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Mainly during the period of Ragnarr Loðbrók. I'm mainly interested in:
Thanks in advance!
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I posted in /r/knives and /r/swords but haven't had a lot of luck yet. Someone suggested trying here. All i know is its a Wakizashi. My grandfather got it in Japan at the end of WWII while in the army there. My own father has had it for many years. I saw a documentary talking about at the end of the war Japan had to surrender all their weapons. A lot were destroyed or presented to American soldiers. Seeing that reminded me of the sword. I tried to get a close up of the tang with the symbols on it. Any help or info about this is greatly appreciated. Thank you.
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Did this concept develop with the initial waves of English settlers or did it develop some years later?
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Aside from both genres rising to mainstream popularity in the 70's I can see no other connection between them, but you have a whole genre of movies like this. And there's this and obviously this. The mixing of tropes is so well known that it's still parodied and inspires songs. What happened?
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The r/AskHistorians Book list, though wonderful and interesting, has some gaps in areas I'm interested in. I'd appreciate any help in filling them.
I'm looking for suggestions about:
Italy (Fall of Rome to Unification, especially middle ages)- In particular the politics of the Italian republics.
The English Civil War
International Finance (Up to Bretton Woods)- I'm particularly interested in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Fascism- An intellectual and/or political history
History of the (Modern) Balkans
Any religious history (esp Judaism and Hinduism) suitable for a dedicated lay reader.
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Might be below your pay grade but I've always been curious about the distinctions between these two philosophies. I always hear conservatives make the criticism that "well, the Nazis were the National SOCIALIST Party" when trying to negate the benefits of socialism. How are these forms of government different? How are they similar?
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I saw this picture in a different thread and it made me wonder how the Iron Chancellor was viewed in the U.S./U.K./France in the early 20th century. In my personal experience, he seems to be remembered now as a hero of German unification at best or an amoral opportunist at worst. Was there a time when he was remembered as a villain of history by the mainstream?
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I've just started my research on these guys and I have grown fond of them. At what year was the Ming Dynasty in China at its absolute peak and when did it and how did it decline?
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Please put all of that Alex Jones crap to the side right now.
I don't understand why its a figure acknowledged only by the people who control the world. Why did I only see a picture of it in my high school textbook, but never learned about it?
Where did it come from? Why are we the public not allowed to view it? What on earth does it stand for?
Is it something we might not learn about until this society is dissolved?
I'm I "Not" supposed to be asking these questions?
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My understanding is that the island of Honshu has been the center of Japanese civilization since ancient times. Hokkaido is just across the Tsugaru strait to the north, but it was inhabited almost exclusively by the Ainu until the modern era. Why did they not colonize it earlier? Was it too cold, or were the natives too hostile?
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According to the wiki article, ant-miscegenation laws in the US spanned from the mid-17th century to the mid-20th. Source.
Given the fact that this span of time covers not only a shift from colonial to industrial society, but also western expansion, Francis Galton/Charles Darwin, Scopes Monkey Trial, Abolition, etc., how can these laws be characterized? (Aside from "racist")
I've recently finished Craig Steven Wilder's Ebony & Ivory and The Oxford Handbook of the History of Eugenics. I have not had the opportunity to delve into the sources cited by each of these works, although I intend to.
I would love any information at all about the underlying arguments put forth by leading academics, abolitionists, anti-abolitionists, the Back-to-Africa Movement, segregationists, preachers, eugenicists, populists, or what-have-you. (I read somewhere that Benjamin Franklin expressed concern about the lasting effects of African slavery on the racial composition of the country.)
Especially, I am interested in the cross-pollination between preachers using science and scientists using scripture. Christine Rosen's Preaching Eugenics is high on my to-read list, so any experience with that text is also welcomed.
Thanks!
PS. Please don't limit responses to White v Black racism in the US. I'd love to hear about Australia, India, or wherever and whenever!
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What was day-to-day life like for civilians during the siege? I read that the Union launched more than 22,000 shells during the siege...what effect did this have on the city's morale and what kind of damage did this shelling cause?
Bonus Question: What was Northern and Southern public reaction like to the extensive shelling of the city (I reckon I can gather what the Confederate public reaction was, but was the shelling of Vicksburg seen as particularly egregious)?
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I understand that at the time, the company was government-controlled but I read a strange rumor on the internet. Holocaust-related rumors are a little vulnerable to flame wars but I can't find anything supporting or refuting. Thanks all :D
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I know that many states had a huge number of slaves(in some cases more than 50% of the population), but with such large black population what prevented slave revolts in the south from being anything more than local disturbances few and far between?
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This one seemed dubious to me. My friend was telling me that Cleopatra was credited with it's invention. Story involves something like having filling a hollowed out gourd with agitated bees then capping it. Is there any legitimacy to this claim?
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In the old days of the pirates in the Caribbean, how did pirating go down.
If you're a captain and go out pirating, how did you do it? How do you find a ship in an ocean? When you find it did they fight back or just surrender? What did they do to the crew and cargo? How did they get caught? How do you even take a ship that didn't want to be taken? Sink it?
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The way I understand it, the soviets were getting their shit pushed in throughout most of the western portion of their landmass for the first year or so of the invasion. Was it just the winter proving too formidable for an underprepared German army, some changes made within the Red army, or other factors?
Thanks.
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