Hey Reddit. When my friend and I were kids, he'd stolen these three bullets from a box at the museum. I think they were loading fresh items into the building or something like that. He gave then to me one day, and they've just been lying around ever since. Do any of you guys know what gun they are from? I'd like to become wiser on the history behind these bullets. (:
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I'm a young man in high school and history is really the only class I enjoy. What are jobs that I could get that relate to history?
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They seemed to have a lot of early momentum, the better military leaders, and were essentially only fighting a defensive war. Were they really destined to lose and only fighting for valor alone?
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And how was he (and Roman Catholics in general) viewed in the East? I haven't read much about the Pope in the West while the empire was still standing.
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I found the idea of inter religious debate in the middle ages a very interesting idea. I believe I read a dialogue written by a philosopher about him converting his friend to christianity from Judaism, but obviously I believe that's more one sided. Did Christian, Jewish, muslim, etc scholars ever formally debate?
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I'm reading a book on the Cold War and there's a bit about the French Strikes in 1947, the ones pictured were from the Renault Factory and each placard has the 10F on it. I'm thinking this is to do with a 10 franc increase in wages, but I'm not sure and for some reason it's really bugging me as to what it means. This is kind of a niche question so not really sure as to if I'll get an answer, but anyone is welcome to take a guess!
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This question and idea came up in this video:
TEDx Stanford - Professor Abbas Milani "The Paradox that is Persia"
I shared the video at this specific point to provide some background. He actually starts talking about the thesis that Zoroastrianism plus Arabic Islam became Shia Islam at around 10:50
"Shi'ism which is the state religion in Iran today, many scholars would tell you, has more in common with Zoroastrianism than it has with any other Muslim society."
Is there anywhere I can read more about this? I tried searching via google but couldn't get anywhere.
Thanks
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It seems to me that whoever called American football "football" was a moron. Wasn't the name already taken? Why do Americans call it soccer and everyone else calls it what it is: football?
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Sitting here in my cubicle, browsing Reddit between formatting spreadsheets, I can't help but wonder to what magnitude the computer has reshaped the office setting. Besides outlook contacts replacing the Rolodex and 'alt-tab' replacing the magazine shoved under the leather desk pad; what other major changes to the work place can be attributed to modern computing practices that to the contemporary corporate drone would seem common place? Additionally, are there any -corporate buzzwords' that existed prior to computers that are no longer in use, or perhaps any that have been re-purposed?
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I took a class recently called "The History of the Body", about how the West has analyzed the body and anatomy from the Greeks to modern times. One of the sections was comparing Western anatomical theory to Eastern, and my professor made a claim that the Chinese of the first millennium (0-1000 AD) did not recognize muscles.
She based this idea on an image similar to [this] (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d2/ChineseMedecine.JPG), saying that Chinese medicine only saw nerves and bones, but didn't recognize a muscular system. I thought this was strange, as I'm sure Chinese medicine must have had theories and techniques for muscular development and dealing with muscular injuries (strains, pulled muscles, etc.). Anyone have any thoughts?
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When / how did it begin?
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I studied WW2 in depth this semester at school and all the pictures show Hitler doing more of a half-salute that could be mistaken for a wave. However, in all video footage I've seen and some pictures, (not all), where he is clearly saluting. Was he just lazy? Or was it just another type of salute?
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I'm writing a story and can't seem to find this answer anywhere. I just want to know the average crew size of a medieval galleon.
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In other words, when and what was the last unilateral, meaningful command issued by the monarchy that wasn't just fulfilling a duty mandated or expected by parliament?
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