His record says he fought in _______, Flanders, between 15 October 1915 and 28 March 1916. He started that campaign with the 6/23 Infantrie Regiment and was seemingly transferred to the Infanterie Abteilung 1/19th Pioneer Regment. I'd like to know what that place was in Flanders and some place where I could find out more about those units. Thanks.

I can't think of any examples of "pitch" meaning distance or separation. Is it because of how CRT monitors originally operated, where the rays could be measured in angle differences?

You know, Olympians win bronze/silver/gold medals, war veterans can be awarded medals of valor, etc

I was having trouble finding info about this practice, and I was wondering how long people have been doing this.

Today people tend to say the way Islamic countries treat women and girls is "medieval". Thinking about that made me wonder how actual medieval Muslims treated women (or in this case girls) who have sex out of wedlock, and how it compares to how they're treated in places like Saudi Arabia or Iran today?

I mean, how hard can it be to make some ports, build up some cities, get some high tech industry and start trading with Japan and SK?

I know it is not that easy. That is why Im asking.

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Many historians today from Yale, Oxford and so on consider the Ancient Macedonians as an Ancient Greek Kingdom ((which i'm not trying to debunk)).

However Demosthenes refers to Philip/Macedonians as barbarians, which was before Philips conquest if I remember correctly.

Also was the term Barbarian not used to describe those who where non Greek. Was this mere political rhetoric to further his agenda? Ancient Macedonians did speak a different dialect known as Doric Greek which too my knowledge was unrecognizable to Southern Greeks so could this have been part of his reasoning?

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Ive learned quite a bit about the main Frenchmen of the revolution such as Lafayette but what influence did the country as a whole have?

Sorry for the typo in the question, I can't edit that.

Since, the days are very short, just 5-6 hrs, What would people do the whole day, during winters in North Scandinavia region before modern amenities ? Did they all migrate to southern regions ? I am thinking of Viking period or maybe even earlier.

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It's pretty well documented that the Americans wanted greater control over Canadian territory and were generally upset with how the British treated America as a power. What I would like to know what the British were thinking when they were attacked. Was it an entirely defensive war for the British or did they want to take back the colonies?

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Love poetry and courtship are often thought of as important parts of Medieval love amongst the nobility, but political marriages seem to be quite common. Is the importance of courtship just a result of romanticizing the Medieval Period or did suitors really try to woo one another with love poetry and such? Did future couples typically even meet before their marriage?

In 1956, Nikita Khrushchev gave his "secret speech", On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences, at the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

The speech was given in late February, and by early March it was being read at thousands of Communist party gatherings that included non-Communists, making tens of thousands of people aware of it contents. By mid-April Israeli agents got their hands on it, and in June the CIA leaked it to the New York Times.

In the just-released Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations Hardcover (very good so far!), Ronon Bergman writes:

Israel had begun to merge as an intelligence power in 1956, after Nikita Krushchev gave a secret speech to the Twentieth Communist Party Congress in which he spoke frankly about the crimes committed by his predecessor, Joseph Stalin. Every spy outfit in the Western world was anxious to obtain the text, to study it for clues to Krushchev's mindset, but none of them could penetrate the Soviet Union's iron veil of secrecy. It was Israeli intelligence that succeeded, and Isser Harel ordered that a copy of the speech be handed to the CIA.

The agency's impressed and grateful director, Allen Dulles, passed it on to President Dwight Eisenhower, who then ordered that it be leaked to The New York Times. The publication stirred up a global storm and greatly embarrassed the Soviet Union.

I have a few questions.

• Why weren't the United States or other Western powers able to get the text before Israel?

• Did the Mossad/Shin Bet rise in the estimation of other intelligence agencies because they were able to get the text of the speech?

• Did publication of the speech really stir up global story, and if it embarrassed the Soviet Union why did leadership disseminate it throughout the party?

Edit: Just a fabulous grammatically correct title I gave this.

This question may be based on a wrong presumption, but it appears like the start of the "Imperial" phase of Rome's history with the Julio-Claudian dynasty sparked a more overt phase of scheming, assassination, and infighting compared to other phases in Rome's history.

Specifically, I am interested in how most or all of the natural heirs or even the favored adopted heirs were killed early, and likely murdered. For example, most of Augustus' heirs were killed, and Agrippa's lineage was wiped out, all in front of his eyes. This didn't seem unique to any particular emperor. Was this scheming/infighting the start of a new form of politics? Or was it already within Rome's political norms?

Whenever I look at high level athletes from even the 70s they’re almost always no where near as ripped as athletes of today. Was this true of athletes in Ancient Greece? Given their access to quality foods, as well as their lack of nutritional knowledge, what frame of reference for physique did Greeks use?