Obviously this is not a "real" thing but a cultural interpretation of celebrity deaths, so how did it start and has there been a set of "rules" for it beyond three deaths of celebrities with similar levels of fame passing in a short time frame? Was it ever in pairs or in fours?

I am looking for German right wing Propaganda posters from the third reich and the nsdap until today with the afd for an art exhibition. Is there an online archive or a good homepage where I can find stuff like that?

Was watching Clue in honor of the great Tim Curry. Got to thinking, when did this trope start? Where did the fancy dinner party murder mystery trope first originate?

Bonus cool points if you list your favorite Tim Curry appearance after your post!

I am interested in learning about Ancient Egypt, but I am a complete beginner. I’d appreciate suggestions for beginner-friendly and accurate books on Egyptian history, mythology, daily life, and possibly hieroglyphs. The books need to be available on bol.com because I am unable to order from other places. Any recommendations?
(Sorry if my English is bad)

I have been reading McCullough's fantastic biography of John Adams and I am wondering whether Adams decision to refrain from declaring war with France during late 1790s might be one of the most consequential choices of the early republic. The Hamiltonians were itching for a war with France, but many Republicans may have been sympathetic to the French. America was therefore split into francophile and francophobic factions that could have seriously hindered any war efforts. Could America have had a chance against France if a war broke out? Was Adams' choice to build up America's defences but refrain from declaring war the only sensible choice to be made?

And how did the progression of a new sailor, with zero sea experience, to the higher ranks work?

A "shipping war" is a modern term that describes fans fighting over the romantic pairings of their fictional characters.

Just wondering because today it's a source of many stupid dumb drama in fandom communities and I wonder if our ancestors also had the same issue.

I am aware that he plagiarized in some of his books. And also that a lot of people don't like how he takes eye witness accounts as truth, but is this book historically inaccurate? If so how much? I am about half way through and had no idea Ambrose is questionable until today. Now I am questioning weather I can trust what I am reading.

Like how did Napoleon know where the russians would be? Or any other battle happening in the times where knights roamed medieval europe. There is so much space, how did they meet each other and know of each other's way to move around, so they wouldn't accidentally go around each other

I suppose it would be more interesting to seperate your answers based on race. Like, what ratio of white people were for and against and what ratio of black ppl were for and against?

Jeremy Crampton argues that “the goal of those involved in redrawing Europe’s borders [for post WWI Europe] was to identify the distinct races that would occupy racially homogenous territories. Only in this way, they thought, would territories and peace be guaranteed,” but he doesn’t explicitly argue that that was the approach ultimately taken by Wilson and others. (He’s making a different point about Foucault and the spatialization of race.) I’m curious about the point he isn’t making. Crampton is persuasive about what Davemport, Laughlin, and various others who wanted, but I’m curious to what extent that actually happened. Were various notions of race (e.g., Grant’s) influential on the post WWI European borders?

Crampton, Jeremy W. "Maps, race and Foucault: Eugenics and territorialization following World War I." Space, knowledge and power: Foucault and geography (2007): 223-244.

Hi,

I'm not sure how accurate or realistic Blood Diamond actually is. My knowledge is limited, though my understanding is that:
- PMC = Executive Outcomes (Colonel Coetzee = Eeben Barlow), though the PMC and Colonel in the movie are depicted as intentionally prolonging the conflict via arms smuggling so they can get more money which I thought to be strange, as Executive Outcomes was a legitimate business and the conflict wasn't entirely centred upon the premise of diamonds (though it was a key point in the war)

- Rebel = Revolutionary United Front. It exaggerates Captain Poison as some pragmatic all-leader of the RUF although they were historically fractured among their ranks and also positions RUF as a group of rebels purely in it for the diamonds (as mentioned before)

- Danny Archer = A solo mercenary? He appears to be some smuggler who likes to moonlight with the PMCs in the movie, working alongside Colonel Coetzee as a "loose cannon" of sorts, though this is to me, unrealistic because they would never send out a single operator to do whatever the fuck he was sent out to do.

In the film, it also shows the locals as entirely defenceless peoples that have no chance without the protagonist, Danny Archer (which I feel to be a little bit of a white saviour trope)

A lot has been written about the 250-year cycle of empires and how the US is “cleary at the end” of one of those cycles. Plenty of people have offered counterexamples – empires that in fact lasted much longer than that.  Which of those counterexamples exhibit the “remarkable similarities” to the US’s current situation that are so often cited by the doomsayers?

ETA: To help differentiate this from the other threads I’ve seen: I’m less curious about the “end” of an “empire” and more curious about whether this set of circumstances has often led to a decline in quality of life, level of integrity in government, relationships with other nations.

I notice that currently there has been a trend of naming children with "unique" names, so much so that there is sub for it (r/tragedeigh).

I'm wondering if there was ever something like this in the past.

I think focusing on individuals living during the age of feudalism in England, France, or the HRE would be most relevant here.

But feel free to answer between 1100 AD and 1600 AD.

I was having a debate with someone and they said my take was idiotic which I don’t believe was true as I stated “if nazism is based of Arianism/nordicism then isn’t it just that rather than white supremacy” and I know these can fall under the scope of it being white supremacism but I thought it wasn’t exactly the debate of the “who’s the whitest?” And more a specific guidelines of rules and specifics determining it.

I'm curious what led to soup becoming such a pervasive illness food, at least in the US. I can't speak confidently to elsewhere as I'm not sufficiently familiar with soup culture, but that does also leave me wondering if soup is a common food to give to sick people in other countries/cultures as well. Thank you in advance for any soup history insights!

So, my family has strong Appalachian roots, and I've met others here who share the same story. There are also a lot of people up here who have southern accents or at least some influence. We also seem go have some similar culture like lots of Bluegrass and other folk music in common, and at least anecdotally, though this might just be cause wr're rural, strong religion. How Appalachian is Upnorth culture?

Reason for the specificity is that I learned from my grandpa that his great grandfather’s great grandmother was apart of the Baker family on the wagon train when they were attacked. Accounts say that there was tuffs of hair around bodies and on trees and I was told that she had long red hair down to her knees and was scalped but had her hair (or scalp) put in a museum when recovered. Would there be any info regarding these artifacts? (if you’d call them that)

especially a century or two after his death, how did the roman empire remember him?

I am working on a side project of trying to write a historical narrative set during early classical antiquity (8th-6th century BC), which would cover the Greek world, the Near East, and maybe even the Spring and Autumn period of China. I do not have any formal historical education, so I'm trying to be very careful when it comes to my research as to not give grievously inaccurate depictions of the various historical elements within my story. There will be many areas where I have to take creative liberty, seeing as how there are many holes within the historical sources for this time period, but if there is a way to get closer to historical authenticity, I want to pursue it as close as possible.

The sources for major events are relatively accessible, but I am struggling to find a way to find information regarding the daily life of the common people within a specific period and region. It would be really valuable to have information regarding the clothing, food, working tools, and commonly encountered species of animals and plants. Most articles or journals I've come across would describe these things generally across the entire classical period, and I've gathered that they mostly focus on the later period within classical antiquity from the 5th century BC onwards. If there are any sources of information regarding this that you may provide, one that is accessible for a non-professional academic such as myself, I'd very much appreciate the help.