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As a European, the recent elections have shown that there are many political parties with fascist tendencies growing at the moment. In many countries this influx of nationalist ideas are fairly new. With Italy as an exception. Why has fascism been a constant in the italian political landscape?
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They conquered larger, more powerful, more unified and more distant lands, but not India - why?
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Did this document adequately capture the "Spirit of 1776"? Or did it simply create a new, oppressive hierarchy?
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Did the South have a legitimate chance to win? What were the strengths of each side? What were some of the turning points?
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I remember reading how Haiti was the most valuable new world colony for France, as they were the main producer of sugar in the Americas(?). If they were such a agricultural power house, why didn't they thrive when trading with countries such as the U.S., England, Spain or Portugal.
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Was watching Frozen with my fiance and we we're wondering how old Elsa was which brought us to this question.
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I was thinking about this and I don't understand why soccer never caught on here like it did in the rest of the Westen world. Why is it that none of the three major sports leagues in the US are Soccer, when it was actively being played in Europe at the same time and before some of the sports that have caught on, like basketball?
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Why did this tradition of music seem to have died in Northern Ireland/Scots Ireland area?
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In this months Harper's, they printed a piece written by Vernon Bartlett, a British journalist and anti-appeasement MP, in summer 1944 following the Normandy Invasion. This sentence caught my attention most of all:
Nevertheless D-day has come. Yesterday I was told flatly and firmly by an elderly and querulous ex-official from one of the remoter British colonies that there would be no invasion of Europe. He was indignant when I reminded him that this view was shared by many of the Communists. Another "phony war" legend has been destroyed.
I suppose it should come as no shock that truther-style conspiracy theorists have always popped up during times of distress, but I'd never heard about this idea of a "phony" Second World War. I find it interesting too that it was a line of thinking associated with the left.
Can anyone shed some more light on this? How common was the theory? What, precisely, did believers think was happening and why? Are there any other interesting conspiracies from the time?
The full article itself is quite interesting, though it is paywalled. Perhaps someone else is able to find a public version.
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I just noticed a comment stating that modern Egyptians are not related to ancient ones. It stated that modern Egyptians are just Arabs only.
Just wondering if the story behind all of this.
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I'm mostly referring to the west empire. What did a man need to be viewed as the legitimate emperor?
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This cracked article suggests that Atlantis is a hypothetical idealized city rather than an actual place and was taken out of context by people who then went and started looking for it.
Is there any truth to this?
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The general perception is that the soviet union lagged behind the US in most respects, but surely there were some areas in which it was superior? Obviously they initially excelled at space travel, but I'm more curious about ways in which they had a sustained and systematic superiority.
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I'm not truly familiar with the topic, but I have heard somewhere that Winston Churchill was incredibly Anti-Semitic, and his efforts in helping to create Israel were rooted in him (and other European leaders) trying to get rid of the Jews? Is this true?
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If my grammar is very poor, English is not my first language so sorry
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