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One of the most horrific events in modern humanity was WWI and many people wrote about their experiences. Are you familiar with Hardcore History and Dan Carlin? He does long form podcasts that are right up your alley. The episodes I'll direct you towards are called Blueprint for Armageddon. In these episodes you'll hear countless, first hand accounts of just how unimaginable the horror of this war was to the individual and groups. It is an emotional roller-coaster and I know of you stick with the podcast you'll hear more than you want about how fucking insane this ordeal was. If you're more of a book reader, then I highly suggest Now It Can Be Told by Sir Philip Gibbs. He was an official British reporter for World War I and his book covers exactly what you want to know.

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Robert Hughes' The Fatal Shore will answer your question in excruciating detail. Mr. Hughes was perhaps the 20th century's most highly accomplished art critic. He was also a native Australian. The book is a very good non-academic history of Australia's settlement by England. At the risk of stating the obvious, the criminals who were sent to Australia had very bleak existences to put it mildly. Note that most of the criminals were sent to Australia for petty offenses.

The greatest impact that Napoleon “winning” the Napoleonic Wars would have on the US would be a better position to bargain against the British during the War of 1812. This would allow the US to possibly claim parts of Upper Canada, one of the main reasons the US began the war (Jefferson’s letter to Madison saying “The conquest of Canada, at least as far as Quebec, is a mere matter of marching”).

The British, eager to tidy up the side-brawl with the US, are looking at a “defeat,” rather than a stalemate.

The US is incredibly happy with Madison, and the Democratic-Republican party. The biggest “What If” impact would be on Jackson. Does the battle of New Orleans happen (with the British needing the troops in Europe)? If it doesn’t, then Jackson doesn’t become as big of a hero, has less reason to run for president, and the Democratic-Republican Party possibly doesn’t split.

That’s a lot of “What Ifs,” but historically, Napoleon’s defeat enabled the British to transfer veteran troops to North America (New Orleans campaign). Had the Treaty of Ghent not ended the war in December 1814, then the US would have been under increasing pressure. It didn’t have the economic, military, or logistical capabilities to compete with Britain’s undivided attention.

My source (a wonderful book for anyone interested in the era): https://www.amazon.com/War-1812-Napoleon-Campaigns-Commanders/dp/080614078X/ref=nodl_

I apologize for any problems with posting/formatting, this is my first time (be gentle).

Maybe not exactly what you’re looking for but the 1970’s was apparently the golden age of airplane hijackings, which I imagine were used for various purposes (including some of the examples you mentioned). While I haven’t read this book, an interview I listened to with the author made it seem like this could be an interesting resource.

There is literally a book by one of the founders of the Taliban in Afghanistan opining the presence and radical growth of Al Qaeda within their network.

https://www.amazon.com/Life-Taliban-Abdul-Salam-Zaeef/dp/1849041520/ref=nodl_

Hitler's statements about using the term 'socialism' to attract blue collar voters is reprinted in The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William Shirer.
It's a pretty fantastic book if you're interested in Nazi philosophy and political outlook. Shirer was a journalist in Berlin when the Nazis came to power, and has more insight into their methods and beliefs than any other author I've read.

As far as I've heard, there isn't much to go with. You have to be able to read Russian and get trustworthy sources.

I'm more familiar with neoclassical economists who cite Russian economists. Below is a source from Sowell's Basic Economics, by two Russian economists about the numerous shortcomings of the Soviet economy. Economists like Sowell and Friedman cite many stories of frustrated managers and impossible quotas.

https://www.amazon.com/Turning-Point-Revitalizing-Soviet-Economy/dp/0385246544

Was not just NeoCons, don’t forget the liberal hawks like Thomas L. Friedman, Paul Berman, Christopher Hitchens and ... Kenneth Pollack who basically wrote the book on how we should attack Iraq

It's an old book, but Kerner's https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000H5B26Y/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_J5ohFbT4WQP73 The Urge To The Sea does a great job answering this question. The short answer is the river networks joined by short portages, not unlike that in Canada used by the trappers and traders.

According to this website: https://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?surname=bishop

> The word came to be applied as a surname for a variety of reasons, among them service in the household of a bishop, supposed resemblance in bearing or appearance to a bishop, and selection as the ‘boy bishop’ on St. Nicholas’s Day.

So, it didn't necessarily apply to only high-ranking clergy. The clergy members themselves would usually be referred to by their domain (e.g. Winchester, Canterbury, etc).

Just a minor thing:

> no one used their tanks

France used some Panthers till 1949 before replacing them. They didn't use them in Indochina, but sent M36 instead. The Panther did need to much maintenance.

Syria used the Panzer 4 into the 60s. Israel captured some during the Six-Day War. They did not fare well against newer tanks or upgraded Shermans.

Adam Smith, who wrote The Wealth of Nations, is HIGHLY influential in capitalist thought and actively fought against mercantalism in favor of a new commercial state system. His field was economics and politics.

The oldest known recipe dates back to 2200 B.C. It called for snake skin, beer and dried plums to be mixed and cooked. There is a Summerian beer recipe from 1800 bc. Babylonian tablets now housed at Yale University also listed recipes. One of the two dozen recipes, written in a language only deciphered in the last century, described making a stew of kid (young goat) with garlic, onions and sour milk. Other stews were made from pigeon, mutton and spleen.

