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You know how people in the 1950s try to imagine life in 2000. Was there anyone back then who ever thought in 1700 what 1800 or 1900 would look like?
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Here it is The caption mentions Wilhelm, and the picture looks contemporary to when he would be leading but i don't see any other obvious connection. I reverse google image searched it, but all that came up was stuff about fire fighting.
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So this image was on my Facebook news feed:
Is there any validity to this? I didn't think that the length of digits correlated to heritage. Obviously it's Facebook so it's probably B.S.
Would love some insight!
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Long distances i.e between U.S and Europe.
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I understand that most siege towers would have been covered in material that would be difficult to catch fire. Once it was brought up close enough to unload soldiers through the top, what stopped the enemy from just continually sending men through it to the top of the wall? I can only speculate that it would have been suicide to send soldiers that close to the wall to enter the tower.
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Sorry for the poor quality. It's all I have.
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I'm taking a History of Modern China course this semester, but our book covers Chinese history in very broad strokes. I need clarification on the Opium Wars.
My question is: were the Opium Wars started by China to extirpate foreign influence, or were they started by Britain in response to China's attempt to eradicate the foreign opium market?
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I thought they were allies at the beginning of the war. They both invaded Poland at the same time right?
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For simplicity's sake, lets say this is during the rule of Augustus. I'm also curious what proportion of each stratum would do certain jobs but understand that that's probably also harder to ascertain.
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I've read that influential thinkers and future leaders from Freud to Stalin to Lenin to Hitler, lived in Vienna in the pre-WW1 period - why was Vienna a centre for all these people?
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Google is failing me on this. Is it a can to keep general stuff in, or is it for specific stuff (e.g., ammunition?). Or is it a cooking pot? A canteen? For a radio? Not an earth-shaking question, just something I've wondered about. I don't recall seeing other WWII soldiers having a comparable piece of gear.
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I was reading up on the CAR, and specifically Bokassa, and it occured to me that Africa seemed to have more troubles after decolonization than other colonized areas (Southeast Asia and Central/South America). Was this the case? If so, why?
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My friend and I were joking about going to war with France for winning gold in the biathlon and I thought I'd look up their nuclear capability. Because I got curious I kept going through other nuclear history, and got on the topic of nicknames for the first bombs, and I found this:
Why is this so special?
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I was just reading u/n7fury's post about the use of shields in Medieval Japan and it got me wondering.
There are the ubiquitous portrayals in media like Game of Thrones, etc, which mostly depict the sword being held around waist or chest level and combat being confined largely to the "close enough for a sword, not close enough for a punch" range.
In my experience, this is by far the most common depiction. But a couple of conflicting descriptions stand out to me--I watched Kingdom of Heaven recently, and one of the scenes that stood out was when Liam Neeson was teaching Orlando Bloom how to fight. Bloom put up the standard waist-high posture described above, and Neeson corrected him, holding his sword in two hands above his head like a sledge hammer or pickaxe. I also recall reading Michael Crichton's book Timeline some years ago, in which he describes combat between knights as being extremely physical, with lots of grappling, punching, kicking, etc. and less emphasis on weapons than is commonly depicted.
Which brings me back to the question: do we really have any idea how medieval knights really fought? Are their written descriptions or even training manuals, or reliable and consistent illustrations of man-to-man combat? If so, did the method tend to be the same across regions/times/weapons/individuals? Or were there a variety of styles employed during the medieval period, either simultaneously or in distinct waves?
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Hi /askHistorians,
I'm trying to learn about the differences between the reconstruction in the U.S. after the civil and the reconstruction in the mid 1900's. I'm taking a political science class this semester, and this is the first time that I'm actually being exposed to this information. I recently got curious as to why the first one failed and what caused the second attempt to succeed. We didn't go too deep into the topic.
So far, I know that one of the biggest reason that first one failed was due to the North taking their troops out of the South in the late 1860's, thus losing their ability to make sure that the South honored the 14th, 15th and 16th amendments. Once the North withdrew their troops, the South went back to its old ways of treating blacks as second grade citizens.
The second reconstruction was a success due to several factors. But the biggest reason that I'm aware of is the JFK assassination. Before he got assassinated, JFK was trying very hard to get the Civil Rights Act passed. In the wake of his assassination, LBJ asked the opposition to let the bill pass in honor of JFK.
So this is what I know so far. I know that there are probably a bunch of other reasons as to why the first attempt failed and the second succeeded. Why does /askhistorians think about the matter?
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