I’m weary of believing that any of these relics are real. The stories of the Knights Templars hoarding these religious artifacts may be true but why haven’t they been found?
Isn‘t there plenty of KT petroglyphs that should have been deciphered by now?
Asking as an American in their 30s.
I'm only recently finding out, before the Holocaust, the US denied refugees that tried to escape Europe.
I am also finding out that the Nazis said America created a good system on how to keep racism in place and drew inspiration from there.
The Battle of Hattin in 1187 was one of the most devastating defeats of the Crusaders. The entire retinue of the Crusader army and cavalry was already exhausted, and almost died of thirst and heat even before the battle began. What happen wasn't even a proper battle, but a massacre of the Crusader force by Saladin's forces. What are the reasons why the Crusader's took the bait from Saladin? Are they not aware that the area near the Horns of Hattin were lacking in water and food provisions? Why didn't they bait Saladin to be the one to battle the Crusaders in any of the garrisons near Jerusalem, that would have caused a Crusader victory in 1187?
Thank you for everyone who will respond to this inquiry. ❤️
What is the difference between Hitler and Mussolini in terms of their temperament and style of exercising power?
How did they handle the minorities, economies, law and regulations, wars? Why was German soldiers used to scare allies even in the last days of war and Italian army was made a joke out of it?
I was just wondering if those nine unknown men story of emperor Ashoka is really true and if it is, then what happened to them in current timeline of modern history and what happened to their legacy. If any of you have some reasonable answer to my question, do answer my query. Were they really existed or it is just a myth?
Im searching for a battle on wich i saw a BANGER video. Im gonna start talk about details i remember. It was a siege on a fort that was on water. The fort had about 3 parts in between were bridges meaning if one was Lost the they could retreat to the other one. There were cannons so something after prime medieval ages. The attackers were ottomans or smth. I remember a disease started because of the water in the attackers camp and the disease killed the ottoman leader. In the end the last part was Lost after a final defender charge in wich the defender leader died. When the ottomans came to the last part where a single defender blown up blackpowder killing more ottomans. (Sorry for bad english Its 11 pm rn)
Of course, corrupt party members would top the list in reality but I meant what was it officially and legally.
Also how does wealth in USSR worked? Like was everyone given equal pay or was there some type of disparity b/w profession and if so, what was most lucrative job a middle class soviet citizen can desire from a purely monetary stand point aside from being politician
And I specifically mean corruption, not other heinous activities. Like, I’m not referring to genocide or slavery or anything like that—I specifically mean ethics violations in abusing the office for personal gain, politically cheating, etc.
This is very specific and I'm not well versed in this decade, or topic, but if a male Catholic priest in 1930's Britain were to hire a single domestic servant, could it have been a maid? Would it have to have been a male employee? If the woman was married, a mother, a child or teen, or elderly, would any of these options be more plausible?
Weird question, I know, however I'm curious. I'm currently trying to design an original character who is a bouncer at a fetish club in 1989, and while she is asexual herself, adorns fetish gear also.
I've been trying to find more information and images on 80s fashion and fetish gear, because I know very little about the scene at the time and what was influencing the sexualities of folks in the 1980s. Given that the goth scene was huge at the time, I can imagine that spikes and leather would have been popular, but I want to hear other people's thoughts.
If anyone has any information or any sources I can check out, I would greatly appreciate it!
I’m currently working on a TTRPG based on an alternate history WW2. I’ve been trying to find weapons for different playstyles but I’m trying to stay away from super experimental weapons. In this alternate history there are some soldiers that are augmented to effectively wield otherwise unwieldy weapons on the move (think shouldering a Tankgewehr with little problem). Anyhow I need help sourcing historically accurate ballistic weapons, any help is greatly appreciated!
after she has given birth to a heir and some spares?
I've seen the statement that it was possible for aristocratic women, including the queen consort to take an extra-marital lover if they've given birth to a number of children their husband was reasonably confident are his.
However, I have a bit of a hard time accepting this information, because Christian Europe was influenced by Roman and Greek patriarchal norms where infidelity on the wife's part was a violation of the patriarch's power, and therefore had to be punished. Raising another man's child was seen as emasculating, for a lack of a better term, so I don't see it being acceptable until the queen has reached menopause.
