So, I've read, a couple of times, that the Russio-Circassian War, its ending in 1864, took a century. That's a long time, which is why I'm asking this question. Maybe my sources were biased. Also, I'd be interested in whether it can be considered a genocide and whether it is officially considered one. Thank you!
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I hope this is the right place. I kept checking sub reddits to find a worthy place to inquire. Very difficult to find links on this.
I'm curious on how likely or difficult was it for American-born children of Irish/Italian/Eastern Europeans to marry someone outside of their ethnic community?
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As in the title. Why isn't Brazil shamed for slavery like USA is even though it had extensive slave-driven plantation economy as well? Even after it gained independence
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What was different between the two societies? Could law-enforced post-slavery race segregation in the USA be the reason? And lack of it in Brazil?
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I cannot remember where I read it, but I seem to recall that after Pol Pot was disposed of, he and much of the leadership returned to the forested area where their insurgency began. During the time they remained active thereafter they made 'peace' with the King that was put back in power. A monarchy that had been abolished by the very same Khmer Rouge. The resulting amnesty is what I am wondering about.
The government has, for almost half a century, practically refused to prosecute those responsible for some of the most heinous crimes ever suffered. Pol Pot himself famously died without being put to trial, having lived until an old age in relative peace. How in hell's innermost corner has there not been more internal calls for a judicial catharsis? Why has the government so stubbornly fought against external pressure from the UN and other actors?
Thank you in advance for any insight!
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Textbooks tells us that Christopher Columbus discovered America. However I cannot stop wondering about random explorers who navigated to Greenland from Britain and then wondered off to Canada. In the same sense, I’m wondering if other explorers, Europeans, got to the USA by first going to Greenland, then Canada, and finally USA. The distance seems a lot smaller and I’m sure there were peoples who tried this before Chris.
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Post WWII, there's been a growing production of official statistics, including by national statistics offices (e.g. the UK's Office of National Statistics), and by aggregators such as the OECD, or the International Energy Agency.
Often these are far removed from people's first-hand accounts of a situation, e.g. the IEA 'balances' its datasets so say total world coal exports equal total coal imports. And they typically go into far more detail than a tertiary source like an encyclopedia. Are they secondary sources by default? Or primary sources even so? Or something else?
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Not wikipǣdia "The Encyclopedia anyone can edit" that much I already get.
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I say existing strategy because I am unsure myself what strategy the Germans had used that warranted such a heavy reliance on petroleum in powering the German war machine. However, I would like to know why Germany did not opt for an alternate strategy despite knowing of their lack of oil supply in sustaining their arms and equipment.
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A friend told me about this. Told me all the details of how the Soviet Union liked Pepsi so much that they wanted them to bring in Pepsi products in their country permanently. Unfortunately they had issues of paying for this so they decided to pay with vodka, but it wasn’t enough to pay for. So in desperation, they decided to pay with 17 subs, a cruiser, frigate, and a destroyer. I asked my AP US History teacher about this and she didn’t believe a single bit of it. Did this really happen?
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Another month gone by, another selection of incredible posts to highlight as we tally up the 'Best of August' votes!
This month saw a clear unanimous decision as both the Flairs and Users handed top honors to /u/itsallfolklore for their response to "How do historians differentiate between "genuine" folk traditions and traditions with a heavily self-conscious or commercial character? Is it even possible?"
The runner-up was also unanimous as well, with /u/J-force taking a close second in both votes for their answer regarding "Is Machiavelli’s The Prince actually a satire?".
This month's Dark Horse Award, which recognizes the top voted non-flair answer was, recognizes /u/rockhistory who tackled "During their decade together did The Beatles sleep with groupies left and right? Are they known to have engaged in rockstar-level debauchery? Did they take hard drugs?"
For July's Greatest Question of the Month, the premise gave us a chuckle, but the underlying question struck us as well as the mods decided to recognize BZH_JJM's inquiry on "In the infamous "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves", Alan Rickman's Sheriff of Nottingham calls to "cancel Christmas." What would Christmas have meant to the average person living in Plantagenet England?", but also make sure not to miss the excellent response from /u/sunagainstgold.
Finally, this month's Excellence in Flairdom Award goes to the Australia flair superstar /u/Djiti-djiti! You know them from their excellent answers; what you also need to know is that they are the lord and master of our hit Media Mondays series! We're psyched about our new recurring feature, and want to recognize Djiti-djiti for their great idea and hard work!
So as always, a big congratulations to the winners, and a big thanks to everyone who contributed to the subreddit in the past month! Also a reminder, if you want to nominate answers for the monthly awards, the best way to do so is to submit your favorite posts every week to the Sunday Digest!
For a list of past winners, check them out here!
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I gather that the discovery of the tomb in 1922 was a watershed moment in public interest in ancient Egypt, but was it a watershed moment in the study of Egyptology, either because of funding or more archeologists wanting to study or, or is it just another Thursday for academics?
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I don’t know a whole ton about war in the air, but to me once an enemy pilot hits five kills it would make sense to sacrifice one of your own to kill him. Did the Red Baron have to worry about people trying to crash into him, killing them both? The German aces on the Eastern front in WW2 seem extremely vulnerable to this tactic to me, given the numbers they fought against. Was this strategy ever organized on a large scale? Did individual pilots decide on their own to did this? Were bombers ever considered as target?
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