Not just two dialects, but two completely different languages or sets of languages.
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Soviet numbers say 81,116 dead on the Soviet side and 458,080 dead on the German side. German numbers say 92,000 – 100,000 on their side (Wikipedia). Considering Berlin was being defended and the Germans had months of preparing. But the Red Army was raising the city with explosions before the actual attack began. With the SU also having way more vehicles, artillery and probably food, I would think they would have an easy time capturing the city. Also keeping in mind the many civilians (the young, the old and the weak) without proper training helping defending Berlin.
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With recent events in mind, I was curious about what any official stance is on this mildly similar event. It did happen in 1988, so it seems to be fair game as far as time goes. I tried to figure out exactly how and why and what the circumstances were for the airliner being downed, but it seems like there's very little consensus amongst the media and Reddit general public...
So historians, what's the truth as we know it on Iran Air Flight 655? Any potential historiography on the event would be appreciated too, just to have both sides of the story.
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Also, on a similar note I would be extra appreciated if someone explained how Margaret Thatcher changed the welfare system on Britain. I've researched here and there but I'm still confused (for an assignment)
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Is there any significant linguistic influence of Greek on Turkish? Are other any examples of direct cultural borrowing/appropriation from Byzantine civilization to Ottoman Turkish? How much of Ottoman civilization can be interpreted as a continuation of Byzantine traditions under Islamic-Turkish rule?
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What kind of rights did she have in the army? Could she decide battling tactics? Did she really fought with her army in battles? How important was her role for leading France to victory?
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What were the effects that he had upon Russian society and Russian government? Emancipation and other social reforms or his judicial reforms?
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Google doesn't give very good results for this.
In Spartacus, the TV series, Batiatus stop at a public toilet and the vendor hands him a stick with a cloth wrapped around it, which he gives a one-two wipe with. Is this scene accurate?
What about Louis and Clark? People on the frontier?
On the TV series, Band of Brothers, one of the final episodes, one of the veteran soldiers tells a new guy that this is the first time he's wiped with toilet paper in months. What were they using?
I've been to war, and I've used cardboard, t-shirt sleeves, and MRE napkins. I've never been away from toilet paper longer than a week though, and if I'd been out longer than that, stuff would probably run out.
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If my knowledge is correct, the U.S. military assigns a weapon series a number and then gives the next number to the next series of weapons.
For example, the military adopted the M-1 carbine. After a selective fire version came out, they designated it the M-2 carbine. The one after that had an infrared scope, so they called it the M-3 carbine. Then the military needed a shorter M-16, so they made a new carbine and called it the M-4 carbine. Why doesn't the same apply to rifles?
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The movie Master and Commander, set in 1806, portrays several young and several older men in different officer and noncommissioned officers. Midshipman Blakeney is much younger, thirteen years old, than Midshipman Hollom, who is twenty-four. The movie portrays him as being abnormally old for this rank. It appears that the First Lieutenant Tom Pullings is about the same age as Hollom.
Is this accurate? Were noncommissioned officers such as Midshipmen frequently in their early teens? Was it possible for someone that age to achieve a higher rank and become a commissioned officer such as a Lieutenant?
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I'm assuming that before Muhammad, the Arabs practiced polytheism unrelated to monotheistic Judaism (particularly with Judaism's historical/mythological background).
With the advent of Islam, Arabs claimed a common history (from Ishmael) and a common theological core with Judaism. How did this come about? Why would Muhammad use Judaism as his template? Or am I misrepresenting all of this?
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I know as far back as a couple hundred years would make it more difficult, but it would still be possible. I mean back far enough that nobody on the planet would be able to have even a rudimentary conversation with me.
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I'm not sure if this is the kind of question that pertains to this subreddit but I didn't find any others that where more relevant. I'm looking for the full digitized copy or at least a second hand copy of the first documented recipe of gunpowder in Europe.
So far this partial copy of the original manuscript is the most I've found. It is incomplete as far as I can tell and is from John Read's From Alchemy to Chemistry. The entire passage should read "But of saltpetre take 7 parts, 5 of young hazel-twigs, and 5 of sulphur; and so thou will call up thunder and destruction, if thou know the art." but as far as I can figure from John Read's incomplete copy it ends at "thunder" and leaves off the end of the quote.
I've figured out from Scientific American: Supplement, Volume 28 and Index to the Sloane manuscripts at the British Museum that the book is listed at the British Museum as the Sloane Manuscript 2156.
I appreciate any and all help in this investigation.
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I'm trying to classify the means of early Marxist thought on a political plane, as in the result of this survey I took. The x-axis represents decreasing level of economic control, and the y-axis increasing level of social control.
In fact the survey itself only uses one point for classifying each political philosophy, a point which my eager Facebook friends picked at with a great deal of aimless scorn.
I'm trying to make the case that political ideology can be much more succinctly described by two points representing goals and means. Same plane, just plotting a pair of points instead of just one. Early Marxist thought circa Manifesto was one item from my wonky proof-by-examples.
I know the Manifesto was Right Libertarian in goals: Communism is a stateless society without need for economic regulation. Further it was at least Left in economic means, since it implicitly encourages using things like "heavy progressive taxation," state monopolies on land and banking, etc.
As to social means I am somewhat confounded. As you might be able to tell from my results I want to say here that a powerful state economic policy encourages authoritarian social policy but I feel like debating thick libertarianism by predication with a bunch of brainwashed statists ahem righteous capitalist patriots would lead me down a dead-end of talking to a brick wall and eventual social ostracism.
I'm thus looking for clues in the Manifesto as to any explicitly social control advocated by Marx. For example I wouldn't consider his discussion of emancipation of child laborers a social discussion since it is framed as resulting directly from emancipation of laborers generally. I'm just about ready to call the Manifesto middle-of-the-social-road as far as means go, but this quote confounds me:
Is this a sign of the increasingly popular social culture of authoritarian nationalism at that time? I'd really like to know the historical reasons that this item, among so many possible considerations, is present among the 10 planks. Was this just thrown in to compromise with or cater to jingoism?
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I was reading one of the threads from the wiki and this comment came up, but it doesn't seem to have been expanded on. Could someone explain this?
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In movies of the thirties and forties, a stock character was the poor shmoe from the wrong side of the tracks whose parents couldn't afford to send him to a good college, so he had to go to "State." An additional twist of the knife in this poor sod's guts was that he had to spend his summers working at a soda fountain or something in order to pay for school.
Was it really possible to work for the summer back in the twenties, thirties and forties and save enough money for an entire year of tuition, books, food, and so on, or was that just a movie thing?
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