Hello all, I'm trying to track down some info on what part of Italy my great grand father came from in Northern Italy and its been very difficult due to a lack of information from my family. Obviously I don't expect you guys to solve anything for me but I could use help with a good starting point. My Grandmothers family is extremely well documented to the point where we have journals of relatives dating back to the late 1700's but my Grandfathers side is extremely difficult due to his Parents ( My great grandfather) Rough Family history and lack of family ties.

My great grandfather came to america roughly around the early 1900's and was adopted by an american family at a young age and because of this he assumed his adopted families Identity and history.

The only two leads I have are his adopted last name and a general idea of where he came from in northern Italy.

His last name before he came was "Poloza", I thought this would be a very good clue but I've turned up nothing as I don't think the above is the correct spelling. I've tried looking for names similar but due to obvious language barrier its hard to discern what the correct spelling would be.

The second clue is that the part of Northern Italy that he came from is no longer Italy and is either part of Slovenia or Croatia.

I Apologize if this isn't the correct sub but any info would help. I know its a long shot but I'll answer any questions with whatever info is needed.

Can't find anything on google and just find it really odd that no mention of how he died seems to have been recorded.

A search of this subreddit surprisingly didn't turn up any results for me. I know that the Nazi regime discriminated against gays, gypsies, and other groups in addition to the Jews. However, I can't find any evidence if those groups were specifically placed into camps and exterminated. If this did happen, to what extent did it occur and in what proportion to the Jews?

The German-owned Pacific islands that Japan seized in the Great War had a small number of garrison troops, German expatriates and government officials. What did the Japanese do with these people?

Title says it all, basically. I'm specifically interested in the middle and late periods because I wasn't able to find a lot of sources on those. As for the early period, I read about the frumentarii and agentes in rebus which were apparently connected to the roman postal system. But they seem to disappear later. Since the bureaucracy was still very prominent even after 1000 AD, I can't quite believe intelligence wasn't centrally collected and processed anymore...

I was leading discussion for the course I TA for, and we were covering nationalism. I was explaining the 19th-century notion of nations and nation-states when a student asked if Rome would qualify. I did not answer because I basically do not know anything about anything before 1485 (I'm a modern British historian). All I could tell him was that I don't know if Rome would've qualified as a nation-state, but the term would be anachronistic.

The Nez Perce War originated from an attempt to drive the Nez Perce Native Americans onto a smaller segment of their original tribal lands in the Idaho territory. A significant portion of the Nez Perce nation refused, and fled north seeking aid first from the Crows and then from Sitting Bull in Canada.

To the best of my knowledge, the nontreaty Nez Perce intended to flee the United States altogether. I understand that there was a bout of pre-war raiding which killed several settlers, but over the course of the war the Nez Perce appear to have been in retreat and relatively passive towards settlers.

Why was so much effort expended to track down a group attempting to leave the United States and force them on to the reservation? My impression is that the Nez Perce were considered an obstacle to settlement of the West, so what was the justification for bringing them back to the United States instead of allowing them to depart to Canada?

(Or, perhaps: were Miles and Howard aware of the Nez Perce intent to leave the country?)

From what I recall, Mein Kampf makes no suggestion of western conquests, and the Siegfried Line was only finished at great expense in the summer of 1939 to secure the Western Border and allow Eastern Expansion. With this in mind, why didn't the Wehrmacht feel the need to go on the offensive in 1940? After all, it was Britain and France that declared war on Germany, not the other way around.

In the Boston area during WW2 what would the common use of an all green or all red buoy be? Aside from submarine detection.

The wording of the thirteenth amendment is very specific.

Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, EXCEPT as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

Except as a punishment for a crime.

Reading the book Steel Driving Man by Scott Reynolds Nelson, about the REAL John Henry made me think of this. The book spends a lot of time describing the building of the Ohio Connecticut railway, and how many African Americans during the emerging Jim Crow south were picked up on felonies that used to be misdemeanors. What should have been a small fine ceded up in months or years of hard labor. The growing prison population allowed large corporations like the Rail Roads in the United States to take advantage of prison labor as slave labor had been used in the past.

