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In school, we learned about Chinese immigrants who came to the US in mid to late 1800s to work on the continental railroad.
Was there any (significant) immigration surges from Korea at this same time period? Why or why not?
I feel like I've been taught a lot about the role of Chinese immigrants in building up the nation, but nothing about Korean people.
Thank you in advance for your time and knowledge!
I noticed in a lot of entertainment pertaining to WWII ie Band of Brothers or in some video games the troops would call someone ‘Mac.’ Was there first hand accounts of troops calling each other this or was it just inserted just because? Also what is the significance behind the nickname ?
The third draft registration for WW1 was in September 1918. How long was training, and did they see combat? If it helps I specifically have Mass. in mind.
So I have a very specific question about the Holocaust/Nazi war crimes: in addition to the Jews and Roma killed, if we factor in all those killed along racial and eugenics lines (Poles, Slavs, disabled people, gay people, etc) but exclude those killed for political reasons (communists, dissidents, Jehovah’s Wittnesses, etc), what would the final death toll be?
The reason I’m curious about such specific parameters is that I’m wondering if we can pin an approximate dearh toll specifically to the racist and eugenic aspects of the fascist ideology which National Socialism was, while excluding those deaths that - while undeniably horrific - could have happened under practically any political system.
In 1346, the Danyers-Legh family (later of Lyme Hall, Cheshire) were awarded an annual income of 40 marks; roughly how much would this have been worth at the time?
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What is a "do" in reference to the gender of a slave girl in the 1800's?
Why did King Charles XII spend so much time in the Ottoman empire after the battle of Poltava? I know that he was injured, but he spent more than a few years in exile. Surely he wasn't hurt badly enough that he needed that much time to recover?
Did the "Shogun must be a Minamoto" have any basis at all?I understand that while it's uncommon for a non-Minamoto to actually become a Shogun,the Court just handed out the position to Oda Nobunaga like it was nothing. Also historically all Shogun were Minamoto because of the circumstances (one claimed the bloodline for prestige,one formely were part of the old Shogunate) not a Minamoto could be a Shogun. Or was it more like the case with the Kwampaku position where the 5 Families hold it too long it became a tradition?
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I think it is Prussia but I am not sure
What happened to the French army after the fall of France in WWII? Did they go back home or were they POWs?
Did the term ‘Sideburns’ come about in reference to American Civil War General Ambrose Burnside?
How much did king Christian IV of Denmark pay to ransom the Icelandic villagers who had been kidnapped by Ottoman pirates in 1627?
I'm looking for the name of 2 empires, one was an empire that rushed ahead of itself and what it could control, causing it to collapse, and the other being an empire that was a large trading empire (not Portugal or Phoenicia)
What was the economic relationship between Maxim/Vickers company and Deutsche Waffen und Munitionsfabriken (DWM) before and during WW1?
In other words, did DWM pay royalties or other fees to the Vickers for producing machine guns before WW1 and did they stop paying after the war was declared?
Anyone know the date in which the first photo from the link was taken? - https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/punt-gun-1910-1920/
Do you think it's fair to compare the holodomor and other deaths under stalin, the holocaust, and the great leap forward?
I mean they're deaths in high number and the result of totalitarian regimes, but are those death really comparable?
Can someone recommend a good book on South American history from 1700-1900?
The US sentencing commision in said about mandatory minimums in 1991 "while the trend toward mandatory minimums in the states was gradual, by 1983, 49 of the 50 states had passed such provisions." Does anyone one the one US state without mandatory minimums in 1983?
I'm trying to learn more about the Wali Sanga or nine saints who spread Islam in the Indonesian archipelago. I know that they are semi-mythological, I'm wondering if there's a book or journal article that gives a good overview about what historical facts are known about them?
I remember reading in Shogun that 1600s-era Japanese peasants used human manure for fertilizer; do we know if this is true, and is it still practiced anywhere?
I just visited Florence and would love to get to know more about the Medici family. I studied history so I'm looking for a good book that isn't too 'popular history'. I saw there are books by Hollingsworth, Hibbert, Parks and Strathern, does anyone know any of these and could recommend some? Thank you!
When did countries first start controlling their borders from individual travellers, what we would now think of as customs at a border crossing?
What is the origin of using a "~" symbol to mean "approximately"?