I'm talkin' swords with a pistol hilt.
Here's a google image search: https://www.google.com/search?q=gunblade&espv=210&es_sm=93&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=nqTnUvO6DdCJogTXoYLwDA&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAQ&biw=1366&bih=667
It seems like it's not too far off a concept from musket+bayonet. And could even shave time in a fight close quarters (where reloading wouldn't really be a concern) as you can draw just one weapon instead of two.
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I've read some pretty in depth answers about the American Civil War in this sub. It also seems to me that there is a pretty broad amateur interest in the Civil War among Americans as well. That makes me wonder about a few things.
Why is it so popular? I mean a portion of it has to be that I'm an English speaker, so I read things English speakers talk about rather than history about places where other languages are spoken. Is it because it's a relatively recent event in a sense?
Do other countries or regions have events that are studied by large proportions of the population the way that the American Civil War is? I don't ever seem to see as many people so deeply interested in WW2 for example. They're out there of course, but it never seems to be in as many numbers.
Thanks.
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Okay, so I'm studying to be a social studies teacher, so I feel like I should know this. Granted, I majored in Political Science and World History was never my forte... but here's my question.
The French had lost the Seven Years War and they were getting beaten up by Austria during the French Revolution. Surely they were a traditional power in Europe, but things seem to have been going poorly militarily speaking. Then Napoleon shows up and all of a sudden the French are incredibly powerful and they start taking over large areas of Europe...
So what made him so great? Was he a great leader? Did he have the charisma where men followed him anywhere? Was he just tactically superior to all his enemies? Did the French have better weaponry (possibly born out of the revolution?) What was it that made him so much better than the other military leaders of his day?
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How did Poland remain a catholic nation when most of its neighbors turned were either Orthodox or turned Protestant?
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I was reading an article about the sociological roots of fascism (it will be all Greek to you) and it mentions in passing that "the Nazi empire took the model of British imperialism and applied it to the European continent, treating Europeans like colonialists treated the Africans". It cites Mark Mazower's Dark Continent: Europe's 20th Century to back this up.
Now, my understanding is (and correct me if I'm wrong) that
The concept of Lebensraum is loosely related to colonialism.
That racist ideas of cultural/genetic superiority pre-date the Nazis and that Nazi Germany's implementation and rhetoric had a lot of mainstream support in other countries (until the end of WW2, when the trend was reversed).
The question is: From the above, can we conclude that the narrative of "the superior Aryan race that deserves to expand" etc borrows heavily and directly from an equivalent similar narrative of superiority that, say, the British used to justify their colonialism?
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I remember hearing somewhere, it may have been in the roman military, that if a soldier got shot with an arrow and was in his back, it was deemed dishonorable because he was running away and there was some sort of punishment. Can anyone clarify or maybe further explain this?
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Are there any examples of monarchs who were clearly intelligent, yet did poorly? Or dim ones who managed to perform well?
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I always see these old time ads that have doctors advertising a specific brand of cigarettes, and I can't help wonder what the reality of it was.
Were they bribed? Were they legally making false claims?
You'd think that after all the dissections and openings of lugs, people would notice that smoker lungs tended to have much more damage done to them. I just can't believe doctors would agree that smoking is healthy when it can so clearly be seen by cutting open bodies, which they do, that some things just don't go well.
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In the very beginning when there were no translators or dictionaries, how was this done?
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Why could not the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies be the basis for the Kingdom of Italy? They were the biggest of all, AFAIK. Kingdom of Sardinia was too French oriented, but it was them who unified Italy. I just don't understand.
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Figured this would be the best place to ask.
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The US invades all sorts of Latin American countries, sometimes at the behest of fruit companies, sometimes at the behest of zealous Americans in love with war, sometimes to off a dictator who's gone off script.
Not being American, I'm interested how the story of the US invasions and coups is taught in American schools (if at all?)
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So, this isn't exactly scientific, but it seems that when i look at photos of men from the WW1 era and prior, in group photos of soldiers almost all of them have very respectable facial hair. You can easily find a group of five or six guys with thick moustaches.
But it seems like for me that if every man i knew stopped shaving for a year, there would be far fewer people who would have anything more than some scattered growth. only a small fraction of men i know are capable of growing in the type of facial hair you see in pictures from a hundred years ago.
example: http://www.archives.gov/research/military/civil-war/photos/images/civil-war-030.jpg
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Though I'm looking specifically at 18th century fare.
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I Was reading Wikipedia, and they seem fairly certain of the date given for the rise of the Empire (2334 BC). What specific records have been used to get this date?
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As a WASP, I don't know much about Jewish culture, but it seems that their culture emphasizes markedly conservative values, like the importance of family and religion, alliance with Israel, conservative financial practices, and the tightly-knit communities that have kept the Jewish culture around. That being said, why do Jews vote liberally? I found [this] (http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/US-Israel/jewvote.html) source that confirms the Jewish voting record, but why?
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I did not see anything in the book list, apologies if I missed it.
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I would really like to learn more about this topic in general, my grandfather fought in the resistance so I am quite interested, in addition if anyone could recommend any books on this subject I would love them.
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