top-right corner? What is his importance?
Is the cover (where we see Fidel Castro actively ...
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When were portable or chemical toilettes used the first time in a war scenario?
Military logistics is the discipline of planning and carrying out the movement and maintenance of military forces and, as is well known, is the stuff that if military forces don't have enough of, the ...
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What compelled Benjamin Disraeli to label 1857 revolt as a “National Revolt”?
It is still debated whether the Indian Rebellion of 1857 in British India was just a soldiers' mutiny or a National revolt for the independence.
But in July 1857, in House of Commons, Benjamin ...
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Ancient statue I found near my place
I have found an ancient statue covered in the ground. I am from Haifa, Israel. There are no old buildings nearby. Here is its photo; I don't know what it is!
I would like to know what period this ...
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British colony in Berlin
Yesterday's [23rd May 2013's] IHT had this interesting historical news clip in its 100, 75, 50 years ago section. It refers to a British colony in Berlin in 1913 of which Mr. J. W. Louth was ...
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On the humorous presentations of history [closed]
History has been the subject of caricature, satire, cartoon and comic books, stage and film comedies.
Theories of humour are different but agree in a number of elements: on the one hand, the ...
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Have any armies equipped/fed their officers and enlisted men equally?
In the Soviet army during WW2 the officers had bigger food rations. They also had better boots (kirza vs. leather). The air force pilots were fed even better.
What about other modern (in the last, ...
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Are submarine launched ballistic missiles still inaccurate?
In the early 1980s documentary First Strike, one of the arguments made for the development of the MX missile program was that in the event of a massive Soviet attack on the land-based missile and ...
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How much did the Chinese Summer Palace cost to build?
According to Wikipedia, Empress Cixi embezzled 30 million taels of silver from the modernization of Qing Navy to build the Summer Palace. What is 30 million taels of silver equivalent to in modern ...
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What role did British cartoonists play in the early 1800?
Can anybody explain the historical context and the reasons for which the comic below, preserved to the British Museum, was painted? What is its meaning? Why is Napoleon so little? And, more ...
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The Constitution of the United States: Background material for the original, esp. the Bill of Rights?
During the work and debate around the Constitution of the United States; where there much background-material like surveys, notes and minutes (from debates)? How much of such material have survived? ...
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Did the American Founders Debate on the Relative Size of the Government?
It seems to me that the concern with the size of government, specifically that it's too large and therefore complex, is a relatively modern concern in American politics. I would assume that given the ...
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Why didn't the US choose to demolish Tokyo with an atom bomb?
Tokyo was Japan's capital. Why didn't the US choose Tokyo to demolish with Atom Bomb?
Bonus Question: What factors decided to bring Hiroshima and Nagasaki on table?
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How did people realize that America was a different continent?
American schools teach that the American continents are named after Amerigo Vespucci because he realized that Columbus had not sailed to Asia but rather a new continent. If this story is true, how ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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Which is closer to Old Dutch? [closed]
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?
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How does Argentina view the inhabitants of the Falklands? [closed]
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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Epoch of an item marked 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 ...
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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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What is the origin of current indian brahmins [closed]
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 ...
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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 ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...
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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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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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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?
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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 ...
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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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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 ...
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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 ...
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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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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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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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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.
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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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What was the Nature of 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 ...
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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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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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Why was Switzerland not attacked during the two World Wars?
Why in WW1 or WW2 or ever nobody invaded Switzerland? All other countries was in some wars. How Switzerland do it and should we learn from them?
I hear that many people with power have money in swiss ...
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Was there a state in history where influence of sport fans on politics was greater than in medieval Byzantine Empire?
It is known that sport fans got prominent role in Byzantine politics. Initially there were four teams: the greens, the reds, the whites and the blues. But later the reds and the whites were adsorbed ...
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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?
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 ...