Would I need a lot of money or power? Could I bring on investors? Who would “own” the colony? Could I try and make my own independent state?

Sorry if this has been answered already, did a search and didn’t find anything similar.

I apologize if this seems a strange question, but looking at statistics of ww2 deaths, many of those who died in the Soviet Union were men, 16 to 35. I know that many civilians perished as well, but did the gender imbalance cause a disturbance? Was anything done to adress the gender gap?

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I’ve read that the Romans did not have a clear cut understanding of economics and concepts of national debt and inflation- hence the vain attempts at restoring the economy by way of decreasing the amount of gold and silver in their currency. During the Late Empire (the autocracy), how was this idea of altering currency pitched to, say, the emperor? With no formal understanding of classical economics, how was this altered currency idea disseminated and popularized? Who “figured” that it was a good idea? My sources make it seem as though it was the emperor’s (Diocletian, Constantine) idea- but I figured that the emperor simply put the plan in motion. Who did it start with- and how much of a task was it to convince the emperor to actually push the envelope ?

I'm thinking of all the units formed from soldiers of former and then-current colonies, Caribbean, Indian, African, Australian, etc.

Were they all busy elsewhere? How were they used on D-Day if they were in Normandy?

As a Canadian we hear often about Juno Beach, a little less about the British and Americans, and nothing about our other allies' contributions.

It would seem that there is no mention of "hell" in the modern sense occurring in the Bible. I wonder if the modern Church came to twist Jesus' mention of Gehenna or the Lake of Fire in Revelations to mean some kind of eternal punishment, when in fact that was not the case.

I love Victorian humour writing so I'm thinking of reading Gilbert Beckett's Comic History of Rome. I know it's meant to be silly and is far from scholarly, but is it accurate enough that I as someone who knows relatively little about Roman history can safely assume that anything in it that isn't obviously a joke is generally true, or has our knowledge of Roman history changed enough since the 1840s that I should read it as essentially historical fiction?

1. Were the Japanese pilots aware of the inferiority of their aircraft designs?

2. How were tactics changed or adapted as the war turned against their favor?

3. Were any Japanese fighter plane designs (Besides the Ki-84) on equal terms with American equivalents?

4. Are there recollections available of Japanese pilots who may have survived the Marianas Turkey Shoot?

5. Was morale privately affected by witnessing many friends shot down or sent on suicide missions?

6. Were there any Japanese flyers who downed late war American fighter planes (F6F, F4U, P51, P47) on multiple occasions?

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Chinese, Manchurian, Mongolian, Japanese, Korean, etc. were all originally written vertically, with each line moving right-to-left. However, a lot of my grandfather's books are a mix of vertical right-to-left and horizontal right-to-left. And now a lot of books are written horizontally left-to-right, similar to English and other European languages. Even typing Chinese on a computer moves horizontally left-to-right. But Arabic and Hebrew have maintained their horizontal right-to-left orientation

I currently reading "The Eagle's Conquest" a historical fiction novel by Simon Scarrow. In the book, the legions of Rome invade Britannia. I was just wondering where did these large armies get all the clean water needed to sustain itself.

I don't suppose it's as simple as the Western Front?

Great Britain was the greatest naval power and one of the greatest army powers in the world at the time. Yet they are fighting in line formation 40 feet from the enemy in bright red cloths and the colonists are easily able to blend into the foliage and shoot thesee high accuracy rifles that have much further range then the muskets. These are hunters and they have better weapons than one of the greatest land powers of the time.

I write comics and one of our artists from southeast Asia informed us that she was bothered by the eye-leading from one of our pages, which follows the traditional western convention of right to left. She wants to flip the page to make right to left, more in line with manhua or manga.

This lead to a conversation with my partner about why different cultures would adopt different reading conventions, and we guessed it had to do with language, but that still left us wondering why those conventions might have come about in the first place.

Thanks!