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Is this a Crusader coin or an imitation Spanish Cob? [closed]
Someone gave me this coin, any idea what it is?
Is this a Crusader coin or an imitation Spanish Cob?
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Does the mn (Y5) hieroglyph represent a Senet or Mehen board?
I am currently learning to read Egyptian hieroglyphs and have come across a contradiction that I am struggling to resolve.
According to Ilona Regulski from the British Museum, as per this video, the ...
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Did „superannuated“ Athenian men retain full rights?
My understanding has always been that old Athenian men retained their right to participate in the popular assembly and jurys. Aristoteles, when trying to define the citizens in Politics Book 3, is ...
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What % of the Roman military budget was paid by the silk tax?
Somewhere in my research, I have a quote that compares the revenue collected from the tax on imported silk to the outlay for Imperial legions (circa 98 CE). (I have not included the quote because my ...
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What's the best way to transcribe 19th century, English, Urdu, Arabic, etc.?
For my PhD project, I'm processing a large amount of handwritten text from the mid to late 19th century from one person. I'm struggling with his handwriting in English.
Although I'm still learning ...
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How come an FBI agent like Robert Hanssen had access to spy lists?
Just watched the movie Breach on the flushing-out of the FBI spy, Robert Hanssen.
I just don't get two things:
How did Hanssen have access to lists of spies and other top-secret information like ...
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Why did V. D. Sarvarkar support the British war effort in World War II?
The Indian politician and activist Vinayak Damodar Savarkar (1883-1966) had, pre-WW2, advocated obtaining Indian independence from the UK, including through violent means. This can be seen in his ...
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Was Bob Dylan's "Hurricane" accurate in how it described the feelings of black people on the Reuben "Hurricane" Carter" case?
"Hurricane" is, of course, a song Bob Dylan wrote about the case of Reuben "Hurricane" Carter, a boxer who was falsely convicted of a triple murder. I have had the lyrics to the ...
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Are there any known English peers or aristocrats in poverty with the increasing number of members of the aristocracy? [closed]
With the increasing number of members of the English aristocracy is it likely that some of these peers live in poverty today - are there any such examples?
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What force, what unit and what rank is this individual?
I am trying to match this pic to a relative, but can anyone tell me what force, what unit and what rank he is?
It is thought that this is a grand uncle of mine, killed in Quetta (then India) in 1919....
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Why did Germany allow and help introduce the Deutsche Mark to Montenegro?
On the Dutch Wikipedia article on the Deutsche Mark, it says (without citation):
Als reactie op hyperinflatie en prijsstijgingen in Servië voerde Montenegro op 2 november 1999, in samenwerking met de ...
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Favorinus the famed orator is proclaimed one of the most famous congenital eunuchs to have lived. Was he really a congenital or is it just fiction?
I have a novel coming out about a 6th-century B.C. Ethiopian eunuch, and while researching eunuchs, I ran across a man named Favorinus, a 2nd-century orator famed in Athens and Rome. Wikipedia calls ...
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Did officers of the army of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia carry revolvers? Did Četniks' officers carry them by the end of the WWII?
At the beginning of "To noc sem jo videl" by Drago Jančar it is stated that officers of Četniks formations detained at Palmanova were allowed to carry personal arms for some time, the exact ...
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What might explain an army's sudden disappearance? [closed]
We've all recently witnessed how the Assad regime collapsed in just about 12 days after 14 years of war, despite having at least 200,000 soldiers and being fully equipped with all types of weapons. ...
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Did any stateless societies have writing? [closed]
Ignoring very recent stateless societies (such as the one that existed for a time during the Spanish Civil War), were there any stateless societies that had writing?
In The Art of Not Being Governed, ...
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Was there a widespread attempt to pardon or commute sentences of criminals convicted the Tokyo Trials as there was in the Nuremberg Trials? [closed]
Post WW2, the Allied Occupation of Germany occurred. Western Germany saw the commencement of the Nuremberg Trials. On the other side of the globe, were the Tokyo Trials.
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When did Epicureanism and Sybaritism become conflated?
