I seem to remember a high school teacher of mine saying that there was a specific amount of years (ten or twenty) before a date is considered history. Is there a steadfast rule for this?
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Threesomes, foursomes, and moresomes; or perhaps conventional couples who were swingers or just had an understanding, please share any information about non-monogamous relationships in history.
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Im struggeling to understand what role the church had during the early years of Christianity. Suggestion on what to read or where to look would be really heplful.
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I'm working on a research project on this topic for school and I was wondering where I should start.
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I always had this idea that it was men with one hand inside their coats having deep philosophical and political debates. Or was it just a bunch of ye olde bros yelling about darts and body odor.
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I often read that she had violent mood swings, but nothing more specific than that. Was it known at the time of there was something specifically handicapping her?
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From the little that I know about them, it seems that they were either Arab or another Semitic group. What exactly were they?
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Many characters from the Gesta Danorum have analogues to "history" so who does King Gewar correspond to?
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My grandmother had stories of buying rice from a shop in the local village in the Kresy in the 1930s, and I was wondering how rice ended up as a staple there if it wasn't local.
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I was half-watching a Christopher Hitchens debate and he discussed how roman numerals didn't have a zero and the concept was seen as a scary thought from pagans. Is this true?
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I am curious if there is a general historical consensus or if there is contesting views on the impact that oliganthropia had on the decline of Sparta as a leading city-state.
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How far was Watergate common practice for behind-the scenes political maneuvering of its time, or was it a completely out-of-the-ordinary unthinkable act? By being involved, was Nixon acting like an out-of-control tyrant, or just a shrewd politician who was just unlucky to be caught by a scandal-hungry media.
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people who were children during the war (IE three of my four grandparents) tend to be really nostalgic about this, I want to know if it actually made much difference or was basically just a way of getting normal people to feel more helpful then they really were?
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Why was the King of Britain the Emperor of India, and not the Emperor of all the other colonies? Why did this distinction only come in in the late 19th Century?
Why was Russia an Empire despite having no colonies? (Georgia/Armenia/Khazakhstan/ et al count as colonies in this instance?)
Why could Napoleon proclaim the First French Empire despite France losing many colonies prior to this?
I'm assuming it has to do with rule over different national and cultural groups, but then couldn't this apply to most Kingdoms (eg Emperor of the English, Scots, Welsh and Irish?) Why was the Emperor of Austria not the Emperor of Hungary? (I realise there are issues with the dual-monarchy and HRE in this example)
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How is Feudalism manifested?
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The title pretty much sums up my question, I'm curious as to what classical music was played over the radio, or well known among the population/troops of Germany during the Second World War.
I know that Hitler enjoyed Wagners' music, but there must be a list of composers of music pieces that were generally well known back then.
Thank you for your time.
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Those tombs located in the Basilica of St. Paul Beyond the Walls and St. Peter's Basilica.
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The Life of Archpriest Avvakum is an autobiographical account of the years-long persecution of what would become the Old Believer subset of Russian Orthodoxy. It features numerous tongues chopped out, hands chopped off, and people left to starve in subterranean cells. (And the only case in the history of literature where an exorcism makes for an anticlimactic ending.)
What on earth was going on in the Church to inspire such virulent, long-term, multiple-patriarch-spanning persecution? What were the sides, and what were the stakes?
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