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Whenever I read something about the phenomenon of white flight, it's always linked to things like desegregated busing, desegregated schools and stuff like that. But though they mention things like the LA or Detroit riots as reasons why white flight "increased", seldom they appear as reasons (which I'd think are pretty good reasons to move away, if you have a group of people targeting your group of people with violence).

The same happens when dealing with white flight in South Africa post-Apartheid.

So how much did it really matter? Could those riots (or in the case of SA, terrorism) be considered a probable cause for white flight? Or is it more racist propaganda than anything else?

European countries and far-eastern empires (China, Japan, maybe South Korea) Have had ups and downs throughout their history, but nowadays many of the countries that were once great kingdoms or empires are back to their former glory. However, none (at least that I know of) of the classic middle-easter or african muslim empires ever got back to what they once were. I am talking about the Turks and the various caliphates of the middle ages.

Is there a reason for this? Is it just that the developed western countries put their foot down on them? Even so, Around 150 years ago, were they able to put that foot down and prevent them from developing?

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The title pretty much sums it up. The sources i've come across all speak of "aid" but doesn't specify if that means free money or if the aided are expected to repay any of it. The USA and especially Sovjet giving away lots of money for free sounds weird.

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I understand that answers about life for commoners in Roman times must often resort to speculative and circumstantial evidence. I would appreciate anybody who can introduce us to some of the prevailing views about how life in Rome changed as the empire evolved.

EDIT: Should have been "eques", not equite.

And how can we tell he was influenced by the renaissance?

Can't seem to find much info about it on the internet.

Hope someone here can help me!

I've been interested in this place for a while and there don't seem to be many books out there on the subject. I'm interested in the origin of the town and its peak before the big earthquake in 1692. I also want to read about the port's relationship with pirates. If anyone can point me towards some good reads it'd be a big help. Thanks in advance

In Jules Verne's work The Star of the South there is an episode where some stranded men in mid 19th century South Africa come across from giraffes and somehow are able to quickly (within a day) teach the giraffes how to carry men like a horse. Has there been any real effort to tame/domesticate giraffes for transportation purposes?

I was at this one American Civil War museum and in one room you watched a 10min time lapse video of an eastern US map. And there were dates in the top corner progressing very quickly, the change of weeks resembling the speed of milliseconds. Battles were indicated by a little explosion in a specific spot on the map showing where it took place. After the logo appeared, the territory lines changed, show which side controlled what.

I was wondering if there was some equivalent or perhaps something as satisfying, but instead of showing the place of battles, it would just show wars and then the change of territory/country/kingdom/empire lines on perhaps a Mollweide map. And instead of a few years in the Civil War, go as far back as perhaps to the Mesopotamian times - as far needed: when man began killing fellow man for land.

Anyone know of such thing? Perhaps a more narrowed version for a specific region (kind of like the one I saw for the Civil War?) I'm guessing there's no such thing for the entire world, spanning back as before the Egyptians, but doesn't that sound wicked?

So I am watching Lord of The Rings, and as great as a movie as they are I'm wondering to myself what an actual proper siege of a town or castle would look like.

During a war in England or Northern Europe (during the 12th or 13th century) during the middle ages how would one side try to take the others castle, how successful were these methods and how long did a siege normally last? I'm getting the impression that assaulting a stone wall might not be easy with only a sword or shield.

I found it hard to believe that a nation that lived in peace for decades would so violently break apart in a spasm of visceral hatred. Was the rape a consequence of the war or was it planned and premeditated? Why was the international community so slow to react to such a thing in Europe's corner?

I've been rewatching the Spartacus TV show on Starz. This time, I'm paying closer attention to the historicity of it and I have two questions. First, in the show there are gladiators and slaves from Gaul, Carthage, Syria, and Celtic tribes. What was the reach of the Republic right before the Third Servile War? Would slaves from these areas be common in the Republic? Secondly, it is often a point in the show that Roman women would want to sleep with the gladiators, were these kind of mistress - gladiator affairs common?

And were there other techniques/tools for dealing with ice and snow that have now fallen out of use?

We see horses, donkeys, mules, and even llamas become core transportation mediums of many thriving civilizations in history.

Zebras, on the other hand, only seem to have made it to being nice attractions in Zoos. Granted, I know almost nothing about Zebras.

Out of curiosity, have they been domesticated and widely used by societies in the past? If not, is there something about them that made them particularly hard to domesticate?

Specifically, around the time Spanish explorers began landing in the New World.

My grandmother recently passed, and after going through one of her scrap books I found an ancestor by the name of Jacob Arnold who after incurring the rage of his Grandfather(A Burgomeister in the area of Darmstadt Germany) for hunting on private lands avoided being forced into the prussian army by him when his grandmother paid for his trip to the United States. Having escaped the Prussian army he landed in American to find the only way he could make money was to enlist and did so according to my grandmother as a paid substitute.

Anyways sorry for the long story I'll cut to the chase. My grandmother had very detailed information including

• Co I, 8th Regiment, New Jersey Infantry

-Enlisted September 9th, 1864

-Lost shelter tent had to reimburse government $2.13

-Participated in battles Poplar Spring Church Sept 30th, Boydton Road Oct. 27, Hatchers Run Feb 5th, Boydton Road March 31st.

As great of a job researching as she did I still wish to know more. While I have all of this information I want to know specifically what actions Arnold's Regiment, even company may have taken part in during the engagements. For example rear guard, pickets, flanks movement, attacking, defending, reserves. I’ve attempted searching through Wikipedia and the internet to get an idea and as far as I could get was that he maybe was in the II corp at the time of these battles. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I am aware that Native Americans originally came from East Asia, but it's their Religious similarities that interest me. Native American religion seems to share many resemblances with Buddhism. Is there anything to back this up, or is it just sort of a coincidence in their similarity?

Of course, there are also a lot of other similarities, but this is the one that interests me. The Native Americans migrated so long ago, and while things like appearance don't change with genetics, I had imagined that religion would.

Is it because they were moved by the country's non-violent independence movement or is it because they were so severely battered by the Nazi that they could not afford to keep a major army in India anymore and just decided to call their troops away and call it 'giving them freedom'?

I've always thought that the role of the food taster was highly romanticised. I've never really believed that a poison could act so fast as to kill a guy seconds before a lord tucks into a meal especially after a single tiny taste.

Also, what if the taster had an allergy? There would be an assassination attempt witch hunt for nothing.

I'm asking because I'm reading Magnificent Delusions by Ambassador Haqqani right now, and he makes a casual reference to troops being flown into East Pakistan just prior to the 1971 war, but doesn't mention the logistics of it. Did India simply let Pakistan fly over their airspace? Did they have to go thousands of miles out of the way by flying around India? Presumably some of it would have been on ships, but what about the rest?