And what led to its common adoption?

I was always wondering this. Western colonization has tons of stories in all media. The whole genre of Western and most popular American books (Gone With The Wind, Huckleberry Finn, East of Eden) tell about frontier. I've never seen stories from times of Russian expansion in XIX, on the other hand. What's up with that?

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Today I bought a replica of a shaft tomb statue. I managed to find out it was made somewhere around 1960. According to the description printed on the plinth it is a depiction of 'sleeping sickness, phase two', originally dated 'somewhere between 400-800 BC' in the 'Colima-Jalisco-Nayarit' area.

Based on the sculpt, I have a suspicion we're talking a Chinesco design, but I'm really curious if anybody might know more about artifacts like this, what indigenous people they belonged to and why they'd depict somebody suffering sleeping sickness.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

I recently came across this theory, that Stalin was preparing for an attack on Germany while Hitler was dealing with Britain and North Africa. Stalin conquerd the baltic states, declared war on the nazi friend Finland, and seized some land from german ally Romania like Bessarabia. They also didn't set up the defenses on the natural defensive terrain, instead gone for right on the border. Seems to me this could have been a preparation for a large overall offensive operation.

The Japanese aircraft carrier Kaga was an anomoly in that its island lay portside instead of starboard. Is there really no reason for this other than convention? Research into the topic suggests that other factors (such as water storage portside) affected this decision initially, but I can't help but wonder if there is something more legitimate to this design trope.

Today, we gleefully look to the future as a place where technology is highly advanced. This has led to the appearance of Sci-fi.

Did any ancient civilizations, especially Greco-Roman, have a concept of a technologically superior future?

I eventually wondered around the culture of the Philippines, and I came across this national hero as Lapu-Lapu. I don't know but my take into this is that he ain't a national hero since from my point of perspective the concept Philippines was not created yet in his era or time-period, so I think he was merely fighting for his village against the Spaniard colonizers. What are your opinions about this certain topic?

I've found myself in love with the great book recommendations on this Wiki, but can't find one specifically on this man. Anyone have a recommendation they can point me to? Thanks a ton.

As far as I have been able to find the only major assasination attempt by the allies during world war 2 was operation Anthropoid and the killing of Heydrich.
Why were there not more attempts by the allies to remove the Nazi command structure? What made him a priority worthy of assasination compared to the others in the nazi high command?

According to wikipedia the Byzantine Empire lasted from 395-1453, is there any evidence the Byzantine Empire aware it had lasted this long and if so did it do anything to mark the occasion?

I’m not asking about Did they discover America before the Europeans did. but when would most Chinese people (I don’t know about the peasants I don’t know If the peasants would have known or cared about It back then) And If the time Is disputed It would be nice to know heaps of different possible dates. anyway thanks!

I’ve heard that it’s loosely based on historical events. Was gang violence between Americans and Irish really that prevalent?

Did landlords charge less? Was there special assistance? Of course women were becoming a larger part of the workforce, but I imagine it was very difficult for many families.

I am reading about reconstruction for my history class, and I am just confused on how this even happened. By that, I mean how did they get through all the regulations that were in place (4th amendment, etc). Was it just a disregard of those by the radical Republicans, or was it any loophole or am I misinterpreting the laws in place at the time?

There are Snoos dressed up as peoples from various times and places that change each time you reload the page. Can anyone give me the complete list of Snoos featured on this subreddit?