If it was acceptable for queen consorts to have affairs if she has already given birth to a couple of potential heirs, how many of them in history were able to openly take lovers without being punished?
You can't say "it's because U.S. propaganda paints it that way because it wants minerals." The U.S. has a greater vested interest in regime change in Cuba, yet Cuba is considered relatively moderate as far as Marxist-Leninist states usually go (though still totalitarian, don't get me wrong) and has recently even opened up to LGBT people. North Korea is a dynastic and extremely authoritarian state even in comparison to other Marxist-Leninist states in history. I support lifting the Cuba embargo but would be wary of lifting sanctions on North Korea. So why is North Korea uniquely totalitarian? I'm told it has to do with the Korean War so let's start there.
I am writing a story about Germanic Tribes and the Roman Legions telling it from both povs. One part I keep changing is how I use titles for the Germans. Leaders of a tribe I have worked out were Kings even though I use to think that was a leader of more than one tribe. Chieftains were lower and so on. There is also this big thing on if they used " knight"
At both Western and Eastern fronts. Was it significantly different from WW2 dogfights-focused air warfare? Or it was basically the same? I guess communications were not nearly as good as in WW2, which made mass air raids harder?
I am reading a paper, connecting Job 1:21
,,Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I shall return there.”
to the Egyptian understanding that the deceased are in the goddess‘s womb for the creating of their body, and then rebirthing for the afterlife.
But at times, this paper seems to suggest that the Egyptians literally thought that the coffin to be a literal womb of the goddess, which I think is quite absurd:
"the sarcophagus and/or tomb are described as the womb of the goddess in which the deceased undergoes a rebirth into the blessed afterlife."
"...the entrance into the sarcophagus (and perhaps also into the tomb itself )8 is viewed as an entrance into the mother goddess, who then births the deceased into the afterlife"
These sentence right here could mean that the coffin is literally the goddess's womb, or symbolically so. It is vague.
So, did they Egyptians think the coffin as a literal womb, or symbolic for a womb?
Japanese Meiji restoration era seems more succesful than last few decades of Qing dynasty of china. By the early 1900, Japan was regraded as an industrial modern state with good army. They even won vs Russia. While Chinese Qing empire was never able to bounce back from decline.
Also, can we consider Japanese emperor Meiji as a succesful ruler who defended his nation from western imperialism during colonial era?
I mean how messed up in the head do you have to be that not only are you facilitating the deaths of millions of people, but actually get to visit them in these camps dangerously malnourished and somehow not feel bad about it? I mean the cognitive disonance or whatever is off the charts.
When you look at old maps of the Holy Roman Empire, especially those during the medieval period, it looks so fragmented like a patchwork of jigsaw puzzles that you almost run out of color to distinguish each piece.
How exactly did it's (central) rulers maintained control over so many (and I assume contending) states with each having their own sets of ruling nobilities for so long.
https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1945v06/d369
This is a referendum going over potential surrender terms for Japan. Dated late 1944.
It treats Hokkaido as an occupied territory, and suggests Japanese civilians and troops must be evacuated from the island. I have no idea why they thought this was something worth doing, but I guess it's possible the Americans considered giving the island back to the native population (Ainu). Or maybe Soviet intervention, though around this time it was unclear if the Russians would even join. Just a few months later, though, in another referendum, it is suggested "Hokkaido" be removed from the terms.
It kind of struck me that Hokkaido was (still is) a breadbasket for Japan. Perhaps the Americans thought separating Hokkaido from Japan would be too taxing on Japan's food situation? I doubt America wanted a perpetually starving Japan (even if the US in 1944\~1945 didn't want a strong Japan again), and helping Japan do massive land reclamation projects to make up for the loss of farmland the size of the Netherlands doesn't strike me as a particularly good idea. It's kind of what happened in North and South Korea due to each Korea being cut off from the other's resources and farmland.
Unfortunately I don't think this is a well discussed aspect in historiography. The only expert I've managed to talk to dismissed the whole question as not having been discussed much back then. I wonder if anyone has covered this in a book/research paper/etc.