The Roman Apicius wrote a cookbook in the 4th century.

Perhaps some of the Apocryphal Gospels did contain some actual sayings of Jesus. But is commonly accepted that these works co-opted Jesus' teachings to create there own message and fit their theologies (as you said) using assumed names to enhance their authority and credibility. The historicity of the Apocryphal Gospels is not strong. Held by most to be the earliest gnostic gospel, most date the Gospel of Thomas to mid 2nd century. Also, they did not harmonize with the message of the Gospels (with a capital G). These books were left out of the canon because they excluded themselves based on their message and their relatively late dating. In contrast, the Gospels date to mid 1st century, well within the timeline of eyewitnesses still being alive. The canon is a list of authoritative books more than it is an authoritative list of books.

I recommend The Case for Christ by Lee Strobel which discusses this and other topics relating to the real Jesus. Also the book I quoted in my original post is a good read. Both of these books are written for the lay person meaning they are easy to understand without oversimplifying important details.

The Case for the Resurrection of Jesus

The Case for Christ

Hero (or Heron) of Alexandria. He built a steam engine (which he called an aeolipile) in the first century AD.

Hero also invented the first windmill, the first vending machine, automatons, and was a mathematician who formulated many mathematical equations that we still use today.

Many of his inventions were for theatrical purposes. For example, his windmill was used to power a mechanical orchestra. The vending machine dispensed holy water at a temple. He wrote a 10 minute play where then entire thing was performed by automatons (mechanical puppets, an early version of the Chucky Cheese band, operated by knotted strings and cogwheels).

When he invented the aeolipile, he though of it as a mildly entertaining device, but couldn't really find a use for it beyond novelty.

There's evidence of an earlier aeolipile described by Vitruvius in the 1st century BC, but his design does not mention moving parts, so it may have been more akin to a steam whistle.

There's a picture of Hero's aeolipile on the cover of this book. Basically water was heated in a brass chamber which produced steam which travelled through pipes to a ball which had a series of bent pipes around it's circumference. As the steam escaped the ball would spin.

He also created an admittedly not quite steam powered device for automatically opening the doors of a temple. The temple fire would heat air in a closed system. The heated air would push water up into a container (through displacement) which was used as a counter-weight to automatically open the temple doors. Technically this is not a steam engine, it's more of a pneumatic water pump.

I'd like to open by offering a bit of advice: it's usually better to avoid comparing religions so closely and in such black and white. It's easy to (unwittingly) send ethnocentric overtones. That being said, I'll get on with the question.

The gods of Ancient Greece were considered deities, in the sense that they were indeed all-powerful gods, and they were even given their own story of creation, transcribed by Hesiod in his Theogony (written c. 700 BCE). It's also important to make the distinction between other forms of divine and semi-divine beings. (Aristotle notes the gods as one of four categories of living things in his Nicomachean Ethics.)

In a sense, Ancient Greeks viewed their gods similarly to how Christians view theirs, as omnipotent and omniscient; the major difference being that the Greek gods were not all thought to be omnibenevolent, and each god or goddess could act in any way they chose at any time (this sometimes put gods against one another). It should be noted that the Iliad's reference to the gods was the writing of one person, who may have had different views on religion than others, and that the epic is partly mythology, not necessarily historical fact.

Speaking of Homer, and answering the last part of your question, in his Odyssey, Homer points to the fact that somje, like Odysseus, would offer regular sacrifices to the gods, while others took on the rituals less often. This can be extended to the society and say that some people were more religious than others (at least according to Homer's writings). But this difference in the degree of worship and ritual practice from person to person is present in all religions.

Hope this helps!

Source: I'm a history major.

As you do well with audio books I would strongly recommend you start listening to "Dan carlins hard-core history" and "..... Hardcore history addendum".

While technically a podcast, it's more akin to history lectures. He also quotes lots of books and has a reading list for each subject.

I would start with "destroyer of worlds" as its a short stand alone episode, instead of the normal multi part epics.

https://castbox.fm/vb/25163351

It's the history of the atomic bomb. So it covers the politics, events and machinations of the end of ww2 through the cold War, to the current mad.

Special shout out to the episodes "blueprint for armagheddon" about the first world War. "King of Kings" about the Persian empire and Greece. And "wrath of the khan's" about the mongals.

Never heard of the "Malam Opum"

Are you maybe thinking of the Walam Olum? FYI, that's pretty sketchy as far as authenticity.

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Also, I can't find “Myths and Legends of the Cherokee.” anywhere in Mooney's publishing history, or any books published by him in 1888. Closest I can find is "Myths of the Cherokee" published around 1900.

Are you sure you got the title right?

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As far a a white race of Indians predating the Cherokee. Hard to tell if they're talking about a real people, or a legendary people. In some of the stories the people are supposed to be tiny, or only visible at night.

The Cherokee did migrate for a time. The stories may be the mythologized remnants of some of the people they encountered along their migrations. But's tough to tell what parts are memory & which parts are symbolic.

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As far as corroborating evidence. There is none for a white tribe of Indians.

There were tribes in the region before the Cherokee migrations. The Fort Ancient people & the Middle Mississippian people lived along the route that he Cherokee are thought to have migrated. And they stand out as having built quite impressive mounds & fortifications; somewhat similar to the fortifications talked about in the Cherokee stories. But DNA recovered from people at these sites show strong similarities to the tribes living in the region. Nothing about them suggest they were white.

