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My father walked past the walled city every day, but he was too scared to enter for fear of being robbed. Was the Kowloon Walled City as dangerous as people thought it was? Also, what are some misconceptions people have about the walled city that should be cleared up?

What did "losing the war" mean in practice for the US, was it basically Europe becoming German? And whatever "losing the war" meant, did the US have a plan for what to do then?

Is it just going to be a dozen people, hundreds, a few thousand?

Since all they had was the book, did they run out more frequently? Particularly, in urban areas? How was it in the 1920s?

Names of Indian states, towns, and cities have names which are derived from English, Tamil, Bengali, Italian etc. Was there a standard for the way these places were named or was it just a play of fate that the man who first decided to call Andaman was Italian and the name stuck forever?

Across history we have multiple occurrences of young kings and even young conquerors, in their fourteens and fifteens.

How did they manage to keep powerthisrty nobility (and their equivalents) under control?

Hi everyone. I'm looking for information, specifically diagrams or images, of the bunker installations along the Red and Blue Lines at Tobruk in WW2. Thanks in advance.

I was very curious and doing some study. Any help is appreciated!

When slavery was big in the world(mainly a time frame from Ancient Greece and Rome(or earlier) to the Middle Ages Era, to give a time frame), was everyone considered a possible slave to the Romans? What stopped a normal(but poor)citizen from just being grabbed by the slavers? How were common slaves not confused for common citizens ? And was every foreigner considered a slave(for example, a ship from Gaul pulls into harbour in a city where buying and selling slaves is prevalent, would they just be grabbed up as chattel immediately because they were not Roman and thus easy prey?)

What about traders from different lands, what kept the Romans, Persians or others from just arresting them and taking them as slaves? Were slaves just taken as prisoners of war, or were they sometimes just nabbed on a whim?

Were slaves only ever used as servants, gladiators, sex slaves and such? Or could they rise higher up and become trusted members of a family? Why and how? What made people decide to make eunuchs or such? Did they ever trust slaves enough to make them their guards?

If a slave was taken as a prisoner against their will and were former fighters, soldiers, etc; what kept them from just trying to immediately murder their masters and make a break for it? Was it just fear of being whipped? Death? Crippling? I know about Spartacus's famous uprising and such, but what stopped many others from doing the same thing?

What brought about the end of slavery? How was it policed?Was it prevalent in the Middle Ages still, or did it disappear until American slavery took over before the civil war?

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I'm interested in the period of Europe as a whole but haven't read much on that time period in Italy specifically.

I just finished Julia Baird's new biography "Victoria: A Queen". While I knew that three of Victoria's children either had hemophilia (Leopold) or were female carriers of the gene (Alice and Beatrice) I was a little surprised the author did not address hemophilia's sudden appearance, considering the impact it had on many royal families for the next few generations (Tsar Nicholas, his wife Alexandra, and their son Tsarvich Alexis come to my mind first.)

I tried searching the Internet but the only item I found was a Wikipedia article stating that while Victoria or her mother may have been a female carrier, it was most likely a result of "spontaneous generation/mutation". I'm taking that with a grain of salt, because Wikipedia. Can anyone shed some light on how hemophilia, which (as far as I'm aware) was not present in the generation(s) prior to Victoria's reign, yet suddenly appeared in three of her eight living children? And how it now seems to have disappeared? Any suggestions for articles and books to read would also be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance.

I cannot remember where I read this...I believe it was in one of Stephen Turnbull's books. Anyway I own a few pieces of authentic armor and they are all glazed red inside. So is there some truth to this?

This may be an unusual question, but how can you make history seem relevant to someone who is uninterested in history? I have a friend of mine ( I am in High School in the US) who is entirely uninterested in history at all. I tried explaining the butterfly effect, but that didn't seem to convince him. How can I make him understand that history is a powerful force in daily life and not some irrelevant thing. Thanks a lot!

I haven't been able to pinpoint where this strange concept of free will came from, how such person define this concept, and how is it justified

The claims made in the book, such as China amassing fleets hundreds of junks strong. It provides evidence such as stones with carvings, Chinese genes in natives (interbreeding) and various artifacts such as porcelain to show how China had arrived in Australia, North and Central America and Antarctica long before any other nation.

However many reviews say that the book is full of nonsense and is not possible. I would like to know how much of the book is true, and if not, how are the arguments in the book countered by experts.

I mean before they recognized CCP as the new China legally.