Can someone briefly tell me how the Allied powers won ww1?
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When a conquered city has been sacked. Does the invaders really rape women and kill civilians like the one depicted in the movie Troy?
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What was their group name for alcoholic drinks?
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I asked a question about The Last Tsar: Michael II He made some very bold claims about the death of Peter II of Russia and it got me thinking about the reliability of the book.
I'd like to know how to critique this stuff myself especially since I eventually want to write my own book on a similar topic.
What do I need to take into account about the author and time period and about the text itself?
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It seems that Toga Praetexta was worn by freeborn Roman children, so why was it also the outfit of choice for magistrates?
It seems like if a magistrate today wore a babygrow, dungarees or a onesie.....
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Why did China make concessions if it didn't need to?
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Anyone thought about how were war negotiations conducted in the past?
Let's take for example, when Genghis Khan Khaan sent his riders towards all the corners of the earth to spread gore and the message that everybody should recognizer Genghis Khan as the ruller of the planet. How were those riders able to convey the message when they encountered Russians, Arabs or European nations?
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The original Tiger tank was a famously successful tank and was also very expensive to build, it also had an extremely effective cannon and armour compared to the rival allied tanks so why was it deemed necessary to build and bigger, heavier and more unreliable King Tiger.
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I know it's probably not too historically accurate, but how accurate is it according to the stories it's based off of?
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My boyfriends grandmother told me that the kkk started as a group to stop men from running around on their wives. I'm 99.99% that this is bullshit but she swears by this. Please historians of reddit lets hear the real reason.
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The German Army attacked expecting a quick victory but instead found itself trapped in Russia and facing Soviet offensive after offensive while the Germans lacked winter supplies and found themselves with a slim chance of victory.
So why didn't the German forces just collapse and surrender or better yet flee to Germany? Especially the Hungarian, Italian and Romanian volunteers that came with them. Why didn't they all just surrender en masse to the Soviets or deserted and went home leaving Germany to its fate.
What motivated the Axis forces to keep fighting despite knowing they were about to lose and with such miserable living conditions?
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He already came back from exile once, and returned to power. Why would his successors take the chance of it happening again?
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I would expect the first program to be a code that added 2 numbers, or something simple like that.
Could it be that this is the oldest surviving code from Ada Lovelace but that she wrote other simpler programs before it?
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Full quote and source:
“It was witches who developed an extensive understanding of bones and muscles, herbs and drugs, while physicians were still deriving their prognoses from astrology and alchemists were trying to turn lead into gold. So great was the witches’ knowledge that in 1527, Paracelsus, considered the ‘father of modern medicine,’ burned his text on pharmaceuticals, confessing that he ‘had learned from the Sorceress all he knew.’”
— Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English, Witches, Midwives, and Nurses - A History of Women Healers (1973)
- from various reddit posts.
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