Disclaimer and clarification: I'm not trying to disprove the legitimacy of anyone's feelings that they were meant to be a different gender? I'm just honestly curious about something I know very little about.
Homosexuality has a very long history, both in record and condemnation. However the Trans movement (if that's the right phrase for it) seems new in my short life. I'm sure record of individuals feeling they are meant to be the opposite sex exists and may have been categorized as homosexuality. When did that feeling/desire become its own entry?
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I would like to learn more about this little medallion and pass the information along to her. Can anyone shed any light on what this medallion reads or if it has any meaning behind it?
Thank you in advance!
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I've seen occasionally seen references to the USSR promoting conspiracy theories in the US on a number of things (Hoover's crossdressing, the JFK assassination, the MLK assassination, etc.). I'd be interested in learning more about these methods and motivations (did they create the conspiracies or just promote them)? Basically from 1940 to 1997 (20-year-rule), it's all of interest to me. Just so long as it's from fairly reliable sources or has documentation; you know, isn't just speculation. That's why I'm at this sub.
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Follow up question. What did they carry in them?
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I searched this sub and this question has been asked a few times but without an answer.
Of the main Hindu trimurti, Vishnu and Shiva enjoy tremendous worship among believers but Brahma does not. There are a few mythological justifications for why this is (example), but I wanted to know any historical reasons for this.
Was there ever a cult of Brahma the way there is a cult of Vishnu and Shiva today? If not, why not? If yes, what happened to it?
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Ahem, you can probably guess why I'm interested in how much the President can do while under investigation or impeachment proceedings. Was Nixon's administration able to pass legislation? How did Nixon's cratering popularity affect their ability to gain support for their legislation?
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Are there any practices that are used today that branched off from the human experiments performed?
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I'm not a military expert by any means, so I was asking for clarification for any WWII historians here.
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Talking with my mom about this as she was never given one and me and all my siblings got theirs from other family members. Has this always been the case or do middle names have a deeper meaning?
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We tried googling everything and there were some with a red border on it but this one doesn't seem to be painted. It has a screw back and seems to be pretty old but we are wondering if it is a fake or a real pin. Any help is appreciated, thanks!
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One thing that really strikes me about pre-WWII maps is how far east Prussia stretches into modern day Poland. Were there ethnic Germans/German speakers that far east of Prague and all along the coast of the Baltic Sea as this map implies? Or was this just a territory grab by Germany? If so were they expelled after WWII?
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I've been reading "The Assassination of Julius Caesar" by Michael Parenti and he really hates Cicero. He says stuff like "A self-enriching slaveholder, slumlord, and senator, Cicero deplored even the palest moves toward democracy...He regarded the people as worthless groundlings, akin to criminals and degenerates"(page 87) and quotes Engels, saying 'Another of the handful is Friedrich Engels, who called Cicero “the most contemptible scoundrel in history”'. Is this totally true? He provides pretty good examples but are there any counter examples?
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I don't work in history of science; rather, I work in philosophy of science, and am writing an article on transient underdetermination in the history of science.
So far as I can tell there were (at minimum) Tychonic, Reimersian (after Nicholaus Reimser), Keplerian, Ptolemaic and Copernican models, as well as earlier geoheliocentric models developed by Martianus Capella and John Scotus Erigena and some Indian geoheliocentric models in the fifteenth century.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Edit: I like how this is in keeping with the weekly theme.
This blog post claims a lot of things that as a political science MA, I have been able to break down with plenty of sources.
However I have a number of questions about other facets of the post that I dont have the knowledge base to answer and I feel like they need to be shut down. I will comment with my list of take downs and sources, especially for the list contained in the post, but for now, I have the following question:
1: "[T]he South, through harsh tariffs, had been supplying about 85% of the country’s revenue. . ."
I cannot find a source in regards to this number but I thought the US was already exporting other goods from the other states and that the South was mostly an agrarian economy, so other than cotton, what would have been exported? Also, by revenue, I assume they include any taxation, which again would strike me as being impossible since the Northern population had far higher number of people who would have been paying taxes, as well as a stronger industrial economy.
Feel free to comment on any of the claims made in the post, which I do not find credible, but has been reposted to death by people who want to romanticize the southern experience pre-1860.
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