Jim Crow America Rules

Where would an African or a Caribbean immigrant sit? If someone immigrated from Jamaica, Nigeria, Haiti, Congo, etc. Would they still be told to sit in the back of the bus with their American counterparts? Also where did Puerto Ricans and Virgin Islanders sit at on the bus when they arrived in the mainland? Where did Asians and Natives sit?

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Did Malcolm X really have good relations with white nationalists?

This is something I've heard when it comes to him, apparently, the man had a meeting with the KKK and had a good relationship with George Lincoln Rockwell. Is that really true? Was he really buddies with the far-right?

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How did the ancient Greeks and Romans imagine their Bronze Age ancestors?

I’ve heard that the general sentiment of the time saw the Bronze Age civilisations as so advanced and impressive that they believed themselves to be degenerations of them. I’ve also heard this was an extension of their general perspective on history, that ‘their best years were behind them’ as it were and didn’t think of the future as progression like we do nowadays. Can anyone confirm or redress this?

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Criminal law in 12th-century England - who was in charge?

It's late 12th-century England, sometime after 1176 but before 1189, so Henry II is king. A lay person is murdered inside a religious institution — monastery, abbey, something like that.

Who is responsible for investigating the crime?

Who is responsible for punishing the killer?

Does this change depending on whether the killer was a lay person or clergy?

Was this a clear demarkation that everyone knew and accepted, or was it open to argument?

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Since squash, corn, and beans are the famous "three sisters" of American Indian agriculture, how come we don't have beans as a staple at the Thanksgiving meal? Were beans grown in Massachusetts at the time of the first Thanksgiving and were they served back then?

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Average person’s experience during The Troubles

With all the talk of a second American Civil War, I’ve heard it could look similar to Ireland’s The Troubles. From my extremely limited knowledge of those events, it seems like most of the more notable happenings occurred in cities. What did the average Irish (or Northern Irish) rural or small town person experience? Was day-to-day much different from “normal” and how so?

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What were Spartans exercise methods in ancient Greece?

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Looking for works on Ancient Near Eastern thought, philosophy, and worldviews.

We have a large body on Ancient Greek and Roman thought and philosophy, as well as their world view and values.

Can you guys point me to some books and articles about the philosophy and world views of their contemporaries in the Ancient Near East?

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In the film 1917, two Sikh soldiers are shown as part of an otherwise all-English unit. Would Indian and English soldiers on the Western Front have fought together in integrated units, or would they have been separate?

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How did WWI soldiers learn when it was 11 on Armistice Day?

As we all know, WWI ended at 11/11/18. But my question is: How did the common foot soldier learn that it was 11 AM and not 10:59? I mean, it would be a sporadic stop across that last minute as some watches would be faster or slower, right?

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Did anything similar to texting shorthand (LOL, WTF, etc) exist that was regularly used in telegrams?

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How long would it take for life to return to normal after a major city battle in Ming Dynasty China?

The question popped up while my wife was doing research on her novel, which is set in a fictional universe that parallels Ming Dynasty China. We tried to do research, but we have yet to come with an actual time frame.

To be clear, by "return to normal" I mean a state where all the bodies have been cleared out and conditions were roughly the same as what they were before the battle: People walking about freely, businesses reopening, vendors and traders selling their wares on the street, so on and so forth.

The research I've done so far has been largely inconclusive. Most of the webpages I'm seeing for the aftermath of Ming Dynasty battles don't really talk about the return to more mundane, day-to-day tasks, they largely talk about diplomatic ramifications and civilian casualties and such.

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What started the Korean war? I have 2 different stories and want to know the truth.

While going through tiktok, a young gentleman was showing that the DPRK did not invade South Korea, rather the US and UN drawer border lines and then accused North Korea (DPRK) of invasion. He uses a book called "The Korean war" by Hugh Deane.

So did the UN and US invade with an excuse, or did the DPRK forces truly invade South Korea to which we came to the aid of them?

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How was Adolf Hitler able to serve in the German Army as an Austrian citizen legally obligated to serve in the Austrian military? Were there any legal consequences to this choice? Did Hitler have to legally immigrate to Germany?

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I read that in around the turn of the century, electric cars were almost as common as gas cars. Is this correct?

Also, if so, why did the internal combustion engine get more popular than the electric motor?

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Was it a strategic decision by the US to delay involvement in WW2 to weaken the Soviet Union?

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Anti-Anne Hutchinson Arguments

I'm currently in a history class that has a lesson based around the retrial of Anne Hutchinson. I am on the Anti-Hutchinson side and am looking for some help on formulating good, accurate, and valid arguments. One of the main topics I have focused on for the debates with the Pro-Hutchinson side is the issue of ministers in puritan society. Puritans rely heavily on ministers and Anne is challenging that. I am not necessarily looking for the answers, but guidance in this situation. TIA!

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What's the history behind the telephone code *69

What were the other 68 or 70+ codes used for?

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How did the Romans deal with inflation? Also, how did they keep management of supply/demand throughout the Empire? (I imagine one could say they had a communist style 'plan-economy' to simplify, right?)

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In 1994, Eric Hobsbawm said that had the U.S.S.R. evolved into the socialist utopia, the victims of Stalin's purges would have been worth it. Did he receive any backlash for this remark?

It's 13:29 if the timestamp doesn't work - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nnd2Pu9NNPw&ab_channel=tw19751

Despite Hobsbawm's life long dedication to communist ideals, this still seems like a extremely contentious remark. How controversial is this opinion?

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(why) were there no Hitler statues in Nazi Germany?

Nazi symbols were ubiquitous in public space in Nazi Germany: Hitler portraits in public buildings, swastikas, memorial statues to events considered remarkable by the Nazis like the 1923 Putsch. There are still some statues around which were set up during the Nazi period (mainly naked men and women with tight butts), but I have never heard of a Hitler statue anywhere. I heard about Hitler busts which were displayed in public buildings, but I have never heard of a statue in a public square.

On the other hand, Stalin had statues built of himself during his lifetime, as well as Salazar apparently and Franco, as well as Mussolini. Were there actually Hitler statues I am not aware of? Were statues planned but never built? Or were statues of Hitler not in-line with Nazi aesthetics/ideology of art?

Edit: My intention is not to equate Hitler with the other people I named. I simply wanted to point out that powerful people building statues of themselves was not uncommon during that time.

2nd edit: I have received messges of people telling me there were indeed Hitler statues, presenting me life-sized busts of his head as evidence, which were displayed indoors. Please not that I am not talking indoor busts but full statues. I feel that busts follow a different art-historical tradition and invoke different associations in propaganda than full body statues in public squares, which is why I would like to seperate busts from (complete) statues. However, if someone can convincingly argue from an art-historical perspective that indoor busts follow the same tradition as outdoor statues and have an interchangeable purpose in propaganda (which I find hard to imagine!), I would by satisfied.

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Have they actually found ancient action figures of gladiators at dig sites?

I saw this claim made on TV Tropes, but it's predictably difficult to find sources, because Google just things I'm looking for modern action figures

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What happened to Nazis after WW2? Did they still have any power in Germany? How long did it take for them to die out?

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What did people think about static shocks before electricity was understood?

With the weather getting cold and dry I wondered what many societies thought about getting those little zaps on their hands when they touched metal or other people before electricity was widely understood.

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Imperial China is famed for its civil service exam, but what kind of questions did it include?

Imperial China is famed for its civil service exam, but what kind of questions did it include? Were they comparable to modern exams? Have many exam papers survived?

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