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I was doing an essay on the topic and I had this idea. So we always talk about how the Renaissance brought about the Reformation. But never how, in the countries, the people redeemed themselves after ...

A group of Europeans are exploring Africa, somewhere south of the Sahara, in the 19th century. Assume that they stay out of swamps, forests/jungles, deserts and mountains. Would they constantly see ...

Open Yale Courses: HIST 119: The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877. Lecture 3 – A Southern World View: The Old South and Proslavery Ideology says, " Ads in newspapers, like this one in ...

I was looking at the old pictures of Guru Gobind Singh Ji and Guru Teg Bahadur Ji. I found out that something is odd if we compare them with the modern depictions of both Gurus. I looked for other old ...

From what I have gathered I believe there are currently no examples of Akkadian literature, written on cuneiform tablets, being translated into other languages onto papyri outside the Mesopotamian ...

Was there a dry dock somewhere on one of the pirate havens during the 17th century, where a pirate-controlled Galleon could go to get extensive repairs done by career carpenters or shipwrights? I have ...

As I understand it, the refining of ore requires, at at least one point, the direct handling of high-temperature or molten metal. I can see early coppersmiths beating stone hammers on flat rocks, but ...

Sorry if this is inappropriate; I couldn't think of a better place to ask. There's been an estimated 100 billion (1e11) people to have ever lived. Let's say the mean lifespan of all those people is 55 ...

Question what where the general opinion from soldiers who fought in World War 1, about the outbreak of World War 2. I have remember reading somewhere that the British soldiers felt quite jaded that ...

While watching a documentary of a formerly top secret project that was executed by the US government, I noticed that there were a lot of older gentlemen telling the story. These were the men that ...

I am curious whether municipal-level courts have ever had the authority to impose the death penalty. The sources I have been able to find that deal with the present-day world all discuss it as a ...

This book originally published in German in 1945 is the primary source for widely publicized claims in the book The Pink Swastika that Adolf Hitler was a closeted homosexual and had a background in ...

In the early medieval period soldiers were provided by feudal dues, but when did a monarch paying for the soldiers in their army instead become the norm? I have a source about Henry VII demanding ...

The Phoebus cartel was a well known scheme to fix the standard lifespan of incandescent lightbulbs that arose at the beginning of the 20th century. See Spectrum.ieee.org. Although not implemented for ...

I remember reading years ago about a company whose CEO decided that its employees or teams should compete against each other for budget the same way that businesses do in the marketplace for sales. ...

I've seen word of a study using bodies found from around 500 BC to 500 AD that gave average heights for women about 155 cm and men 165 cm, but this seems to me to be a wide range of time and area. By ...

It's a common trope in both movies and computer games that ladders are used to climb walls when assaulting a castle. But in each case it seems like it would be incredibly easy to defend - it appears ...

I often encounter claims that this or that stone temple or fortress was "burned down" sometime in the past. How this could happen? One example (of many) is the claim that Church of St. Mary ...

In his famous 1968 "I've been to the mountaintop" speech in support of the striking Memphis Sanitation Workers, Martin Luther King, Jr. made a reference to then-mayor Henry Loeb: You know ...

For some reason, most of what I have read deals with Jewish males who were married to "aryan" females. This might be because the other way around, the female would have converted to ...

There are several artists and academics documented as having left Germany for the USA and other countries between 1933-1939, the period before WWII broke out. But what are some examples of Germans who ...

The youngest Mitford sister, Unity, first met Hitler in Munich 1934, who invites her older sister Diana over to meet him in April 1935. Sometime in 1935 Unity delivers the televised speech at ...

What language did Gaius Julius Caesar (GJC) speak with Cleopatra? My thoughts: GJC spoke Latin. Cleopatra spoke many languages, including Arabic, Aramaic, Hebrew, Egyptian, Greek. Or did they need a ...

I know that the name was used as cognomen in some families, like Caesar, but the video game Total War Rome 2 also uses it as a personal forename for boys from other families. I wondered whether this ...

