I know there are lots of instances of Vice Presidents taking over for a dead president but has the Vice President ever died as well?

Did they have sorting offices in neutral countries? Or did they agree to have areas along the front lines where postal vehicles were allowed through?

I was particularly thinking for prisoners of war.

But also, could I have sent a German family member a letter during the period. Would someone have to check what I had written?

The Holocene Calnedar proposes adding 10,000 years to our current date, making this, the year 12016, replacing the BC and CE with HE, meaning Human Era, which symbolically began with the neolithic revolution, when humans transitioned from a hunter-gatherer lifestyle to agriculture and fixed settlements.

The reasoning behind this change is mostly as follow:

• The Anno Domini era is based on an erroneous estimation of the birth year of Jesus. The era places Jesus's birth year in AD 1, but modern scholars have determined that he was likely born in or before 4 BC. Emiliani argues that replacing it with the approximate beginning of the Holocene era makes sense.

• The reported birth of Jesus is a less universally relevant epoch event than the approximate beginning of the Holocene era.

• The years BC are counted down when moving from past to future, making calculation of time spans difficult.

• The Anno Domini era has no year zero, with 1 BC followed immediately by AD 1, complicating the calculation of timespans furhter

• It puts human history and development in a more appropriate time context, showing that we have been developing for over 10,000 years and not only the last 2000

Just read a shower thought that the Queen of Switzerland wanted philosophy lessons at 5 am. How did anyone know when 5 am was and what woke them up? I can barely get out of bed with 2 alarms.

Namely, the European power that colonized much of the Middle East and India, the British Empire. How were they able to colonize several parts of the Middle East like Egypt (a former territory of the Ottoman Empire) and the whole of India when back then it was home to strong empires and nation-states like the Ottoman Empire, Persia, the Mughal Empire, and the Maratha Empire which might be more stronger than Japan and Korea in the 18th and 19th centuries?

I'm sure the Qing Dynasty would be hard to colonize but why has no European power tried to colonize Japan or Korea back then when the two countries might be easier to colonize?

Edit: Well...shit.

I was listening to people likening Trump to Hitler and it got me thinking. Trump has a ton of publicity because of the things he says. He has constant interviews.

I know Hitler has his speeches, but were there any interviews with him?

Why did the nazi navy not build any aircraft carriers? Was it not seen as useful yet? Where WW1 era tactics for the navy still the driving force of what kind of ships were built?

Of course, during and following the reign of Nicholas I (1825-55) one can observe the emergence of the Russian Intelligentsia following the failed Decembrist Uprising of 1825. I was wondering whether prior to this political movement which eventually deposed the Romanovs in 1917, was there ever really a serious threat to the idea of an autocracy? From what I have read, it feels like a period of remarkable stability in Russia.

Thank you in advance, I look forward to whatever you have to offer!

I have been listening to podcasts about Chinese history and it seems that every other Emperor was drinking mercury or hiring daoists in order to live forever. I can't think of a single European ruler who had this ambition. Is there any particular cultural reason for this or is my impression incorrect.

Today, recognizing the musical structure of a "classical" composition often requires multiple listens and close examination of the score. Did people who lived during the Classic era, for example, have to do any of that to recognize a sonata-allegro? Or were they just so familiar with pieces in that form that they could recognize it by ear on the first listen?

This is simply a post to thank all r/AskHistorians moderators and contributors for your hard work at keeping discussions on topic and offering thought-provoking insight and content. It must be a lot of work, maybe thankless at times, and I don’t know how much positive feedback you get for doing all this, but I truly think your vigilance and commitment all make this subreddit one of the best, by far, on all of Reddit.

I have been a long-time lurker around here and I'm often drawn to this subreddit whenever I want to branch out of my field of expertise. As an historian (my field is 20th century Quebec political History), it warms my heart to see so many different experts give such insightful questions and articulate, thorough answers, with a real passion for their knowledge and solid, credible sources. Amazing as it may be, it’s hard to find a place today, even in academic contexts, where serious discussions about history can be had without them degenerating into a hodgepodge of clichés, flamewars or claims so ridiculous but so widely circulated that they become truth in the popular mind (sometimes because they are simply never disproven, or sometimes because people simply prefer an entertaining but false version of history to the truth).

So thank you again for offering us this quality of discussion/content. You’re the best!

What are the origins of the idea of PC culture? Or to prevent this from turning into an argument about whether or not PC culture exists, when did it start becoming a practice to self-censor or censor others in order to avoid offensive speech on grounds of politics instead of vulgarity?

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Surely, those who believe, and those who are the Jews and the Sabians and the Christians, whosoever believed in Allah and the Last Day, and worked righteousness, on them shall be no fear, nor shall they grieve. (Al-Ma'idah 5:69)

Why did FDR/Churchill choose to ally with Stalin rather than stay neutral/ally with Hitler?