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As I understand it, for Epicurus, a happy life required ataraxía (ἀταραξία), friendship, freedom and the time and tranquility to examine one's life. However, over the ...
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At what point did Rome truly become an empire? [closed]
According to Wikipedia,
The history of the Roman Empire covers the history of ancient Rome from the traditional end of the Roman Republic in 27 BC until the abdication of Romulus Augustulus in AD 476 ...
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Was immigration limited to the Volksdeutsche during the Third Reich?
The Volksdeutsche were ethnic German populations living in Greater Europe, and other parts of the world (but in this context we're mainly discussing European Volksdeutsche population). One of Hitler's ...
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Was there an ancient Greek proverb "Money is people", what did it mean, and where did it come from?
Xu Jin (Empire of Silver, 2021 English translation by Stacy Mosher, Yale University Press):
Money is people.
Ancient Greek proverb
(Added in response to Ne Mo's accusation that I have failed to ...
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Did the Russian Empire promote anti-Semitism to distract from failings of the state?
When I was studying history in school, my textbook offhandedly mentioned that the Russian Government incited anti-Jewish pogroms in 1892 to shift blame away from the Government's failed handling of ...
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Why did King Naresuan and his younger brother Prince (later King) Ekathosarot have a good relationship?
From what I’ve read about Thai/Ayutthaya history, it looks like almost everyone is out for blood trying to stake their claim to the throne. I was watching the Thai lakorn/historical drama Empress of ...
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Has a president or an administration ever been found in contempt of the Supreme Court?
When it comes to utter disregard of the Supreme Court, is there any precedent for an administration being found in contempt, or the president of the United of States being found in contempt of the ...
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How did people remain unaware of Nazi Concentration Camps when they were located within villages/townships in Germany?
Before delving into WW2 History, I used to think that Concentration Camps for the most part were either in Occupied Poland or Ukraine, to keep it away from the German population and make it easier to ...
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How likely is it that ancient Israelites of 1000 BCE had oral historical traditions dating back to 1500 BCE?
I am trying to research how likely it is that ancient Israelites of approximately 1000 BCE had oral historical traditions describing events as early as 1500 BCE.
I have gathered some relevant pieces ...
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Why turn brass sheets into rolls?
Is it to ease transportation? I assume so at first, but i ask anyway maybe its not.
I am not a smith so sorry if its a common knowledge regarding this brass method.
The description refers to the job ...
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What is the origin of “The Life and Times” as a phrase in biography titles?
“The Life and Times of…” is a common title for biographies with a historical scope. When did the phrase become popular or standard?
From Google Books, I found “The Life of Times of Frederick Reynolds” ...
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How did the Romans ram the casement walls of Masada when, according to Josephus, they were 18ft high, 12ft wide, and made of stone?
The Roman siege ramp at Masada was 25 degrees which is pretty steep. They were using a ram that they either dragged up the slope, or transported in pieces in place, all the while under fire from the ...
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What can be inferred about Nanni’s status?
What can reasonably be inferred about the socioeconomic status of Nanni, the author of the most famous complaint tablet to Ea-Nasir?
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What evidence supports Rolf Rosenthal’s claim that he helped prisoners?
Rolf Rosenthal was a medical doctor in a Nazi camp, who claimed that he helped prisoners in the concentration camps. Rosenthal was considered unreliable and faced disciplinary action within the Nazi ...
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Are there any documented cases where Percival Treite committed any procedures that led to death?
Percival Treite was a researcher and lecturer of medicine and a medical doctor at the Ravensbrück concentration camp.
After the war he was tried for crimes against humanity and sentenced to death, but ...
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What is the name of the building at this location in Des Moines Iowa?
I am trying to find the name of a building in Des Moines, Iowa. It is at 22 SW 9th street and I am trying to find history on it. The west side has some writing on it and from what I can read it says
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Found this in Oklahoma is it a Paleo artifact?
I found this stone up on a mountain over looking Lake Sardis in Oklahoma.
There was many artifacts looking rocks this is just one of many I collected up there on the mountain.