This is a photograph of my husbands grandfather. He was born in 1920 and in the image he appears to be about 20 ish making the picture 1940 ish. We believe he was born in Poland and later moved to the ...

In a recession, the Federal Reserve Board sometimes lowers interest rates in order to put more money in circulation. This increases the amount of money owed to banks, with interest. I have found it ...

I visited the impressive Topkapi Palace in Istanbul and there is one thing that puzzled me. One of the objects on display was the Moses staff. I don't think I misunderstood that, since there were ...

Wikipedia article doesn't help at all. It's surprisingly thin and essentially doesn't explain anything. It's only vaguely implied that this was a thing outside of France. Why exactly did so many ...

Bradford Jay Rice was fourteen years old, found washed ashore 31st of March, 1962. Was an autopsy done on Bradford's body, and were there any signs of foul play? His friend's testimony of what ...

In the Cold War 1956-59 era what cameras were available for quick or covert Ops? for FBI capabilities or law enforcement

Martin Luther King day was officially declared a national day of service by the King Holiday and Service Act of 1994. But I have been able to find no discussion on the internet of how the idea ...

What was South Africa's name before Africa was invented? And How did they come up with a name like Africa?

Can you help identify the insignia and the country of origin with this uniform?

according to wikipedia Haman is the main antagonist in the Book of Esther, who according to the Hebrew Bible was a grand vizier in the Persian empire under King Ahasuerus, commonly identified as ...

I came upon this book that has written dates in Hijri and Gregorian calendars side by side. However, when I converted the dates on online converters there was a difference of 10 days. why is that ? in ...

Following standard military doctrine, a full mobilization of the opponent nation is the clearest indication of hostile intentions, short of an actual declaration of war. Considering that massive, ...

According to Wikipedia, Newfoundland had accumulated a significant amount of debt by building a railway across the island, which was completed in the 1890s, and by raising its own regiment during ...

In 1969, a film called Don't Drink the Water was released. It was based on a play by Woody Allen, and Woody remade it in 1994. In the 1969 version, an American family called the Hollanders is touring ...

I recently purchased these uniforms, in which I was told that they were "Austro-Hungarian/Austrian." Upon looking further at the lighter-green one, I noticed that it had a trim pattern ...

I read some sources that transport by boat over European rivers developed already in the early medieval period, ie after having developed ships with low draft as well as the invention of a ...

May be my Great Great Grandfather Peter or Edward Hepburn. We do not know anything about him. Is it from the Crimea? What rank and/or regiment?

I am currently reading a book on bad military leaders in history, and this one chapter concerns a man named Nathan Forrest. I only have very basic knowledge on the US Civil War, so I have trouble ...

According to the defected KGB agent Yuri Bezmenov, the KGB trained the Awami League and the Mukti Bahini and helped them organize a civil war in 1971 to split Pakistan. He also said that the CIA knew ...

During ancient times, particularly in the Greco-Roman world during the first centuries BC, how widespread were survival skills among citizens? For example, did everyone know how to start a fire, did ...

I sometimes don't exactly understand how it happened that in India, so many places with so many different cultures got united under one flag. If you see each state in India has its own languages, ...

Was the primary reason good relations between Denmark and Sweden? As we know, many countries, some of which were quite safe from Germany and did not trade with them, chose not to allow even modest ...

In this study it is found that upper caste Indians own vast majority of wealth and assets in India though they make up lesser amount of population (refer). Even with all the reservation schemes in ...

Ashgabat, Turkmenistan; Dushanbe, Tajikistan; Tashkent, Uzbekistan; Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, and (until 1997) Almaty, Kazakhstan are capital cities that are nestled up tight against borders, with ...

The below pictures show US Army troops in 1945, having captured the city of Nuremberg. I was curious about the flags they are waving, though - they don't seem to match up with any of the recorded ...

Was Maximinus Thrax the tallest Roman known to have ever lived? I am suspecting there might be taller specimens. Or maybe there aren't and he is simply the tallest.