Was he really trusted and considered credible enough to rule a country at the age of 9?
How much assistance did he receive with each order/command/move that he proceeded?
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Seems like every point in christian history where there's a disagreement about context or translation, they split their church.
Has there every been a diplomatic or scientific process to settle disagreements? Would it be possible today, given the best academic, diplomatic and compromising setup we could come up with, to agree on one definitive version of the bible based on what we know of the language and all the earliest texts available?
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(Reposting this because it got featured on "unanswered questions" on Sunday but is long off the front page!)
Military mail was notorious during WWII, how did they ensure soldiers and sailors got their votes home during the 1944 presidential election?
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For example, I know that Australia developed two modernised airplanes: the Boomerang and the Wirraway. However, due to several factors (like a severe shortage of 20 mm Hispano cannons), they were manufactured at a small scale, and therefore saw limited action. We're the efforts of Australian, Indian or Canadian manufacturers significant to the outcome of the war?
If possible, I'd also like to know if other planes or tanks, of British design were "outsourced" to factories overseas, later to be transported and used in the European or African theatre.
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From what I can tell, the two formations and strategies are similar, but I'm not sure of their differences. I have heard that some pike formations would go on to utilize gunpowder, but outside of that I'm not sure of the main differences.
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Was there as much xenophobia as there is today about Muslim refugees from Bosnia?
edit: 1990s yugoslav wars
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The version I heard growing up was that it was a tactical error on the part of the Soviets to boycott the proceedings rather than veto them when the Security Council voted on the UN resolutions.
But this narrates a different understanding of the boycott as a deliberate Soviet power play for its own gain and to game the US into a geopolitical blunder.
What was the truth?
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Hey guys, bit of niche one here: I'm a university student currently doing some research on a Papal Bull from 1385. Unfortunately there is no extant transcription for it and while I have a passable knowledge of paleography I'm having trouble transcribing some bits of the script. Does anybody know what this word says? Link: http://imgur.com/a/mYi24
(Here's a link to some easier text for reference of letter forms etc: http://imgur.com/a/szEzP)
Thanks!
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More specifically, would there be a unified, paid police force, or a designated constable? What would they be called? I'd absolutely love it if anyone could provide a starting point for research, such as a book or documentary they've found. Thank you in advance!
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We all know about Stalin's stupid decisions before, during and after WW2. But I was amazed by how shitty he is at public speaking:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_J846RnLbts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poOZFKoEx9c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nMDjKtTigQ
So unlike Hitler, who was a charismatic orator, which explains why he managed to become the Fuhrer, Stalin was both dumb and repulsive. How did he manage to rise so high without any talent to do so?
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And does that view still hold sway today?
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I'm looking at the timeline of popular votes in presidential elections and I noticed the republican party never really came into play until around the mid-19th century. I believe it was founded around 1820, but why did it become so popular and why did it overtake the Whig party and not switch back since?
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Did the Roman military leaders prefer to lead soldiers from a specific region or culture?
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Was guilds uniquely European, or did similar organizations exist in cities in other parts of the world?
If the answer to the top questions is yes, then why? It seems that the major goal of guilds, price and quality controll, should be a universal goal for craftsmen?
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Was there a copying process from an early Xerox machine in 1960? Was another method used? Did the West or East German governments give them copies? How did they get their hands on the archival documents from the Gestapo and the General Government?
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I was listening to the Andrew C. Fix's lectures titled Renaissance, the Reformation, and the Rise of Nations. While looking at the narrative of Luther's life, he makes a seemingly offhand remark claiming that Luther did not nail anything on the church door. Instead, he simply mailed his Ninety-five Theses to Archbishop of Mainz Albert of Brandenburg. Seemingly he expected him to respond in a sort of "my bad" manner and withdraw the indulgences that were solid under the theologically false claim that they were doing anything but reducing temporal purgatory penance.
Googling since then, I've seen all sorts of conflicting claims. So what happened?
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