How do monarchs receive titles such as "... the Great"? I have tried to search for this but I cannot find anything informative. If you know anything about this or are able to find some information I will be very grateful!

I recently visited the excellent Gallipoli exhibit in Te Papa in Wellington. it left me with a few questions. I know the allied powers had huge political influence in the middle East after their victory, I wondered if they intended to install a friendly government in the place of the Ottomans. As a second question was there any talk of recapturing Istanbul to give it to Greece? (a sort of modern crusading)

This stems from two personal anedoctes (I know, personal anedoctes... but I am not using them to support an argument). I have a portuguese friend whose surname is "Lalanda", which he knows for a fact stems from having an ancestor fathered by a French soldier (Laslandes) during the Napoleonic War. Another one has the surname "Grou" and it can only be traced to the same time and to the area where the English had their base of operations, which we (half-joking) theorize to originate in the english surname Grout / Groutt. So, taking into account that Portugal was peripheric during these years, much larger movements have happened somewhere else in Europe. My question is whether or not are there any known populations that can be traced to those said armies?

How were the logistics of the manufacture and transportation to deployment sites managed? I'm interested in both US and Soviet management of the problem, but particularly US. Were private defense contractors used in some (or all) of the manufacturing process? How were missiles moved from production facilities to silos or submarines? What did physical security look like during these stages?

Thank you in advance!

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Meaning, the furthest away from Scandinavia.

"Bread and peace" was a slogan of the Bolsheviks, and they were willing to make peace at almost any cost (they might have really had no choice, given the state of the Russian army).

But at the same time, Germany represented Western capitalism and imperialism, and was occupying the home/land of many people of the Russian Empire, which would lead one to think that continuation of the war would have some support, even among the left/revolutionaries.

I assume there were certain schools, but I can't imagine, say, a Spanish man learning Polish, just in case they needed to communicate during a war. So maybe if it came to that, they communicated in latin?

Or, at the very least, similar information regarding its origin and development.

I was watching an episode of the show Call the Mideife which features a girl with Down syndrome living in a group home. She's certainly separated from society, but the patients seem to be decently treated in the group home.

What was the reality of how people with Down syndrome were educated and treated?

I vaguely remember studying China in my AP World History classes, so I can not answer my own question. I also could completely answer this by researching on my own. Help?

This question came up among friends talking about current events with Hillary's e-mails. Can a president issue a secret pardon? Does the public have to be informed of a pardon that is issued? Are there laws preventing the abuse of pardons? Would there be a historical record of a secret pardon?

I'm not sure if this is the right subreddit for it, but I'm trying to keep the theme for this week.

After independance, France's former African colonies continued to use French, leading to high numbers of speakers. From what I know, French died out in Vietnam Laos and Cambodia. Why didn't they keep using French like the former African colonies?

To be completely honest, he was a nut. Chris was a genocidal, drunk, slaver. Columbus wasn't even the first person to discover the America, so why do we have a day to celebrate him?

I mean, the US slowly but surely took over in the 19th and 20th centuries, and in the 21st are the leading superpower of the world. I understand territory in the present day United States was largely given up by France and Spain, as well as Britain, but though Britain was able to keep up with America with the British Empire until at least WWII, France and Spain could not. Did Britain just colonize more areas and hold on to them?

Given that the Soviet Union only occupied the Baltic states only about a year before the Germans, and Reichskommissariat Ostland was established as a distinct area, were they treated any differently by the German administration?

I love history and historical fiction (among other genres) but I feel many historical fictions not just a fictional plot but a fictional history. Do historians recommend any fictional writers as being truer to the facts? If so what should I pursue and what should I avoid?

Seems like a lot of islands are missing out on big tourism money...

Hello! Last semester for my Historical Analysis research paper, I presented a thesis that there is a common misconception that the First Crusade was solely based on liberating Jerusalem from Muslim rule, but underlying that was Pope Urban II using the events that happened at Jerusalem as a scapegoat to appeal to a massive Christian population in order to expand Western Roman rule in hopes to reunite both the Western and Eastern empires under his rule at the head of the papacy. I fervently believe that my first 6 pages giving historical background in regards to Pope Leo IV and Pope John VIII using the same promise of eternal life for those who fought and died against the "pagans" and the remission of sins, as well as Saint Augustine's assurance that the commandment forbidding killing is not broke by those who wage war on the authority of God was rightfully there, but when it came down to it, I couldn't find enough primary material backing my claim due to poor time management (other papers included Roman Homosexuality primarily based on dominance, Chinese women's role and status in Song China, and the effects of being a minority culture living in a dominant culture).