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I hope this isn't too simplistic, and dumb, of a question. However, through the world wars, Former Yugoslavia, and now the many civil conflicts around the world (Ukraine, Syria, Iraq, etc.), I am always curious of what happens to people with mortgages, as well as unsecured loans, mostly. When a civil war, or invasion happens, are people still expected to pay their mortgage and unsecured loans during the conflict?

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Why did Japan make a non-aggression pact with the SU during WW2? Wouldn't it have been more rational, to attack them and help out the nazis, instead of attacking the USA?

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Title. Was there any particular reason to why this is, or did americans think " Oh yea, the biggest city is New York, so we're gonna name the whole state after it" ??

Did the Senate Sergeant At Arms Dunning Robert McNair express his opinions about the Preston Brooks’ caning of Charles Sumner? Did McNair receive much public rebuke or praise for the handling of the affair? Were there any procedural or security changes in the Senate chambers following Sumner’s beating?

I'm just trying to get my head around this. I've read a lot indicating that 'Britons' was used to refer to a general grouping of loose and un-unified tribes, and I've also found that Wales was also composed of loose tribes. So I'm wondering what distinction there would be between them.

My friend is making a sort of strategy game that’s based in the 17th century and he’s wondering what the tax rate was back then. I tried to find it on the internet but I couldn’t really find anything so here I am. Could someone help me. By the way I’m mainly asking for tax rates in Western Europe. You don’t need to give me an exact number just an estimate.

How far did we advance our medical knowledge of the human body through the experimentation by the Japanese and the Germans upon prisoners during WWII? Were the results of these experiments eagerly searched for by the Allied Forces?

Hello all,

I have a question relating to Portuguese history that perhaps someone can answer for me.

Consider the titular title, "King of Portugal and the Algarves" that was adopted by the Portuguese sovereign in the Middle Ages. Why is it that the Algarve was considered to be a separate kingdom from Portugal despite the fact that the titular Kingdom of the Algarve did not have separate legal institutions or privileges from Portugal proper? Was it indeed just that: titular? Or was there something deeper and more profound in the separation of the kingdoms on paper?

Thank you!

There was a strong wave of Japanese immigration to Peru during the period comprising the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. But, what I really need to know is that if at anytime during that period any historical theory, even if fringe or far-fetched, was developed within Japanese academic environment that would claim any racial-cultural-historic relationship between the Japanese people/culture and the Incas or even South American natives in general.

I am writing a short story that uses as background a Japanese intervention in Peru based on a racial relationship claim between Japanese and Quechua. The Japanese use that as an excuse to intervene in Peru to support an insurrection of Native peoples and Japanese immigrants allied against people from European ancestry and Criollos that controlled the government and Peru's institutions.

Just wondering if there was any possible historical theory that could justify Japanese imperialism and interventionism towards Peru. TIA for any reply.

What methods did we use to determine the death tolls?

There is a genre of fiction where the setting is in a world historically similar to ours up until some divergence point. It explores a narrow topic, such as what happens if the American Revolution was won by the British instead of the Revolutionaries. What would that world look like in the 1780s, the 1800s, or even the 1900s?

This came about while reading a book (An Era of Darkness by Shashi Tharoor) and wondering what would have happened had the East India Company had never gotten a foothold in India, and whether or not the scenario could have fit historically.

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