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For example, Thucydides, book 3 (Chapter 4, section 1.)
If you look at any academic source of Thucydides, or really any ancient work like this, they will have these numbers making it easy for citing.
Who added these? Sometimes, particularly with old translations, I find that they are not exact, give or take a sentence or two, between differing translations, which makes me think they're quite modern.
But at the same time, they sometimes do not make any sense, coming in the middle of a sentence, which makes me think they may be more established than that.
Anyone have a source or info on how these things generally came to be? And if they were added later how they decided where to place them?
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Trench warfare on the Western Front has essentially being intertwined into the legend of World War I for over a century for the poor living conditions afflicting the soldiers stationed in the trenches.
But how widespread was trench warfare in places like Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Africa, etc outside of Western Europe?
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Was it inappropriate for them to link arms/hold hands? Could they have squad picnics in the gardens for a girls day out? A lot of people talk about the 1800s like all girls, poor to nobility, had to be by a man's side, and if they weren't, they had to be doing housework. Couldn't women have friends? And was it the same for younger girls? What about teenagers, and even teenage boys? Could young boys have a squad only picnic or was it all work no play? So curious!!!
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It seems like it should have been pretty clear that the Soviets were making puppet states out of almost all of Eastern Europe. So why did the US allow for this to happen, especially as it became more and more clear that the Soviets weren't going to be friendly to us? Did the US just not care about Eastern Europe and think the Soviets weren't going to be a threat? It seems like, as the country possessing the atom bomb, the US would be able to stand up to the Soviets and say that Poland needs free elections, or Germany needs to be reunited. So why did America allow the Soviets to gain control?
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Are there known cases of natives having secret homosexual relationship? I.e. Journals, etc.
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What basis historically is there for the suggestion that Bible Belt states routinely are incestuous to the point where jokes are often made of it? Was or is it that common and is there any evidence or data?
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during the First World War how did the flamethrowers work and if they were shot would they explode.
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I was reading a thread in another forum about 19th century Iran, and one thing which struck alot of readers (including myself) was how...masculine many upper class women looked in photos and paintings. Later a poster gave an (unsourced) quotation explaining this phenomenon:
"In Iran, the concept of beauty was not viewed as intrinsically feminine, in fact, beauty was not exclusive to either sex, both male and female could perpetuate aesthetic and desirable ‘beauty’. However, Qajar society valued masculinity and the concept of beauty, amongst elite and upper class Iranians, was in consequence masculinized — women, most notably in the Shah’s harem, aimed to render their features more masculine by joining their eyebrows together and growing facial hair, they were considered so attractive that they were sometimes painted on or augmented with mascara, and young beardless men with slim waists and delicate features. In 19th century portraits of lovers, the genders are barely distinguishable, identified only by their headgear.
It was only until the the 20th century that Iran, with the coming in power of the Pahlavy dynasty with Reza Shah, ardent modernist, began taking from Western ideologies and concepts of sexuality and gender — as well as the intrusion of the Farangi, i.e. the European/Western gaze, upon the intimate world of Iranian homosociality between both men and women, and the Western gaze perceived this homosociality as something to be condemned and as a symbol of “backwardness” — that the idea of beauty became solely attributed to femininity, to direct the Iranian male gaze towards the sexualized female, and heterosexuality was normalized as Iranian modernity and patriotism, whereas before the 20th century, bi-romanticism and bisexuality were not uncommon — in fact, the daughter of Nasser al-Din Shah Qajar, Taj Al-Saltaneh, wrote in her memoirs about an affair she had with a young seamstress she knew. Before her, Sufi poetry also used implied or explicit reference to love and affection between men, normally of age difference, as a spiritual aspect of Sufism and recognition of the Divine, e.g. Rumi & Shams). The beauty standard also shifted to emulate the aesthetic of the European woman as the conventional image of what is desirable."
Is this really an accurate explanation of sexuality in the Qajar empire? Did this unique gender/beauty relationship exist among the lower classes, too, or was it mostly contained to the royal court?
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Since he believed Russians were more animal than people; why would he care about the state of affairs in their country?
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During a recent trip to Paris I noticed that there are still many locations named after saints and other religious figures. This struck me as odd as I would have expected the dechristianization of France during the Revolution to have resulted in mass renamings of anything previously named for religious figures. Considering that they recreated the calendar it doesn't seem like "logistical issues" were an impediment to ambition. Why were so many location names left alone?
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I've never understood the reason why the Founding Fathers thought it was important to prevent criminals from voting. Can someone explain the reasoning for this?
Thanks
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According to my memory I was once taught that in prehistoric tribes and societies, men and women were much more equal than they later would be. Big reason for this, as I remember, was that women contributed about as much food as men. That true gender discrepancy didn't start until agriculture, food surplus, centralization of power and birth of social classes. Is this true?
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Is it because of their declaration of war with France when it was (for argument's sake) unnecessary? Or was it because they simply needed to scapegoat them to curb their economic development?
Why did no one blame Austria for their aggression towards Serbia?
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During the Rhodesian Brush War, it is noted that black nationalists were trained and supported by the USSR and PRC. Today, China is heavily invested in Africa.
I'm wondering what these actors stood to gain by these proxy actions in central Africa at the time?
White Rhodesians often portrayed that they were fighting international communism. Was this just a screen for maintaining white minority rule, or was there actually some good reason for a communist incursion to secure the region?
Thank you in advance.
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