Also what were the reasons for the reformation not relating to producing an heir or profiting from the churches that he controlled?

I've only ever seen pictures of him standing up to the tanks. Did they stop? Or did they run him down in front of thousands of people?

I would love to read more about him.

to clarify i'm asking specifically about 1. neocon domestic policies and their ideological explanations and 2. why current definitions of the term and thoughts about it are 100% focused on hawkish foreign policy aims (though i'm aware this especially verges on breaking the 20 year rule).

I recently devoured this book in it's entirety in three nights. I absolutely loved it, but have been told it's rife with historical errors etc. Can someone with more authorative knowledge clear up where Shirer was wrong?

So a coworker of mine doesn't believe that the Pyramids were built by the egyptians, since "there isn't any evidence they did". I disagree, so I looked around online to find evidence for it, but I'm not having much luck. Most of the sources I find either discuss if slaves built the pyramids or how they pyramids were built, neither of which address my question.

So, now I'm curious: How do we know the Egyptians built the Pyramids, as opposed to it being another civilization that lived in ancient egypt before the ancient egyptians lived there?

And did the Swiss army have troops sitting there to enforce their neutrality or were the two powers self regulating on that matter? I was looking at a map of the trenches in WWI and was wondering how that was all handled.

The National Health Service (NHS) in the UK was set up in 1948. WW2 ended in 1945. I've heard that WW2 was very hard, economically, for the UK (right?). I'm guessing that setting up a socialised medicine system would be very expensive (right?). So how was the UK able to set up the NHS so soon after being bankrupted by WW2?

Which facts are wrong? They appear contradictory. Was the NHS not that expensive to set up? Was WW2 not that economically devastating to the UK? Was WW2 very economically devastating, but there was the political will to spend a lot of money on the NHS anyway?

I understand it's a Persian suffix meaning "land of". Why did non-Persian countries choose to adopt it?

'At the end of the Second World War the crown jewels were recovered in Mattsee, Austria, on 4 May 1945 by the U.S. 86th Infantry Division. The crown jewels were transported to Western Europe and eventually given to the United States Army by the Hungarian Crown Guard for safekeeping from the Soviet Union. For much of the Cold War the crown was held at the United States Bullion Depository (Fort Knox, Kentucky) alongside the bulk of America's gold reserves and other priceless historical items. After undergoing extensive historical research to verify the crown as genuine, it was returned to the people of Hungary by order of U.S. President Jimmy Carter on 6 January 1978. Most current academic knowledge about Hungarian royal garments originates from this modern research. Following substantial U.S. political debate, the agreement to return the jewels contained many conditions to ensure the people of Hungary, rather than its Communist government, took possession of the jewels.'

I believe that the U.S. has traditionally been more in favour of gun ownership and opposed to gun control than other Western countries. Why is this? Did public opinion in the U.S. diverge from the rest of the West at some point, and if so, when?