Peter Heather's Empires and Barbarians does a good job at covering the migrations that took place in Europe during the middle ages.

(Although you might want to read his The Fall of the Roman Empire first.)

From what I've read, though, he was not out of his depth - he was actually very well read, well-rounded and fascinated with history. Source: -Truman: The Rise to Power by Richard Lawrence Miller.

Technically, they didn't. They had their own scientists working on it, but used espionage to check their results because they were concerned that their spies at Los Alamos, most notorious being Klaus Fuchs, could be getting fed misinformation or be double-agents. Read this page.

Bernal Díaz del Castillo wrote a memoir The True History of the Conquest of New Spain which is a surprisingly good read. I also read Conquest: Cortes, Montezuma, and the Fall of Old Mexico which was well written and accessable too.

I highly recommend the Great Courses class on The Historical Jesus for a thorough examination of the issues/evidence for Jesus. Does not address the comparison to Arthur, however. I get access to The Great Courses through my local library for free

https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/historical-jesus

Yup,

> When WWI broke out, the Jews, eager to demonstrate their loyalty to their country, rallied to the war effort. They hoped that military service would promote their acceptance into German and Austro-Hungarian society. Some 320,000 Jewish soldiers joined the army---12,000 Jewish soldiers died fighting on the German side in World War I.

• http://www.geni.com/projects/German-Austro-Hungarian-Jewish-Soldiers-Killed-in-WWI/12439

https://www.amazon.com/Black-Rednecks-Liberals-Thomas-Sowell/dp/1594031436

sowell's thesis is that black american culture has a lot in common with white redneck culture, in ways that keep both groups from easily joining the elite white institutions.

Several history books describe these, works such as Christopher Hibbert, “The Rise and Fall of the House of Medici” or *Catherine Fletcher, “The Black Prince of Florence, the life of Alessandro de Medici”. Alternatively, more dry material exists such as historical works centered around the famous Catasto of 1427. Other works of interest may perhaps be “Samuel Cohn, “The Cult of Remembrance and the Black Death: Six Renaissance Cities in Central Italy”* and Dubreton, “Daily Life in Florence in the time of the Medici”.

> Pure capitalists back the 1980's used to wave Smith's "The Wealth of Nations" around like a bible, but that isn't done much any more, because I think somebody read it.

Hahaha, nice. Reminds me of student disappointment/confusion when they read Marx only to discover the corpus is mostly a thousand-plus pages analyzing capitalism rather than laying out a socialist utopia.

He had some sympathy for the poor, and he recommended that if a judge had to make a difficult decision involving a owner vs. workers, he should show favor to the workers because they had all the chips stacked against them. He understood very well the vulnerability that a capitalist system imposes on the unskilled or semiskilled worker.

Pure capitalists back the 1980's used to wave Smith's "The Wealth of Nations" around like a bible, but that isn't done much any more, because I think somebody read it.

Ulfberht swords comprise a number of different qualities of steel and methods of manufacture over the span of extant examples - some of them are average for the period, some are of really good steel. The thing is that most blades in Europe during the period were pattern-welded, while some ULFBERHT swords were made of wootz or similar grade of crucible steel, probably from Central Asia - which is to say, some non-ULFBERHT swords were made of crucible steel, and some ULFBERHT swords were not made of crucible steel. Europeans investigated the manufacture of crucible steel, but most wouldn't manufacture a similar grade of steel until the 18th century. You can read a bit more about the technical details in Crucible Steel in Medieval Swords by Alan Williams.

I know nothing about the history, but just doing the math on feasibility it doesn't seem that absurd.

The natural bridge is 66m high. Even clearing an extra 10m high and 20m across the throw would only need to be in the 75-90mph range, which is in striking distance for an average college level pitcher.

I used this link to calculate:

https://www.omnicalculator.com/physics/projectile-motion

It's an Adventure/RPG(ish) game created with RPG Maker VX Ace, using graphics made by PVGames. It's fairly limited, but enough for the concept I have. Originally I wanted the game to be based in Lisbon, but I realized recreating that large city would be a task for AAA studio, let alone a lone developer! The city I've created is fairly small, with 8 streets (names of which I chose randomly by going along map of Portugal in google maps and picking some names.

And moving it to WWII era is interesting, but I don't want to make life too difficult for the player. PIDE is going to already be a pain in the ass for them (as investigating too much into Savatora, prisoner we're breaking out, will attract their attention), and I want to make player avoid any confrontation at all. It's a game where stray bullet can kill, and the death is painfully normal. No heroic deeds, no epic conclusions. Just... nothing.

> The Russians used grease pencils

Did they use the ones you unwrap in a winding fashion, not sharpen with a blade?

Something like this: https://www.amazon.com/Dixon-China-Markers-Chinagraph-Pencil/dp/B06Y43C6DH ?

This friend is absolutely right. The Very Short Introductions are totally the place to go for simple, clear and straightforward clarifications on topics pretty fast. I truly love that this series exists. It has titles on every subject you can imagine.

