After WW2, when Berlin was divided into four occupation zones and eventually East and West Berlin, how were the geographic boundaries of the zones and the Berlin Wall negotiated and determined?

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What does it mean for a population to 'enter history'?

This is a phrase I have come across several times recently but I'm not sure what it means.

Sarkozy said it when addressing a university in Dakar in 2007:

"The tragedy of Africa is that the African has not fully entered into history ... They have never really launched themselves into the future"

I also came across this idea when reading Joshua Cohen's The Netanyahu's:

“This interpretative capacity allowed [Jews] to remain outside history and dwell in myth [...] Now that Israel exists, however, the days of the Bible tales are finished and the true history of my people can finally begin” (282-284).

What does it mean to enter, or to be outside of, history? Are Jews and Africans not always already part of history?

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What diseases were contracted by European explorers when they discovered the New World?

So, we all know explorers from Europe brought many diseases to the natives of the New World. But what diseases did they brought back to Europe? Did they contract any new diseases? If they did, what were them, and if they didn’t how come they didn’t contract any?

Thanks for reading so far, this has been bugging me for a while and wanted to ask you all.

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How did crusaders who partook in the 1st crusade commutate with each other?

It was a giant multi-national army, they all just speak latin to each other.

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Old chinese is so complicate in it's construction that if we put a modern no initiated chinese they could barely understand what was wrote even they kown each of the sinograph seperately, but what about the speaking? is it as hard as the writing? could a modern chinese understand an ancient chinese?

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What was the adoption ceremony Baldwin the I Count of Edessa perform to be brought into the Armenian lord Thoros’ family?

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Does anyone know the title of this book on German history?

It's a book that I found in my school library in about 2007, and I really want to find it now to re-read as part of preparation for a PhD.

There were two editions of this book. One edition (possibly the newer one) had a mostly yellow cover with red and black on the front; the other edition was mostly black with four portraits in a grid on the front, the portraits were Bismarck, Hitler, and two other people.

The title was something fairly generic like "The History of Germany", but I've tried searching for that and haven't found anything that looks like the right book.

Does anyone know what this book might have been? And failing that, are there any books you would recommend for a general overview of German history?

Edit: I found it! It's A History of Germany 1815 - 1990, William Carr, 1991. https://books.google.co.nz/books/about/A_History_of_Germany_1815_1990.html?id=4RycuAAACAAJ&redir_esc=y

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Were the Russians turncoats to the Nazi regime?

Poland is currently fighting Russian misinformation. With that said, Russia has leaned further into their denazification and this caused Poland to bring up the history of the Soviets in 1939.

Did Russia (really the Russian govt/Moscow) support and even put boots on the ground to assist The Weimar Republic in the invasion of Poland in 1939... and if so what was the catalyst to make the soviets regret or change their decision?

Thank you in advance, love what you guys do.

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Why did Hitler hate the Jews, outside of general cultural anti-Semitism?

Why did Hitler hate the Jews, outside of general cultural anti-Semitism? I'm a recent Jewish convert, but I've been grappling with this question since I was nine or ten years old. I know Hitler was a failed art student but are those two factors the reason the Holocaust/Shoah went as far as it did? Also did any disabled people survive the death camps? Thanks for any help.

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Norman Cantor talks about Anthrax and not just bubonic being a major, if not more prevalent part of the Black Death in the 14th century. Does further research back this up? It felt like he glossed over all of his reasoning in his book

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What is the history and origin of anti-semitism ?

What did the Jews do in history that gave rise to anti-Semitic feelings towards them worldwide ?

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TIL of St. Waldetrudis, who died in 688. She, both of her parents, her husband, her sister, and her four children (one of whom died at the age of seven) are all venerated as Catholic saints. Were batch canonizations of whole extended families typical of the Church in that time period?

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In the Civil War, was the Union Navy ever able to disrupt CSA river crossings?

I was listening to a podcast discussing Lee's retreat from Gettysburg, and his work to erect a pontoon bridge to get back across the Potomac. The episode focused on Meade's decision not to test Lee's land defenses, and it left me wondering where the river fleet was during all this? Even if they didn't attack, why couldn't they just set a bunch of derelicts and debris adrift upstream, and home that the current smashes it into the pontoons? (I.e., like the Austrians did to Napoleon at the Battle of Wagram.)

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Good literature about Nazi occupation policy?

The NS occupation policies are all over the place, even the plans for "eastern colonization" did change. Can you recommend literature which gives an overview about all of that?

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In the 90s "I can't even set the timer on my VCR" was the go-to phrase for characters in shows to describe how bad they were with technology. How did this phrase become widespread and why was this apparently so difficult for people?

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Khrushchev was removed from power. How did this happen, exactly?

I recently read that Khrushchev was removed from power, but I can't find much on the method used to do so. All I can really in regards to the "how" find is Brezhnev orchestrated it. What allowed Kruschev to be removed from power?

This also makes me wonder, if there was a procedure to remove people from power, did anyone make an attempt to remove Stalin from power? I know Kruschev just went along with it and didn't resist, but I feel like that would not be the case with Stalin. My guess would be people would start dying if they had tried, but I can't find anything specifically mentioning it.

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Was the Illiad and the Odessey considered entertainment, a historical narrative, or theological (look what the gods are doing)?

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What's the current academic consensus with respect to Polynesian contact with the Americas?

I've always had a fascination with precolumbian contact between the Afroeurasia and the Americas. There's the obvious ones with the Vikings and the descendants of modern day Inuit peoples, and the infamous (and unsubstantiated) claims of the Ming Dynasty fleet making it to the Americas, however the one I'm interested in with this question is the possibility of Polynesian contact.

When I last spent time reading about this subject it seemed to be that it was theoretically possible, but there was little to no positive evidence, thus making it more of an interesting possibility, but not much more than that. Has this changed? Do we have better evidence at this point? Or does is this theory still stuck in the space of interesting speculation, but not academic reality?

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The Supreme Court ruled that Native American tribes were sovereign nations that couldn't be forced from their land. Andrew Jackson saw the federal ruling and decided to remove them anyway. Was the problem that the supreme court couldn't enforce their ruling? Did everyone just look the other way?

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How did the UK manage to win the Falklands war? Did their success come as a surprise or was it a given?

It seems that the distance alone would make winning such a war hard. Coupled with the Argentinians having a government focused on the military, it looks like the UK was at a significant disadvantage.

So, how did they do it? Was it a surprise that they succeeded?

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How come Vittorio Emanuele II has played such an important role in Italian Risorgimento, given it was a republican movement?

Having read some but still not much material about Italian Risorgimento, I don't quite understand how come King Vittorio Emanuele II has played such an important role in the Risorgimento, when it was essentially a republican movement, at least according to some Mazzini I've read. I'd very much appreciate correcting me or explaining how it was more complicated. Thank you

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Archives with newspapers about World War I and II?

Hi everyone, I was wondering if someone knows and could link me some sites that have online archives with original newspapers published during World War I and II. I need the headlines and texts for a linguistic research. Thanks in advance!

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I'm an outlaw cowboy living in a gang of outlaws in Louisiana in 1899. How difficult would it be for us all to go to Tahiti? how much money and how would we get there from here? thank you

As in, could we just buy tickets? Is this route commonly sailed by our point in time? Etc.

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Have Napoleon and Clausewitz ever ''met'' in a battle during the Napoleonic Wars?

I suppose that, when the war was ongoing, Clausewitz was still too young to acquire any relevant position to command a division against Napoleon, but i assume that he could at least be delegated to accomplish minor functions or be charged with the control of smaller military units. So, have they ever been opposed against one another in a battle?

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