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Were there any instances of slaves joining or being helped by Native Americans or vice versa? Was there any sense of mutual understanding of being oppressed groups or did members of each group not know much (or care much) of the existence of the other? Thanks!
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I know that many wealthy and noble Medieval and Early Modern families such as the Orsini, Medici, and Fieschi produced multiple Bishops of Rome, but which family produced the most?
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From my reading, it seems that Petain was very keen, almost eager, to sign the armistice and set up a pro-German government. It just seems so strange from a man who was a beloved war hero. Why did Petain and his supporters push the armistice so strongly, and not consider fighting on from the colonies? Was it a simple lust for power, or was it more complicated than that?
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In one of my university courses we learned about electrical safety. Things like that many amps will kill you, the difference between how high frequency AC and DC affects the human body etc. Also things like one in X thousand people is a lot more resistant to electric shock than normal people. I remember that the fact was given either in a book or my professor (can't remember cause it was more than 10 years ago) which kinda stuck with me. It was said that most of these facts are known thanks to experiments done in concentration camps. I checked in the previous posts on this subjects regarding nazi scientific experiments but couldn't find any mention of this. If that's true I wonder why I didn't see it mentioned somewhere, cause it seems significant enough.
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Were there pubs or places to go for BDSM style parties? Were there guys with foot fetishes that were open about it? Was it "okay" or was there more of a social stigma back then?
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The Slavs migrated from the East in the 6th century to Slovakia, Poland, and that area. The Magyars migrated to Hungary around the late 9th century. Before this time, the people of those land masses spoke a different language all together.
I know that the Czech area was all Germanic with a tribe called Boii. However, I have no clue what the Hungarians were speaking prior to the 9th century.
Also, what were the Poles speaking prior to their Slavicization? My Polish friends were surprised that Slavic language was only introduced there in the 9th century AD.
For some reason, this topic is not given much attention in history books.
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My original question started with wondering about the connection between Pacific Northwest potlatches and contemporary potlucks, but that's a bit tangental. I've encountered discussions of potlatches as they existed prior to their banning by Canada and the US, but what happened after? What effects did the bans and other assimilation policies have (I'm specifically curious about the effects in terms of form and cultural and economic function)?
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Yea...there's typos...I blame the phone
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*historical
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Catching up on House of Cards, and I started thinking- the size of the offices in Congress haven't changed much since the Capitol was created, but I'm sure the way business there is run has changed plenty. What were the necessary 'tools of the trade' in the early days of the Republic? "Early" can be any period you have knowledge of.
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how did our technological advances become so frequent? what caused us to have such a boom in technology?
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Dear Reddit
(Note: I apologize for any shortcomings in my use of the English language. It is not my maternal language. I've tried to explain my request as clear as possible. I hope I have succeeded.)
I'm a Belgian and I've been trying to learn more about a phenomena that happened in Belgium during and short after the first World War. It would seem that all over Belgium school photo's were made in local communities with as destination the United States as thanks to the US for their provided assistance. I believe but have not been able to substantiate that these photo's have been made in waves as part of a coordinated effort. Sometimes towns who are +100 km apart have the same message written on the chalkboards shown on the photo's. Most photo's feature Belgian pupils before the local Belgian school building, possibly a teacher, references to Belgian king Albert I and his wife and a message on a chalkboard.
Thus far there are quite a few pictures with the following message:
To the Americans After the struggle for Right at Work To the pupils of [place in America] The children from [place in Belgium]
Some examples of this can be found here:
There are also pictures with a different message but largely the same setup. The message goes as follows:
As a gift of their gratitude from the Belgian children of [place in Belgium] to the little American of [place in America] 1914-1918
Some examples of this can be seen here:
There are also photo's with other messages. These messages always show gratitude. Sometimes the photos have no messages and are just a group of school children.
Some of these pictures really did reach the US. The Herbert Hoover Presidential Library-Museum is host to about 30 of these pictures. Library of Congress has about 13 of these pictures and an undetermined amount of these pictures is located in the Hoover Institution archives. However it is more than likely all these pictures were donated by the Hoover family.
There is an indication that the pictures were really sent to the US and addressed to someone. School photo's addressed to the students of Indianapolis, were sent to superintendent of the Indianapolis (public) schools and member of the state board of education Ellis U. Graff. This information is derived from a newspaper article dating October 3rd 1919 in The Indianapolis News (Indiana) which shows such a school photo.
