I know about Hanibal and his war elephants but I'm interested to know if there were any ancient cultures who used elephants to help build structures or help out with agriculture etc. Bonus question, with all the research about elephants mourning their dead and other traits which stand as testament to their intelligence were there any ancient cultures who recognised the intelect and "emotions" of elephants?
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And if they were given trials, how unfair were they?
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In the years following WWI, what changes occured within the realms of the the visual and literary arts as results of the war? What did artists and writers abandon, and why did they feel compelled to do so?
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The Wikipedia article seems to say they developed independently from each other. But I know someone who keeps saying that it was introduced by Europeans. What do the sources say?
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It is known as a handful of Europeans recorded that there was a massive blast that happened during this time, so massive in fact that it was visible during daytime, but were they the only ones?
Are there any recordings from civilizations or people throughout the world, like the Maya, East Asians, Middle eastern Civilizations, specific European nations, and/or anyone else that mentioned what is now known to have been a supernova?
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It didn't stand out in terms of power, like Bismark or Yamato did. It wasn't even a battleship, nor was it particularly advanced at the outbreak of WW2, as it was in the process of being refitted around that time.
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Why was not any french or Spanish influence.
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And also what types of occupation could I pursue to be submersed in all things WW2?
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That is, was there ever a specific fictional book or film about an American/NATO invasion that similarly caught the contemporary popular imagination in the USSR?
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I have seen many houses throughout my area (Southern Appalachia) with a staircase behind a door. I just want to know why they built them like that.
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I'd always heard that he stole the crown from the pope to crown himself to simply say that "I'm more powerful than the Church", but I think there's more to that, because I was reading about the event and the pope kinda just went on and was cool about it. Was the reason maybe that "I was voted into this position. THE PEOPLE have more authority than the Church"?
Also, was it greed that caused Napoleon to conquer Europe or Nationalism, or what?
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I understand Austria was excluded in Bismark's Germany, not allowed to join Germany after WWI due to the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, included as part of Hitler's Anschluss, and then split again after WWII.
According to Wikipedia's article on the Germany Reunification:
Article 146 was amended so that Article 23 of the current constitution could be used for reunification. After the five "New Länder" of East Germany had joined, the constitution was amended again to indicate that all parts of Germany are now unified. Article 23 was rewritten and it can still be understood as an invitation to others (e.g. Austria) to join, although the main idea of the change was to calm fears in (for example) Poland, that Germany would later try to rejoin with former eastern territories of Germany that were now Polish or parts of other countries in the East.
Was there any serious movement for Austria to join with the newly reunited German state, either before 1990 or before?
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Were people really that much shorter in olden times?
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I'm referring to the string of radar stations in the Canadian/Alaskan Arctic operated by NORAD from 1957 until the 1980s. Do we have any firsthand accounts from the DEW operators? How did they deal with the cold, the darkness, the boredom, and the threat of Soviet attacks? Did the Soviets have an equivalent system?
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Sorry if this is this wrong place to ask, but I recently took a class on medieval Russia and I found the mongol yoke period to be very interesting. We read Halperin's book about Russia and the Golden Horde , and I'd like to read more. Are there any authoritative and accessible books about the mongol invasions, particularly in regard to to European military campaigns and descriptions? Any books about mongol practices or court dynamics would be interesting as well.
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I'm just curious, why is Romania speaking a Romance language even although it's far from the Romance-speaking areas?
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