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Most obvious were those with Bonapartes on the throne - Holland, Naples, Westphalia, Spain etc.
But it gets murkier with states like the grand duchy of Warsaw, and even more so with Prussia, Austria etc.
Could someone explain if: a) there exists accepted definitions of the 'satellite kingdoms' b) if not, what constituted a satellite - i.e what criteria should we use?
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Just a few decades later, we see soldiers like the Swiss pikemen doing things like running at full speed in perfect formation, with no better way of communicating orders
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Saturday Reading and Research will focus on exactly that: the history you have been reading this week and the research you've been working on. It's also the prime thread for requesting books on a particular subject. As with all our weekly features, this thread will be lightly moderated.
So, encountered a recent biography of Stalin that revealed all about his addiction to ragtime piano? Delved into a horrendous piece of presentist and sexist psycho-evolutionary mumbo-jumbo and want to tell us about how bad it was? Need help finding the right book to give the historian in your family? Then this is the thread for you!
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I was working on location for a photo shoot in a very nice house in the suburbs of Chicago. Down one hallway was this framed American flag: http://imgur.com/a/9t7UW I want to know if it truly is an authentic piece of American History, or if it is a replica. Or perhaps it's from a different time period altogether! Let me know what you think r/AskHistorians!
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Depictions of life in many historical periods often show people singing - around the piano with family, while working, spontaneously at social gatherings - in situations that I haven't really experienced in my own modern life.
Furthermore I've been reading Samuel Pepys' diary lately, and I find he often refers to singing and to the quality of people's voices. For example the entry I read yesterday mentions that he and his company were "singing finely" as they traveled somewhere. This suggests that singing played a different role in his life & culture than it does in mine.
Has there truly been a shift in the normality of public singing? Is it thought to be linked to the advent of recorded music? Has this shift been observed worldwide or is it limited to western or European culture?
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I know Henry was the son of the George Clinton who was an admiral in the Royal Navy and also a governor of New York. However, I can't find anything linking the Henry and the other George who were contemporaries.
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I read somewhere the Mongols under Ghengis Khan had a very extensive spy network, with it claiming he had spies as far as the British Isles. Is that true? If not how big was his spy network
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I'm interested in understanding historical revisionism in the context of, specifically, if there have been attempts to document when major revisions took place, what topics were changed and how those changes have affected historical understanding, both pre and post revision.
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I have always assumed that, while slavery was the defining reason the South chose to seceed and fight a war, it very possible that there had to be some abolitionist movement in place somewhere in the South. But were there any actually in the government or military, or was it even legal to speak out against slavery in the CSA?
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For example, medieval graves in Poland have shown some of the dead with stones jammed under their chins and sickles laid across their necks. In Bulgaria, bodies were interred with stakes through their chests.
Do we know why some burials were singled out in this manner?
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So I'm not sure if this is the place to ask this but I am considering doing a history or archaeology degree and I am wondering which universities/degrees garner the most respect academically?
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I used to be an avid pianist and whenever I got my piano tuned the tuner always had some computer software that told him how close to the correct pitch each string was. It got me thinking - how were pianos tuned before this kind of technology was invented? My initial guess was that they would use a set of tuning forks, but it seems it would be tedious to carry enough tuning forks to cover all 88 keys of the piano.
Sorry for any weird formatting, I'm on mobile.
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I think it could be military. Found it in an antique store. http://imgur.com/a/M4zGO
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