Apologies for the confusing title. I'm curious how the number of days per month was set in our current Gregorian Calendar?
Every other month has 31 days, except for some consecutive months such as July/August and December/January while February has 28/29 days?
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As the Spanish nation had such close relations with Nazi Germany what sort of status did Spain have in the world? Did they spend time as a pariah state?
The reason I ask is because of an excerpt from the latest Dan Carlin which talks about US military bases in Spain.
If there was a quick thaw in relations what caused this seeing as Franco remained in charge until the 70s.
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And did either he or his soldiers break any German laws carrying out the Holocaust?
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She died this weekend in munich, aged 106.
How likely is it that she lied? Can it actually be true that she worked so close with one of the most influential people in Nazi Germany without knowing about the Holocaust? Or did she just decide to look the other way, not seeing what she didn't want to see?
Source for the quote is the documentary "Ein deutsches Leben" by German film maker Christian Krönes. Original in German: "Nichts haben wir gewusst, es ist alles schön verschwiegen worden und das hat funktioniert"
I translated it for the title, but slightly inaccurate, I left the word "schön" out, which literally means beautiful but in this case it is used as some kind of filler, putting an ironic emphasis on something, meaning something like "nicely", but with a more negativ connotation. I'm not a linguist so I can't really explain it well. I doubt this is important for the question but I didn't want to leave an inaccurate translation without some kind of explanation.
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Say I was dropped back in time to the year 1550. I have £1 (or a Sovereign if that's what it would be called) to my name. What would that £1 be worth in modern US$, or what could I expect to buy with that £1?
Edit: Let me reword it a bit. I'm not looking for an exact dollar amount. More like wondering if that £1 would be like $5 today, as in a little pocket money; or would it be more like $500, and be some decent walking around money?
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The question in the title and also did people had a name for the continent before Europe or just referred to county/territory names?
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Einsatzkommando Finnland was a German paramilitary unit that had links to Finnish secret police and followed the Finnish army during the Continuation War, allegedly carrying out mass executions of Soviet PoWs and Jews. I was wondering if any Finn or a historian who specialises in Finno-Holocaust history knows anything about Einsatzkommando Finnland. Are the crimes its been accused of accurate, and did its discovery change the way we view Finland in World War 2?
Edit: [This is the dissertation in question] (https://helda.helsinki.fi/handle/10138/19518?locale-attribute=en).
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I first heard of the theory from an episode of QI (Link).
Basically, the theory is that in the West, people preferred glass as a drinking utensil because they could see the colour of the wine. China, with her preference of tea over wine, never had that need. Together with China's excellent craftsmanship at making porcelain, China settled with porcelain teacups. Because China never invented glass, they never invented telescopes, microscopes, chemistry utensils, eyeglasses, etc., which greatly reduced the scientific development of China.
However I'm not able to find any sources on this theory, rudimentary Googling always lead me back to people saying they heard it from QI first. Is there any credit to this theory?
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Is it true they forced black women to march at the back?
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It's well known the short swords of legionnaires were incredibly effective. Why were foot auxiliaries not also armed with them?
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I've already looked through the US Holocaust Museum, and was able to obtain relevant documentation about some of my ancestors up until 1941. Is there any chance of being able to find documentation between 1941 and 1945, or has most of that been destroyed? If it helps, they were in the Krakow Ghetto up until 1941 and were (almost certainly) transferred to concentration camps after. I would appreciate if anyone could point me in the right direction.
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Heya :) I recently made a character for a p&p whose homeland is oriented towards ancient greece, and I'd like to know more about the clothing aspect.
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It seems like the majority of the worst serial killers were doing their crimes from the 70s and 80s. Infamous people like Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, Son of Sam, Zodiac Killer, Jeffrey Dahmer, etc were all during that time frame. WHY???
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Although the year is arbitrary, I just wanted to ask something to go along with the week's theme, in a historical period that I find interesting. So, as the name implies, where would a woman likely find the most rights, or if various areas were equal, what would you get or not get? Edit: Worldwide, if that's possible compare. Otherwise, just the best you might know of in an area.
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I know there's been some tablets and graffiti from the Roman times, but do we know what people tended to find funny before civilization?
Similarly, what about tribes like those in the amazon, etc before they were affected by civilization - is there any insight into their sense of humor?
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