The reason I'm telling you all this is cause I'm hoping to find out where the school photos from the town of Massenhoven, Belgium ended up. These school photo's were addressed to a place called La Fayette, US. Unfortunately there are about 15 places called La Fayette in the United States and the photos do not specify which one.
You can see the Massenhoven photo's here:
Since I'm in Belgium, I've contacted numerous US institutions via e-mail. Archives, libraries, town councils, historical societies, museums ... but I'm unable to locate where the picture of Massenhoven ended up. I'm kinda at the end of my ideas and wanted to try Reddit in the hopes of finding new directions to look in or, even better, find the photos.
There is a chance these photo's ended up in a private album. Again, I believe that Reddit might offer me a good chance in finding those images. Also learning more about where the other various school pictures ended up might help me in my search of learning more about the Massenhoven pictures. I also know that a lot of local places in Belgium would be more then interested to know where their pictures ended up in the United States. Especially considering the upcoming 100th anniversary and the many commemorative events in Belgium.
Thank you for reading and considering my message. I look forward to your replies.
TL:DR, I'm hoping to locate Belgian gratitude school photo's addressed to the US from the town of Massenhoven, Belgium. These photos were taken around or during World War 1 and are part of a phenomena in which places all across Belgium made school photo's as thanks for the American assistance during the war. Learning more about these photo's might help me in locating the Massenhoven ones.
Massenhoven WW1 school photo's: Massenhoven boys school photo: http://i.imgur.com/j441Fqn.jpg Massenhoven girls school photo: http://i.imgur.com/P6ocWhS.jpg
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From what I know from taking half a year of Art History 101, After the High Roman period, when people were making [beautiful, realistic, three-dimensional works.] (http://i.imgur.com/Pvt3INS.jpg) Then the Empire fell and the Early Christian period began, which had no interest in being [three-dimensional.] (http://i.imgur.com/lo2FYgA.jpg) [This trend] (http://i.imgur.com/vAM9k4q.gif) continued for [a long while] (http://i.imgur.com/2FQ008O.jpg) until the Renaissance, when 3d compositions gradually reemerged. Then, Impressionism came [and artists returned to the non-realistic portrayals of the world] (http://i.imgur.com/FLDGjSk.jpg).
So I guess my question is, when I asked my teacher why artists stopped making highly detailed, three-dimensional, naturalized depictions of the world, he said it was because those artists were underfunded and religiously motivated, rather than artistically.
Then when we got to Modernism, he explained the shift from a Naturalized portrayal to an abstract one as these artists being geniuses who were tired of just depicting the realistic world and shifted to a new way of painting. Why does there seem to be such a bias favoring the modern painters for redefining art, but not the Medieval ones? Were they that different?
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Usually when a country invades another it doesn't leave "islands" inside it. For instance when Germany invaded Czechoslovakia they didn't leave -say- out Bruno.
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Our history of having pockets has been for phones, wallets and keys usually. I wonder what the first instance was it it's use
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Little historiography question.
This month's Library of Congress magazine (which you are free to read online) is all about oral history, and the director of the American Folklife Center gave this definition:
Oral histories offer the individual’s perspective on historical events. Oral-history interviews restore the immediacy of the emotional and psychological impact of events on individuals. These can range from major events like the 1963 March of Washington to more commonplace or personal events. Oral-history collections also serve as corpuses of natural speech, which can tell us a lot about how language is used. So AFC’s extensive oral histories with Jelly Roll Morton tell us not only what one important musician thought about the origin of jazz, but also how he personally pronounced “New Orleans,” both of which are valuable information.
Now, I immediately thought of Twitter because the LoC has an agreement to house all that data. Twitter often documents people's reactions to historical events as they happen, in a more immediate way than diaries, or traditional interview-style recorded oral history. But oral history is typically done "from a distance," or a while after the event, so I don't know how Twitter factors into that. Is the distance important for people to mentally ferment the oral history? Is the interview style important for what oral history is or can someone do solo oral history like this?
Interested in any thoughts!
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My grandmothers brother was aboard a ship leaving Australia and she says the boat seemed to disappear with everyone on board of it, she said they recently found it however. But she is unclear of what actually happened, and she cannot find any lists of the fatalities etc to see if her brothers name is there. The ship was in battle wit a german ship. I think it could be HMAS sydney, but U was wondering if any WW2 historians can help me out and find as much as possible to make an old lady in her last years happy!
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