• Hey, I am doing a school project and the topic is "Zionism - Lie and Truth". I already did a lot of research and Zionism etc is explained in the presentation. I do not want you to do my homework, i would just like to get some information / inspiration on this whole "Lie / Truth" thing.
• So as you all might know Zionism is the idea of the jewish people returning to palaestina. I know that with Theodor Herzl it all pretty much started and Jews began to immigarte to palaestina etc. After the Ottoman Empire lost the 1. WW their territory got split up into Turkey and Mandatories from the League of Nations with GB getting the mandatory for palestine. Even during WW1 the Britains promised the Jews a homeland in the Balfour Declaration. And you all know the rest of the story.
• So my question is, how did the Zionists reach their goal of a jewish state, and whether or not lies were involved. And, who they convinced of the idea and how they did. Thank you :)

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This may be just a false perception, but it seems to me that England has a surprisingly diverse set of accents and dialects of English spoken across the country. It also appears to be very dense and tightly packed; one can go just a few miles in any direction and find themselves in an area where most are speaking with an accent barely matching the area they had left. I'm curious as to why that diversity seems much greater than anywhere else in the English-speaking world. It would seem that with a country that small it would be difficult for the accents to remain largely heterogeneous over time, and yet that is exactly what seems to have occurred. Why?

I came across a reference to Miguel Pochtecatlailotlac this morning and after a brief bit of searching for additional information I thought I'd turn over this line of inquiry to our Mesoamericanists before I embarrass myself trying to read Spanish.

So far I know that the pochtecatlailotlac was the head of the pochteca, the Aztec merchant families / guilds and that Miguel Pochtecatlailotlac had some sort of disagreement with Bishop Zumárraga in 1536 1539.

Some of you here might have played Assassin's Creed Unity. I heard that one of the major flaws in the game was the inclusion of doorknobs which hadn't been invented till then. Are are any other historical inaccuracies in the game?

If you look at a lot of movies/television/video games it seems that a lot of military commanders were dangerously close to the frontlines of battle. Was this a common occurence before the widespread use of modern gunpowder weapons? If not, is there evidence that some generals did do this?

In a recent /r/askreddit thread, somebody mentioned that if it weren't for the AIDS crisis, gay rights activists may have achieved legal gay marriage in the United States by the early 90s. While I know that San Francisco was making incredible strides prior to the AIDS crisis, my previous understanding was that the AIDS crisis - while creating an entirely new stigma and wiping out a generation of leaders - also forcibly outed a lot of people and highlighted the dire need for gay rights for many Americans.

Can anyone provide more information on direct and indirect effects of the AIDS crisis on the gay rights movement?

After World War 2, Poland was moved westwards by gaining territory from Germany and losing some territory to the USSR. Why was this done? After all, after the war, East Germany and Poland were both part of the Soviet bloc, so what was gained by shuffling some territory between the two and the USSR? Was the decision to move Poland made before Stalin was confident the USSR would be in control of Eastern Europe post-war?

I know that he was an evil ruler, but I read somewhere that it was possible that he accidentally set Rome on fire when he was trying to build something, and that he had to burn a building in order to make room.

Did Russia really sell Alaska or did they lease/rent out it

I have found some sources telling both, some are saying that it was sold, others that it's just leased

If it's leased, why didn't russia get it back?

I've played the PC game Il-2 Sturmovik, forgotten battles in the past but was not very focused on attack planes. One thing I recall from the concerned tutorials is that boevoi razvorot is a basic tactic to defeat incoming fighters.

What where the tricks of the trade of a Sturmovik pilot/gunner? What tactics were specific to the plane or the theatre, if there's any?

A question came up on another thread about Abraham and his progeny. So the Jewish (written) sources claim that Isaac brought forth the Jews and Ishmael brought the Arabs, a claim the (we) Arabs also make, but we claim it through oral tradition. Given how important bloodlines are to my culture, even now, whole tribal genealogies were supposedly put to memory, along with their histories, movements and political alliances, their major clans and sub-clans...etc. I myself can supposedly trace my ancestry, by name, to the eightieth generation. It's written down, but drawn mostly (at least until the 10th century or so), from oral tradition.

So how valid are these oral traditions? Where do they fit in terms of modern research?

I mean - was it mostly Polish or mostly Lithuanian city?

Reading the story i was baffled by the way the crisis was handled by the German authorities. Might this be a factor that contributed to the massacre? Also, weren't the German authorities in 1972 not aware of how to handle such situations?

I will be acting as Raoul Rigault in a simulation of the committee of the Paris Commune of 1871. As a hard-line communard, would I say "Germany" when mentioning them? Or Prussia? Or have an attitude and say "so-called Germany" because they're imposing the siege on Paris. I'm thinking that Communards (maybe?) didn't respect or recognize Germany in that situation.

Any thoughts?