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Did the Ottoman Empire have a surge in great literary works in the mid- to late-19th century like Russia (i.e. Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoyevsky), Britain (i.e. Charles Dickens), and the U.S. (i.e. Nathaniel Hawthorne and Mark Twain) had? If so, what are some of the most notable works? If not, what were Ottomans reading for fun during this time? Were they reading novels from other countries?
In Russia, a lot of places (towns/city sized "places") were renamed by the Soviet Union. If I have a pre-Soviet work that makes reference to a place I can't find any information on, how would I go about finding the place?
This was during the tsardom of Nicholas II, the place was Kassanof (alternatively Kassanap, Kassanaf, Kassanop -- the handwriting wasn't too clear), in "Russia". I wouldn't be surprised if it was in the Pale of Settlement due to the nature of what I'm looking at, but it could be elsewhere. The document is a naturalization paper for a Russian immigrant born 1872 in "Kassanof", naturalized in Boston in 1905.
Read the other day that the Venetians had the idea of proposing a Suez canal to the Mamluks around 1500 once they learned of Vasco de Gama's voyage. Presumably this would have been technologically impossible?
I made this into its own thread, but nothing came of it:
Where can I find a complete English translation of Sima Qian's "Shiji," or "Records of the Grand Historian" online?
What did Gavrilo Princip and his group actually hope to achieve, by killing Franz Ferdinand? He's been called both a serb and a yugoslav nationalist, but neither of those would necessarily come to fruition by assasinating the archduke?
Posted this as a follow-up a few weeks ago:
I've read that William Buckley said something along the lines of "We have kooks and they have kooks, but there are more kooks on our side". Did he actually say that?
u/elev57 was able to answer the other half of my question, who the right-wing kooks were, but could not speak to the quote's provenance.
Why did the ancient Romans and Greeks think wearing pants was savage? Didn't their legs ever get cold?
/u/jhorsti, to answer your question, it is the housing for the AN/APS-15 search radar.
See: "PBM Mariner in Action" by Bob Smith
How did people (civilians back home, not soldiers in the field) celebrate winning a war in the days and weeks immediately following a victory?
I'm mostly interested in visual descriptions that would allow one to relate (pictures, newspaper articles, etc.), thus no need for a long explanation. But if someone has more they would like to say, I can repost this as a full question.
I'm specifically curious about the 20th century, particularly about WWI and WWII (but answers about other conflicts of that era would also be welcome).
/u/JW8790, in response to your question here, yes, Patton read Rommel's "Infantry Attacks", but the "Magnificent bastard!" line doesn't seem to be attested to, having checked a few works. The closest I've found, which may have been the inspiration for the line, comes from Patton's "memoir" (really a collection of excerpts from his diaries assembled and published after his death) "War as I Knew It", where he writes the following:
I woke up at 0300 on the morning of November 8, 1944, and it was raining very hard. I tried to go to sleep, but finding it impossible, got up and started to read Rommel's book, Infantry Attacks. By chance I turned to a chapter describing a fight in the rain in September, 1914. This was very reassuring because I felt that if the Germans could do it I could.
Can anyone read this letter from ww1? I cant read some of it :/ thanks https://imgur.com/tpAk7L2
Did the Macedonian expedition to India by Alexander the Great had any aftermath (culturally or otherwise)?