This might be a bit of an obscure question, but look at any small village in the Hungarian part of the former Austro-Hungarian empire, and you'll notice that most of them are quite similar: the houses are placed along long roads without a lot of branching, and the houses themselves are really long and narrow with an equally long and narrow backyard. Here is an example from Slovakia, but you could find the same type of village in Hungary proper.
Meanwhile, the villages in the Austrian part of the empire (like here from the Czech Republic) don't have those features. Wider plots, less narrow houses. Why this difference?
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At what point was it "normal" for women to have longer hair than men, and did this trend happen independently in different cultures, or did one culture introduce this trend to others?
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Amphoras are more prone to breaking than barrels. If you're transporting them in a ship, barrels seem to use the limited amount space more efficiently. A broken amphora is useless, a broken barrel can be repaired or its parts could be used to create a new barrel. And finally, ship crews could break down barrels when they didn't use them and rebuild them later.
So what are the advantages of amphoras? Why did Romans use them instead of barrels?
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I read a comment recently which stated that the First World War greatly affected attitudes towards sexuality in both women and men. I always thought that sexuality was repressed during the war, especially with homosexuality in the army as it would've gone against the masculine idea soldier that people saw at the time
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When Belgium became independent in 1830, why did it go fetch a King in Germany instead of using someone who grew up in Belgium? Other question, why did they fetch a King and did not go with the more modern (at that time) president thing?
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I suppose I could have made the title "seemingly bizarre", as in operations that were deemed strange for the time but could be considered normal today.
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Just thinking about royalty and how someone defines themselves as royal...
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A discussion at: http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/37fzb6/til_that_in_2013_a_kenyan_lawyer_filed_a_petition/
made me wonder about this.
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In a recent thread on /r/movies, it was claimed that the uniform of the Allgemeine SS was based on the dress uniform of the Massachusetts State Police. Is there any truth to this claim? Was one based on the other, or was it just a common cut at the time? I must admit the resemblance is pretty striking.
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I checked the book list on the sidebar and nothing caught by eye.
When I was young I had a book full of Norse myths and tales like Sigurd the Dragon Slayer and Loki plotting mischievous shit. I used to love reading it before bed.
The Wiki just whetted my appetite.
What's a great, perhaps entry level or gateway book/source into these stories and their origins?
Thanks.
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I've recently been delving into Spanish-American history and am fascinated by Maximilian I of Mexico. He seems like a really complex but unknown character with an exciting past. Can anyone suggest good ways to learn more about him and the history surrounding his times?
Recommendations for general introductions to the Hasburgs/Austro-Hungarians and Spanish colonization of America in general would be greatly appreciated. I read far too much WWII history in Germany. Thanks! Jack
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Is there a reason why the king of Belgium and the king of Bulgaria wore their sashes from their right shoulder to their left hip when the other kings in this picture wear it from left shoulder to right hip?
Was this a religious thing of something cultural?
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What did Australia and New Zealand do or try to do
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I stumbled upon this link in Wikipedia and found that,
The term [Majesty] was first assumed by Charles V, who believed that—following his election as Holy Roman Emperor in 1519—he deserved a style greater than Highness, which preceding emperors and kings had used. Soon, Francis I of France and Henry VIII of England followed his example.
I never thought Highness and Majesty actually mean two different things. What are the differences? Is this a strictly an European concept? I imagine this doesn't translate really well to, say, Chinese Emperors or perhaps even late Roman Emperors (as with the title Emperor and King, a frequent question in this sub).
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Hey, I was wondering what's written in the title; did he really believe in what he did, or was he just taking advantage of the German people by choosing an enemy and building upon the hate? (I mean, he clearly did the later, but did he really believe in what he was preaching?)
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