According to Theo Van Gogh, what did vincent say in his final moments and what does Theo believe happened to Vincent that led to his death?

How much footage is there of the D-Day landings? Throughout my searches on /combatfootage I've found maybe 3 full minutes of footage and most of that is from the support/landing ships POV and aftermath of the securing of the beach head. There is one really famous clip of some soldiers running up the beach as one of them gets hit by machine gun fire but that is the most "nsfl" footage i've ever found and it is only a couple seconds long.

I guess the broader question would be, where can I find more uncut footage for specific battles in WW2 such as D-Day? Are there archives that can be accessed?

Can anyone help me remember the name of this Ancient World Civ battle?

I remember my teacher talking about this battle during my 7th grade Ancient World Civilizations class and I can’t remember the name of it. I only remember the battle strategy used by one of the sides: they had built a low wall (maybe a couple feet high, just enough to be able to climb over) using bags or dirt or something. So when they were taking time climbing over, it gave the other side enough time to stab them before they made it. The bodies would pile up on the wall, making it progressively taller and harder to get over.

These are the details I know for sure. Here are details that I think might be part of it, but am unsure of:

• a battle possibly involving the Spartans/Athens
• the side climbing over lost badly, with only one remaining survivor (who survived due to being buried and hidden under his dead buddies)

Feel free to ask me anything and I can try my best to answer in the comments. Bear with me, though, as 7th grade was 7 years ago for me lol.

Good books or reads on ancient Mesopotanian agriculture? Mostly interested in the irrigation. Broad time range but anywhere from the Ubaid culture to Sargon.

How long is Triumph of the Will? I'm trying to educate myself on the rise of the Nazis and the events leading to the Holocaust and I decided I wanted to see Triumph of the Will (1935), but I encountered a problem. Wikipedia, and many other sources, say the movie is 114 minutes old. However, all of the versions I could find online of the movie (such as this) are only 104 minutes old. What are the other 10 minutes? Thanks in advance.

Who first said "treason is a matter of dates"

I had always thought it was Talleyrand, but I've also seen it now attributed to Cardinal Richelieu, Napoleon and Dumas

Were there functional alternatives to leather say... 1,000 years ago? If so, what were they?

Was Balkh ever a bigger city than Kabul? If so, what was its peak and when did it start to decline? Would it be correct to say that due to Kabul's location as gateway to India, it always remained prominent (kinda like Istanbul)?

There is a bust in the Vatican's Chiaramonti Museum (Exhibit 14, Section XXIII) that is hypotheised* to be Appius Claudius Caecus. Do any Ancient Rome experts here know where this bust originated?

* There are two pictures of it at the top of this page.

Standford published a list of offensive language recently. They claim that "hip hip hooray" is offensive, as Germans used it as a rallying cry to hunt down Jews. Can anyone speak to the validity of this claim?

"This term was used by German citizens during the Holocaust as a rallying cry when they would hunt down Jewish citizens living in segregated neighborhoods."

How did 'entrée' become the American term for the main course of a meal, when the original meaning of the word is appetizer?

Back in the days pre-widespread adoption of cars in America how common would it have been for people to own a horse? Cause my thoughts are of the stories of the American revolution where it sounds like everybody owned at least 1 but thats most likely tainted by the fact that most of those stories are about the founding fathers who were mostly well off.

princeps or emperor?

hi, i have a question about the term „princeps“ which was used as a title for example augustus/octavian. he didn’t name himself emperor but he is called the first emperor of rome. my question now: when was the term of emperor used first (did it start with tiberius?) and was the term princeps replaced? is emperor maybe even only the modern naming? thanks in advance!

Was Horthy the last case of an officer in naval uniform on horseback or have there been any more recent cases? What about airmen?

This isn't a 'simple' question it's just a question for /u/Georgy_K_Zhukov specifically.

Have you read the Yale Annals of Communism series? What did you think about it? I've read a lot of the stuff you wrote about Zhukov and Stalin and want to know what you thought about it. I found Getty's work very enlightening. I feel like just based on how you write about Stalin I assume you disagree with some of the major conclusions if you've read the series, but I don't know what your major disagreements are.

Did feudal/early modern Japan have a history/custom of ransoming captives? E.g. bandits ransoming high value individuals they might have kidnapped/otherwise captured, or samurai/daimyo families paying for valuable members who were captured in battle.

I've heard of pilgrimage tattoos, with a tattoo artist still active in Jerusalem using a thousand year old design.

Were pilgrimage actually a thing, were they common in other holy sites beyond Jerusalem? Like the several places in Europe associated with saints.

And is there a codex with images of the tattoos?

Between 1453 and the Balkan wars & WWI, Was Constantinople ever threatened directly by attack and siege again?

When did Troy become a lost city? Or I guess more specifically, did the romans living in Troy IX know they were living in the city from the Iliad?

