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For example, I've been told that in the War of 1812, the US adopted a "secret 13th Amendment," which corporatized the government and subjected the citizenry to a form of servitude. Also, that lawyers in the US are servants of the Crown of England due to an obscure writ from the 18th C. I know it sounds like conspiracy stuff, but does anyone know of any scholarly treatment of these sorts of theories?
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It's the song that goes like;
Boney was a warrior
Away, a- yah!
A warrior and a terrier
Jean Francois!
Boney fought the Russians
Away, a- yah!
The Russians and the Prussians.
Jean Francois!
I couldn't seem to find anything through google. It seems utterly irrelevant to the rest of the song. Was he an actual person or just a random French name chosen for the sake of rhyme?
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Is this a political thing, or is there problems with evidence or something? I don't even know if the Frontier Wars have been acknowledged by the Australian government. I have never seen or heard about any monuments regarding this period of Australian history...
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I'm looking for the major details over this. Apparently the Mongol ruler Ghazan, a Christian who would later convert to Islam for military support, attempted to fight along with the Christians against the Mamluks.
I'm currently looking for any reliable information over dates and context behind the Mongolians participating, or attempting to participate in the Crusades. Maybe even line the partnership didn't work out.
Thank you.
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EDIT: I just wanted to thank everyone for the insightful responses! This was tremendously helpful, I am not an industrial historian!
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One reads news papers and such from the aforementioned late 1800s to early 1900s.
I notice a certain grammar, or feel to the cadence of the speech from this period. I'm curious as to how, grammar wise (and possibly speech wise?), their writing and speech differ from today's writing and speech.
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Doing a project for honors history and I have to use an event from the 20's. I started with the Crash of 29, and one wikipedia page lead to another so I ended up on the Russian Revolution. My immediate question after educating myself on the subject was, what happened to the nobles? I've searched long and hard, but I can't find anything about it. Was the ex-aristocracy executed? Arrested? Any books or articles I can read? Thanks!
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I can't help but wonder why is it that bronze age cultures produced classic hero figures, for example Achilles from Greek mythology and Cu Chulainn from Celtic mythology.
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As the winter months start to roll in, the words of my Ethiopian professor turn in my mind, "I don't understand how your ancestors lived in these conditions. I am wearing seven layers!" So historians, besides weather, what were some of the most difficult conditions facing frontier families in Michigan?
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Were skirmishers deployed in front of the main armies? Or were entire armies formed out of skirmishers?
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I have heard either 38 or 39, and googling it gives me both answers. Which is it?
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Also, how the fuck did China have telegraphs before pinyin alphabetization?
Edit: There, happy now?
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According to Wikipedia, the Great Pyramid was built around 2560-2540 B.C.
I was reading a book on mysticism and I found it interesting that the author argues about things like erosion (which was already addressed in this thread).
But he also claims things like "There is no proof that the building was erected by the Egyptians, for the elaborate carvings with which the burial chambers of Egyptian royalty are almost invariably ornamented are entirely lacking and it embodies none of the elements of their architecture or decoration, such as inscriptions images, cartouches, paintings, and other distinctive features associated with dynastic mortuary art. The only hieroglyphics to be found within the Pyramid are a few builders' marks sealed up in the chambers of construction [sic], first opened by Howard Vyse."
Are these differences due to grave robbers, lack of knowledge about Egyptian history on the author's part? Also, if there was documentation (work records/payments?) then that would be much more convincing too. I wouldn't normally take a mystic's word on history (e.g. he claims that there must be a secret passage in the Great Pyramid because otherwise the Pyramids could not have been used for Mysteries (a la Eleusinian Mysteries) which are core to his syncretic interpretation of ancient religions and contemporary Masonism), but I also prefer to discount claims based on actual evidence.
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I understand the goal was not to kill your opponents, but a sport like jousting seems like it would be awfully dangerous. Even with a blunted lance, a knight being violently unhorsed by another at full gallop seems like something that would quite easily cause serious injury or even death.
So was death/severe injury a common thing at tournaments? As an aside, was there any sort of awareness of concussions at the time? That would seem to be a logical choice for a common tournament injury.
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