In 2010 I did some voluntary work in Namibia at the 'Dr Fischer Primary School Ministry of Education', while we were there we joked that the school looked like an old prison or camp, with a watch tower, fences and identical housing. It was not until recently that it clicked that Dr Fischer could refer to the infamous eugenicist Dr Eugen Fischer who is known to have done research on Namibian skulls. Namibia obviously had a german presence as a previous colony and while staying on one campsite we came across an elderly man unashamedly wearing a swastika around his neck.
I have refound the site through the magic of the internet - http://m.here.com/#action=search¶ms=%7B%7D&bmk=1
And would be very interested to hear from anyone with anymore information or possible clarity on my major assumptions
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I understand that children born with deformations were left in the wild, or executed. I am curious as to wether twins received the same treatment. Please forgive me if I worded the question badly.
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EDIT: just to be clear by "you" I basically mean historians in general, not "you personally". I don't want anyone to reply and tell me that for them it's Japan because they happen to own more books on Japanese history
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According to wiki, the Mongol expansion resulted in 30-60M deaths. But which groups were annihilated? It's surprising that there are no groups today with historical grievances towards the mongols.
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Everyone has heard of the proud Finnish defense of their homeland when Russia invaded them. But how did the Soviets defeat the Finns?
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For example, why do we call the country of Japan "Japan" in English while its residents refer to their country as "Nihon," but at the same time we give many of the cities such as Tokyo the same name they would?
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I'm looking for a source which I can use to compare the Gini index of various countries over time. Does anyone know of such a thing? Sorry if this is inappropriate for this subreddit.
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From my amateur reading of Mesopotamian history I understand that each city was tied to its own god or was thought of as the home of a god (I might be butchering that concept, but I think I'm reasonably close). If that's the case, did religious beliefs or teachings change as city-states rose and fell or power waxed and waned? If so, how did this happen?
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I am sitting in a crappy TGIFridays. It occurred to me that there was some point in history when people started going out to eat. When was that?
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Since Iceland was and is inhabited by Nordic peoples, intuition tells me the eastern region would be more populated, for proximity sake, rather than the far west. Is the geography significantly more habitable on the west end? More resources? Is there a clearly defined reason for it at all?
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Specifically dive-bomber pilots asserting their role in the battle has been trivialized by "black shoe admirals" (career naval officers) who spun the horrible losses of four torpedo plane squadrons (of the 51 planes, 7 returned, none scoring a single hit) as a heroic sacrifice that allowed for the eventual American victory, but ultimately the responsibly of the "brown shoes" (aviation officers).
They point out that all four Japanese carriers were sunk by dive bombers from the Enterprise and Yorktown, that the final attack on the fourth carrier (Hiryu) was undertaken by only 25 dive-bombers without escort and intercepted at high altitude by the Japanese air patrol before and during their dives (challenging the common theory that the torpedo planes distracted the CAP fighters by pulling them to sea level), and that the Hornet’s squadrons of fighter planes, dive bombers, and torpedo planes inflicted no damage while taking heavy losses, details omitted from official navy reports but later written about by veterans of the battle, vets who, as recently as this August, continue to seek answers to questions about the battle.
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Before the industrialisation of producing cigarettes, was there a career for people to roll cigarettes for the rich, or any other group?
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Doing a paper right now and I can't find anything on it.
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It appears that at the time of European exploration/colonisation of the Americas that European civilisations were at a greater technological level than those civilisations in the Americas, using metals, ocean faring and so on. Furthermore in Europe there (at face value) seems to have been a relatively rapid increases in technology over a few hundred years but less so in America where it seems they had been in an extended dark ages.
Why didn't the American civilisations have congruent technologies to that of the Europeans, such as ocean faring ships, metal work, etc? Had the Americas been in an extended dark ages without much technological advances compared to Europe and why? Or am I simply wrong and there was large amounts of change over time in America before the arrival of Europeans?
Sorry if this doesn't come across clear
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For as long as I have been around and noticing the world around me, mustaches have been associated w/ Military/Law enforcement types. Is there a reason for this? Or did it just become fashionable?
This might not be the right sub, but if anyone can point me in the right direction that would be great.
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I have to write a paper for my political science class (War and Peace). The point of the paper is to explain the war and which paradigm best explains the conflict (realism, liberalism, constructivism or Marxism).
A conflict that occurred in the last 200 years (so, 1812-2013)
It cannot be a conflict that directly involved/involves the United States as a combatant;
The conflict must be between two or more recognized countries.
I tried googling and I did not find anything. Maybe I am not searching the right words. Can anyone recommend me an interesting war? Thank you.
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I'm mulling over a conference paper proposal, deadline by the end of the month. I want to explore networks and historiography not from the published literature or institutional connections made at universities (whether teaching or colleagues) or (supra?) national academies.
Ideas are very much up in the air so this is all very speculative. I would focus on medieval history societies (ie. social groups which met to discuss medieval history), with an emphasis on London and maybe Oxford and Cambridge, between c.1500-c.1914. Ideally this would not be topic specific but that could prove widely impractical, so maybe looking at 'feudalism' from outside of the traditional narratives of historiographical literature and trying to comb over minutes of meetings, reports of papers delivered at these society meetings, and references to societies in published material.
I turn to you all looking for aid and counsel.
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