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I ask for a play that my school is putting on, Our Town. I have to play the milkman and my drama teacher asked me to find this out
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I've been reading Lundstrom's The First Team. I'm almost halfway through, but there is a definite trend emerging. Yes, the American aviators over-estimated their kills, but they usually involved one plane engaging the same plane as another had already engaged and both claimed a plane. So only one Japanese plane went down, but there were 2 claims.
However, there is definite over-estimation of hits and kill by Japanese fighters and carrier attackers--sometimes by a factor of 10. They will claim 8 hits on a carrier and only actually get 1 with a handful of near misses. They will claim ships sunk when they didn't even hit them or only did minor damage. They will fly out against a division of planes and claim fighter kills when they didn't even do noticeable damage.
With a few exceptions, there are no mentions of how these kills were reported. Only several times did Lundstrom note that the Japanese pilot radioed in a kill. Usually, he just summarizes what the claims were.
My question is as the title says. What is the cause of this? Was it the honor system in Japan? Was it the fear of failing their commanders? Were the over-estimations made by wing commanders or ship commanders also fearing the wrath of the Japanese High Command?
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I was given this question to write 8 pages about at the end of last week. It's due in two weeks, and I haven't been able to generate any good sources in my library and database searches. Usually, I'm decent at finding what I need, but I'm struggling finding the terms to get the systems I have available to me to spit out the kind of results I'm looking for.
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I may not be phrasing the question properly, but I'm curious what the court structure was in England back when it functioned as a proper monarchy. I'm familiar with some of the titles such as viscount and duke and earl but I'm not sure what they mean, what the hierarchy is, what did they do and so on.
I'm also curious when it changed and what changed.
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Hi! I'm currently trying to find a list of People, Locations, Events, and Other things from Luke and Acts that we could in theory look for in history. For example, in Acts 10 Luke mentions the Italian Cohort being stationed near Caesarea. In theory, we could be able to look up the Italian Cohort and see where it was at the time that this event took place. Are there any books, authors, or websites that I can use that essentially already do this?
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I am curious about how sweden as a country has gone from extremely war prone (Like with their many wars with denmark) nation to one that hasn't been directly involved in war since the 1800's
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I've heard all sorts of conflicting theories about what happened, some saying entire legions of troops on both sides, and others stating it was 2 diplomats and their envoys. source for this being Wikipedia i believe
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I've read these two links, but neither quite explain why there was this conspiracy and why people denied it happened. http://www.ukemonde.com/genocide/margolisholocaust.html http://www.rense.com/general11/holo.htm
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Do a Google search for Jarawa and you'll see that these are people clearly of African origin. Did they end up on islands under Indian sovereignty by continental drift or did they sail eastward and settle on the Andaman Islands?
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I've read multiple accounts of this battle, and I still don't understand how the Romans fell for this. They were a far larger force than Hannibal's. Why did they pack their infantry as tightly and deeply as they did, instead of actually making their front line longer than Hannibal's, which would have a) prevented them from being flanked, and b) opened up the possibility of flanking Hannibal's army? Even if they didn't anticipate Hannibal's infantry flanking them, shouldn't they have been worried about the cavalry trying to flank them? After all, they knew ahead of time that Hannibal had a much larger and better cavalry force.
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I am asking this question for a very unusual reason here.
I am studying King Creon of Thebes from Antigone (by Sophocles) for my monologue class and just wanted to know what a king in Thebes or Athens or Corinth might have to do as king of their city.
Was this a largely ceremonial or religious posistion, like a Japanese or Chinease Emperor? Or did Greek kings also dominate the polical side of their city instead? Or both?
Different reason than usual but it'd be great if people had any info to help me develop this character. Thanks!
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if so why? and historical examples would be great too! Thanks
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Was there initially some sort of cooperation or trading (or at least, no bloodshed), or did one side decide to cut straight to the killing the second they laid eyes upon the other?
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I've always been interested in the Washington administration, but I can't really find anything about his response to the French Revolution. What were his thoughts/actions relating to it, and did they change as the revolution went on? Specifically, did he ever have any correspondence with Robespierre or Louis XVI? I imagine he'd be concerned about the execution of the king, but that's pure speculation. Also any recommended texts would be amazing, as I like to learn about how these major world leaders/events all tie in together.
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This is interesting to me because it sort of destroyed the balance of power that held sway in europe during the 18th and 19th cent; when Germany was unified under Bismark there was a strong rivalry with Austria for control of that region. But by WW I these two nations are allies. How did this come about?
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