Pretty self explanatory from the title. If you have any questions or need for clarification just ask.
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I hear a lot of references to Prussia being an army with a state Rather then the traditional vice versa. Is this related to the state's origins in the Teutonic order?
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In 1517 Martin Luther wrote his "Ninety-Five-Theses" disputing some of the catholic beliefs. Martin Luther was a german, how did his teachings spread to Norway on such a scale that the whole country embraced it?. And what were the consequenses of the whole country turning "lutheran"?.
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What is all the ways to prove a book of it's authenticity? I know carbon dating is one, but is there any other way then modern technology?
I am not a history buff what I am is interested in standard measurements in all fields. So I ask what is the go to standard of measurement to prove a text is authentic or a forgery?
Please if you can provide links for examples.
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It seems like the south could win fighting a war of attrition, yet Lee surrendered and from what I know, most of the other commanders followed suit.
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Especially Leipzig which I think would be large and really confusing as well as hectic, how much overall control did generals really have over the individual units in battle? Were their orders more generalized ("take the eastern part of the city") or specific (tell X battalion to advance along that road)? About how long would it take for an order to be given for it to be put in action?
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Hi guys,
I am an incoming fourth year student studying MEng in Computing. I am currently working with Margam Castle in Wales for my fourth year dissertation which aims to create an augmented reality application of one of the rooms for the castle. The castle was finished in 1840 but at present the rooms are bare due to the owner selling everything off in the (19)40s, and a fire in the (19)70s so I have no knowledge of the colour scheme except for a set of extremely rare images taken by Spencer Nicholls in 1885. The images are obviously in black and white, I would really appreciate if anyone could tell me the most likely colour of the wallpaper/carpet/furniture or at least point me in the right direction in terms of research. I also have a copy of the auctioned items (1940s) which gives a quick description of the furniture sold but I'm not sure if it matches what is in the photos, since there is a 50 year gap.
Thanks a lot to anyone willing to help!
Edit: Butchered the title, is 19th century!
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Full(er) Quote:
In 18th-century America, colonial society and Native American society sat side by side. The former was buddingly commercial; the latter was communal and tribal. As time went by, the settlers from Europe noticed something: No Indians were defecting to join colonial society, but many whites were defecting to live in the Native American one.
From this article: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/09/opinion/the-great-affluence-fallacy.html
and this reddit thread
I don't have the first idea about how to source a way to confirm or reject this statement when we're talking about data from the 1700s.
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And how many survivors were there?
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What were the processes? Were the leaders voted on by a council of sorts? Did they have to come from the same family? Did they have to descend from a former emperor?
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Today:
Saturday Reading and Research will focus on exactly that: the history you have been reading this week and the research you've been working on. It's also the prime thread for requesting books on a particular subject. As with all our weekly features, this thread will be lightly moderated.
So, encountered a recent biography of Stalin that revealed all about his addiction to ragtime piano? Delved into a horrendous piece of presentist and sexist psycho-evolutionary mumbo-jumbo and want to tell us about how bad it was? Need help finding the right book to give the historian in your family? Then this is the thread for you!
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(In America and worldwide.)
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I've been to a couple of English Civil War re-enactments in the last two months. Two things surprised me in the first. One was that the muskets weren't as loud as I expected, and the other was the very clear delay between the primer and the main charge igniting. (You can see this in this photo by my friend. Edit: actually, technically this one was an Elizabethan militia, hence the crested helmet.) At the second re-enactment I noticed that the shots were considerably louder, and this delay wasn't noticeable.
The difference - the first was on a damp day, the second on a dry, sunny one. I don't think it was actually raining when they were firing, but it had been drizzling, and it was humid (I think I noticed them having some trouble pouring the powder out of the flasks).
That got me thinking. How much does the state of the powder affect the muzzle velocity of the ball, and thus its range and penetration? Are there any studies on this?
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Reagan's misreading of soviet reactions to his rhetoric in 1983 is well known. However what caused this miscalculation?
Was it a new regime unwilling to trust their experts and going on personal opinions, analyst's caught out by the ever changing soviet leadership or a more fundamental breakdown in Kremlinology?
I get the feeling it might in the later given that the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan was also badly misread, but what's your opinion?
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As far as I know, we have the bow, the crossbow, and gun in terms of projectile weapons, but which one is more common in lets say Spain or Germany? and how would they use them? like were early firearms and crossbows used like muskets (e.g. stand in formation and shoot in sync)?
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