Could it be something that contributed to the Red Scare?

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Are there diaries or logs that document these moments?

Did they have previous knowledge of tanks before they saw them?

My great grandfather was in that battalion during WWII, I don't know a lot about it since he never really talked and I don't personally have access to his stuff. I only know that they were among the first to land on Utah beach during Operation Overlord (D-day) and were attached to Patton's tank unit during the liberation of Buchenwald.

Rather, was anybody able to stand up to the Mongols and make them think twice?

Who was able to hold off the Hordes the longest?

I have an encyclopedia from the 1930s called The Wonderland of Knowledge which states:

It was a race not purely of Polynesian blood which first settled in New Zealand. These ancient settlers were part Polynesian and part Melanesian. The Polynesians...are supposed to be related to our own ancestors, although so far back in time that the time is lost in mists of uncertainty, for they came originally from India, thousands of years ago, and originally belonged to the Indo-European race...The Melanesians, on the other hand...came from Lower Asia and Africa...But it was not this mixed race that the white man found in New Zealand...

Obviously, given that it is an encyclopedia from the 1930s, I'm willing to take the idea of pre-Maori New Zealanders with a pinch of salt. But Gavin Menzies also talks about it in his book 1421, which I know is a work of pseudohistory. All I'm saying is, the concept of pre-Maori settlement seems to be a common theme, whether debunked or not. So do historians now believe that there were people living in NZ before the Maori, and if not, how did this theory come about?

Also, follow-up question: In the above extract, it states that the Maori were related to the Indo-European race. But in almost everything else I've seen, even from that period, Polynesians were counted as an Austronesian subbranch of the Mongoloid race, similar to Malays. Was the theory of Maoris being Indo-Europeans also widely held at the time?

Historians of reddit, we are constantly told about the harsh conditions and close to third world living standards that enveloped the citizens of north America during the great depression. We are told of mile long lines for food, work opportunities and shelters and there came a point where the average

From what I understand, grounding a ship is almost always a career-ending incident for a naval officer. How did Nimitz go from an ensign who grounded a destroyer in 1908 to being one of the top American commanders in the Pacific Theater of World War II?

Charlemagne was notable for trying to become literate in a time where that was the exception for European nobility while Henry VIII had a broad humanist education. I would like to know at what point such an education became the norm amongst nobles and if there was a difference between monarchs, high nobility (dukes, counts) and low nobility (knights).

As someone who reads (listens) voraciously while doing daily tasks, I've been repeatedly disappointed by the Book List in the sidebar. Very few of the books that catch my eye there are on Audible or other audio formats. I can't imagine I'm the only person around here who would benefit from an Audiobook list, so lets create one! What books from your area of expertise (or not) available in an audio format do you recommend most?

I'm confused as to why this was a point of contention for the colonists. Did your average Massachusetts or New York farmer ever actually encounter these troops? Why were they bothered by British troops being stationed there, if they were on the same side?

Whereas the USSR was the opponent in the space race and a Cold War enemy, was the news downplayed or the achievement acknowledged?

If so, what became of it?

If not, why did they seem to not be bothered by the same things that caused the US to revolt?

I know that England got its taste for tea from China, but it strikes me as odd that black tea seems to be the only style to attract their enthusiasm (or, at least, it eventually became the de-facto style), since it's such a flexible drink.

Why not green, oolong, pur-eh, herbal, etc?

Was black tea also ubiquitous in China at the time? Was there some real or perceived class difference related to the style of tea?

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We all know of the often terrible treatment that Dutch, British, Australian, and American POWs recieved as prisoners of the Japanese military in the Pacific.

But if memory serves me correctly, the reason that the Japanese treated their POWs so horribly is that the prisoners did not deserve respectable treatment because they had surrendered instead of killing their enemy until dead, or committing suicide. Much like how the Japanese soldiers were taught.

If the Allied prisoners did not deserve respect, according to Bushido tradition, why would the Japanese even bother taking prisoners, unless to use them as bargaining chips, or to use as hostages against Allied bombings?

I've often heard that invading Russia was Hitler's biggest mistake. I've seen people ask on here why they invaded, and the answer is usually "for resources."

Were they desperate for resources? Would their lack of resources likely have prevented them from defeating Britain?