I really want to learn about strategy, tactics, and anything close enough to all of the above. Any era would be fine, I'm not picky there.

Just wondering, how many people were executed during the french revolution? was wanting to have a reference if possible. Also wondering if there is any other interesting facts that are hard to come by about the guillotine. Thanks. (can't find an accurate number of the total executions)

Who flipped the meaning first?

I'm a college student who is taking Spanish as my required second language to graduate. As I've learned more about the language I've also become more interested in the history of Spain, especially from the golden age onward, so something my Spanish teacher said in class a week ago confused me.

She basically said that when Napoleon invaded Spain he was welcomed by the local populace as a liberator and champion of modernization, saving the people from a medieval and backwards culture being oppressed by the inquisition.

I don't think this is true but I don't know enough about Spanish history to dispute it. Can r/askhistorians help me out?

And while we are at it is it hollow below it, and if so why don't we explore it?

Considering that royal houses are all linked or related, why did no one step in and intervene? The Kaiser was the emperors cousin, and the empress was the granddaughter of queen victoria. My understanding is that they were held captive for a while before being executed. I can't imagine any figure, whether it's a head of state or an autocrat, going through the same thing without international intervention.

Were there other factors in play that prevented other countries from taking a stand or did they just turn a blind eye?

I've heard a lot of people claim that the Civil War was fought for states rights and not slavery, but when I've looked into it most of these "states rights" seemed to revolve around the slavery issue (how to count slaves in population, taxes based on slavery, etc.) What other issues would have been considered states rights?

I've been told several times that Japan was one of the allies in World War One. How exactly did they participate? Did any Japanese soldiers fight the Germans or Austro-Hungarians?

For example the Greeks had philosophers tackling the same issues that wouldn't be tackled to the 1800s but never advanced beyond Togas and sun gods. Why has our society superseded them so greatly?

Does anyone have more information regarding Helene Hanfstaengl? She was marred to Ernst Hanfstaengl, but Hitler had a thing for her...

I am wondering when she was born, when did she die, etc. Did she live through World War II? If so, what were her thoughts about it?

There appears to be remarkably little information about her fate.

Was this option considered and rejected, or were generals just hell bent on breaking the trench lines and not consider it?

How did Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan etc from or were they previously formed during the russian empire?

I have recently read Wordsworth's Prelude and Chateaubriand's Memoirs. I have developed a slight obsession with the french revolution, and I would like to ask for some recommendations for the best history books providing an account of the period. Is Thomas Carlyle's take on it a valid historical view or is it too poetic and theatrical? What about Simon Schama's Citizens: A Chronicle of The French Revolution?

There is a certain spark about the period which keeps drawing me further and further in, like one of those renaissance paintings that play with perspective. I would appreciate any suggestions for books, articles, publications, documentaries, novels and even films which could give me a further understanding of the french revolution.

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Sorry the heading should be changed to 1973. For those looking for more detail to the question: I was curious how a country that was in civil war and was fighting with the US for so many years eventually stabilized and is today a pretty peaceful country.

Each act of the opera was announced to the crows by a women dressed all in black, entering the stage and either playing a note on a gong or a cymbal (I'm afraid I can't remember which).

Is this some kind of tradition?If so, could anyone tell me something about how it developed?

My uncle told me he was speaking one day with a icelander who claims that the Moors did that

I don't mean "Why do more people know about Brad Pitt than Shakespeare."

I mean "Why are actors more recognized than writers?"