Another I can recommend is this. It's a nice DK illustrated encyclopedia about politics. It's simple, clear, very straightforward and it presents the stuff in a way that's easy to understand:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1465473904/ref=sspa_dk_detail_0?psc=1&pd_rd_i=1465473904&pd_rd_w=6PrNI&pf_rd_p=085568d9-3b13-4ac1-8ae4-24a26c00cb0c&pd_rd_wg=9AUf6&pf_rd_r=DAS8CCM5RXW6089189AZ&pd_rd_r=cefd91a2-1b31-4484-810a-6f4115cf2874&spLa=ZW5jcnlwdGVkUXVhbGlmaWVyPUFZVFg1QjFaMlIzNFMmZW5jcnlwdGVkSWQ9QTA2ODQ3NzlLUkFZV1pNUTg4N0cmZW5jcnlwdGVkQWRJZD1BMDY4NDQzODE5TElTSE1JR0MxTksmd2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9kZXRhaWwmYWN0aW9uPWNsaWNrUmVkaXJlY3QmZG9Ob3RMb2dDbGljaz10cnVl

I haven't read this, but perhaps it might help: https://www.amazon.com/Politics-Short-Introduction-Kenneth-Minogue/dp/0192853880/ref=rtpb_3?pd_rd_w=vjtrk&pf_rd_p=be844577-fee7-4bbc-8dda-083e56cc6f0d&pf_rd_r=BN7D0DAA1J03EQK898AV&pd_rd_r=61797afb-a63b-4517-90b5-f792f6acb276&pd_rd_wg=nwaBv&pd_rd_i=0192853880&psc=1

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In general, the Very Short Introduction series are pretty helpful and maybe reading the ones on certain topics like the Russian Revolution, different national histories, ones on specific aspects of , for instance, the US political system, etc... might help acquaint you and get your feet wet. Just gotta keep learning! Good luck my friend

The Nazis did not learn who was a Jew or not by asking them. They had already compiled an extremely detailed census through which they had verified the ancestry of each person going back many generations. It is important to note that the Nazis believed Jewishness to be 'racial', and thus unalterable. This means that any Jews who converted to any other religion would still be regarded as Jews. Read this very interesting book about a certain American computer manufacturer whose computers were crucial in this.

There are plenty of sourcebooks that give you typed versions of source material. Try this one on for size for witches:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0415195063/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_glt_fabc_EAKEXK3YMNTW8NNA2RX7

For my A level & Uni exams I read a sourcebooks back to back a couple of times so I had chunks of source material memorised for quoting on the fly. Real useful to digest as much of this stuff as possible.

If you read Sex At Dawn, a book which I only partly agree with, it shows that the concept of something resembling marriage is universal across primitive cultures, but the actual implementation varies quite wildly. In fact, this statement is extrapolating from their own evidence, as they claim marriage is not actually universal.

For example, one of their examples is of an amazon tribe in which if you lay your sleeping mat next to someone, you're paired. Once you stop doing it, you're not. They claim this is not "marriage", I think it is, just a very low-overhead version of one.

Ryan and Jetha argue that the origins of human pair bonding can be shown to be evolution, using bonobos mainly as an example.

But, again, take the book with a large grain of salt. I noticed a glaring number of problems with it, and I'm not an expert in the field. Experts have done a more thorough job demolishing it. I'm just mentioning the book as one of the common theories out there right now.

If by 'great' you mean influential and important there are many, Napoleon, Cromwell, Muhammad, Luther, etc. Therefore it may be worthwhile to read books and biographies on them, however one specific book I would recommended although I have not read it myself is On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle (more information on this book/series of lectures below): Wiki link- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Heroes,_Hero-Worship,_and_The_Heroic_in_History Amazon link- https://www.amazon.co.uk/Heroes-Hero-Worship-Heroic-History/dp/1406843849

imho if they won it would be slavery and the duty of the white man to rule the darker races.

Read Rudyard Kipling [Pick Up The White Man's Burden].

People who didn't grow up with the casual racism of pre-MLK times have no idea how wide spread and entrenched it was.

You also might want to try 'The Autobiography of Malcolm X' for a good take on how life used to be.

I'm no historian but in the book A History of Western Philosophy Bertrand Russell briefly mentions different ways ancient Greek mathematicians used to verify that the Earth was round. Since I can't find the exact passages, at the earliest this places it around 600 BCE. It makes sense to say that, if there is no other written evidence, there must have been other theories about the Earth's shape before that time.

Most sea-faring nations were aware of the fact that a ship moved over the horizon gradually, which only makes sense if the world is round.

It was always dubious if the aircraft carriers would be in Pearl. Japanese intelligence did accurately reports the departure of the US aircraft carriers before the attack but nothing could be done then as it was too late. They had found that the northern sector of Pearl Harbor was devoid of air patrol and the patterns of US air patrols. This allowed the Japanese fleet to remain uncovered until it was too late. They also found correctly the shallow water depth which allowed the Japanese to set correctly there torpedo depth.

If you are interested in this subject have a read of this book. https://www.amazon.com/Japanese-Intelligence-World-General-Military/dp/1846034256

Germany didn't actually think the UK would care about Belgium, and famously called the treaty protecting its neutrality, "A Scrap of Paper." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_London_(1839)#The_%22scrap_of_paper%22 If you want a book about it, I can recommend this: https://www.amazon.com/Scrap-Paper-Breaking-Making-International/dp/0801452732

But the idea basically was, Germany couldn't win a long-term two front war, and you can't knock Russia out in a few weeks, which means you have to knock France out, and you need to knock France out, Belgium be damned. They weren't expecting the UK to start a war over it, and to be fair, the UK had the nickname Perfidious Albion for a reason. And indeed, I think had it just been about Belgium, the UK would have stayed out, but it was also about preventing German hegemony of the continent, so they joined the war.

