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How did news of his death spread? I'd assume that somewhat up-to-date reports were being made as soon as Harrison's illness became grave, but how imperative was it to those in power that the news of the president's death be made public?

As a follow-up, how did the public react? I find it difficult to believe widespread grief a la Kennedy, but since Harrison was the first president to die in office, was that enough of a shock for the "young" nation?

Any of them would be fine really. Mongols, Turks, Magyars, Scythians(?) etc.

I know that many militaries acted internally (for example Roman armies installing their favourite general as the emperor) and certain units acting as effectively police without expectations to fight in wars of conquest (Janissaries acting as palace and body guards almost exclusively).

What I'm more interested in was everyday legal proceedings for the entirety of the realm. For example, if you murdered somebody in Roman Empire could you expect regular soldiers to come arrest you or specialised internal civil order units (police)? What about Carolingian Empire, Umayyad Caliphate or Imperial China? When did we come up with the distinction between military acting against external opponents and police/law enforcement acting internally?

The question I'm asking is, by the time of the ancient Sumerians had the tectonic plates finally moved to where they are more-or-less today? Was the Bering Strait still covered in ice? Were Iberian and Morocco connected?

edit: I'm aware that most of the world had fully set in to what it is today. I'm just wandering if there were things such as the Bering Strait that were still connected to each other.

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The founder of this religion (If I'm not mistaken) was Rasta Fari AKA Haile Salasie, who was from Ethiopia. How did his religion reach all the way across the ocean without spreading to other countries first?

I understand that most West Indians are of african descent, but slaves were mainly taken from west Africa, and even then Ethiopia was never colonised by the Europeans.

Am I missing some information?

And so on, the thirties, the fourties, etc. Do we know when this "-ies" naming started?

Historically, there have been large amounts of people who flee countries in the middle of Civil War. Syria and Colombia come to mind. Did this happen in the US during their Civil War?

I've been scouring the web but I can not find it. Now if memory serves me right, this is what I remember.

It was basically the reason why the other force shaved their hair as to mourn the death of the battle while the Spartans had long hair to remember the day.

The two forces met and fought and until both forces were depleted or dropped from exhaustion. The reason why spartan won that Pyrrhic battle was because a spartan woke up early and ran back a settlement to say they won.

Hello.

What would be the most accurately translated and most complete collection of Marco Polo's writings and how can I get my hands on it?

Cheers.

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I believe that it is somewhat clear that the Jewish ha-Satan, the narrative inception of the "devil", was not envisioned as a red-skinned man with a goatee or Dali moustache, horns, a fur- or barb-tipped tail, a hoof or two, and a pitchfork, or, at the smallest concession to my preconceived notion regarding the matter - if he was, then I have no knowledge of any record of that image being passed into the formative thoughts of Christianity.

Yet, here - or rather, today - he is. Red man, goatee, moustache, tail, horns, hooves, pitchfork. Sometimes slender, sometimes paunchy. So, where did those attributes come from? I'm assuming that they were accumulated over time, rather than all at once - some, like the facial hair and the prominent widow's peak, seem to be rather recent, humoristic or caricaturistic, acquisitions (but I'll concede to correction), while I have no estimation on when the horns and hooves could have been added, except that it must have happened between the birth of Christ, and, say, 1800. So, what are the first sources for those attributes? And why were they assigned to Satan? And by whom? Church officials? Or the general population, who needed someting tangible to fear?

I did a search and didn't find anything in this sub, if there is something then please link it.