In Russia, he Soviets did retain some personnelle from the Tsarist secret police for their own secret police, so it kind of raises the question of East Germany’s secret police.

How did Germanic peoples come to replace Celtic peoples in mainland central Europe?

First Off how did this whole Empire works because its confussing aß fuck More confussing then the holy roman Empire

2nd question during the revolution did the Habsburgse get removed as monarch?

2 why didnt prussia Attack Austria Düring the revolution?

3 Düring the revolution There was aswell a German Legion does someone know anything about this

I often hear in learning about WW2 history about how the turrets and machine guns on the long range bombers were entirely unable to provide a reasonable defense against German fighters, but I've never seen it explained. Why were the turrets so seemingly ineffective and the lead to the bombers taking such high casualty rates?

I read that one of the Union's advantages in the American Civil War was that the North produced more food crops. Why and how were they able to do this if both regions were primarily agrarian?

I'm looking for a Satan type of character around that time that has shown evidence of true supernatural power and has made deals with people. The entire idea of a demonic creature making deals with people originates from that time and I'm wondering if that belief came from the fact that it actually happened? If there is such a thing could you link me the Wikipedia?

The U.S. government was, to varying degrees, hostile to memebers of the labor movement, including musicians like Paul Robeson, Woody Guthrie, and Pete Seeger. Despite this the smithsonian has recorded much of this music for preservation. Does this represent a change in US government policy, or a tension between different aspects of it?

How has the geography and indigenous cultural history affected the current status of the Caribbean and its inhabitants of African descent.

Inspired by a post I saw of one of the Olmec monumental heads. Would something like that have been painted?

I would love to read about how works like Livy's History of Rome, Ceasar's Commentaries on the Gallic War, even Cicero's private letters were passed down and persevered through the centuries.

I'm having trouble finding comprehensive sources on the years leading up to World War one, I can only seem to find things which relate directly to the war What I'm looking for is an analysis on the tensions leading up to the war or primary sources relating to this.

So, during the battle of Cannae, Hannibal's forces (50k men) captured around 15k Roman soldiers. Looking at other battles in different time periods, the numbers of captives are staggeringly high. How would they be fed and wouldn't they put strain on supply lines? How would they be captured in the first place? What would be done to them in the end? And, most importantly, how do you keep and control a group of hostile captives big enough to populate a small town, in enemy territory, whilst on the move?
Disclaimer: posting this again due to getting no answers on the first one. I wanna know, damn it :D

1. Given the number of civil wars which preceded it, why was this one "The" English Civil War?

2. England's population during the Wars of the Roses was under 2 million. During the period of The English Civil War, it was 4-5 million. The armies fielded by belligerents in both conflicts were about of the same size. Shouldn't they have been larger in the latter?

3. In the latter war, archers have given way to men bearing muskets. How much labor went into making a musket and did a shortage of muskets limit the size of the armies?

4. Why didn't the Scots or Irish "pile on" the conflict in an attempt to gain some form of political goal?

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To be very clear, I'm not saying that don't seem evil, but they don't seem to be portrayed as uniquely evil compared to any other authoritarian wartime enemy of the US. In other words, if Casablanca were one's only exposure to WWII, one wouldn't necessarily think that the Nazis were also attempting to exterminate Jews and other groups of people. On the other hand, the genocidal and other uniquely evil intentions of the Nazis are very clear in just about any Nazi-related American movie from the last few decades.

All this leads me to assume that a great deal about Nazi atrocities was still unknown, as it would have been useful to emphasize them in 1942 to inspire support for the ongoing war effort. Is that true?

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AIDS was first clinically observed in 1981 in the United States.[37] The initial cases were a cluster of injecting drug users and homosexual men with no known cause of impaired immunity who showed symptoms of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP), a rare opportunistic infection that was known to occur in people with very compromised immune systems.[218] Soon thereafter, an unexpected number of homosexual men developed a previously rare skin cancer called Kaposi's sarcoma (KS).[219][220] Many more cases of PCP and KS emerged, alerting U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and a CDC task force was formed to monitor the outbreak.[221]

This is what wikipedia says, but is there something similar recorded in history? Did this virus exist as a different viral strain? Is there any proof of recorded cases before the 80s? Or a similar thing in ancient times?

If not why did it develop only in the last 40 years? And why initially in the US and not in a third world country ?

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