I know they didn't like each other and were alive at the same time and lived fairly close. I just don't know if they ever actually met face to face.

I understand India has a stellar (heh) space program as well as a decently sized military, but why haven't they emerged as one of the worlds top powers like China has? I don't even hear about India in the news.

Today we have this view of ancient classical philosophers like Plato and Socrates and Aristotle being wise old men who walk and talk, write, and teach. But did their tuturings and books make them enough to live off? Would they have other day-jobs to earn them money? Did they get funding from particular states? How did Philosophy become a popular enough profession that it was economically viable?

Forgive me if this is a silly question, but I'm currently reading Simon Winchester's The Professor and the Madman. The book isn't at all about the US Civil War, however it's mentioned that W.C. Minor joined the army and got me thinking on a tangent.

Considering Lincoln's peaceful nature (or at least that's how he is portrayed in popular history), I have a hard time believing he was accepting of a civil war. He'd have known how violent that could have been for the nation and, I would think, take measures to avoid such a war unless it were the last possible solution. Did he see the war as a necessary evil or did he support either side's cause? And does a U.S. president have any power to say "Hey guys, let's not do this"?

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Does anyone know the origins of soup in the human/ western diet? Like, why wouldn't you just eat something solid?

I have a full name and date of birth. He was drafted and served in the US Army in Europe sometime from after D-Day but before the Battle of the Bulge (in which he supposedly participated) until the end of the war. He went into the Reserves and was later called up and served in Korea as, I believe, a Master Sergeant. I think he operated a BAR in WW2. That's about all I know of his WW2 service, and do not know what unit he served with.

I'm not looking for answers like "well you wouldn't have cheeseburgers anymore". I'm wondering how different the food quality would be. What are the chances my stomach couldn't handle a meal? Would fruits like apples taste completely different because of some breeding we've done in recent history? Were there any cool dishes or foods that have been lost since the 1500s?

Would they be grantet the roman statehood or would they get a pension ?

How kings, queens and rest of royalty dealed with health problems during 17th century? Did they have special medical care? Also, do we have any diaries or relations from doctors who treated nobility?

So I was wondering that in the early decades of the 20th century when automobiles were becoming extremely popular and things like the Ford Model T were creating waves, they were displacing a pretty old and established industry, right?

Horses and carriages had been around for centuries and had a lot of professions attached to them - like coach makers, repairers, horse equipment manufacturers, stablehands and grooms, horse doctors etc. And all of this was becoming obsolete within a few decades.

So what was the reaction to this change? Was there anger, or bitterness? Was there unemployment? Or because of the gradual nature of the change, was it smooth?

I read somewhere a few years ago, about a briefing (perhaps at the Royal Society, but maybe somehwere else) in the late 19th/early 20th century in which it was suggested that Continental Empires would take Seaborne ones due to modern developments such as trains, telegraphs. But I can't remember who it was! It was offered as a sort of counter to Mahan... at least from what I remember.

Thanks to these innovations the full expanse of land could be harnessed (for the first time, as before it could take days to send a message, and even longer trying to move things like ores, coal ect.), giving continental Empires a huge advantage as they could get resources where they needed to be quicker, more securely (no sea crossings, blockades ect.) and possibly cheaper (no middlemen, no need to invest so heavily in protecting merchant fleet ect)

Apologies for the typo of heavy to heavily

Found a link to it on "studymode" but it's labeled incorrectly. Doesn't lead to the actual document, but rather an independent essay that's a comparison of the Haitian and French Revolutions. I think the author references the piece I'm looking for once and that's why it the studymode link appears in search engines. Nothing else seems to even reference the document. I used to have a textual copy in an old textbook but cannot seem to find it anywhere. Figured I'd ask here. Thank you in advance for any/all assistance!

The city seemed to be a global hub for the best writers, artists, and musicians in the world. Why were they all there? What made Paris specifically the place to be?

Speaking as someone with a very cursory knowledge of European history, the Peace of Westphalia always struck me as a very progressive for the time. After such a long history of wars of religion and conquest, what made European political thought change in such a big way? What were the steps that led to this point? My knee-jerk explanation would be to say that the 30 Years War was so devastating the elite began to reconsider their motivations for armed conflict, but I have to imagine that's an incredibly reductive take.

How did Nixon supporters view the scandal in general, and how widespread was support for impeachment?

When i say poorly depicted, I mean poor in terms of historical accuracy. More specifically, I'm thinking about films such as Ironclad, Kingdom of Heaven, Vikings, that sort of thing. Vikings and Kingdom of Heaven are great, but they're not entirely accurate.