Rashida Tlaib is in trouble right now after retweeting something with that phrase, but when I searched all that came up were stories about the current news story. What is the history of the phrase? Has it always and exclusively been used in a negative way towards Israel? Is it actually negative towards Israel? I guess I just lack an understanding of the historical usage of the phrase and the background.
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Also I am not interested in any stories from people in the 20th century who have claimed to been to hell
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It seems that, for much of Egyptian history, camels were unknown in the region. Today, however, they are an important pack animal and a crucial element of trans-Saharan travel. How did the introduction of the camel affect the economies of places like Ancient Egypt, Canaan, or Arabia?
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In the 8 and 9th century, Bohemia was flanked north and south by other "slavic" territories. A couple centuries later, eastern Austria, Hungary and modern east Germany were no longer majority "slavic", while Bohemia retained this identity to this day, the pre-WWII large German population nothwithstanding. Why did it avoid either "german" or magyar displacement/colonization/assimilation where the elbic,austrian and pannonian slavs failed?
As a second question: You have likely relialized I used "" in the ethnicity descriptors above. This is because I am afraid that I am projecting a pretty anachronistic view into the early middle ages. Am I correct to fear this?
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Thursday Reading and Recommendations is intended as bookish free-for-all, for the discussion and recommendation of all books historical, or tangentially so. Suggested topics include, but are by no means limited to:
Regular participants in the Thursday threads should just keep doing what they've been doing; newcomers should take notice that this thread is meant for open discussion of history and books, not just anything you like -- we'll have a thread on Friday for that, as usual.
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The "perfect Aryan" that I remember being told during history lessons was that of having blue eyes, being tall, skinny, having a symmetrical face and so on.
But Hitler did not face blue eyes or was not as petite but was still the Fuhrer which sounds like an irony.
But where did the term "Aryan race" come from? What made Hitler believe that they were superior or that their characteristics made them superior?
Why didn't he call them Germans or descendants of the Germanic people?
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I saw a video today on Instagram claiming that the Bering Land Bridge theory of immigration into the Americas was disproven by bones found predating the theory’s timeline. I’m obviously... skeptical because I’ve been taught this theory for years. Does anyone know if this claim has any truth to it? If so, how did humans really end up in the Americas?
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I heard that the Iga ninja clan were bodyguards for a portion of their history. What i'm asking is what did they do? they were ninja and i can only see the recon aspect of the ninjas job come in handy when protecting someone. Was there like a ninja following the emperor like the secret service or something?
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I watched The Liberators today and there was a father and son in the same unit. This is a show based on an actual unit and that got me to thinking about how common something like that would be.
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I was watching a video about the d-day landings, and it said their options for landing groups were Calais or Normandy. Why is that? Why not land at Brittany, or Picardie, or perhaps around Cherbourg instead of Caen?
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i think the sky is fucking incredible, and i'm a little jealous of these ancients who got to look at the night sky and see all these wonders and have all these spiritual thoughts about them. i was thinking about how my favorite poet, li po, saw in the moon and sun the literal embodiment of the spirit of yin and yang, and i realized i don't know what ancient jews and christians thought of our celestial environment. i would love to know what these western religious ancients thought of the sky
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Gallant adventures and derring-do aside, the book did have me wondering about the Middle East in WWI outside of the typical Lawrence of Arabia mythos forced on me through the media and school. It seems like one of the areas untouched outside of a few contemporary novels.
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According to Wikipedia and some non-scholarly articles online, admiral Harry Yarnell pulled off an exercise eerily similar to the attack on Pearl Harbor 9 years earlier and was blown off by battleship adherents. Ernest King pulled off a similar attack in a 1938 exercise (see previous link).
My question(s) is/are about the other "side" of this story. What changes did Yarnell want the Navy to make and why were they rejected? Were there any legitimate reasons? How would one fairly evaluate the tradeoffs here without hindsight bias? If this really was a colossal screw-up, should we attribute it to bad conventional wisdom, to groupthink, or to something institutional (like Navy politics or misaligned incentives)?
