Were there armed guards? A security fence? Could someone walk unimpeded to the front door?
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It seems that a lot of lives could have been saved if a aerial campaign would have been launched before we sent in ground troops. Why was this a bad strategy?
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By wealth I mean gold, silver, amounts etc. I just wondered if India or China or Rome or something else was huge.
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Were there arguments against safety from the beginning? How long did these oppositions last?
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Hi.
I am interested in Historical texts, specifically for mathematics. I want to go back to the source to see where key concepts and modern mathematical notation was introduced.
I have tried google, but mostly find modern transcripts, though very arbitrarily stumble upon what I want.
Examples of some books I am looking for:
Does anyone have any suggestions to where I should look?
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Most cultures and societies have a period in their histories in which they are conquered and/or enslaved by someone else. Did this ever happen to Greece in any period before the modern era? What were the circumstances of these events? Could you give some suggestions for reading on the subject? This question is a bit difficult to Google since the results that come up are all about the Greeks having slaves from other nations.
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I'm asking because in Battlefield 1 which is based on the first world war, there are tanks, which actually are good. I am aware that it is a game, but it seemed like they wanted to stay as true to history with Battlefield 1.
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I'm studying a course in Adult Literacy Education in New Zealand and we're looking at historical literacy rates and the introduction of literacy to New Zealand. In 1815 the first written attempt to record the Maori language was published and in 1841 the first Maori language newspaper was published, showing a rapid uptake of literacy among Maori. This is compared to today where Maori struggle with education and perform poorly compared to Pakeha, or European New Zealanders, largely due to the impact of colonization. The material we're using claims that literacy rates among Pakeha in 1840 were actually quite low and that the Maori had observed that the Pakeha who could read and write were the ones with power, motivating a race among different Maori tribes to become literate and participate in modern life. These two documents:
http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/files/documents/peopling2.pdf
http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/files/documents/peopling1.pdf
...talk about the ethnic composition of early European settlers before 1840 and from 1840 to 1852. The second has a table saying about 64.3 percent from a random sample of deaths in 1841 were from England, about 20 percent from Scotland and 13 percent from Ireland. So I'm mostly interested in the literacy rates in those countries; some sources say literacy rate in England in 1840 was in the sixty percent range for men and the 50 percent range for women, and Scotland looks better, but I can't find similar information for Ireland so I can complete my crude estimate of literacy rates.
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I was recently reading the books, and I was curious to know what sort of real world basis might have existed in the Medieval period. We have Vice Presidents, and so on, but what did rulers used to rely on?
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To me it just doesn't seem like something that would feasibly work, surely firing a tank cannon from such a lightaircraft would cause it to loose control of it's flight.
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Oh, and besides guestbooks, what else were common features of the early Internet that are generally not seen anymore?
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Just wondering how long our proclivity to discussing sex has been around. Nowadays, it seems like a funny thing to joke about, but I highly doubt it has been like this for long. Before the Industrial Revolution or so, I imagine people were too prudish or just not interested in talking about it as much.
So I hypothesize that something about recent technology and lifestyle changes has enabled us to freely discuss something that was probably once taboo but certainly around for as long as us. Did we only recently start making sex-related jokes?
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I'm sorry for if this question is more suited for a religious subreddit but I'm concerned with the basic historical fact.
We all know that Jesus Christ existed and preached and gained a following, but is there any actual evidence he claimed to be the Son of God?
If im not mistaken, this would be a foreign concept for a Jew of the time and is more similar to Greek or Roman culture.
Experts or knowledge people in the field, do you think Jesus actually claimed this title during his life of is it a later interpretation and title after his death?
Thank you!
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La Follette, Thurmond, even Wallace as late as 1968, all had a lower share of the popular vote than Perot yet still won electoral votes. I'm not asking how the electoral college works, I'm asking why it played out the way it did. What went wrong in Perot's campaign? I know about his dropping out and coming back in, but what factors led to Perot to be the most popular 3rd party candidate since Roosevelt yet the least successful? I'm looking more for things such as campaign strategy, social changes, etc. Thanks
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