What was the contemporary reaction? Was there any opposition? How has their position as Spanish nobility affected Mexico, particularly in regards to the native population? How does this affect modern politics?
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I've heard from a few sources that there were never any formal peace treaties between Imperial Japan and the Soviets at the end of the war. Is this true, if so why? Did the Japanese rather surrender to capitalist American than have to deal the with communists? Was this ever resolved?
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What, if anything, do we know about Ancient Egyptian skincare/ cosmetics?
This skin cream claims to be based on the formula that 'women of the Cleopatra era' used, how true is this claim?
'The Egyptian Magic All Purpose Cream may just be the most famous beauty cream in the world! Based on the ancient Egyptian formula that women of the Cleopatra era used to keep their skin radiant, this magical cream can be used to treat almost any skin condition including acne, burns, scars, wrinkles, eczema as well as well as maintain healthy glowing skin. It contains just 6 natural ingredients including Olive Oil, Beeswax, Bee Propolis, Bee Pollen, Royal Jelly, Honey.'
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I am an avid watcher of medievalist content on YouTube but have done little scholarly research of my own (I doubt my university login for most journal databases is still valid anyway). A common topic that comes up regarding warfare just prior to and during the Medieval period is the debate over what armour was typical of each century/decade, its associated cost in money, skill or natural resource, and its practicality (ergo whether lack of wealth led to the use of wholly useless armour). An off shoot of this is the gambeson vs leather jerkin problem in Hollywood and the assumption that poorer warriors went around in plain clothes and Medieval biker style jackets.
I would love to hear some insight from a specialist in this area on three main issues here:
How expensive was it for a common feudal subject or general infantry soldier to get a gambeson or other padded armour? (In relation to their means)
Was mail really so expensive that it was reserved for elites? (Again, cost relative to other commodities)
Did people save cost by going into battle in silly leather vests or were they generally sensible, choosing armour appropriate to the weapons they would be facing (gambeson to protect against slow arrows, cuts and lighter bludgeons)?
Also, if you think my question is flawed, go right ahead and tell me what a better question would be...just want to learn.
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I didn't know where else to ask this, but I thought you guys might have some answers.
Its weird but i get super depressed reading about people like Hitler, Mao but especially Genghis Khan. I hate him with a passion like no other. Even though I love history I can't stand to read anything about him. Its just too mentally distressing. Here's someone that killed, raped and plundered innocent men women and children and he got away with it dying a comfortable death. And still goes down in history as this amazing person Mongolians still look up too this day. Fuck them.
I don't know if anyone else feels this way. But it really pains me to read about how unstoppable the evil the cruelty was. It weirdly enough was a big factor in making me an exmuslim and also a weird sort of ego blow since my ancestry is from places the Mongols plundered. It also made me question justice, god and morality. All in all it's had a significant negative impact on my life. The opposite of what reading about the Spartans at the therompylae pass I guess.
How do you (historians) deal with this? Do you just accept pure evil and embrace nihilism? That hasn't worked for me so far....
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I was reading (http://www.riderta.com/history) that in Cleveland the electric street cars and subway was replaced by busses due to rider loss from the model T. Why is this a valid move from electric to gas and how did it decrease profit loss for the transit lines? Seems like we are going backwards now trying to move things back to electric. In Cleveland all the trolley electrical lines do not even exist any more.
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Or at least it being so much more pro-suicide than other philosophies that it being pro-suicide is a more common remark in public non-academic discourse about it.
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Well it's all in the title really, although it does seem rather unwieldy.
Just wondering if without personal markers would someone who is trained be able to look at another warrior who from fighting style, preferred equipment, breed of horse etc go "Yip, only a Spanish Knight would use a shield like that", "Nordic knight through and through that one, you can see by how he uses that Poleaxe" etc
Also would be curious to see if it changed at all during the medieval period. Did it get more homogenised as the medieval age progressed because of increasing professionalism and a more interconnected Europe?
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Did church elders publicly support either side? Did any prominent Mormons join either army? Were any sermons preached about the ongoing civil war?
Basically, what the hell was going down in Utah during the bloodiest war the country had ever had?
