I took a humanities class at my university a couple of years back, and I recall my professor saying that Jesus was a, "Jewish guy trying to reform his church. Is this true? I was under the impression for a long time that Jesus was indeed beginning a new religion.

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In English, it's called "Germany," and in German, it's "Deutschland," while in Arabic, it's "Almania." In some instances, linguistically similar languages - like Dutch - refer to Germany with a similar name, while some variation on "Almania" is popular with Middle Eastern and African languages. Why are there all these different names? Are there other countries that have a similar outcome when their names are translated?

That's a sentiment that I've come across in my weeks of Google-fu. I have the feeling that people overrate him because other people underrate him (especially when Rommel is brought up).

I don't think he's bad, I do think he's the best German general. But in terms of the sheer number of troops commanded in operations and keeping them all organised and under control and with logistical support, I'd think Zhukov or Rokossovsky or Eisenhower or Nimitz (technically an Admiral, I know) or even Marshall for his ability at picking great commanders, would be considered better military commanders.

I'm currently reading about this thing called von Manstein's Backhand Blow, but even as I go along I think Rokossovsky's Operation Bagration seems more impressive (though admittedly I can't really understand the depth and complexity of it from the Wiki article alone).

I've read varying accounts of tanks' effectiveness in WW1, some sources suggest they had mixed success at best, while others say that they were key in in the last year of the war.

Pretty self explanatory, but every major event seems to have a red carpet. Is this the case worldwide, or is it an American/Western/etc. convention? When did this become the symbol that an event was something worth paying attention to?

Our ancestors were 3 or 4 inches long and living underground, lots of other small mammals and insects as well, but what about birds? Did any animals larger than a foot or two in length make it through? How long did it take the earth to recover from such a massive nuclear winter, and how did life forms thrive and grow? Thank You.

It seems that every history text that I have read focuses more intently on WWII than WWI almost as if it isn't as equally historically important.

I'm currently writing a film proposal for a history class and can't quite find the dates of resettlement by Jewish families. There are good dates for the actual evacuation, but fewer for the time period of resettlement of those areas. I don't want to start a debate about right/wrong, property rights in refugee situations, it's just the dates might impact the narrative. So was it a matter of days? weeks? Months? Any help would be incredibly appreciated, thanks all.

I'm thinking of movies like Apocalypse now and I also have a vague recollection of a documentary showing American soldiers smoking weed through the barrel of a shotgun.

I am most curious about length and weight, but any other information you have would be nice.

In Europe we had the Renaissance and The Enlightenment, There has always been massive technological developments in Asia (Squandered by the black death) why did Africa never seem to develop as well as these other continents?

From what I read, Erikson and his followers established a small village (or villages?) in what is now Canada. Then they left due to harsh conditions, and then no European bothered to go back until Columbus.

My question is... why not? Were there no explorers who wanted to try discovering more about the New World? Were there no kingdoms that wanted to invest in scouting out resources/land?

....or even a time of that year?

What was growing up like for young ancients?

What efforts were put in place to prevent this movement from spreading? Was there an organized revolutionary party in England?

I am currently learning a lot about the time when Hitler rose to power in Germany and it interests me how he was during his imprisonement. He wrote his book "Mein Kampf" and he was in prison because of a violent political coup attempt. But that's about all we got to know about that short period of time in school (Germany btw if that is from any interest). Is there anything more about this time? Did he maybe already behave agressive or offensive towards other (jewish?) inmates / wardens?

Sorry for any poor wording and thanks for any answers!