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I'm currently doing some reading on the above mentioned period. Obviously, every source I've looked at focuses on the Moscow.

However, every map of eastern front of Operation Typhoon and Soviet Winter counter-offensive shows basically no movement by Army Group South (aside from losses at Izyum salient).

Did troops get transferred to Moscow? Or did they just sit on their hands for 5 months?

I realise this is the height of Russian winter but based on what I know at Moscow every man counted. Did German command really not utilise Army Group South for 5 months?

I've been led to believe that this battleship was viewed as more than just a weapon in Japan during and after its construction, and it has since been memorialized in many ways. How did the Japanese people react to the news that their invincible battleship had been sunk in a relatively one-sided battle? How did the Japanese government try to break the news?

I apologize if my premise is misinformed.

My father, Jesse Joe Woodard, was a man of few words. Approaching Oak Ridge some 30 years ago, he said "I helped build this place." Now, reading "The Girls of Atomic City", I find those words even more haunting. During the war, he mined coal in Jenkins, KY and worked for Bristol Steel, so constructing Oak Ridge is quite possible. Is there any way to find out what job he may have had. With the tight security and background checks , there had to be detailed personnel records. Are they available?Thank you, Jane Morse

How prevalent and integrated were non-white people in the US Army's paratrooper regiments?

Is there any reason to believe the ratio would be significantly different from the 10:1 white to non-white from the 1940 census?

I've read a bit about the 555th battalion, that was designed as an all-black force, but I don't know if black paratroopers were reassigned to, or recruited into it.

That is if he was just an average investor with no political connections, but good diversification. Would his money have been frozen or expropriated? Would he have lost a lot of it to companies with cooked books? Would he be fabulously wealthy?

In case this counts as a what-if question, the real question is what has been the investment environment for average American investors in China in the 70' through 90's?

The holding up of Asian Americans as "good minorities" by those who are bigoted against "bad minorities" has been a part of American racial relations for at least 3 decades. Have there been similar phenomena throughout history, in countries with multiple minorities?

It seems somewhat funny (to me, at least) that "America's national pastime" became as popular as it has in Japan. I'm sure the American postwar occupation had a lot to do with it but I'd still like to know more about the first introduction, early leagues, etc.

The Balkan Peninsula is commonly brought up when discussing regions that have a history of violence, was it always like this or is this a relatively (~100 years) new?

I feel like a good amount of people are aware of the modern issues occurring- pre-cursor to WWI, general unrest- but otherwise don't realize the depth of issues occurring in the area.

From my limited knowledge, the fall of the Ottoman Empire was a major factor in the disfunction of the area in the early 20th century.

I did my undergrad in History and was always fascinated by the politics of Eastern Europe due to cultural heritage (Polish and Czech blood) but my University had limited classes available.

Please let me know if this breaks any sort of rules so I can try to fix it!

Edit: Armenian genocide is not a part of the Balkan Peninsula but the area was under Ottoman control, hence my inaccurate association of the two.

I'm curious as to how the different names for languages/ethnicity arose, and why there really isn't a standard. In a sense:

America - Americans

Italy - Italians

China - Chinese

Germany - Germans

France - French

England -English

Why do some of them like France, simply go to French? Why not Francen...or Francese or something (Granted, they both sound extraordinarily awkward now, but thats likely due to never being used). Why is Germany German, not Germanese? Not exactly these specifically, but in general how did each language get its word?

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As an example, the Breda M37 HMG has numerous problems, some of which completely baffle me. Quite aside from more explicable issues with oiling and picking up dirt, having a twenty round magazine for a HMG seems like an indefensible idea, and having an HMG that ejects spent cartridges back into the clip seems insane - creating multiple points of failure, limiting rate of fire, and making reuse of the clip a laborious process, since you first have to strip the casings out!

These problems seem like they weren't limited to their machine guns - aside from their SMG's, which were apparently quite sophisticated (although fragile), Italian small arms all seem to have drawbacks that are hard to understand in context, even with the general lack of readiness for a world war.

Belize City is the former capital of Belize, and I suppose San Salvador can be also included with this list.

It seems, looking through the various churches and monasteries of Constantinople, that many of them were re-dedicated as mosques and renamed. The Fenari Isa Mosque was formerly the Lips Monastery, the Hirami Ahmet Pasha Mosque was formerly St John the Forerunner by-the-dome, the Zeyrek Mosque was once the Pantokrator Monastery, etc etc.

But the Turkish name for Hagia Sophia seems to be just that in Turkish, even though it was, too, converted into a mosque? What was the reason for that?

Hi all, just wondering if anyone had any good recommendations for a book on the history of the Hanseatic League? It's been asked a few times a couple of years ago, but were poor in answers.

Thanks.

I'm having a lot of confusion trying to understand the founding of the IRS, and the 16th Amendment to the US Constitution. Some people say America still, through the IRS pays England for old debts. Is that true? If that debt has been paid off, when? Are people confusing current national debts to England with past debts?