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In the 1410 campaign which resulted in the battle of Grunwald, why didn't the Livonian branch of the Teutonic Order aid the Prussian branch? Was there some political dissention which prevented this, or was the battle just fought too quickly for the Livonians to organize a campaign?
Besides Day 1 (Christmas) and Day 12 (Epiphany/Kings' Day), do the rest of the 12 Days of Christmas have names? Special qualities for each day? Some reason for lords to leap or maids to milk?
This is yet another question inspired from watching Narcos on Netflix... Why did the DEA assign Steve Murphy as one of the lead investigators on Pablo Escobar when Steve doesn't speak Spanish?
Not to downplay him or anything - the fact that they took down Escobar shows how important he and his contributions were to the manhunt - I'm just curious why the DEA didn't assign more Spanish-speaking agents to such a high-profile case that involved heavily communicating with the locals.
Has there ever been a country that never recovered from an economic recession?
What was the death rate per 1000 in the 13th century?
Can someone verify this Hitler's quote for me?
If I had Gorkhalis as my soldiers, I would've never lost any battles.
I am interested in a 101 on historical, non western-European architecture. (East and Central Asian in particular, but i'll take what i can get.)
What would be a good place to get started on that, are there any good, reliable sources freely available online?