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Currently rewatching the movie Glory and I was curious, how did the Union supply uniforms? The variations in height and weight meant a jacket, pants, and shoes that fit one soldier wouldn't fit the next. How did they work this out?
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Say for example I'm a merchant going to a foreign land to trade and buy stuff, do I trade in my italian coins for greek ones at the bank? Or do I have to trade purely in goods?
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Basically the title.
I've read somewhere, maybe it was from This Republic of Suffering, that nearly 40 percent were killed.
Does anybody know the real number?
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Preferably in vein of P.M. Barford's "The Early Slavs"?
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I've noticed that a lot of "community safety groups" have been popping up in different countries and a number of them have names like "Odin's Warriors" etc. Also, apparently runes and pagan symbols are associated with racist ideas. Can anyone trace a history of this?
As far as I can tell, historically the practitioners of Norse paganism weren't very religiously intolerant and even viewed the God or gods of other religions as part of a greater pantheon.
Some clarification would be cool!
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What's the point of having a removable magazine if you don't have anything to swap it with? and why wouldn't giving soldiers multiple magazine have stopped the problem with the rounds sticking together?
I served for 12 years in the British army and I know the tradition of crazy twisted logic that influences how the modern army makes decision, and I'm curious to know what the reasoning was a 100 years ago for this.
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I heard about this guy in the most recent episode of the Flashpoint History podcast and want to learn more about him. The problem is that he's so bound up in early Islam that I can't seem to find much in English that deals with him strictly as a military general, rather than as a semi-religious figure.
Can anyone recommend a good military history of the guy?
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Now the HRE is called the German-Roman Empire in many languages because the inhabitants of it would be considered German (later the Dutch/Deutch divide and all that, which has already been discussed here before).
But despite being German people, there still exist very distinct cultures amongst the German people. Most notably is the Bavarian culture which has been popularized as the German culture in the US.
Now I've seen plenty of times that they tried to push for unification after the Habsburg emperors were dethroned after WW1 and, to quote Wikipedia, "This was grounded in the view that Austria had never been a nation in the true sense. While the Austrian territory had existed in one form or another for over 700 years within the Holy Roman Empire and later the German Confederation, its only unifying force had been the Habsburgs. Apart from being German inhabited, these Lands had no common ‘Austrian’ identity and there had never been an Austrian state before. They were Habsburg ruled lands that had not joined the Prussian dominated German Empire after Austrian Empire lost the Austro-Prussian War."
So what I wondered is, if there's such distinct cultural differences within the current German state (which I would wager to be as different as Denmark-Norway-Sweden and to some extent - Finland-Iceland), why did the people at the time believe there was no distinct Austrian identity? And was that actually true?
And additional question would be, why they based the state on the Habsburgs, since other nations were also solely ruled by one dynasty through many centuries - the current Danish monarch can trace her lineage back to Gorm den Gamle (though not directly since that line has since vanished) as an example.
EDIT: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_German-Austria <--- Wikipedia link!
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This is an area about which I know nothing. I heard a passing reference to it in a video about the history of Japan. This link should take you to the right moment in the video - it's at 4:42. If knowledge about how electricity could be used was present in Japan, why was this knowledge not used in any practical way? Many thanks for your time.
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I've looked everywhere for an answer. Hopefully this is the right place. In most older towns, I've noticed these old wall plates.
They appear to convey some kind of information but it escapes me exactly what. They look about 100 years old in most cases. They're also marked with what looks like measurements, but I don't know what they correlate to. Does anyone know what they are?
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Inspired by this post: https://www.reddit.com/r/spaceporn/comments/6ltw1h/minuteman_iii_icbm_reenters_atmosphere_in/
My understanding is that, during the Cold War, the two countries were monitoring each other for launches at all times, ready to so some mutually assured destructing. How do you test the platform under that circumstance?
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This was in 1850. He owned a 21 year old woman, three boys 15, 12, and 3, and a girl, 9. As far as I can tell this was all he owned. Why would someone do this?
Edit: Changed date.
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Inspired by the map in this r/MapPorn post, it made me wonder how early people had the idea that the continents look like they would fit together.
Is there any indication that cartographers or scientists in the medieval world or earlier had an inclination about Pangaea?
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Was their military equipment designed with the steering wheel on the right? Did drivers in the American occupation zone drive on the right? What happened when a British vehicle crossed from the British zone to the American zone? Did they have any formal procedures or instructions to guide them? Were there any accidents or incidents that resulted from the confusion?
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Today:
You know the drill: this is the thread for all your history-related outpourings that are not necessarily questions. Minor questions that you feel don't need or merit their own threads are welcome too. Discovered a great new book, documentary, article or blog? Has your Ph.D. application been successful? Have you made an archaeological discovery in your back yard? Did you find an anecdote about the Doge of Venice telling a joke to Michel Foucault? Tell us all about it.
As usual, moderation in this thread will be relatively non-existent -- jokes, anecdotes and light-hearted banter are welcome.
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