>George I spoke French to his advisors because he didn't speak English

Most modern historians think George I could speak English by the time he became king in the UK in his 50s, and there are examples of him writing English as well, but yeah he wasn't quite fluent. The idea that he spoke no English was born from anti German sentiment of his own time, but also the anti German feeling of British historians during the first of of the 20th century. But he's been reappraised by historians recently, I think they even found original writings of his in English? Might be wrong there.

>George II's mother tongue was also German

According to Andrew Thompson in his biography of George II, he spoke only French until he was 4 years old.

Sounds like a David Macaulay book.

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London: a history in maps by Peter Barber

One of my all-time favorites is Africa: Biography of a Continent by John Reeder (https://www.amazon.com/Africa-Biography-Continent-John-Reader/dp/067973869X/ref=sr_1_16?keywords=Africa&qid=1665177175&qu=eyJxc2MiOiI1LjkxIiwicXNhIjoiNi4zNSIsInFzcCI6IjMuNzcifQ%3D%3D&sr=8-16). It's very comprehensive, but very readable.

There are a bunch of sources (here is one) but look up Isaac Newton's role in the Royal Mint during the late 1600s and early 1700s this was a good read as well

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Probably too late for this, but the answer likely lies not in the 2nd Amendment, but the 14th.

Post civil war, legal debates about whether former slaves could own guns came to the forefront as armed white militias began to disarm black militias. The fourteenth amendment among other things made clear the bill of rights applied not just to federal laws but to state laws, and court decisions made clear that no matter how 'unregulated' a white militia might think a black militia was, every individual had a right to own a gun if they chose for self-defense.

see https://www.amazon.com/Securing-Civil-Rights-Freedmen-the-Fourteenth-Amendment-and-the-Right-to-Bear-Arms-Updated-Edition/dp/1598130382

This is much too broad to really go into - the role of warfare changed radically multiple times under 'monarchy', but if you're interested in checking out a specific period of time, I highly recommend Women, Armies, and Warfare in Early Modern Europe, by the military historian John A. Lynne. The footnotes both source his claims and show counter-arguments by other historians, and can lead you to other fascinating books in the same theme.

Finally, my time to shine.

In terms of the amount of minimally biased historical research I recommend:

Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources by Martin Lings

Link: https://www.amazon.com.au/Muhammad-Martin-Lings/dp/1594771537

In terms of understanding the nuances and significance of that historical data I recommend: Muhammad: A Prophet for Our Time by Karen Armstrong

Link: https://www.amazon.com.au/Muhammad-Karen-Armstrong/dp/0061155772

Full disclosure, I am not a Muslim.

I second this. It is well-written and a good introduction.

"World histories" have been criticized as being too Eurocentric. I agree.

Two books can help correct this myopia.

Destiny Disrupted: World History Through Islamic Eyes

Big History by David Christian. This history starts with the origin of the universe. This views human history in the biggest perspective. I listened to the author's Great Courses lecture series on the topic.

The Knights of Bushido covers most, if not all, areas the Japanese occupied. Note that it's been many years since I read it, and it is very old now and may not be wholly reliable in the light of later research.

America. By now there should have been some sort of revolution or a voice to be heard for the people. America had the most brutal slavery on earth. And yet there are no more people marching, leading, and making a way for hope for the people. It actually is so true, now, that the government is in full control using people like Joe Biden. It's amazing to me, because my great grandmother grew, picked, and sold her own cotton in the South of the country.

This led me to be one rebellious MF. But without a voice to be heard to fight, I'm only using my words, reading, and writing about these things so that the world can see this corrupted environment, cruel, and cursed land with clear eyes. If so intrigued or interested in this country's hate, greed, and ambition; please enjoy my 30 min. Short Story continuing the fight for the American people as one.

All reviews encourage the writer to dream. 💜💙

Available free on Kindleunlimited - Money is the Root of all evil

The Eternal City: The history of Rome in maps

https://www.amazon.com/Oxford-Handbook-Mesoamerican-Archaeology-Handbooks/dp/0190230800

If you want something, thick, definitive, and comprehensive, this is the book that covers the topic the best.

I think it’s a great idea. I agree with the poster that you should be able to answer questions about the book you give him. But I disagree with the poster on the Churchill book…it’s a great rec but if the boss hands out books and he’s a “big boss”, I’d say chances are pretty high he’s read about Winston.

What book did you give you?

This is probably out of left field but with Russia being in the news, I would suggest “K Blows Top”. It’s about Nikita Khrushchev’s tour of the US during the 50’s and is probably the history book that made me laugh more than any other. I’ve given it as a gift a couple of times and got rave reviews. The title refers to a US agent’s panic when Walt Disney denied Nikita and his family entry to Disneyland and NK lost his mind. K Blows Top

It’s obscure, sort of timely and if he does read it, he’ll remember you.

