I was playing CK2 and my character got buried in the pyramids by his son. Did something similar occur ir reality?
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I saw this post on TikTok today which makes out that Union soldiers wrote the song as a battle cry for abolition in honor of John Brown, but the Wikipedia page for the song posits that the lyrics were written to tease a man in the battalion for sharing a name with the murdered freedom fighter and that the words to Battle Hymn were written to give the tune more respectful lyrics. I was just hoping to get some more perspective from sources that aren’t TikTok or Wikipedia...
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"Medieval times" being a flexible term here. I am curious about how people would acquire housing in cities - who determents when to build living spaces? Can some just 'build a house'? Was there a 'housing service'?
If I would arrive in a new city how would I acquire housing? I am mostly interested in how 'peasants' would accomplish this.
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If it wasn't a curiosity, what did the ancient Greeks and Romans (and medieval Europeans) think of these things from a societal POV? Was it seen as something filthy or did they view the potential risk of infection and the discomfort as something that was worth an unwanted pregnancy or even a STD (if they even realised the "ST" part is key to spreading it)?
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Apologies for the sort of loaded question, but I'm trying to find academic answers to the question of "what was the turning point of WW2?", and having trouble, if someone could point me to a large poll of some sort that would help
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After John Dalton used the law of multiple proportions to prove the existence of atoms, chemists began estimating the relative atomic weights of the elements using hydrogen as the basic unit. At what point did it become clear to scientists that all atomic weights were integer multiples of hydrogen's weight?
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The Romans of the same time period (200’s-100’s BCE) conquered Carthage and Spain, but other than the gladius and a navy, the amount taken from those cultures pales in comparison to what the Romans got from Greeks.
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I understand how butter got invented; it was just accidentally shaking milk in sacks on horses. But whipping egg whites seem deliberate. Why would someone want to whisk a part of the egg for twenty minutes when there’s no guarantee that there would be any change?
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I know it was awful, and I've looked up some info about the accuracies of the movie, but have found only that the movie was realistic, amd nothing about the gore or violence itself. I mean, were people really getting cut in half by machine guns? The image of the guy carrying his own disembodied arm really sticks out to me, because i feel like there would be no way somebody could be able to not only stand up and run, but carry something while bleeding out to hell. I have absolutely no knowledge of anatomy, but just like previously mentioned, there are plenty of men with their entire ribcage exposed who are fully concious amd not bleeding out like a fire hydrant.
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From what I know of Islam they keep talking about how the populace before Islam was full of 'pagans', and that the Kaaba was a holy building to them too, filled with idols and statues. What were those statues of? Did they have a pantheon type thing too? Do we know of it?
Also as a follow up question, in terms of Christianity people keep talking about how it kinda assimilated the smaller religions it came across and we can see it in the modern religion, with easter and christmas and whatnot being based off pagan holidays. Is that something we can see in Islam too?
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Do we know anything about why this happened?
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I must preface this by stating that I am not American, I might not be properly understanding the United States Constitution. Also, please no whataboutisms.
This question is inspired by the Knowing Better video Delivering our Democracy | US Postal Service. At 10:20 into the video, he says:
In 1873 they enacted the Comstock Laws, which allowed the Postal Inspection Service to stop any obscene material from being sent through the mail.
What counts as obscene? Graphic depictions of anything above the ankle, written descriptions of adult activities, and… anything that went against America’s strict moral values at the time. Including atheist, suffragette, and socialist publications.
This makes me wonder how the Comstock Laws managed to avoid running afoul of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. Also, the link to the Wikipedia article on the Comstock Laws doesn't mention the 1st Amendment at all, which baffles me because these laws seem to have blatantly flouted the 1st Amendment. The 1st Amendment says:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
So if the 1st Amendment grants freedom of religion (it makes no exception about atheism), and grants the right to free speech (it makes no exceptions about suffragettes and socialists), how did the Comstock Laws find a way around the 1st Amendment? And why did people at the time not see how the Comstock Laws contradicted the 1st Amendment?
Just as I was writing this question, I learnt about the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution. It seems like the Comstock Laws have breached the 4th Amendment too, which says:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
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There’s been lots of talk about things like handshakes and shared drinks maybe disappearing after Covid-19 subsides. Did any societal behaviors change after the 1918 flu?
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Why were the French people so quick to accept Napolean as a dictator so soon after getting rid of a King and a Queen?
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they taught us very little about the conduct of the Canadian army in school. since researching history I have found it very hard to find any sources on this topic. i’ve heard from YouTube channels and Memes that the Canadian army was known for its brutality during World War I and that they did not take prisoners. i’ve even heard that they fired on the enemy during the Christmas truce. Is this true?
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