AFAIK, the Dutch settlers in South Africa fled up north due to Britain's conquest of the lands, then founding their own states. Did any sort of exodus of settlers occur earlier, in the Americas?
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Hello,
So I just had a quick question in regards to the implications of a statement made by Jefferson. For some background, this was in response to Benjamin Banneker stating how slavery -- and Jefferson's own personal ownership of slaves -- contradict the ideas brought forth in the declaration of independence.
This is the passage I had a question about, which is Jefferson's reponse to Banneker:
"No body wishes more than I do, to see such proofs as you exhibit, that nature has given to our black brethren talents equal to those of the other colors of men ; and that the appearance of the want of them, is owing merely to the degraded condition of their existence, both in Africa and America." Here's the full letter; http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part2/2h72t.html
Every place I read that tries to summarize this passage says how he's saying here that he does not think that white people are naturally more intelligent than black people. However, in reading it, I feel as though he's just saying he's actually hoping to see proof of that idea -- as his statements in the Virginia Notes seem to indicate that he does think black people genetically lack the level of creativity and imagination of whites. Am I just reading improperly? I don't understand how this letter is Jefferson saying that he does think that black people can be intellectually and creatively be on the same level as white people.
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So one factor of WWII that we Americans tend to be under educated about (at least up to where I am in the 10th grade) is the Japanese brutality in occupied regions in WWII. I actually had never really heard of it until some Askreddit thread where someone mentioned Unit 731, and someone else linked to The Tattoo Comic (very disturbing and NSFW) which messed me up a little bit, to say the least. So I was wondering, what caused this sort of intense hatred and cruelty? It seems like the kind of thing rivaled only by the holocaust, and it's obviously much less talked about.
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In light of the recent election, I've been hearing a lot of "the electoral college was intended to prevent people like Trump from being President". Trump aside, I'm curious, does this actually hold water? Was the EC intended as a sort of emergency bad-decision-prevention-tactic, or was it created for something else, i.e. a purely statistical tool (since it "weights" the votes in various states), a logistical one (to make vote collection from states easier before electronic communication), etc.?
I'm not trying to make this a statement on the election or anything partisan, I'm just curious about the degree to which that was actually the idea.
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I've been reading recently on the way prisoners were visually classified in Nazi camps. There were: inverted triangles of different colors for different offenses (blue for foreign workers, green for convicts, purple for Jehovah's Witnesses…), bars of those same colors (added for “recividism”), and initials to signify nationalities (P = Poles, S = Spanish Republicans)
My question is: how did this branding work when someone belonged to several of these groups? If you were a gypsy and a convict, or communist and gay, was your branding based solely on the “crime” you had been originally imprisoned for? Was there some kind of hierarchy of faults? Were “recividism” bars added with new colors?
I know yellow triangles (Jews) was combined with all the rest, along with black triangles for “race defilers” but I don't seem to see any other combinations. I admit the original reason for this curiosity was a personal interest in how I'd have been classified myself, since I'm a bisexual male (pink triangle) and a leftist (red triangle).
An original chart in German: http://www.thepinktriangle.com/images/nazi_camp_marks.jpg An English translation: https://adignorantium.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/triangle-key.jpg
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Stonehenge has been around since 2200 BC. So when the Romans first visited Britain, and later conquered it, it was ancient.
Do we have any records of what they thought of Stonehenge? Did they hypothesise as to its use? Or did they just go "Locals worship these huge bunch of stones. No idea how they were built. Moving on."
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Did be give them any money, did they Revolt or try anything violent? Or simply said ok and went on with their life?
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For an exam in my class I am required to use a source from social media, so I figured, why not ask a historian?
My focus area is the influence ancient Greece had on Roman art/architecture as well as military tactics(Difficulty finding stuff on this).
Like the title suggests my question is "how did Greece influence ancient Roman art?"
Any help would be appreciated!
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First of all, I am sorry if this is not in the right place. My grandfather has recently passed away and my grandmother is finally able to start going through his stuff. I have always been interested in history but I just do not know where to look to find more information on his old war patches. I assume some of them are WWII patches. He put them in a nice frame on display before he passed. I would like to know how he got the patches and what they mean if its possible. Here is the link to the patches: http://imgur.com/a/JCMC3
If anyone has any insight on any of the patches I would be glad to hear it, any input is appreciated! Thanks
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I know that the will of the people has nothing to do with the passage of constitutional amendments, but how was it that within a scant 7 years both houses of congress and 41 state legislatures came to view term limits as a good idea? Was there a public outcry about this proposal? Did people view it as a spite against FDR?
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Hello guys,
You were all just used as a great example by Alexis Ohanian of how Reddit can promote civilised discussion!
Congratulations, you guys (mods and those in the know) deserve the praise! For those who want to watch it's via the link here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUnY9TqRBAw
Edit - mention is at 41:45 or there abouts, question preceding it at 40:00!
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It just seems strange to me that he would choose Commodus because I always hear that Commodus was a very incompetent ruler. Was it some sort of fatherly love or did Commodus put him under pressure?
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I'm talking about the section above the walls themselves in this picture, the small roof thingy that allows and protects from arrow fire where you'd normally expect crenellations. The picture is from a videogame and depicts a japanese castle.
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In Ireland we know of lots of famous monks who travelled to mainland Europe to found monasteries; men like Columba or Columbanus. roughly in the years 400-1000 C.E.
I'm not sure if 'nuns' like we understand them today had arisen in that period, but did any holy women travel from Ireland to Europe on a mission?
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Were the triumphal arches, do we know?
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Harry Truman recognized the state of Israel in 1948. He famously did so over George Marshall's unusually vocal objections that this decision was politically motivated in view of the Jewish votes and lobby despite Truman's profound reverence for Marshall.
But how important a political issue was the creation of Israel domestically? Were enough voters concerned about it? Did it matter or was it at all significant in the margin for Truman's eventual victory?
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