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From Douglas L. Oliver, who I know to be a reputable ethnologist of Tahiti, in Oceania: The Native Cultures of Australia and the Pacific Islands, vol. I
The double canoes of Oceania varied considerably in size both within and between societies, and largest of them were truly huge..... The largest one reported by a European, a Fijian canoe built in Samoa, was capable of carrying 500-600 persons. (As comparison, the largest of the Viking ships--which were making their longest voyages at about the same time that the Polynesians made theirs--were capable of carrying no more than 200 persons.
What's up with these canoes?
E: Just to show what canoes I'm talking about and what questions I'm asking.
Pacific long-distance voyaging canoes in the late 18th century^1 were double-hulled ships with advanced fore-and-aft sails and complementary, asymmetrical hulls. They were easily sturdy enough to carry artillery and occasionally, especially for war canoes, had crews in the lower three digits.
What makes me curious about this enormous Fijian canoe is a little different in perspective. Specifically, these questions:
When we built Hōkūleʻa according to traditional Polynesian designs, it went more slowly and was less stable than modern catamarans. In the original Science article written the year after the Hōkūleʻa voyage to Tahiti, it's shown that these limitations are because the space between the two hulls is narrower than in modern catamarans, both limiting sail area and increasing drag. This is in turn because the Polynesians would have attached the two hulls together only with things like coir (coconut fiber) and wooden crosspieces, meaning that a wide space between them could lead to the boat snapping in half under duress, rather than carbon fiber and the other industrial tools we have today. So how did the Fijians in question overcome these issues?
What was the political economy behind the mega-canoes, and why were Fijians making canoes in Samoa? In Hawaiʻi the canoe-makers (kāhuna kālai waʻa) were highly respected, and I imagine dynamics were similar in Fiji. But even in Hawaiʻi, the biggest canoes--and these were made by the most powerful kings in the entire Pacific, with hundreds of thousands of subjects--could carry somewhat more than a 100 people at the absolute most. So what sort of elite support could allow for this fort of canoe?
What was the point of these canoes? Why have them instead of fleets of smaller canoes? Wouldn't the loss of one in a cyclone a terrible calamity compared to the loss of two, three, or even four little canoes?
^1 With the exception of Hawaiʻi where square sails prevailed--fore-and-aft sails seem to have come from Southeast Asian designs sometime in the 16th or 17th centuries and slowly spread eastwards, so the Hawaiian design would have been the original Polynesian designs. New Zealand Maori also had simpler canoes than their cousins in Tonga or Tahiti.
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Was it insurance? Government programs? Did people just have to rebuild their lives from the ground on their own?
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I'm going to play as a bard class in a Dungeons & Dragons game, mostly to be a fun/musical supporter for the rest of the party. But now I'm really curious about what bards were actually like in history. Were they mostly poetry writers? Or did they perform live for crowds? How did one become a bard? Those kinds of questions.
Thanks!
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I'm looking through old US census pages (Ancestry), and I've come across some characters I can't decipher: http://imgur.com/a/od8Bu
Maybe someone here can help. 1800s era census
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As I was browsing Wikipedia (which I'm pretty sure is already disqualified as a credible source), I had stumbled upon a period in Ottoman history referred to as the "Sultanate of Women", and as I continued reading, I found a list containing the stipends the mothers and favorites of the Sultan had during this period, some earning thousands of aspers a day.
As I asked above, how did the Ottoman Sultan manage to give these large salaries to the imperial family without emptying their treasury?
I'm not well versed on Ottoman administration or how they filled up the treasury in the first place, but I really can't fathom how they managed to give such large salaries daily.
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I have a picture of my grandfather in uniform, and I've been told he served in the north of Norway during WW2, then his whole unit went to Sweden until the end of the war. The tall guy is him. I'd like to know more about what happened to him during the war, as he refused to talk about it and died long before I was born. (Sorry about the picture quality, it's a picture of a picture, sad as it is, it is all I have from him.) https://s28.postimg.org/ghuiztnjx/IMG_0958.jpg
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Like, I've seen red and gold banners in all kinds of fictional and popular history works, but wouldn't banners have degraded away by now? I was wondering if we figured out that they used red and gold for national stuff similar to how we figured out that they painted their statues, but after looking it up I discovered use of the red-gold motif for Rome in fictional works long before we figured out the statues were painted.
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