I've been looking into the six-day war lately, and that being said... I've only really found more Israeli sources. I want to see both sides of this so I can better form my opinions. Does anyone have sources that portray the general consensus amongst the Arabic nations?

Exactly what I said in the title. The Dutch were making salt with sea water. Why did they bother doing that in the Caribbean? Why did shipping sea salt from the Caribbean make more economic sense than just making sea salt at home?

Was there any efforts on either side of WW1 to make incendiary artillery shells to try and burn the enemies out of trenches.If there was were they ever used in battle?

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I understand that he wrote Mein Kampf and such, but once he was actually in power, is there any evidence that he actually believe some of the (hateful) things he told the people of Germany? Or is it possible that he was just saying it to keep the people appeased with a scapegoat for their problems while he continued doing what he wished.

Thank you!

I've seen a decent amount written about this sort of question concerning cities but what about on the American frontier?

As a highschool student, I've only learned about WWI and WWII from the point of American history books which are most likely biased. I started thinking about this in an earlier thread I saw where the Japanese WWII museum has little to no mention of the bombing of Pearl Harbor. So is there anything that we have done that is the equivalent of that (that was unprovoked)?

And, how did they become influential enough to share the Dynastic name of the first Roman imperial family?

I suppose that I’m assuming the Julio/Julians came from Augustus being adopted into Caesar’s Julian family.

Also, were there any remaining members of either clans after they lost imperial power?

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It seems that every other country prefers espresso coffee, so how come America likes drip coffee. Did we have experience with espresso coffee before Seattle and their coffee craze?

Disclaimer: I am not a comic book/superhero guy, but my toddler learns about them from school, friends' toys, etc., and he loves to put on a cape and run around the house shouting "SUPERHERO TO THE RESCUE."

So, why are superheroes depicted with capes? (I know, not all superheroes, etc.) Was there something about the artistic milieu of the 1930s, when Superman was created, that led to this, and are later heroes knockoffs of Superman? Or is something different at work?

Hello, I was wondering if there were any Ancient Egyptian historians here that could translate the hieroglyphics that are outlined in this photo within the box. Photo in comments.

The position one assumes looks like it requires a lot of trust and that the person giving them the knighthood could easily execute them as well.

I'm curious about the very early Christianity and how it spread across the Roman Empire. The specific timeframe would be between Jesus and Julian - so the first ~350 years.

My specific question is that Jews were a small subset in mostly one country in the Empire and although some Jews converted initially, my real question is how and why Roman non-Jews converted and how it spread all the way to the Emperor in a few centuries.

Bonus: if you have any recommended links, videos, or books that you believe would be helpful (to an amateur like myself), those would also be appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

Was it a surprise? Did they prepare for it beforehand? Was it really as difficult as popular culture makes it out to be? Was there any disagreement over whether or not they would be a problem?

I have looked around quite a lot and found several databases with tons of reels, but to be frank, most of them are a mess and jump from 1946 to 1935, sort of speak.

I know the Allies (and the USA in particular) produced hundreds, if not thousands, of newsreels in the course of the war. Since the military loves order and bureaucracy, I'd half expected to find a clean, ordered (albeit maybe technologically outdated :p ) central database.

Any and all info on such a place is welcome!

I'm writing a narrative set in that time period, so every bit of information about how life was for the majority of the poppulace will be much apreciated, things like:

• Where life conditions good ?
• People where happy ?
• How much did the Industrial Revolution still affected the city and it's people ?
• Public services like, police, sewer, garbage collection, etc. They existed, and if they did, what the people tought of them ?
• How was the art production ?

I know that in 1910 europe was just exiting the "Belle Epoque" period, and that four years later the "War to end all wars" would start, how was the mood around england during that time period ?

Again, i'm planning to write a suspense novel set in that time period, i love history with all my hearth and already looked up a lot of books, documentaries and films to help me see as clearly as possible how London was in that time period. My problem is, i am having dificult to find small history accurate details about how the people lived, so i come to you, my fellow history lovers, to help me recreate, as accurate and as fair as possible, the llife, the city and the people of that period.

In the same section, he goes on to expand upon this claim with the following:

The real estate value of Tokyo, the received wisdom had it, was greater than the real estate value of the entire United States plus the asset value of every company listed on the New York Stock Exchange. The value of the Imperial Palace alone, about ten acres in downtown Tokyo, was greater than that of the entire state of California. Spurred by the overcentralizing of government bureaucracies and buildings in Tokyo and the city's strict tenants' rights laws, prices in good neighborhoods doubled every three years -- every two years in the prime Marunouchi or Akasaka neighborhoods, if you were lucky enough to find someone willing to sell.

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As real estate soared, investors took out cheap loans, using the endlessly escalating value of their properties as collateral, and bought into the rising stock market. Capital thus generated blew back into the real estate market. ... "Only idiots and foreigners didn't get rich during the bubble," an equity warrants salesman for Japan's largest securities house once confided to me.

This book is a very sexed-up, tantalizing expose published at a time where its main marketing appeal was a peek into an exotic, orientalized, slightly menacing foreign land that had for a brief blip seemed poised to economically dominate the world -- but Greenfield did put the leg work in gathering interesting true stories and he does come off as educated and authoritative.

How exaggerated, if at all, is this characterization and contextualizing of the late eighties bubble economy in Tokyo?

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