Or is that another Hollywood creation?

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What the title says. Could the Katyusha rockets destroy heavy tanks like the Tiger?

The charge of William Barkdale's brigade at Gettysburg was described by a Union officer as "the grandest charge that was ever made by mortal man." I know the charge inflicted serious damage on the Union line (and Barksdale and his brigade), but what made the charge so spectacular? Also how close did it come to altering the course of the battle?

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Could a Stuka destroy a KV-2 in a dive?

I’m not quite sure where to ask this, but I figured r/askhistorians was my best bet. I am a senior in high school, and I am planning on majoring in archaeology and classics. I am most interested in ancient Roman history, but I don’t want to get burnt out on Romans before I truly have a chance to study them formally. I have learned about Roman History informally (mostly reading and history documentaries) and simultaneously want to know everything there is to know about Romans, but also want something else to learn in college.

Sorry about the rambling, tl;dr is that I am in a historical conundrum about studying Roman history.

After watching The Pianist I was really shocked by the way the Nazis treated the Jews. I knew that they were really cruel back then but was it really that common for the german soldiers to randomly execute anybody they wanted at any time without some sort of repercussion? Like that scene where a Nazi executed a woman just for asking something.

Dear /r/AskHistorians,

When I was growing up, my father told me that whenever I saw a lone magpie not in a group, it was bad luck if I didn't salute it, and also told me a rhyme that goes "One for sorrow, two for joy...". When I looked this up, I found that this is a common superstition in Britain, but couldn't find any information about the origins of these beliefs. Where does the practice of saluting magpies, and the associated rhyme, originate from?

Thank you,

Passengerpigeon.

Currently reading it at the moment. I feel like he speaks with more certainty on a lot of issues than the amount of primary sources we have would permit. Is the book well rated in academic circles?

Putting it another way: how significantly has conversational Spanish changed in the last 500 years?

Have any nations in the past utilised acid (such as nitric acid not lsd) as a sort of acid thrower or dumping massive amounts in a barrel or something?

This is something I've always wondered. Helmets used by the NFL during the 1940s and 1950s look nearly identical to tanker helmets used by the U.S. military during the same time frame (aka during World War II and the Korean War). Were they the same but just modified for military usage?

For example, is the growth of countries in Africa affected in some way by what could be long lasting effects produced by colonization? The example doesn't have to be with Africa. I'm just curious to see if the process of colonization itself has lasting effects that span centuries.

I recently finished Modris Eksteins’ Rite of Spring and just started Fritzsche’s Germans into Nazis. I’d really love to read more works about the memory of World War I, and how it influenced 20th century art, politics, and other culture. I’ve also had recommended to me Winter’s Sites of Memory, but would love some more scholarly works.

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