"The rest camp Mittwerda in Silesia" aka the gas chamber of Ravensbrück

http://holocaustcontroversies.blogspot.com/2019/09/the-rest-camp-mittwerda-in-silesia-aka.html

Exposing a Holocaust denial argument.

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I recently started a new job doing research into obscure sites of relevance to Jewish history. In the process, I have learned that there are very few reputable sources on topics such as non-extant synagogues in minor Polish cities. It's really only in the past week that I have truly come to appreciate how awesome libraries are. One in the city where I live has a huge Jewish division containing just about anything I could have asked for.

Now if only I could read Yiddish...

Some of the books in the reading list are crazy expensive. I didn't realise trying to research a specific topic could run up such a high price.

Wondering about a confirming a tentative etymology of Salyes (Salues), traditionally considered as derivated from a root meaning "salt" either in Celtic or in "Ligurian".

Giving what we know from Ligurian is extremely limited, to the point its existence isn't certain, and assuming a Gaulish character of at least most of the important Celto-Ligurian peoples, we could consider salo/a for salt, or sali/a for salty.

Salo/a is, in my opinion, rather problematic in this case, considering what we know of Gaulish : -es might probably be a termination rather than a word, and Nominative Plural would give something along the line of Saloi or Salas. Of course, there's always the possibility of dialectal changes or archaisms, but the Gallo-Greek epigraphy (essentially from the Celto-Ligurian region) doesn't seem to go this way.

Sali/a for salty opens maybe more room : from what we know of cases for cases in -i- in Gaulish (which is arguably not much) a NPl would look a bit like this Sal-īs, but from a previous -ēs (Gallo-Greek epigraphy recording it as an -EIC to mark the long I; and Latin tended as well to record -īs as -es (as in Allobroges)
We could tentatively consider Salyes as the "Salted", the "Salty" people; even if the -i- is a certain problem, giving that it never gives a -u- in Gaulish.
A second look at the use of Y in greek might be useful there, but as said, -EIS was used for the long -i in Gallo-Greek : this alone makes be cautious, but there's room for accepting Salyes as being "salty".

The traditional meaning is attributed to this people role into salt production, but I don't think this is obvious : it's true the Rhone Delta became an important place for salt production thanks to salty marshes, but was it that important in the Vth to IInd centuries, critically as the "core" of Salyes seems to rather be in the foothills and the main salines being in a relatively peripheral area?

Maybe "Salty" could be a reference to the Salyes geographical position, being the closest to the sea of all Celto-Ligurian peoples. An etymology based on geographic location would have the benefit being much more present in Gaulish ethnoyms, in my opinion. Thoughts?

I read elsewhere on an older thread in this sub that Pompeii in ancient Rome was the "Vegas of Rome". Could anyone elaborate on this comparison? Thanks!

I submitted this question a couple days ago and it got downvoted by 50% for some reason:

In the Cuban wars of independence, why did the creole rebels support anti-slavery and enlist Afro-Cuban soldiers when large numbers of Cuban whites profited from slavery, believed blacks were inferior to whites, and feared slave revolts?

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Hello guys, I have a couple of short, silly questions that I can't find the answers to in my civilian Googling. I'm a fiction writer and I am just wondering two things about English society over the past 100 or so years. If this isn't the right place, please let me know where is!

1. When did people start calling each other by their first name? I know it was once common for everyone except family members to call you by your last name. I have read autobiographies of Baby Boomer celebrities where they seem to be calling each other by their last names at school in the 50s, but at some point in the next 50 years, we started calling our peers by their first names.

2. In private, have people always sworn? I have found basically no swearing in any Victorian literature, but I was wondering if that's because it was considered indecent to do to an audience, rather than behind closed doors? Would Dickens for example, or any middle class Victorian person, tell someone to fuck off if the occasion called for it?

How accurate is "The Accused Kings"?

hi i want to learn more and all i can about The Soda Fountain/ Retro American Diners.
The Soda Fountain/ Retro American Diners, approx in the 1950s. where did the style of it come from, the style of: for the black and white checker board floor, neon lights, walls filled, the use of bright colors like pink of blue?
Is there more to this then what we generally know? I am posting here instead of questions cause i don't know if this is an appropriate question to ask and i don't know the exact location besides throughout America. Thanks.