I recently heard something from my SO that there is a held belief among some Vietnamese that there were actually two different people, both thought to be Ho Chi Minh. Apprently one of the people who was supposed to be the original Ho Chi Minh took a boat to France and ended up dying there, but someone else stepped up and claimed the identity of Ho Chi Minh, and from then on out lived a more secluded life style until his eventual "death."

I am not sure if I am recounting the belief correctly or not, but is there any sort of evidence or anything to validate this belief?

If you know anything interesting about Richard then please post that I'm really interested in him, but my question is mainly to do with their relationship. The quote below confuses me, is this Richard saying he planned on conquering Jerusalem, assuming no resistance from Saladin, and would then order no hostility towards the Sacarens?

• "The legates informed Saladin in the hearing of many of his satraps, that Richard had in fact sought this truce for a three year period so that he could go back to visit his country and so that, when he had augmented his money and his men, he could return and wrest the whole territory of Jerusalem from Saladin's grasp if, indeed, Saladin were even to consider putting up resistance."

I could read a book but a TLDR would be nice. I sort of have a big blank between the death of Charlemagne and the Rise of the Austrian Hapsburgs. Their was some fight over the investures between the pope and emperor and shit something about guelphs and ghibellines in italy backing one or the other. Like really why didn't germany end up like France in terms of having a more centralized feudal state. Fucking nobles and lords in the HRE were not scared or ashamed of allying with each other and outside members against the emperor.

As I understand it, there was disagreement over what books should be canonized in the Christian bible, and different sects kept different books. Did anything similar happen in Islam? Do we know if different Islamic sects had different Qu'rans?

Is it possible to resolve this once and for all? What do the people who came up with the policy have to say about it?

Hi,

Have some questions about this man, because there isn't as much to find about him as one might think on the internet. I am genuinely curious.

First, he was alleged to have been a historian, but most of his writings are lost. Why has nobody attempted to track down a few? surely somebody bought a copy somewhere. I know papyrus does not do well with age, but is there even a tiny possibilty that something might be hiding in North Africa, Turkey, or (slim chance) that library in Herculaneum?)

Second, why is he not better remembered? Augustus is the rock star of that dynasty, the name no child forgets, but Claudius does not get much credit ( remember that Caligula nearly bankrupted Rome; Claudius made reforms and Romans at least got to eat.) have any historians ever attempted to find out more about him recently?

What is the current consensus on Claudius's disability? I have read a lot about Cerebral palsy, but what about MS? Has anybody considered it mught be more than one disability?

Maybe this is more of an anthropology question than a history question, but I'll go with it anyways.

The earliest records in my own research I can find to alcohol date to between 8000-6000 BC, yet I've read a couple articles recently suggesting that very early pottery from up to 16000-18000 BC was used to ferment alcoholic beverages. They're not from the most scholarly sources, and mostly mention the alcohol as a side note, but I'm wondering how these could possibly match up given the very disparate eras. Is there any possibility alcoholic drinks are much older than previously suggested?

It was in his book 'black holes and baby universes and other essays'.

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I'm trying to do a short story about a group of Cro-Magnon hunter gatherers and want to reference time form their point of view but not sure what that would be. Would it be seasons? Lunar cycles perhaps?

I know that there are examples of paintings and sculptures, but were there any manuscripts or books that took elements of indigenous religions and wove them into Christianity?

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In Vietnam war movies, you often see medics administering a white powder to wounds on soldiers. What is that powder? It usually comes from a pouch or a vial, and they sprinkle liberally on the wound.

I'm particularly curious as to what kept the soldiers of the HRE from joining with the peasants- it seems to me that most of them were peasants themselves, so why wouldn't they be sympathetic to the cause?

Could it be from Victoria, the Roman equivalent of the goddess Nike?

Just how common were these drugs used? How much heroin and cocaine were available in these products? Why were they eventually banned? Why was heroin made illegal when morphine is still legal? Aren't they basically the same thing once inside the body?

I asked the same question to a lecturer of mine in college. She was very nice and suggested a few books for me to read... I did not have time to be reading extra material in college. But she was the type who will point you in the right direction but not spoon feed her students. Admirable but in this context annoying as hell.

I love the Revolution and have read a bit for my own pleasure. Every history that I read of the Revolution centres on the national debt as being the greatest element in causing it. This begs the question why did Louis XVI not simply renege on the loans?

In the same vein why could he not push forward with the various tax reforms advocated by Turgot and Necker? I understand that the nobility resented paying tax on account of tradition etc etc But was there really a risk of open rebellion if the king had used a lit de justice to force the reforms through the parlements?

Why Louis why?

Thanks in advance guys.

Is the European ending of slavery and the American Civil War the only times in history where one racial group fought and died to free another racial group? I've been reading about slavery among the Ottomans, Zulu, Qing and Aztecs and I was wondering if something similar to the abolitionist movement in the 18th and 19th centuries had happened at any other point in any other society.

Thanks!