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From what I’ve read I would call edison a hack. He isn’t the one to credit for the lightbulbs invention, his smear campaign against Nikola Tesla was unethical at best and at worst criminal, and this is just speculation but I believe he had something to do with the disappearance of Louis Le Prince. Does any of this hold merit? Or am I just believing some internet bs? 😅
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Just a question for curiosity sake
Two scenarios
A person deaf from birth in a village and person who grow up with hearing and then lose it due to some reason (health issues, injuries etc.)
How would said dead person get by? What job/profession can the person take?
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Today:
Welcome to this week's instalment of /r/AskHistorians' Sunday Digest (formerly the Day of Reflection). Nobody can read all the questions and answers that are posted here, so in this thread we invite you to share anything you'd like to highlight from the last week - an interesting discussion, an informative answer, an insightful question that was overlooked, or anything else.
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Most of the worlds cacao seems to be grown in South America and Africa. And yet the Swiss make some of the best chocolate in the world. Who brought chocolate to the Swiss and how did they build one of the most famous chocolate industries?
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i know some groups used to believe epilepsy meant you were possessed/cursed (my grandparents for example)
but would like to hear about groups who thought of it as something positive (if they exist)
also relation of epilepsy to spirituality (again if anyone ever thought it exists)
i like reading, i do spiritual practices and i have epilepsy so figured it would be interesting to learn
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"Europe today is a powder keg and the leaders are like men smoking in an arsenal … A single spark will set off an explosion that will consume us all … I cannot tell you when that explosion will occur, but I can tell you where … Some damned foolish thing in the Balkans will set it off"
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I'm sure many of you have heard this, but the far right likes to say that the Bolshevik party was almost only Jewish, and that the revolution was "Judeo Bolsheviks" trying to control the Russian population.
Is this a flat out anti-semitic lie and what were the demographics of the Bolsheviks?
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While I was browsing about Medieval archery topics including AH questions, I found it a common perception that excluding crossbows and guns, a self bow or Longbow is acutally dominant in archery across not only Britain Isles, but also almost the whole of Continental Europe over Recurve Bows. Most of the questions revolving around the topic was focusing on "Why not Recurve bow is widely accepted" rather than talking about the actual usuage. And most thread assumes different drawbacks on Recurves like complex to made, less strength.etc that are inferior to longbow or self bows.
However, as I'm browsing through Late Medieval Miniature, I found that there are massive amounts of 14-15th century manuscripts from Various European countries depict archers using bows that their limb and nock shapes shows similar Recurved features (see below), and considering those miniatures and manuscripts were ranged across various countries, decades, and authors, it's hard to assume that almost all of them were artistic errors.
Also, most of the manuscripts were depicting either Bible, European history, Arthurian legend or Trojan War with contemporary local weaponry, instead of false depiction of Eastern nomad warriors with European harness like some 13th manuscripts would do. (But maybe I'm wrong because I'm not familiar with some of the context of those manuscripts)
Bohemia: 1
(Some altarpiece depicting St Sebastian shot by Mauretanian archers also depicts recurved bows:
I'm not listing them above because I'm not sure if the choice of the artists for recurved bows was to illustrate a more "exotic" picture of North African soldiers, and also some of those altar were painted after 1450AD.)
So for all these miniatures, can they being used as proofs that the use of Recurved bows in continental Europe in late Medieval were common if not unheard of ? Would it be possible that the European usage of recurved bows were actually overlooked by many, and was actually wide spread across various European countries over Longbow? Are there textual evidence for such assumption?
Or would it be possible that some of this miniature are false artistic depiction of contemporary, that mistaken the shape or even using crossbow limbs to depict self bows, because of a lack of actual bows for reference across those countries?
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I moved from South America to Germany and miss a lot knowing more about the specifics that turned a bunch of kingdoms into Germany (and Austria, and Switzerland, etc). I'd love to know more — specifically about this whole "WWI and WWII are just a continuation of the Prussian warfare advances" I've heard a lot here.
I'm an avid reader, so books would be welcome — although I have quite a few in my to-read right now. If there's a "German history for dummies" book type, I'd hit that.
Youtube and Video are also welcome.
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I am a Spanish teacher trying to teach about the cultural traditions of Holy Week in Spain. I know the nazareno clothing came first, but any historical insights into this would be helpful. I’m connecting with our Black Student Union leaders because I don’t want to be accused of being racist. It’s a scary time. Edit: don’t know why the flair is there. I didn’t choose it.
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Pharaoh's army was swallowed by the red sea, which would leave Egypt extremely vulnerable to invasion and chaos. Can anyone tell me what happened in Egypt after they suffered such a great loss? I cannot find anything on this topic whatsoever.
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The clip can be found here and the employee skates away from Harrison Ford's character at about 39 seconds in, and then skates back toward Ford's character (and spins around) at about 47 seconds.
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Have we discovered everything that we could have discovered about our history? Is there more area that have yet to be explored that could enlighten us more about for example Roman or Medieval history? Or has the majority of it pretty much been learned and whatever is missing is forever gone?
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From what I understand of fascism, it's essentially saying your race is superior to any other race. So how did each of them make allies? If supposedly they thought they were better than each other. And if they won the war, how soon would the fight each other?
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I submitted a very similar question recently but figured some elaboration is required. I know that there are other things that people say after a sneeze, but I always found the religious undertone of the saying to be interesting. Did it come from a specific religion? Was its conception a result of some discovery or historical event? Thanks!
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I recently watched All Quiet on The Western Front on Netflix and it seemed somebody just shouted its 11 am and everyone downed arms in the middle of fighting. This seems a bit unrealistic. Was fighting being wound down on the run up to the armistace? How aware were soldiers in the trenches of the impending armistace and how did this affect their desire to keep on fighting right up until the end?
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