Medieval England or France during the 1100s or 1200s: Can you be sworn to a Lord but not to the Monarch? Like if someone is a Lord and has Knights under them, are their vassals also technically sworn to the reigning monarch too?

By what metrics do historians measure the concept of a "standing army"?

Especially in regards to the (high) medieval period with it "not having standing armies?"

This question springs up from my readings of the Holy Roman Empire, particularly in the Hohenstaufen period. It's marked how the feudal army is made up of lords performing their required military services with retinues and with the Emperors filling out the rest with mercenaries when on campaign.

But also the fact that the Emperor, both in his capacity as Duke of Swabia and as Emperor, has several castles with garrisons of soldiers lead by castellans, all of which are full time soldiers on the payroll of their lord, in both Germany and Italy across the empire.

Collectively, these several hundred to a few thousand men would be a standing army in my mind.

I've often read that child mortality was about 50% on world average until recent centuries. I have a few questions on this:

• Does the 50% include stillbirths?
• Until what age is "child" referring to?
• How accurate is that statistic?

A teacher I had (in middle school) once told me something like "the Akkadian Empire was the first true empire, and so they did not know how to manage it. It collapsed because Sargon only ruled one territory at a time by traveling between cities throughout the year."

Now I'm sure that, at best, is a gross oversimplification. But, it is true that rulers sometimes managed their domain by traveling. Even now in the US there are traveling judges that change seats, including State Justices. Is there a book that touches on the history of traveling governments or rulers?

When epidurals and other methods of reducing pain in childbirth started to become common in the Christian world, were there any religious objections to their use based on the passage in genesis where God punishes women by making childbirth painful?

Were Greek and Roman gods contemporarily referred to using the titles we use now? For example would Greeks use the term “God of thunder” to refer to Zeus?

I’m really interested in lost films. What resources should I read to learn more about firsthand accounts after the loss? Particularly actors, directors, basically anyone involved in the filmmaking process what they thought about actual or potential losses of their work.

Is there also any good resources about how prints of lost films came to be discovered? Especially the ones found in barns or attics, how might they have come to end up there as opposed to a more “official” way like a private collector’s copy?

YouTube Series “Extra History” says in their episodes about Bismarck that he didn’t attend any classes while in law school and that he only showed for the last exams, passed and that was enough to get his degree, is this true?

I've heard a revisionist claim that Lao Tzu was actually the Buddha partly because Daoism contains "matriarchical, egalitarian [elements] and a...contemplation of abstract and ethereal ideals...absent in traditional, hegemonic Chinese thought [sic]". Has this claim been taken seriously by any historian? What errors are commited when Lao Tzu (if he was a singular individual) is conflated with the Indian Gautama?

Who/which dynasty is the last direct descendants of Pharaoh Narmer/Memes?

Which battle of the American civil war had the most casualties as a proportion of the size of the forces involved?

Did people realise at the time that the Magellan voyage lost/gained a day, by crossing the future international date line?

What are some key strategies that soviet forces adopted and used in the defense of cities ex Leningrad and especially Stalingrad? (I’m making a map in a ww2 game I play and I’m trying to make soviet ambush and or defensive positions as accurate as possible meaning how they’d set up tank traps or AT guns etc)

In New York City, does Verizon use the same tunnels that NY Telephone built in the 1920s to lay Fios cable?

"I should drink more water and less wine. This is coming out as scabs and wax." - Alucard, on his piss.

I've never heard the term scabs and wax, and never heard wax used as a sign of ill health. Is there historical usage of this phrase or the word wax in a similar context?

I am looking for a good explanation of the Eugene Scribe-style "well-made play", with specifics/examples. I keep reading about them in theater histories but the explanation is always vague and about effects but not what the actual formula is or how it is written. It's always like "keep the audience in suspense" and the scene a faire/"obligatory scene" which is defined as "the scene the audience wants to see" which is totally unhelpful for understanding what it actually is. People complain of the rigidity of the formula, and Scribe wrote 500! plays with it, so I would think that formula could be easily described, but I haven't found it yet. Can anyone point me in the direction of a breakdown of the formula?

I’ve read both that the Saturnalia festival and the Sol Invictus festival was turned into Christmas. Which one was it?

What tribe of native Hawaiians inhabited Oahu before Kamehameha conquered the island?

Hellelistic era: A head of a former Macedonian Satrap was used as a prop? I cant find the source of this anymore and i cant even remeber if this is accurate. Any help is welcome.

After Germany surrendered in the Second World War, were any troops diverted from Europe to the Pacific theater?

Is there any good docos on the 1936 Olympics?

During World War One, were there any nations that conscripted single fathers?

Is there any credible evidence for structures such as the Great Pyramid and the Spynx being possibly older than what we are told currently?