Seems like an odd decision to make. It would be very strange for 21st Century audiences if the Apostles were depicted in suits and ties.
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As an example, let's take HMS Neptune (1909) as roughly contemporary to RMS Titanic, and say she struck the same iceberg at the same speed in the same location on her hull.
Would the impact have been equally fatal? Is her armor belt able to shrug off that kind of impact? If she were to get a roughly equal sized hull gash, how would her flood controls fare compared to Titanic's?
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I know Russell Shorto is a journalist and not a historian so may be prone to some exaggeration. I also, however, know that despite modern images of ancient Greek statues and architecture being bare marble they were contemporaneously brightly coloured so the modern depiction of ships as bare wood could be wrong. Did the Dutch (or others in this period) brightly paint their ship hulls? And was this a widespread practice? If so do we have any ideas or reconstructions of the style of these paintings?
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Originally interested in just the Americans, but what about the rest of the Allies? Did the French soldiers just say ok, VE Day, let’s start walking home.
I read the following on the US points system.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demobilization_of_United_States_armed_forces_after_World_War_II
Was the points system announced the day after VE Day? Was there a staff officer in charge of the demob? Who was it?
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In Bertrand Russell's "The Bomb and Civilization" (1945), Russell calls for the creation of an international authority to hold control over all the world's atomic bombs to prevent a potentially apocalyptic war. However, he admits this is optimistic and that neither the US nor the USSR (once they got it) would voluntarily disarm. He then theorizes that the next best alternative to ensure world peace may be for the US to essentially establish a global empire, forcibly disarm all other nations, and declare war on any nations that resisted.
If America were more imperialistic there would be another possibility, less Utopian and less desirable, but still preferable to the total obliteration of civilized life. It would be possible for Americans to use their position of temporary superiority to insist upon disarmament, not only in Germany and Japan, but everywhere except in the United States, or at any rate in every country not prepared to enter into a close military alliance with the United States, involving compulsory sharing of military secrets. During the next few years, this policy could be enforced; if one or two wars were necessary, they would be brief, and would soon end in decisive American victory. In this way a new League of Nations could be formed under American leadership, and the peace of the world could be securely established. But I fear that respect for international justice will prevent Washington from adopting this policy.
Did any high-ranking American officials hold this view? Was there ever any effort to push Harry Truman or Congress into starting a preemptive war with the Soviet Union before they could develop their own bomb? Did the Soviets see this as a real possibility?
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Might be a dumb question, but I'm uneducated, so it comes with the territory.
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In Charles Dickens' Great Expectations, Abel Magwitch is sent to Australias Botany Bay to serve a sentence. In Australia he makes a huge fortune and returns to England. How likely was it for a convict to be able to make large sums of money once transported to a penal colony. How did the chances of such success vary across the various penal colonies of the time, and did which system - British, french, Spanish - gave the better chance of success to a freed convict?
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(continued) ... Removed just because mods disagrees that doesn't mean a person isn't entitled to tell history from another perspective. Opinions should be removed. I joined this sub to learn about the history of the world i learned name of topics and mods deleting the comments! If you mods are such knowledgeable historian that u can delete someone precprctive then you should present your histories point of view I'm so sick of mods
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I’d like to read about the development of the state after the fall of the Roman Empire in the west and what their idea of justice entailed and how they enforced it
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Forgive me if I simplified it too much, but it seems that the Abrahamic religions (Christianity specifically) view pre-marital sex or nudity depicted in general as taboo and sinful. You know, the hole "horny" and devil correlation.There are various Medieval pictures of art that make it seem like the devil is associated with sex.
Meanwhile, it seems all religions previous to Christianity were far more receptive of religion and procreation. Almost every Indo-European religion I know has a god or goddess for fertility that is celebrated. All the origin myths are big on sex and incest. I believe Greek Mythology is full of Gods ejaculating and creating civilizations. Various Hindu texts refer to procreation. There is a temple in India with various sexual positions / Kama sutra and all that. I believe all Mesopotamian religions as well before Islam were more open to sex/ goddesses of fertility and nude depictions.
Am I off base in thinking this? In addition, if this change really did occur in religions, why did it happen?
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I doubt there is any one book or view, but I would like to try and get an overview without too many opinions added. Thanks for your help!
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Hello! A friend of mine just sent me an economist article backing his claims about exactly what I asked above, just wondering about the overall historicity of such a claim.
Edit: I’d like to rephrase if I can, did any of FDR’s policies hay seemed helpful actually hurt the American public?
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In my AS-Level we spent some time thinking about how Ronald Reagan's bellicose speeches and the possible threat of his "star wars" programme scared the Soviets into submission.
I'm aware of the influence Gorbachev had in this, but to what extent was Reagan responsible?
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I read in a textbook that Hitler claimed that the Battle of Berlin would become the site of the final defeat of the Red Army.
I have found something: https://www.bradford-delong.com/2015/04/fhrer-order-74.html but I'm looking for more.
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I am researching my grandfather's military service during WW2. He was a member of the Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Highlanders, one of the three regiments constituting the 9th Canadian Infantry Brigade, which was part of the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division (the Water Rats).
My grandfather didn't see active combat duty until December of '44. I have found a few resources that paint a grim picture, as it was a particularly cold winter, but I am having trouble finding information on what day-to-day life was like. As the title states, my question is this: what would life have been like for him?
As a bonus question, I have also had trouble discovering what his training would have been like. He enlisted in March of '44 (in British Columbia), and then trained in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan; Shiloh, Manitoba; and Debert, Nova Scotia. What would his life have been like during this period?
Any information (or direction to information sources) would be appreciated.
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Was reading the Jewish Revolt during the time of the Year of Four Emperors. Some small Arab client kingdoms (Commagene and Emesa) sent auxiliaries to aid the Romans due to their long hatred towards the Jews.
So when did this Arab vs Jews situation originally started? Was it all the way back to pre history?
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