Quote from Wikipedia, for context:
In February 1932, Yarnell pioneered carrier tactics in an exercise called Army/Navy Grand Joint Exercise 4. Rear Admiral Yarnell commanded the carriers Lexington and Saratoga in an effort to demonstrate that Hawaii was vulnerable to naval air power. The expectation was that Yarnell would attack with battleships, but instead he left his battleships behind and proceeded only with his carriers to the north of Hawaii where it was less likely he would be detected. With a storm as cover, at dawn on Sunday, 7 February, Yarnell’s 152 planes attacked the harbor from the northeast, just as the Japanese would ten years later. The army airfields were first put out of commission after which Battleship Row was attacked, with multiple hits on navy ships. No defending aircraft were able to launch. The Navy’s war-game umpires declared the attack a total success, prompting Yarnell to strenuously warn of the Japanese threat.[3]
The New York Times reported on the exercise, noting the defenders were unable to find the attacking fleet even after 24 hours had passed. U.S. intelligence knew Japanese writers had reported on the exercise. Ironically, in the U.S., the battleship admirals voted down a reassessment of naval tactics. The umpire's report did not even mention the stunning success of Yarnell's exercise. Instead they wrote, "It is doubtful if air attacks can be launched against Oahu in the face of strong defensive aviation without subjecting the attacking carriers to the danger of material damage and consequent great losses in the attack air force."[4]
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I grew up in a Baptist household (personally Agnostic now) My mom spouted for years about this idea that we were going to all be micro chipped and one of them will be the "Anti-Christ" I'm sure it was probably some crazy person in the 60's-70's.
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I've read plenty about how the Soviets treated their P.O.W. but what of the Axis prisoners in Western custody? Where they simply released after the war or integrated into the country they were held in? What options where they presented with given that Germany was split in two?
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Edit To what extent, if at all
Given the overlap between the Troubles and the Cold War, were there any concerted attempts by the USSR, Cuba, or maybe even Argentina to interfere in the conflict? It seems odd to me that the Troubles are seldom viewed through the lens of the Cold War as so many conflicts of the time are. Aside from the assistance rendered by Irish-Americans to the IRA, I can't really think of any "foreign" interference in a conflict that enemies of the UK/US/NATO could have benefited from exacerbating.
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Hey! Posting this again since last time I got a few upvotes but no answer, thanks for any help you can provide :)
Recently I have talked to my best friend and we discussed about a scene from Pride and Prejudice where Mr. Darcy touches Elizabeth Bennet's hand which according to many viewers is "such an intense experience he has to flex his hand" (easily found on YouTube with "Pride and Prejudice The Touch" since I don't want to promote any channel).
My bestie pointed out that Elizabeth wasn't wearing a glove and that it was uncommon for a man to touch a woman's hand skin-to-skin back then. Is that really the case?
I find it hard to believe that teenagers (and Darcy is supposedly 27-28 so even more so) would have no experience with skin touch and that it's just an exaggeration. I certainly believe that public display of affection was frowned upon in higher class families, but do historians believe that most teens/young adults had no experiences while nobody else was looking?
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I was thinking about how many people in the US that live near the Mexican border consider it a very useful skill to be at least conversational in Spanish, and it made me curious if there would have been a similar mindset among different Native American tribes that were likely to encounter each other often.
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Were there certain 'sovereign citizens' who refused to wear gas masks during the blitz, or in other ways not comply with safety precautions ordered by the government?
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I was looking at the national debt of the usa and then looked at the history of the debt.
One think I looked at on Wikipedia was the moment a republican took office the debt seemed to increase https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_United_States_public_debt
(Beside under the Obama administration)
I don’t understand how I am suppose to look at it. I thought historically republicans wanted less involvement of the gouvernement. So how come the national debt increased?
This isn’t a critic of politic, I am curious and want to understand the US history a bit better.
Démocrates and Republicans seem very different after I looked at the movie Lincoln https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0443272/
Yes I know that Wikipedia and the Hollywood movie industry is a very lame historical level but it’s my starting point.
Anyone help me understand that economic up and down please. It would be super appreciated.
(Also on the side, I just listen to an audiobook about fermerai George Marshall and it was awesome as it talked about history from 1910 till 1970, any other character I could look at that had a major responsibility in shaping history from 1960 till 2000?)
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