I've heard from some people that "Well Hitler was a horrible person but he still helped Germany become a better country". Is this true? How much did he help with the modernization of Germany? Did Germany flourish during his time or he only made it worse?

Tibet is not listed anywhere as a former member of the UN, even though there is 5 years between the formation of the UN and the PRC's invasion and subsequent annexation of the country.

Did Tibet decide not to join the UN, did it not get around to it (it seems neighbours Nepal and Bhutan joined later), or is there some other reason as to why the country never joined?

So, I have recently gain interest in Mesopomia and ancient cultures like Sumer and Babylonia and I was looking for some good books to begin with. There are any good books out there?

A quick search in this subreddit yields an 8 year old post without answer.

Wiki dates the earliest references of fishnet clothing to a 1900 publication of Aesop fable story. What is the origin of fishnet stockings? How do fishnet stockings become the sexy garment they are today?

The show ancient aliens says aliens bombed mohenjo daro, but thats obviously not true, but why is it lightly irradiated?

I mean, in ancient time they had no technology for fast or wide communication, how was it possible to rule from rome out over those huge territories? Why should people listen to guys they've never seen in their entire life's?

I've read anecdotes about white people who took care of the farms/properties of their Japanese-American friends and neighbors while they were in the internment camps but I wonder about those who weren't so lucky.

• Is there anything stopping me from rushing to the bank, withdrawing all my money and burying it in the woods somewhere and hoping that it isn't discovered until after I get released? Or would that be viewed as suspicious behavior and get me arrested?
• Am I able to sign everything I own over to a trust? Or would it be considered a crime?
• Can I "gift" my property to relatives/friends who don't live in the United States? (not in Japan, obviously)

Do historians have any credible proof or evidence that Atlantis once existed? It seems that most scholars agree that Atlantis is pseudohistory and was just a fictional story made by Plato to express his philosophical beliefs. If it's been branded as a myth, why are there so many theories about the location of Atlantis?

I'm also curious as to why are there are theories that the ancient Mayans were actually the people of Atlantis.

I'm fascinated by ancient lost cities and would love to learn more. I would appreciate any documentary recommendations or articles about this topic :)

Sorry I don’t know the corresponding Greek, the meaning of pedant in English I don’t think applies strictly so what kind of person was the text mocking?

According to this maps, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, it shows us the location of Pompeii and I’m told that there are many other maps before the 1700s that shows it’s location. Since Pompeii was rediscovered in the 18th century, why is it listed in these maps? Why wasn’t it rediscovered sooner?

A lot of typical EU kitchens consist of potatoes (Germany, Netherlands afaik) what was a typical European dish/kitchen like before it was brought from the Americas? (this might differ per region ofc)

I just thought of this when I remembered hearing about the show. Superman is just such a visual character to me, so people knowing about him in a non-visual manner is very interesting to me.

I know the comics were a thing at the time, but I imagine there may be some parts of the country where they might not be sold. For me right now it would have to be like a 45 minute drive to go anywhere that sells comics, and I imagine not every family back then had a car.

I’ve heard many times about how the Dutch bought Manhattan for an extremely good price. But I also know Wall Street is named for a wall that used to be at that location that was for protection from Native Americans. But why did they have to build the wall if the Native Americans had traded away the island willingly? Is there more to the story than I’ve heard?

Hello. At the end of the year I finished John Keegan's The First World War and enjoyed it very much, but found it didn't include enough about the conditions that lead to the war; so I've decided to devote all my reading for the year to pre-WW1 Europe as I thought it might be fun to focus on one period more than I usually do and was wondering if anyone had any particularly good recommendations for where to head.

After The First World War I read George, Nicholas and Wilhelm: Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War 1 by Miranda Carter which was very good. Now I am on a biography of Wilhelm, which I am not enjoying all that much.

Pretty open about who/what to read about from the period so anything is helpful. Kind of assuming I'd miss someone/something important if I just did it all on my own. Thanks again.

I ran into this guy who told me that Shakespeare only that 3 months of education. Is this true? On a side note, I’ve also heard that there was a rumor that Shakespeare was the one who wrote the King James Bible. Does anyone know how that originated?

I've noticed in a few Irish anti-Unionist/anti-British poems and songs, interspersed among the insults committed against Irish people, mentions of similar circumstances against other subjects of British colonialism. "Come Out Ye Black and Tans" maybe offers the clearest example with insulting irony. Though it was actually written several decades after the period I'm asking about it was apparently written in honor of the author's father, an IRA member in the 1920s:

Come tell us how you slew them old Arabs two by two

Like the Zulus they had spears and bows and arrows

How bravely you faced one with your 16-pounder gun

And you frightened them natives to their marrow

*Performances will vary the lyrics slightly. I've also heard "poor Arabs" and "poor natives" in place of the lyrics above

How often did anti-colonialism broadly and British subjugation of other peoples come up in the rhetoric of Irish republicans in the late 19th century and early 20th? After independence did anti-colonialism inform Irish foreign relations? What about the general public's attitude towards to decolonization? Did the 20th century Irish state attempt to assist other subject peoples in their anti-colonial endeavors despite their nominal neutrality?

If the answer to any of the above is yes, I have a bonus question (given events of the past several years): is the broadly pro-Palestinian attitude of the Irish public related to historical sympathies with colonized people (the "old Arabs"/"poor Arabs" mentioned above), or is it purely a later 20th century development? I've read that it may have been influenced by the Vatican's position on affairs in the Holy Land, but I don't know how substantive that relationship actually is.

Thank you!

Germany surrendered on May 8, 1945, the first succesful atomic bomb test takes place on July 16, and then Japan is bombed on August 6.

What would have happened if the Manhattan Project had made a breaktrhough, let's say, on February 1945? Would they have used it on civilian cities like they did in Japan, would they have gone straight to Berlin? Would they have used them at all?

The Hungarian Revolution was a "harder" revolution, in the sense of overthrowing the government and desiring to leave the Soviet sphere of influence completely. Yet about 30,000 Soviet troops and KGB agents were able to suppress the revolt, inflicting massive casualties (over 3,000).

By comparison, the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia was a Bloc-wide affair, with up to 500,000 total troops (250,000 of which came from the USSR), despite it being a "softer" situation: Czechoslovakia only wanted internal reforms rather than to fully depart the Bloc, revolutionaries didn't overthrow the government, Czechoslovakian troops didn't formally engage the invaders, and about 150 people died - 5% as few as the amount of casualties in Hungary in 1956.

Why did the Soviet Union manage to crush Hungary with so much fewer troops; or, conversely, why did they use such an overwhelming force on comparatively tiny Czechoslovakia in 1968? Was it a show of force, either to other Warsaw Pact members (unity against dissent) or to the Western powers against the backdrop of the Cold War and a potential conflict in Western Europe? Was it an attempt to use overwhelming force projection to stop a more active Hungary-style revolution before it started? Is the higher troop number causally linked with a lower number of casualties compared to Hungary due to the above deterrent effect?