Consensus seem to be, that a few spaniards didn't have the capabilities to kill hundreds of thousands of people, and that diseases they carried had more weight.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/2563354

https://www.amazon.es/Born-Die-Conquest-1492-1650-Approaches/dp/0521627303

We literally do know what was in her head. We , unusually for a women at that time, have pages and pages of what was in her head. She would not shut up about what was in her head.

https://www.amazon.com/Joan-Arc-Her-Trial-Transcripts/dp/098832301X

https://www.amazon.com/Joan-Arc-her-own-words/dp/1885983085

Gender dysphoria does not typically manifest it self suddenly on the same day you decide to storm a castle.

Furthermore the visions aboslutely predate, by a while, her short hair.

Around the age of 12 or 13, Joan of Arc apparently began hearing voices and experiencing visions, which she interpreted as signs from God. During her trial, she testified that angels and saints first told her merely to attend church and live piously; later, they began instructing her to deliver France from the invading English and establish Charles VII, the uncrowned heir to the French throne, as the country’s rightful king.

It is not terrify or transphobic to dismiss fooling unfounded things said by morons as unsubstantiated, implausible, badly sources and implausible.

You think credentialed historians are particularly connected to a culture in opposition to LGBTQ?

Who is the they?

We literally do know what was in her head. We , unusually for a women at that time, have pages and pages of what was in her head. She would not shut up about what was in her head.

https://www.amazon.com/Joan-Arc-Her-Trial-Transcripts/dp/098832301X

https://www.amazon.com/Joan-Arc-her-own-words/dp/1885983085

Gender dysphoria does not typically manifest it self suddenly on the same day you decide to storm a castle.

Furthermore the visions aboslutely predate, by a while, her short hair.

Around the age of 12 or 13, Joan of Arc apparently began hearing voices and experiencing visions, which she interpreted as signs from God. During her trial, she testified that angels and saints first told her merely to attend church and live piously; later, they began instructing her to deliver France from the invading English and establish Charles VII, the uncrowned heir to the French throne, as the country’s rightful king.

So no,

Read the top post .

Or do me a and everyone else a favor and ask the question in r/askhistorians

“ is it reasonable that trans person in 1412 France may have absolutely interpreted their gender dysphoria as a sign from god to change themselves and is it likely that this is what was going on with Joan the Maid”

They will put you straight.

Read "𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘓𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘚𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘢𝘯 𝘈𝘭𝘢𝘶𝘥𝘥𝘪𝘯 𝘒𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘫𝘪" 𝖻𝗒 𝖣𝗋 𝖦𝗁𝗎𝗅𝖺𝗆 𝖲𝖺𝗋𝗐𝖺𝗋 𝖪𝗁𝖺𝗇 𝖭𝗂𝖺𝗓𝗂.

The setting - the Congo (country and river), and the occasional rogue soldier, stationed during Leopold's reign, in isolated areas upriver during the rubber boom.

I'd advise King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa https://www.amazon.com/dp/0618001905, it explains Leopold's history in the Congo in very vivid detail.

This Sceptred Isle is a classic and highly respected history by the historian Christopher Lee.

This Sceptred Isle was originally a long running BBC radio series covering 55BC to the C20th . They have since turned this into a book and a series of audiobooks. The text is easy to read (or listen to) and yet very informative and full of interesting detail.

Book

Audiobooks

Read a book called Mohammad: A Prophet For Our Time by Karen Armstrong. It’s the best non-Muslim authored book that gives the most information about him. It is not, at all, biased and gives a completely fair and objective history of the Prophet (pbuh), his family, his Companions, and the rise of Islam and its role in the Arabian Peninsula.

Mohammad: A Prophet For Our Times by Karen Armstrong- (https://www.amazon.com/Muhammad-Prophet-Time-Karen-Armstrong/dp/0061155772)

There's instances like the Donner party or the soccer (football) players who crashed in the Andes.

One book I've read that I loved because I've spent a lot of time in the area it occurred: https://www.amazon.com/Man-Eater-Life-Legend-American-Cannibal/dp/1477829563

It's about a group of miners who got snowed-in in SW Colorado, and only one survived. You can probably guess how.

Already too late to move by then. See here: https://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/grading-the-forecasts-for-irene-katia-organizing-threat-of-a-gulf-of.html the comparison of projected Irene path against predicted path in 2011 shows how fast that hurricane moved. By the time you've figured out that this wind and rain could be a hurricane, it is far too late to flee. Note too, how far away Irene was not five days before it hit New York City. There is no way pre-contact natives could flee a hurricane.

[This]( https://www.amazon.com/What-We-Knew-Everyday-Germany/dp/0465085725/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=what+we+knew&qid=1640733594&s=books&sprefix=what+we+kne%2Cstripbooks%2C146&sr=1-1 ) is a great book that has interviews with normal Germans asking them how much they knew and saw of the Holocaust.

It's a hard read at times and seems like a lot of people had some idea of what was going on. Rumours with a healthy dose of truth were shared.

The invention of the telegraph.

Neil Postman wrote Amusing Ourselves to Death. It's not a historical piece per say. It's about communication theory. One argument he makes is that the way we ingest the news/information suddenly changed once far off, clandestine information could be shared immediately following the invention of the telegraph.

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Information is power, and virtually all other technological progress after its invention would have been impacted by the telegraph. Engineers could talk across the country. Investors, bankers, and wealthy persons could react to news within a week or two of it occurring. Military incursions were felt immediately by a nation. Suddenly, our world became a lot smaller and collective action became a lot more feasible. It doesn't matter how you spin it. Electrically-transmitted information fundamentally altered the way we engage everything.

