According to Wikipedia Spiro Agnew was in the office of Vice President up until October 10th, but it says Ford didn't become Vice President until December 6th. So, was there no Vice President at this time?
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While the mods have stated time and time again that they will not add an answered tag, I think an unanswered tag would be useful to mark questions in which all responses have been deleted. Sorry if this post is short or rule breaking.
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I noticed that America never had a President who was a Vietnam veteran. Is there a reason for that? The Vietnam War forever changed American politics and yet it never produced a President.
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I' a socialist and a pretty big fan of Rosa Luxemburg. I recently read a book about her life but one thing it didn't really clear up was how close the revolution actually was to succeeding. If anyone could answer this It would be greatly appreciated.
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While I'm no scholar or historian, I have taken interests in the Three Kingdoms era thanks to ROTK and Dynasty Warriors. I understand that the novel is very pro-Shu, and I also understand that historically, maybe they weren't that great. But then... there's this tumblr account where the owner actually cites a lot of historical facts in his article.
The blog owner is very much anti-Shu that even if with historical facts I'm not even sure to even trust that guy's words and opinions. I mean sure, historically maybe some of the Shu characters aren't really virtuous. But I just can't help to ask here, a much more neutral place:
Does history really record Liu Bei to be an actually backstabbing bastard that kept betraying his lords except Liu Biao?
Does history really record Zhang Fei to be a violent brute even without drinking problems and most infamously abducted and raped Xiahou Yuan's 13 years old niece?
Does history really record Gan Ning to be a murderous bastard? (Okay this one is not Shu, but I'm still curious anyway)
Take all those, and also add in Guan Yu being an arrogant mediocre general, and my question is... do they still have admirable qualities instead of all-negatives?
The reason why I ask this here is because I'm... honestly baffled with how he carried himself. A friend of mine coined it like that blogger saying "they are totally hyped-up fakers since they never did any of these historically, stop liking them you brainwashed ******s" or "your guys were a bunch of lying, backstabbing loser in history so you suck". And apparently, from what I heard, this is a result of changing times, there seems to be more anti-Shu sentiments there in China these days. Is this true?
It's gotten to the point that in order to keep myself around, I had to think "Character likability shouldn't be proportional to historical accomplishment". But right now, the fans of Shu is in a hard place, they can't counter that historical facts. Perhaps fellow historians here can give some words that might alleviate about being a Shu fan from historical records, or it's just a lost cause, the blogger was absolutely right that Shu has very little positive qualities historically? (though it shouldn't bar people from liking Shu based on ROTK/DW)
I just personally don't like people who tends to utilize 'truth' as a weapon to bully others. You might have heard it somewhere in the internet, "But it's the truth, right? And the truth hurts, and I'm right." To me, that sounds like bullying those who aren't of their opinions, and it is like this blogger was doing this to those who actually liked Shu based on their ROTK/Dynasty Warriors portrayals.
This is my first time in this and I apologize if I posted improper things, especially based on emotions. But I'll appreciate answers. (and even if you turn out to be disagreeing to that blog, try to be at least civil to the owner) Thank you.
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How was life like for the non-Muslims living under Islamic Rule during these periods? Did they feel safe and secure or were they oppressed? I'm especially curious as to how life was for them in the areas which were conquered. Did the integration of Islamic customs, rules, and regulations prevent or disrupt the culture - or was there an assimilation of cultures? Were the people treated fairly? In general, was their life good or bad? Was it a place that people would love to go to or want to avoid?
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Anyone tell me on Wikipedia it says about toshimasa maeda aka keiji maeda but on samurai archives official site there is no mention of him only says toshie maeda's second son also called toshimasa was keiji a fictional person
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Hello,
May I have some recommandations of book written in english (edit: I mean by non french academics) about terrorism or works on the history of armed political movements (clandestine or not). I do not ask for a specific context.
Thank you for your help
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Given that the LM could land itself without an astronaut piloting it, did it have other mechanisms in place to override any extreme commands that would have crashed the ship?
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Did it happen on battlefield or only on assassinations ( if it happened on assassinations ) during Medieval times or before.
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Basically, when people would say "you're worse than Hitler." before Hitler, who would be the person they are comparing to? Not sure ir this was confunsing or not, sorry.
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As I rolled around on my very comfortable mattress this morning I wondered what mattresses were made of in say the 1200s.
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Didn't Alexander the Great conquer Afghanistan on his way to India? Didn't various Indian and Persian empires conquer Afghanistan? I'm Sikh and we're told time and again that Hari Singh Nalwa was the only person in history to subdue Afghanistan.
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Bangladesh is somewhat of an anomaly in a sea of Hindus and Buddhists. Wikipedia points to Muslim merchants and missionaries, but why Bengal?
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Sorry if I'm asking too many questions; all the questions I searched for that are similar to the questions I ask don't have that much info in the answers and most of the comments are deleted.
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My friend and I were having a discussion on slave trade and we argued a bit over Africa's involvement. I remember reading about how certain leaders would sell their own people to the slave traders, rather than the common idea of Europeans just coming and stealing people away. But how true was that? What is the percentage of slaves sold to those kidnapped?
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The Hussite Wars in the 15th century were a very important time in Bohemia. As Czech, I have always heard from history teachers that one reason for the initial succes of Hussites was their use of wagon forts, a mobile way of building up defenses. However, I wonder just how actually unique that was, since it seems like something that other armies would come up with as well.
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It's the first level of the Saladin campaign. Initially you're an ally with Egypt and the crusader Franks are the enemy. However as you get close to Cairo, the Egyptians start voicing concerns like "Saladin, where are you going with that great army?" Eventually they openly become an enemy and join the Franks. You have to invade Cairo and place troops near the main mosque, after which the Egyptians repent and become allies again.
I know AoE is obviously going to embellish events, but what actual historical events gave the developers inspiration for this level?
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