What happened to the seven churches listed in Revelation: the churches of Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamon, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea? Are they still there today? If not, why not?
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Once the national draft numbers were selected, how were drafted men notified? The newspaper? Numbers posted publicly at the post office? Direct mail to individual's homes? Did it vary by state or local draft board?
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I've watched a few imperial court dramas, both Korean and Chinese, and a thing I've noticed is that when women are carried to a man's bed, they get wrapped up in a blanket and carried over sideways like a burrito! Instead of showing up on her litter, she's bundled over by servants and plopped on the bed. This is a good example of it - 14:10 It seems so strange and I've seen it in a couple of different settings, so I'd like to find out about the etiquette that surrounds this. Is this a specific thing with a name? This shows an interesting level of etiquette surrounding sex in imperial china and I'm really interested in it! If you could point me in the direction of any information about this in general, I'd really appreciate it!
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Would a soldier fighting for Alexander have PTSD like symptoms?
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After watching Fury, I recalled seeing a documentary about tanks a long while back. What I'm wondering are the pros and cons of the Sherman and Tiger in relation to the time it was being used in Fury. In my perspective the Sherman seemed weaker than the Tiger. But is that true?
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I have just found this website (at the bottom), with claims such as the following:
• the Jizzya tax that non Muslims had to pay was 80% in times of tolerance and up to 150% in times of oppression.
• referring to domes and arches, the fundamental architectural breakthrough of using a parabolic shape instead of a spherical shape for these structures was made by the Assyrians more than 1300 years earlier, as evidenced by their archaeological record.
• The fundamental basis of modern mathematics had been laid down not hundreds but thousands of years before by Assyrians and Babylonians, who already knew of the concept of zero, of the Pythagorean Theorem, and of many, many other developments expropriated by Arabs/Muslims (see History of Babylonian Mathematics, Neugebauer).
The funny thing about this is that I have read the History of Babylonian Mathematics and it states that Babylonian mathematics didn't use the number zero.
• The overwhelming majority of these doctors (99%) were Assyrians. In the fourth, fifth, and sixth centuries Assyrians began a systematic translation of the Greek body of knowledge into Assyrian. At first they concentrated on the religious works but then quickly moved to science, philosophy and medicine. Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Galen, and many others were translated into Assyrian, and from Assyrian into Arabic. It is these Arabic translations which the Moors brought with them into Spain, and which the Spaniards translated into Latin and spread throughout Europe, thus igniting the European Renaissance.
• By the sixth century A.D., Assyrians had begun exporting back to Byzantia their own works on science, philosophy and medicine. In the field of medicine, the Bakhteesho Assyrian family produced nine generations of physicians, and founded the great medical school at Gundeshapur (Iran). Also in the area of medicine, (the Assyrian) Hunayn ibn-Ishaq's textbook on ophthalmology, written in 950 A.D., remained the authoritative source on the subject until 1800 A.D.
• In the area of philosophy, the Assyrian philosopher Job of Edessa developed a physical theory of the universe, in the Assyrian language, that rivaled Aristotle's theory, and that sought to replace matter with forces (a theory that anticipated some ideas in quantum mechanics, such as the spontaneous creation and destruction of matter that occurs in the quantum vacuum).
• One of the greatest Assyrian achievements of the fourth century was the founding of the first university in the world, the School of Nisibis, which had three departments, theology, philosophy and medicine, and which became a magnet and center of intellectual development in the Middle East. The statutes of the School of Nisibis, which have been preserved, later became the model upon which the first Italian university was based (see The Statutes of the School of Nisibis, by Arthur Voobus).
•Islam the religion itself was significantly molded by Assyrians and Jews (see Nestorian Influence on Islam and Hagarism: the Making of the Islamic World).
I was never taught this in school or college in history class. But I want to know if your a historian, or at least someone who is an expert in history, what do you say about these claims?
Here is the website I found, http://www.ninevehsoft.com/fiorina.htm
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I hope this doesn't seem anti Semitic, it's purely an educational question, because with the way Germany was at the time it seems plausible
So I tried googling it and just got death camp results
The situation I would be referring to would be say some civilian killed his Jewish neighbor just because he..stole his mail or something
Would he have gotten away with it just because the person was Jewish or was there still a judicial system protecting minorities, gypsies, the disabled, and Jewish people?
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I've read that Rome had lost around 20% of its military eligible population during the early stages of the war. Losing battles that decisively would have likely broken any other country of that era and those types of losses would likely cripple modern nation-states even if they were in a total war mentality. What makes it even more confusing is that they not only survived these events but managed to turn the tide of the war and win it.
How did they pull this off?
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How did motherhood as a concept evolve in history? Could the dinosaurs recognize their young and did they care for them? What is the evolution of motherhood - Love for the kins , different from social and familial ties
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I'm interested in any contextual information on the topic. Thanks!
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I recently watched the movie Fury, and in one scene, Brad Pitt and his platoon of Shermans go up against several Anti-tank guns, possibly Pak 40s. When the Paks began to fire, the shells made a very distinct "whistling". Brad Pitt explains that they're firing High Velocity rounds (APCR?) Is there any truth to this? What causes the whistling, and where can I find out more? I tried looking it up to no avail. I would also provide a link to the scene, but there is no clip containing that I can find that shows it.
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Greek, Roman, and Elizabethan plays are typically either Comedies or Tragedies. But tragedies seem to have been replaced with the broader term of drama. When did this shift happen? Did it have to do with the rise of the radio and television and hence serialised stories?
I broadly define tragedy as: plays based around human suffering, in which most main characters come to a bad end. Modern drama can follow this format, but doesn't always; dramatic characters deal with problems which may or may not turn out badly. Tragedies seem to have been subsumed into the broader category of 'dramas'.
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Just had my first child, my wife and I are discussing the circumcision decision, and I have been trying to read up on it, but it's hard to find unbiased information beyond wikipedia.
When did this become popular in the US? Why did it? Is it for health/sanitary reasons? Does it reduce sensation in that area? I am so confused...
Thanks!
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What I mean is, it seems really haphazard and unusual to just drop massive bombs and decimate civilian cities. Was it really necessary? Could they just have bombed the shit out of a not-so-populated area to demonstrate what was possible with the nuke and maybe prompt a surrender or something?
I just came to the realization I have no real idea as to the context around the use of the nukes at that time.
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Let's say you have something of historic value, will the museum pay you to display the item?
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Since the Soviets had more casualties than the Germans.
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Back in the 1830, a Reverend Beckwith gave an address in which he criticized Christian participation in bloodshed. He gave an example. He wrote:
"...the indignant [Turkish] Mussulman, replied, 'Look yonder,' pointing to Calvary. 'There, Sir, on the very spot where your own Lord poured out his blood, has the Mohamedan been obliged to interfere to keep Christians from butchering one another...'"
Does anyone know what historical event Beckwith was referring to here? When did the Muslims intervene to prevent Christians from butchering each other?
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