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Moreover, everything that defines the "modern" information era is a product of the telegraph and the technologies that evolved from it. Its winners are those with the best information and influence as opposed to those with the biggest military, strongest religious argument, deepest pockets, etc. The best possible example? Elon Musk doesn't own amazing companies. He's wealthy as hell because he created a brand that persuaded/influenced people to invest time, effort, and (most importantly) money into his companies, enriching himself. If Twitter didn't exist, Elon would not be half as wealthy as he is today.

I think that you would like to read this.

My grandmother was a Wren in WW2 (female auxiliary). She worked in Bletchley Park.

Her job was to sit in a room and watch cylinders spin. When one cylinder finished spinning she would remove it, note the number and add a new cylinder. That was it, that was her entire job.

She didn't know it at the time, and didn't find out until decades later when it finally became declassified, but she was working on the world's first computer, designed by Alan Turing, to decrypt the German Enigma messages. Because of this decryption, the German Enigma code was broken and British Intelligence was able to read German messages.

She wrote about it in a book before she died.

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=RPcuAAAAIBAJ&sjid=s9sFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5721%2C1471377

You can see towards the bottom of tue front page a Gallup poll showing over 50% of Americans anticipated war with Japan prior to the
attack on Pearl Harbor.

The Japanese had been massively engaged and empire-building in China. Southeast Asia, and the Pacific for over a decade prior to Pearl Harbor. The US and Western Allies obviously had huge interests here as we know, so this, in my opinion, was not something Americans disregarded as inevitable. Yes, the attack on Pearl Harbor shocked the nation, but I think it is safe to say we knew things would come to a head eventually.

On a side note, that front page has all sorts of interesting tidbits, noteably the "Order Jap nationals report to police", "Round-up Japs on 'selective basis', and, more amusing "Hitler "postpones" capture of Moscow."

I guess to answer you, if "WWIII was going to happen, which it isn't (this is Russia and West counter-posturing each other, in modern war the stakes of the two fighting openly without proxies are grave beyond all that is humanly imaginable) then we can be damn sure it would be all over ever news station, magazine, facebook, etc. We, the regular folk, are far more connected to the international ongoings today than in 1941 (that isn't to say better educated just more connected). The fact that we have livefeed footage streaming from private media corporations at the Ukraine-Russia border is testament to that. And that is a good thing.

Backstory podcast from the U. of Virginia. Episode 271- "Oh Bloody Hell, the History of Profanity in America"

I haven't listened to it yet, but other episodes of the podcast are outstanding.

The exact number is not known. He did not always found a new city, either. This wiki page has a list. This page goes into more detail.

In the Roman empire, days were more often off-working days. In Claudius' reign, 159 days of the year were holidays. They may not have been strictly every every 7 days, but I like to think it was a little like how France has three four-day-weekends in May.

It sounds like he’s referencing Weber’s work Protestant Ethics and the Spirit of Capitalism. According to Weber’s theory, Protestantism and capitalism are firmly linked together. It is his theory though, not law, and a theory that hasn’t exactly held up strongly over time, as capitalism has thrived in plenty of non-Protestant countries. Other factors can more easily be argued as a more significant example for why capitalism thrives in one area but not another; geography, for example.

Sorry, no evidence to give, but yes, it seems likely a person (especially Edgar) with a classical education would know "à posteriori" and not necessarily from Kant.

I would start by looking into Aristotle as a source, then other writers influenced after the Renaissance.

There is also the ngrams from google... https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=posteriori&year_start=0000&year_end=2000)/

Not literature, but there is a very good Podcast: History of Rome by Mike Duncan: http://thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/the_history_of_rome/partial-bibliography.html. Also you have (I never read, but its a benchmark) Gibbons, the decline and Fall of the roma empire, in Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/25717/25717-h/25717-h.htm

I'm Israeli, and, well, that depends. A lot of "Historical" Israel is either biblical/ancient (Like Masada or the various ruins around the sea of Galilee) or Israeli/army-like (Like the valley of tears). I'd say that aside from Jerusalem's old quarter there's basically one attraction per city - Jaffa's old city, the ruins in Beth Shean, The Bahai'i temple in Haifa, stuff like that.

I think the Wikitravel article actually sums up Israel nicely. You'd have to explain to me your definition of "Historical" if you want something more specific :)

I don't know if it's specific enough, but you can plug Poland/1900s into Radiooooo to get some idea of what people were listening to at the time.

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https://radiooooo.com/

Niall Ferguson answers that question at length in Civilization: The West & The Rest. There is a DVD series & a book.

It's been a few years since I read about Viet Nam. Some points:

• IMO it should be viewed as a long, hard battle in the cold war. That context or perspective is necessary. So, reading about cold war is probably prerequisite.
• More specifically, it was the cold war battle that fell on the shoulders of American baby boomers, a generation not noted for, uh, selflessness. So, reading about them will help, too.
• Even more specifically, we got into it during Kennedy & Johnson administrations; so, knowing something about those amazingly dishonest, manipulative politicians will help. (E.g., it is helpful to know that Kennedy ran for president on a completely phoney "missal gap" platform, phoney saber-rattling, cold war rhetoric.)
• Anyway, as far as I remember, this one is pretty good: Why We Were In Viet Nam by Norman Podhoretz.

