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I was viewing some art recently, and I was curious if the glyphs used by the artist are some sort of actual language, or simply some nonsensical automatic writing?
After doing homework, I believe it to be closest to Egyptian Demotic, or perhaps a type of Phoenician or Paleo-Hebrew-looking script. The individual characters also look similar to ones from the untranslated scribbles within the Rohonc Codex to me.
I inquired the artist, and she only answered that the backwards-appearing 'S' glyph is one she uses often. Thoughts? Any direction or clarity helps, thank you!
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I'm about to teach a unit on scientific discourse in a STEM-English class and am wondering if the skeptics ever got it right.
We're going to look at some of the bigger "debates" today - climate change, vaccinations, etc. The central idea here is to look at how authentically and accurately science is discussed by people and by the media.
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Did any manage to stay behind and blend in with the local population? Wikipedia mentions that there were isolated Spanish ethnic groups that may have been practising a syncretic Islam into the 20th century. Is this true at all?
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By some accounts, being a slave in late republican and Imperial rome is not such a bad lot - so long as you are brought into a wealthy household. Nonetheless, we know many slaves were sent to mining camps. This was understood to effectively be a death sentence.
How Roman society determine which path a Slave would take, and was there any legal/moral distinction between the two?
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Basically, when did music start getting made explicitly for the purpose of profit. Commissions have probably(?) existed since ancient history, but what about music made for general consumption?
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Why did he hate Carthage so much? It seem like after the 2nd Punic war Carthage had given up on militarism and was content to be an economic power. Why did Cato push so hard for the city to be destroyed?
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Recently, I've been fascinated with early recordings of American Blues artists. I would love to know more about what their lives were like, what they thought of their music, who they were as people, who their fans were, what a concert would look like, etc. I would say I'm much more interested in the period between the very start of blues and, say, 1940, than its development afterwards. Lead Belly is my jam right now and I was fascinated reading his wiki articlr. Would love to learn more!
I would prefer the writing to be accessible to the average layperson. Fun facts, fluff, etc. are very welcome.
Artist, album, and song recommendations are also welcome. I'm new to blues and want to dive in.
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Hello historians - I came across the hypothesis that mechanisms such as religion and social shaming were developed to control unrestrained sex, ultimately to prevent a huge population boom when mortality rates were falling (i.e. conceiving more children than one could support). Is this an accurate answer as to why sexuality became a taboo?
The closest thing I could find in this subreddit is u/vertexoflife's answer which details when and how sexuality was repressed by Christianity, but not why.
Thank you.
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This question is about removal of a Justice outside the scope of criminal impeachment, which is explicitly stated in the Constitution.
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My understanding is that the US was perfectly willing to throw some money and time at almost any sort of military project during WWII (Project Pigeon, anyone?) but I've never been able to get a clear picture of just how long it took for the Manhattan Project to cross the threshold from theory to "This will totally work!"
Was the Manhattan Project at first considered some sort of a fool's errand, or was the theory behind the atomic bomb solid enough that there was no doubt a bomb could be built, with enough time and resources spent on making it happen? What milestone moment proved that atomic weapons were possible? Was the threat of the UK, Russian and German atomic programs enough to ensure that the Manhattan Project would continue?
Thank you.
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In reading the Great Gatsby, a character named Wolfsheim appears, who directly influences business and has the appearance of a rat. It has been used as an arguing point towards Fitzgerald being a bit of a racist.
This is a pattern I've noticed in antisemitism. Where does this idea come from?
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I read that the Women's Enfranchisement Act (1930) extended the right to vote to all white women over the age of 21, regardless of land ownership or marital status.
On the other hand, non-landowning white men could not vote until the Franchise Laws Amendment Act (1931).
For a year, voting was more open to white women than white men. How was this perceived by society at large? Specifically, are their instances of poor white men taking issue with the fact that their wives could vote while they could not?
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These Old stones were my great grandfathers and when my father was clearing up some of his old stuff he gave them to me. I am curious to find more about them.
Im new to reddit, if there is a more appropriate place to post these do let me know. Thank you!
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Greetings, if I have the history right, in 1939, Great Britain and France declared war on Nazi Germany. In 1941, Nazi Germany invades the Soviet Union. Why did Hitler invade Soviet Union before finishing up his fight with Great Britain?
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Hello. I am doing a third year assignment on magic in medieval Europe and since I'm on a big Byzantine buzz I wanted to focus on that area of things. I am interested to know if magic was practiced widely in the empire, if there were any particular cults or subcultures that claimed to practice magic, how magic was viewed by different levels of society- that kind of thing.
I have the book Byzantine Magic, I can't recall the author's name though sorry and I don't have the book handy.
Note: I'm not at a weird university that studies magic, it's more about what would qualify as magic during the middle ages.
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I know that Christianity would go on to become the faith of the Roman empire in its later years, but did the emperor of Rome at the time (or any of his administrators) know about the growing following of Jesus?
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