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Sorry if this is a stupid question - I was not a good history student! I know that there was a lot of fighting and re-drawing of borders between kingdoms and states at the time but I was wondering what kinds of things they tended to fight over.
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Did they have to go to school? Were there degrees? Could they be disbarred? Furthermore, given that there was no police force or prison/jail system, what impelled anyone to care enough to hire a lawyer?
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Did the trenches stop at wherever they met the Swiss border? Did the Swiss have soldiers deployed patrolling? Did anyone from either side try launching small raids passing through the Swiss border to surprise the enemy?
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two nukes were detonated over Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945. There was a three day difference. according to wiki, roughly 45000-73000 people were killed in hiroshima on the first day. Wasnt the destruction of hiroshima enough to force the japanese to surrender? What was the need to detonate another?
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Was wondering why Edward the confessor not have a regnal number and why they only started at William I
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I recently started developing concepts for a comic book about pirates, but realized i have very few references on pirate tales and their behaviour, other than movies and tv shows.
Could you guys recommend me any books on the issue, please??
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I would've thought that they wouldn't chose to worship the same God that their enslavers did.
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This image appears to be a letter finalizing the sale of a Native American child for $10 in 1952. Was this practice legal, and if so, how was it perceived? What finally put a stop to it?
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I've heard high heels were
Where and for what purpose did they really start and proliferate? Were they invented multiple times?
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It seems like there still isn't anything solid stopping a great power from aggressive actions against other countries. The UN seems to be falling in the same pitfalls. Can someone educate me?
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Did they incorporate the Roman mile system? Would the average serf/farmer just refer to places as "X days down the road"?
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So I would like to check out some of the earliest available scripture related to ancient Greek mathematics (e.g Euclid's elements) the issue is that I dont want to spend a huge amount of money (in fact it would be ideal to get free access :P)
The good news are that I dont need to have the physical scripture just want to get something as close to the original (if it exist) so that I will avoid alterations that may be made e.g in the middle ages etc.
The problem is that simply googling like e.g (Euclid's elements or Euclid's elements ancient greek, original or any such combination of keywords) I don't get any useful result, most times I don't get any result linking to a image scan/pdf of scripture best case scenario is to get like a low res screenshot of a single page with artifacts on it....
I think those kind of scriptures should be on the public domain for people to be able to freely check on them....
I would even compromise like getting a pdf of someone that has copy pasted (the important part is "copy paste" here so no personal alterations or interpretation) of those text or at least not on the original ancient Greek from the actual script.. if it has an English/latin translation next to it I dont mind.
Is there any obscure database (from a university library maybe? ) that I can get access to such scripture online for free or at a very low cost?
Also (since I dont study history or archaeology and am not a librarian) Are there more specialized ways to check on those scripts? like for example with some sort of code. e.g for the elements I mentioned above could it be something like "300BCEUCLIDareaCODEofSIDEitWASfound" that corresponds to that script ?
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I saw a post claiming that Ancient Romans didn’t discriminate based on skin colour but did discriminate based on wealth. I’m very new to this topic so I couldn’t find anything to back this up.
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Numbers can be deceiving and Kursk was a massive battle with millions of men fighting in it and was the largest tank engagement in history. Its a lot to get into but I know that just looking at how far the Germans advanced isn't a good method of determining success. For example, the Germans basically controlled all of Stalingrad by the time of Operation Uranus, so even though they captured much of the city, it still left a crushing defeat on a scale never seen before. So, given that Kursk can be a complicated subject, how close was German to actually achieving their goals? Were they about to break the final line of Soviet defense or did they barely get through a third of it? Or were the losses easily replaceable?
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The African continent was colonized and divided between the French, British, Germans, Dutch, and even the Portuguese and Belgians. Why was a colonial giant like Spain limited to small parts of Morocco and Western Sahara (if I am not mistaken)?
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Hello!
I would love to read up about this turbulent and yet fascinating period in European history.
Its kind of hard to figure out where to start with the causes for this conflict, but the more information about the social conditions that let to this the better.
For what its worth, I am developing a particular fondness for Demography recently, so any book that also can tie in the demography of Central Europe during that period would be....... extra super interesting to me!
Any suggestions are super welcome though.
/regards
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