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Specifically: Battles involving American forces, books about how the USA got involved in WWI in the first place, etc.
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I saw in this video that American patent laws were a huge reason for its success .
But other countries had patent laws at the time right? What made America’s so special.
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I've seen recently a hypothesis brought forth on social media that the European idea of race and an associated caste system originated with the Crusades, and distinctions between Christians, Jews and Muslims. Is there scholarly work that backs this story?
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Premise: I listened the Joe Rogan podcast and read a few articles on internet, I never read any of his books thou and my knowledge about ancient civilization has been given me in high school. I have a scientific formation and I am not familiar with historical scientific research.
I am genuinely curious about the scientific aspects of Graham Norton theories about ancient civilities. Despite the fact that he seem to argument his hypothesis with concrete proof I am still skeptical about what he say. For example one of the things he says is that in the Amazon forest there are the proof of an ancient unknown civilization: is it true?
From a scientific historical prospective, does his hypothesis about ancient civilization have sense?
Does something he said have been proven right and accepted by everyone?
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Inspired from this HN post (and the Quora post behind it), I want to get some information on the kind of techniques and methods that Britishers (or other Europeans in Colonial India) adopted to get accustomed to India heat (summers in particular). I'm aware of the Summer capitals such as Ooty/Shimla, but not much else about it.
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By the end of the first half of the 20th century as Airpower became entrenched as the Third Dimension of warfare countries increasingly made their Air Arms into separate services rather than component branches of land forces. The RAF was formed from the Royal Flying Corps and Royal Naval Air Service, but Fleet Air Arm remained. The USAAF became the USAF, but Naval Aviation remained. Same with French and Soviet Air Forces.
Why has the trend been this way?
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I'm hoping to gain an understanding of what happened locally in a province as it left the empire. Some questions that came to mind were as follows, but I'd be interested anything I might have missed as well.
Was a loss of territory usually preceded by a revolt, or did some other factor trigger this loss? Did many Romans stay behind, or did most return to the empire? Was any form of government installed when they left or was there a free for all to secure control of the area? Was any of the Roman infrastructure actively maintained once the province was independent?
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What happened in his reign to gain such a dreary epitaph instead of something more grand like “the Great” for his rapid conquests of Syria, Egypt and the Hejaz
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The theory goes that he escaped Berlin in the last days of the siege of Berlin and fled to Argentina.
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My general impression of scientific experimentation (especially psychological and medical research) is that up until the later decades of the 1900s, there was little regard for ethical impacts of the experiments on their subjects (human or not).
But nowadays, there are ethical review boards. And planned research can be completely torpedoed if it's expected to not pass ethical muster.
So when did this shift occur? Were there watershed moments that served as motivations for it? Was it different based on who sponsored the research?
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So I working a project comparing the role of the gulag in the USSR with the role of the camp system in Nazi Germany. While drawing parralles I realised the aspect of starting out for imprisonment of key pollitical enemies was more of a common factor between Lenin's labour camps and the early SS camps in 1933 than with Stalin's gulag i.e the way Nazi's first used the camp system to imprison mostly communsits and social democrats Lenin used labour camps to imprison left wing rivals ( e.g anarchists ) people associated with the Tsar's rule the Whites during civil war.
But by the time the camps were expanded into the much larger gulag system rather than dealing with immediate pollitcal enemiesasd seem to have been altered so as to help Stalin imprison technical specialists for the 5 year plan and the "Kulaks" during collectivisation rather than actual politcal enemies.
Maybe I'm missing some key facts over here but does that mean allthough the camps were smaller during lenin's time they played a much bigger role in maintainance of power than the Gulag did under Stalin ?
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I’m curious about finding contemporary sources, whether Latin or from other languages, that detail the motivations of why crusaders actually decided to crusade on the first of the lot.
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In terms of primarily having a role in civil life, with visitations to shrines common for otherwise irreligious individuals, links with nationalistic groups, and perceived role in being a fundamental aspect of 'Japanese-ness'; there's been quite a lot of ink spilled over the Catholic Church's role in Denazification (or lack thereof, in terms of attempting to retain it's role in right-wing aligned establishments when possible) and it's role in various regions associated with fascistic governments, but little relatively seems to have been written over what Shintoism has retained from it's wartime structural alterations.
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