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When did China's monopoly on silk end?
BYU Stowaway Magazine says it ended in 552:
China's exclusive access to silk came to an abrupt end in the year 552 AD when the Byzantine emperor Justinian sent two monks into the country to steal ...
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Did loss of the Soviet support play a role in PLO decision to negotiate with Israel?
Democratization in Eastern Europe in late 1980s was largely enabled by Gorbachev withdrawing Soviet support for the Communist regimes (in some cases this literally involved withdrawing Soviet troops, ...
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Why does this card contain the phrase "Bat Card"?
This card is related to the revolution in Cronstadt Island during the Russian civil war. In this footage you can read Bat Card ( although it is written in Russian ).
Does anybody know why such a name ...
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How did USSR's Gosplan enforce fixed prices?
Госплан (State Committee on Prices and Material and Technical Supply) was USSR's central planning agency that fixed prices. How exactly did the prices it determined trickle down to local retailers? ...
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How did USSR's Gosplan enforce fixed prices? [duplicate]
Госплан (State Committee on Prices and Material and Technical Supply) was USSR's central planning agency that fixed prices. How exactly did the prices it determined trickle down to local retailers? ...
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How was wine made in first-century Galilee and surrounding regions? [closed]
In Galilee and surrounding regions in the first century AD, how was wine made?
If it was the same as in the rest of the Empire, than an answer would just explain how wine was made in the first-century ...
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How would children address adults, who aren't their parents, in ancient Greece?
Besides relatives and royalty, how would children address adults who aren't their parents? Mr. and Mrs. obviously don't work out because "last names" tended to be "of Athens," &...
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Why wasn't slavery mentioned more in Confederate songs?
The leaders of the CSA repeatedly brought up slavery as the reason for secession and declared the institution the 'cornerstone' of their nation.
And despite claims that ordinary confederate soldiers ...
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How much did a telegram cost between Belgium and New York in the early 1960s?
I am trying to figure out how relatively expensive it was for Rwandan students in Belgium to send petitions to the United Nations Trusteeship Council as telegrams. Here is an example of one
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Did Jules Verne not know how high the Rockies are?
In From the Earth to the Moon (Jules Verne, 1865), the Gun Club is trying to find a high-elevation location for a massive telescope to track the projectile it's sending to the Moon.
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Can we use the logic of the Reciprocal Tariff Calculations to derive past non-tariff barriers? [closed]
According to The Office of the United States Trade Representative persistent trade deficits are due to a combination of tariff and non-tariff factors that prevent trade from balancing. They then use ...
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Besides Ireland what other neutral countries, if any, sent condolences to Germany after Hitler's suicide?
Ireland's PM I believe expressed condolences via the German embassy after Hitler's suicide. While this has been explained as pro forma, it has been brought up many times since WW2.
I found a photo of ...
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How significant of a role did Japanese ronin mercenaries play in Siam/Ayutthaya's military doctrine?
Towards the end of Japan’s Sengoku Jidai and during the early Edo Period, a decent number of ronin/former samurai left Japan seeking fame, fortune, and/or adventure overseas. A lot of these ronin ...
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Where can I find the London Liverpool Street Train Timetable for 1915?
I'm looking for the time of a train departure from London Liverpool Street to Ipswich in May 1915. Did a train depart from LLS around 09.15 am?
Perhaps someone with an old 1915 copy of Bradshaws could ...
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How did the colonial authorities and settlers feel about pirate activity during the Golden Age of Piracy?
Pirates are often portrayed as universally hated villains, but I'm curious about the nuances of how they were perceived in the Golden Age of Piracy. Specifically, how did colonial authorities and ...
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Where did the Elkton Plan gets its name?
The Elkton Plan was the strategy the Allies used in the Pacific in WW2 to reduce the major Japanese base in Rabaul. It was implemented in the field via Operation Cartwheel, as I understand. But who or ...
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What instruments did the first dashboard include?
The dashboard of a car takes its name from the eponymous piece of wood on a stagecoach; the same concept eventually gave its name to a software design pattern showing a row of data readouts.
But what ...
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