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I've heard a lot about how building the Statue of Liberty, an offspring idea of the OG Colossus, was quite expensive and hard to build. Plus it was apparently super tall, how could a people with worse metallurgy, probably not as many funds as 19th century NYC/France build a very similar statue and have it survive until an earthquake did it in?

Wouldn't rust screw it over way before it could've fallen?

Hello all,

I would really like to learn more of the decisions at the Congress of Vienna. I would love to analyze its political decisions and process, and maybe even its effects - for instance, how Sweden lost territory, or how France fell to more liberal “revolutions” whereas Russia or Prussia did not.

I have seen some apparently great books on the social aspects of the Congress - duels and romances and personal intrigue and mysticism - but I would like a mix between that and the proper diplomatic aspects of it, or perhaps a diplomatic history featuring the effects to come (again, France liberalizing versus Prussia not).

Any answers would be greatly appreciated!

Other stuff I'm wondering in the same vein:

If there was a separate popular tradition contemporary with "classical" music:

--What are some surviving examples?

--What might a popular composer have thought about a Beethoven, a Brahms, etc.?

If there wasn't a separate tradition

How did most people get their music? Did you just go to a tavern, or...?

More generally:

When did we even begin to think about "classical" music as being classical?

What historical factors gave rise to this era of classical music relatively late in the game in terms of overall modern European history? (Say, if we roughly date "the Renaissance" in painting to the 1500s, with similar innovations in narrative arts happening around the same time, the era of "classical music" -- I think, idk really -- doesn't start until the 1700s or so, like two centuries later. Why?)

Trying to compile a radio station for a indie game i'm working on, (sort of like fallout's radio stations to give an example of what i'm going for) compiling songs from 1940-1942 and want to include more songs, but the primary goal is to be historically accurate to some degree. I'd just throw them in but i'd like to know the historical reality before deciding what to do because you need to know the rule before you decide to break it. I know there were published records of music from the time era, i'm just not sure how frequently they were actually aired on radio.

Thanks for any help on this.

I'm a bit of a pedant when it comes to writing and, unless there's absolutely no appropriate term in English (for example, schadenfreude) I try not to have untranslated foreign words in my works. I'm working on something inspired by Renaissance Italy and I'm considering translating the civic office of "Gonfaloniere" into "Bannerman" or something similar. Would that lose any nuance that I am overlooking? Is the term "Bannerman" too closely tied with East Asia and the Manchu? Is there another extant English word that "gonfaloniere" could be translated to that's better or more accurate than "Bannerman?"

Jesus of Nazareth, the same person described in the Bible. I am not asking if there is historical evidence that he performed miracles, just about his existence. I am curious about this because in my history class they describe Jesus as if he was 100% a real person yet I'm not aware of any evidence of such exluding the Bible.

I recently went on an educational trip to Berlin and had the opportunity to visit the topography of terror (gestapo) museum while I was there. One of the areas of the museum covered the treatment of soviet pows during the war and mentioned a unique execution method where prisoners were secretly shot in the neck.

I've had a look for additional info and believe that this display was taking about something known as Genickschussanlage. I had absolutely no idea that something like this existed and am confused about why the nazis would create something so unnecessarily complex. I therefore have the following questions;

1. Was this device sanctioned by the nazi higher ups? If so why?

2. Why the need for secrecy like this? Given the nazis blatant disregard for human rights why did they feel the need to cover up soviet murders when attacks against soviet pows was commonplace in concentration camps?

3. Was this method of execution reserved for 'special' prisoners?

As always any other information would be most interesting. Many thanks.

Is it simply because it is a larger city in a land where the Abrahamic religions grew from? It just seems interesting that the same city ended up as the location of the Jewish temples, the crucifixion of Jesus Christ for Christians, and so many places of importance for Muslims. Is that just coincidental, or are they necessarily related?

Obviously the religions' histories are intricately tied, so I guess it shouldn't be that odd, but I'm curious if there are any historical reasons why that ended up being practically centered around the same city, or if it just "happened" to be the case.

I have a rudimentary understanding of slavery in the south and the northern response.

My understanding is that the moral arguments were not what drove us to fight. The moral arguments were used to support the war. The States Rights angle was 'fed' to southerners in order to get them fighting, but the true cause was the economic threat abolition posed to the south.

The plantation system created a situation where only 5% of southerners actually owned slaves and the 95%'s American dream was to one day own one. Abolition would undo this system for the wealthy and the 95% resented a Federal Government who would 'dash' their dreams.

I don't know how correct this is, but what played the largest role in the war: the moral stance, the politics (states rights), or the economics of abolition?

Edit: I also wanted to add; Moneyed interests in the north wanted to see less of a oligopoly controlling prices so turning slaves into market driven farmers would end up more profitable for the North. Any truth to this?

Soo, was the 7 wonders a text or just a list? i really want to read a translation if anyone can point me to a decent source.

It's popularly known that the Knights Templar were charged under the pretext of heresy, but the list of charges also includes sodomy - was there proof of homosexuality among the Templars, or was this an unfounded accusation made for political or propaganda reasons, to exploit popular stigma?

Don had no higher education, and as far as we know didn’t work in any critical defense industry. He seemed to be healthy, and was able to enlist for Korea a few years later.

Particularly interested in whether there was an equivalent to Chinatown, Little Italy, etc. with Gauls or Carthaginians all gathering in one area.

EDIT: I should add that I know that our current Western concepts of urban layout probably don't entirely map to Ancient Rome. I just wanted to give some examples of what you might find in a city today, and whether that had any analog in Rome.

To expand on the title, this question may come across as a bit American-centric, but please feel free to correct me or add in instances were British or Commonwealth forces contributed too. It is my understanding that the US Marines are the US military's force used for amphibious assaults, and were dedicated entirely to the War in the Pacific as a result, while the Army was focused on the European theatre. However, the European and North African theatres also called for a number of operations like this; Operations Torch, Husky and Overlord come to mind.

Was inter-service rivalry a 'thing' back then? As in, did the Marines share much of their experiences/lessons learned with the Army?
What lessons did the Army learn from landings like in North Africa and Sicily and the British at Dieppe that were applied to Normandy?