Proxy wars seem to me of minor significance for the two superpowers of the cold war, because winning or losing a conflict like the Afghan war would not have a large influence on the power or prestige of either the USSR or the USA. Is that true?

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when my grandfather was a little boy, he often went out in the fields ''hunting'' for archeological stuff ( I think that, if it wouldn't have been for him giving away so much stuff to self-proclaimed historians, he could have started his own museum haha :P). Anyway, he's getting kinda old now, and he's giving me stuff of his collection, piece by piece. The last thing I recieved from him was a coin ( dix centimes) from 1854, when Napoleon III was the emperor of France. but I noticed something strange. His head is on one side, and the eagle (is it an eagle ?) on the other, but when you hold the coin so that Napoleon's head is like it should be ( you know, not with his neck up), the bird on the other side is upside down. Now I can't find anything on the internet about it, but something tells me that's not how it should be. Am I right ? Were those mistakes made often ?

I understand that a question about the causes of the First World War has been asked previously here, but looking through the answers didn't quite provide what I wanted.

I'm currently approaching my A-Level Exam for History, and one of the questions is guaranteed to be on the causes of the First World War. Having gone over the arguments in class, the view I take to most is that Germany caused the war, although not through direct desire to conquer Europe, more through a misconcieved idea that a war was inevitable anyway and that sooner was better. Even if this isn't your view, I'd appreciate help, because, to be honest, the easiest arguments to make in the exam are either equal blame or German blame.

Although I've got a lot of detail on The Kaiser, the War Council Meeting, and German Foreign Policy in the period, there are two politicians I could do with more detail on. Namely, the Chancellor, Bethmann-Hollweg and Helmuth von Moltke, the Chief of Staff.

If any of you can give me some detail on this rather specific topic, I'd be very thankful.

Is the practice associated with a specific civilization that started it before others? Is there any reason in particular we believe they started the practice? I'm generally interested in the history of makeup if anyone can enlighten me.

Compared to the Maori, it seems that Aboriginals were given quite an unfair treatment by the brittish.

This thought occurred to me while watching Animal House last night, which was released in '78 but is set in '62.

I know he died in Mactan Island, but did he get on our side of the world before?

I am kinda curious, i know it will be tiny but don't know how tiny.

I have a question about history. Have you ever attempted to use knowledge you have learned from the present and apply it to similar situations in the past? I realize it can be dangerous and distort the true history, but as long as the facts stay true, and the hypothesis stay separate from true history can't we almost predict the future? Sure you may be wrong but it is kind of fun to just imagine what it was like and why society went the way it did. I'm not sure if anyone has done this before or not but it is just a thought that crossed my mind.

If so how were they viewed and treated?

For comparison, both genocides took place between April-July exactly 50 years apart.

I'm writing a report on the centrifuge, but I'm stuck at writing about who invented it. Wikipedia says it was Antonin and Alexander Prandtl, but I can't find more information about the two. I also found another page saying it was a dane called Laurits Christian Nielsen. I hope that some of you know more about this subject. Almost anything can be used at this point. Thanks in advance!