The Great Courses series have a lot of history DVDs, and you can borrow them for free at most libraries. I'm a fan of Edwin Barnhart's Maya to Aztec and Lost Worlds of South America and John Lee's Persian Empire.

The Myth of Irish Slaves in the Colonies, by Liam Hogan, is a really good examination of the misinformation found in the last link. Definitely worth a read.

I can't answer this question directly but I can point you to an apparently great book I am yet to read.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1787384926/ref=ppx\_yo\_dt\_b\_search\_asin\_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Define "KIDS". How and what students are taught should definitely expand as they get older. As a junior in high school, for example, my history teacher gave me Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee to read for a book report. Most definitely NOT the "fairy tale" version of American history.

I read Four Years on the Western Front by Aubrey Smith recently, it gave a really good insight into the efforts that were put into supplying ammunition, food and water etc. to the troops on the front.

The most significant two events happened almost concurrently. The Iranian Islamic revolution is well known but not the second which was the siege of the grand mosque in Mecca. The two events are considered the most significant that drove people from secular Arab Nationalism to Islamism. This book greatly outlines this: https://www.amazon.com/Siege-Mecca-Forgotten-Uprising-al-Qaeda/dp/0385519257

I am currently reading Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes. I am nearing the end of the book. My reading has just reached World War 1. The author has been explaining why European domination of Middle East governments and the economy in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries convinced some Middle Easterners to adopt a more Western lifestyle even one hundred years ago.

Absolutely, Eisenstein was a genius. After watching Nevsky, and something like Braveheart is far less impressive. Especially when you consider it was all done with "practical" effects.

I had the opportunity to see the film done with live orchestra and chorus in Atlanta years ago. It's such a great score, it's a pity the Soviet sound technology couldn't do it justice. At the point in the film where someone is playing a "field organ" the soundtrack has piano. The story goes that it was supposed to be a "placeholder" until they could get the organ dubbed in, but Stalin was in such a hurry to see the film, it never happened. (Not sure of the source, but it might be the liner notes for THIS recording.)

You could try out the Blackwell companion series to the ancient world, they are actually pretty great. There are many companion books about a whole array of topics. But as a starter you could try out [A Companion to Ancient History](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Companion-Ancient-History-Blackwell-Companions/dp/1118451368/ref=nodl_), if you’re willing to spend some money, or you can try to track one down at a library.

You can find a copy of the same edition in this auction, where it is described as a facsimile of the 1493 original. The book was originally published in both German and Latin, but the cover shown here is German, so it will be that one. Expect 15th century German in a Fraktur typeface, no translation.

Amazon has also other facsimile editions which seem to be a bit cheaper.

There is also the wonderful tale of the Battle of Tanganyika in Africa during WW1. The British ships were two 40 ft wooden boats against a 1200 ton German ship which was carried to the lake in pieces. (The German ship still survives as the Liemba on Lake Malawi)

There is a very nice book written about the affair https://www.amazon.com/Mimi-Toutou-Go-Forth-Tanganyika/dp/0141009845

Although it's a few centuries later, this book has a great history of explosions and unique events in the early 20th century that shaped mankind's understanding of explosive power. Unrelated but related: https://www.amazon.com/Great-Halifax-Explosion-Treachery-Extraordinary/dp/0062666533

> Why does noone talk about...

Thing is, they do. Here's my favorite book on Carthage, ancient enemy of the Roman Republic and quite possibly the most powerful civilization to exist in North Africa before the caliphates.

This is already a thing if you wanted to copy the people History Channel already selected:

https://www.amazon.com/American-History-Playing-Card-Deck/dp/1572814403/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=american+history+cards+colonial+frontier&qid=1609365152&s=books&sr=1-1

Gore Vidal wrote a fine one: https://www.amazon.com/Burr-Novel-Gore-Vidal/dp/0375708731/ref=sr_1_4?dchild=1&keywords=burr&qid=1609342516&sr=8-4

Adam Zamoyski (British/Polish historian) has an exceptional biography of Napoleon. (Called Napoleon) https://www.amazon.co.uk/Napoleon-Life-Adam-Zamoyski/dp/0465055931

He has brilliant books covering the era of the Enlightenment and Naoleon. 1812 is an exceptional book about the war with Russia as well.

Wish I could read them for the first time again.

I would suggest reading this book by Marc Morris. It's a fascinating read and really details everything you are asking.

https://smile.amazon.com/Norman-Conquest-Hastings-Anglo-Saxon-England-ebook/dp/B00DBLRFQC/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=norman+conquest+marc+morris&qid=1602946093&s=instant-video&sr=1-1-catcorr

I don’t have a great answer to your question but if you want some unique insight into Rock and Roll history, check out Behind the Stage Door by Rich Engler. He was a longtime concert promoter in Pittsburgh, PA. He and his peers were forerunners in making rock concerts a huge industry in the US from the ‘60s-‘90s.

Sadly I now see the book is difficult to find and purchase; his official website isn’t active anymore.

I own the book though, and you sound like someone who would really find it interesting!!

I was looking at this book and might start here

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0140143920

Proved Innocent, later made into the film "In the Name of the Father," peak Daniel Day Lewis if you haven't seen it yet.

If you want another good movie, try "Bobby Sands: 66 Days."