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My Polish-American dad told me a story of how his father came home from work one day [in the US] in tears saying "the British pigs killed Sikorski" for saying that as long as one Pole was alive, they'd never acquiesce to anything Hitler demanded. Apparently, the British didn't like this because they wanted to avoid war at all costs and with talk like that from a Polish military leader, war would be inevitable.
Can anyone give me any insight into his comment about Germany? Did he say that? Did the British have any official response to his "fightin" words? Is the story of his death as assassination regarded as true in Poland? Just a conspiracy? Here's his wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%C5%82adys%C5%82aw_Sikorski
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As people at the moment are discussing the possibility of a second Cold War I was wondering what people were thinking I between WWI and WWII
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some background, so they always say that a cause of world war one was nationalism, and pride for your country. But does that mean, that before nationalist pride was being taught in school people didn't really have their birth or adopted nation as part of their identity?
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This is the flashlight that was found; it was found in a box with post cards and other documents about his ship, so we assume that is from the war. The outer case of the flashlight is made of wood and it had two large batteries (sitting on either side of the flashlight) with Japanese writing. I'm sorry I don't have any other photos, I wasn't there with them when they found it, but hopefully I can get back to their house soon to get a better picture or two, I came here to see if maybe someone can shed a little light on what we have found (no pun intended)
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My knowledge of American history is very rusty, so I need your help figuring this out. The question is
Why might political liberals in the 1800s have favored epigenesis, while conservatives favored preformation?
"Epigenetics is the view that the organism is not fully formed at the beginning of embryonic development; rather, its form arises gradually, changing shape and acquiring adult parts overtime."
"Preformation is the view that an organism, in some sense, is preformed from origination, and that development is mere growth, unfolding, and solidification of a miniature being into adult form."
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Where did they go, if they migrated away? Where are their descendants living now? Did they simply get assimilated into other cultures and nations?
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I was just wondering if someone could provide documents on this if it is true, or just tell me that it never was the case. Curious about this since it is something I've always held to be true but never confirmed.
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My quest is to one day be an expert on aviation history. The problem is I could spend a lifetime reading books just on the 8th Air Force in '43-'45 and I'm sure half of them wouldn't be worth reading.
Do you guys have any that you'd recommend? I'll go for hard analysis or softer reading. I'm a big fan of the pre-1950 period but anything is good as long as it's relevant to planes, pilots, or aviation events.
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I keep coming up with the idea that most civilizations seem to follow the same almost evolutionary path as they grow in culture and religion.
In religion it seems to go sprit/land worship> ancestor> deity in almost every society i have studied. And it seems that and it seems like the higher the cultural and technological progression is the higher up on the teir of what they worship is.
Also it seems like most society's do a similar thing in how they are structured (except for the Mongols of course, and the north american native tribes) they start off as random clans who will band together making larger and larger communities untill they form a small country. Then it seems that a rising leader is crowned king and they stay like that untill becoming a democracy after which they can switch back and forth.
Im just saying it seems like there is some kind of natural predetermined path that all cultures follow (kind of like in Civ if you can forgive me comparing history to a video game). And the only thing that gets them off of that path is not having need materials to continue on and gain new technology that lets them go from hunter gather to agrarian to mercantile to industrial.
The reason i say the last part is the only cultures who i can think of that didn't follow the path are islanders who lack the needed materials, sub sahara africa, and the monguals and north american indians who lacked horses.
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Was there an actual code mafia members would follow or is that just a Hollywood creation?
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The origin and continuation of Kievan Rus' seems to be blurry, I cannot find out which state existed before, Russia or the Ukraine.
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Is Lorraine just the modern name for the medieval territory known as Lotharingia? That's been my assumption in my ancestral research, but I want to ensure I'm not mistaken.
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I am in a political science class (international relations) and there is a lot of emphasis/criticism on methodological design. They all harp on a "logic" or a theory's "explanatory power." Granted, history and political science are different disciplines, but I was wondering the importance of explanatory power or logic in a historian's theory/methodology. I am not sure if this question is clear enough, what I am getting at is what role does logic have in history? Can inductive reasoning be used, can we create a system with rules and order? Is empiricism self-selected?
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Christianity took a bunch of symbols from other religions, such as the Devil's pitchfork being Poseidon's trident, so is the famous 666 symbol taken from anywhere?
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