When did putting milk in tea and coffee become a thing? And where did the concept originate?

I've read about Hemmingway going fishing and claiming he sunk a u-boat with some hand grenades. I've tried searching online but my searches always seem directed at incidents where u-boats sunk civilian vessels.

Are there any confirmed sinking of u-boats by civilian ships?

Conquests work, as many are aware, was pretty groundbreaking back in the day, with The Great Terror, and then The Harvest of Sorrow, being searing indictments of the Soviet Union and its crimes. Although always a bit controversial, Conquests work became doubly so in more recent decades, but being only marginally versed in the historiography, it is hard to really get a fair reading of just how it work should be weighed now, at least based on wiki-diving.

What I do see is a lot of historiographical bickering, and this being centered in the Soviet-era archives, with Conquest and his (apocryphal) I Told You So, You Fucking Fools clearly feeling that whatever the small discrepancies that might have emerged, he was nevertheless vindicated in the general picture - a view at least some others seem to agree with - while others opine that the archives laid bare just how obsolete his work is and it ought to be, ahem, consigned of the dustbin of history (that's what the historiography section of the library is labeled, right?).

What are the arguments here? I doubt that there is an answer, given how ideological so much of it feels even today, but I'd love to see the debate - both its history over the past two decades and its current state - laid out in layman's terms so I can get a better grasp of it.

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was there a similar point in the old worlds history, where they were tribal, and had similar technology or religions to the native americans?

at what year in history, were people of the old world most similar to the way of life of native americans.

considering they had agriculture, i want to guess they were similar to around 8000 BCE but im hoping someone has a more accurate answer.

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I understand this might be a sensitive and controversial issue, but having just re-read it as an adult (read it many years ago in school), I couldn't help but feel that every single page had the scent of a grown man. I did some reading and discovered two things that alarmed me. Firstly, the fact that Anne's father was said to have "edited" all of the diaries into one cohesive book (this in itself is an understandable requirement), but the other thing was that he had apparently removed many references Anne made that were of a sexual nature (masturbation, etc).

Really though, reading through it, I just don't buy for a second that the words in the diary were written by a 15 year old. I've Googled this, but I'm being led to a lot of websites that seem "politically/racially charged" to say the least, so I thought I'd ask here.

Despite this, I maintain that the books are an essential read for an adult, but ultimately, my question is, what proof do we have, if any, that it was actually Anne Frank that wrote the diaries, and not just her father?

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I read in novels, etc set in Imperial China, about various levels of Chinese nobility. Annoyingly they’re referred to using Western titles (“Marquis of Wu, Duke of Wei,” that sort of thing) which drives me NUTS. As a Westerner I have preconceived associations with these various titles that may or may not apply to a Chinese setting:a Duke is the highest rank below a Prince; almost always a large landowner (traditionally); almost always can trace a connection to the royal family at some level, title inherited by oldest male, etc.

So how did the Chinese system work? I realize that a question asking about Imperial China spans millennia of history, so whichever area a historian is interested and qualified to discuss (would be interested to hear if/how Chinese system of nobility changed under different dynasties too!).

Today, the term Celt is associated with non-Anglo-Saxon/Germanic speaking peoples of Britain, Ireland, Brittony, and other speakers of Insular Celtic languages. Stereotypically, they are pictured wearing kilts, raising sheep, and creating intricate knot-like artwork. There are cultural features running through all these groups that make them distinctly Celtic.

However, there is also a long history of Continental Celts, stretching from Turkey to Portugal. Now entirely supplanted largely by Germanic and Romance-speaking cultural groups, we have no more Continental Celts.

From what we understand of their culture, was it generally similar to the Insular Celts? Or did their distinctive cultural features originate after splitting with their cousins?

I have noticed that many aspects of hindu and Greek mythology are similar for example how all the gods originated from Earth goddess and sky god, how the god of sky is the ruler of all gods, and many more

I suspect that it is because of trade between India and Greece or maybe people of both countries shared same origin and split up Thier ideology into Greek and hindu mythology

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On a recent trip, I noticed a distinct lack of trees or any peat bogs (anything combustible). How did people stay warm?

I understood at some point in the 1600s the Shogun evicted foreigners from Japan. At that point there had been quite a few converts to Catholicism, and there had been several European seamen who married Japanese women in for example the Nagasaki area, or trades representatives who kept Japanese concubines. Many of these unions produced children. When the "barbarians" got evicted, what happened to their families? Did they also join them back to Europe, did they go to the Dutch Indies or the Philippines, did they stay behind in Japan, abandoned by their fathers and husbands?

And, if they stayed, what sort of attitude did Japanese society have towards the descendants of "Northern Barbarians"? I would like to write a story about the life of such a child growing up in the 1600s in Japan, so I am trying to research this but can find very little about it.

He was interrupted before explaining further, but is he wrong? Wikipedia, and my memory, seems to insist that the British won... Anyone want to correct or support James?

(For those who are wondering, The Grand Tour is the spiritual successor to the original BBC Top Gear. You can watch it on Amazon Video.)

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Why did Poles attack Czechoslovakia and annexed the Czechoslovak territory in 1938, one year before the WW2?