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Were royal Inca known (or suspected) to suffer deleterious effects of inbreeding like the Habsburgs were? Were there any less-prominent royal houses that reached a Charles II level of inbreeding?
When was depression first recognized as a real medical condition? What were first attempts to treat it like?
Saddam Hussein challenged GW Bush to a duel in 2002, as an alternative to war (the duel didn't happen in case anyone was wondering).
But has a duel between heads of state instead of a war happened since, say, the beginning of the Renaissance era?
Do we know roughly how many Jews emigrated Germany, or Europe, immediately prior to WWII?
What was an operative house circa early 20th century (1908-10)? In looking into some family history, I saw in an old directory in New England (Manchester NH) that a family members profession was 'operative house' – is that like a co-op?
Hi there, my girlfriend and I are trying to figure out who/what/where this image is portraying. Any help is appreciated! Thank you!
Why is the "the" in the Bronx?
Did the americans consider using chemical weapons at two iwo jima?
Were the (Byzantine) Iconoclasts opposed to veneration of saints as such, or just to veneration of icons?
Are there any good, definitive biographies of Emperor Puyi of China in English?
Did walls really fully surround cities in the I want to say medieval to early modern era? I've heard manning walls over large stretches was prohibitively cost-expensive? Or is it that it was only done in particularly profitable/important cities such as vienna or istanbul/constantinople?
Not exactly a question but there's an error message on your libsyn/podcast page. Fatal error: Call to a member function getDestination() on null in /www/libsyn/library4/Libsyn/Item.php on line 126 If someone of you could fix that it would be nice, I thought I'd bring some attention to it
What kind of quality, and colours of clothing would have been available to the average (non-noble) citizen during the Edo Period?
Is Stephen Pollington a respected/reliable Anglo-Saxon historian?
In the movie "Fury" the US tank commander says not to surrender to the SS, because they will shoot them. I am aware of isolated instances of this, but did this happen in general?
Why do we call so many countries a name that is different from the one that they call themselves?
How can an adult "learn history?"
Are there a few books, or audiobooks, one could read / listen to, which would give a person some grounding in the great sweep of world history, especially of the Western world?
...preferably by authors who aren't trying to advance a particular political perspective.
Thanks, historians!
Doing ancestral research, and I have found an ancestor who lists Wrebac or Warbac, Austria as his birth place in 1883. The documents are from 1908 and 1918, listing the two variations on spelling. In looking at maps of the ever changing border of Austria at that time, it includes my known ancestral lands of Serbia and Croatia, but I've can't find Wrebac/Warbac or anything close.
The constantly changing borders of these countries plus added translation errors due to the Cyrillic alphabet makes finding these villages challenging, but this one has me stumped. I'm hoping someone here can point me to the right place on the map.
What would the Ancient Greeks call the City of Rome?
I know that they would call the Romans themselves Romanoi, but would there be a translation for the City of Rome itself? Would it be something like Romanopolis or the like? Same with Ostia, the main port. Ostiapolis?
Is there a good or standard critical collection of Lenin's writings? I am not looking for a complete collection (which would go tens of volumes), but something like the Tucker's Marx-Engels Reader with ideally an introduction similar to Hobsbawm's one for Verso's Communist Manifesto.
Is there any surviving record of what exactly was said in the Valladolid Debate in 1550?
Does anyone know how to obtain the missing ASIO pages for Katharine Susannah Prichard? Given by the British spies.
