As early as the Spanish Civil War, Germany assisted as an "anti-communist" measure. He also took that opportunity to show off recent developments in Germans weaponry in combat situations.

The results were impressive, and were key to convincing the British to back off after Germany took western Czechoslovakia.

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During the Gothic War under Justinian and Belisarius, Procopius suggests that the population of Rome dropped to zero and everyone was either dead or left.

Add to that the events of the Little Ice Age, the Justinianic plague, the Black Death, the many other sacks of Rome. There's plenty of times where the population would suddenly drop.

I recently published the outcome of a comprehensive research in several archives in Europe and found what I've been looking for – a possible previous owner of the Voynich manuscript which may help to track down the provenance further.

Did people leave suddenly that so much was left in place to be covered etc?

Couldn't believe how much Arabic is in Ottoman Turkish. It blew my mind when I checked out some manuscripts online. Before nationalism, Arabic, Farsi, and Turkish were syncretizing.

Hmm that’s funny because I swear their flag had red

Well for one thing some of the things mentioned couldn't have been done earlier in the war. Pillaging other countries couldn't happen before those countries were invaded. The heavy use of slave labor pushed by Speer couldn't have happened without that pool of slave labor. And so forth.

And despite all that germany was still being heavily out produced by the allies.

Apparently so, guess it's a thing. The islands of Kalymnos and Telendos used to be connected, with a Harbour and a town between. Then an earthquake in the 16th century split the islands in two. Nowadays, you're not allowed to scuba dive around there since they don't want tourists and randoms taking undiscovered ancient artifacts. Although I think it was more Christian ruins at that point.

I have some questions about the same theme :

- why do people bully France for surrender in 1940 ? I mean, what is bad in the idea to stop fighting and preserve peace in a country I guess ?

- and why do people don't bully Norway, Luxembourg, Belgium, Denmark or even Poland for surrender if they bully France for the same thing ?

TLDR: LF recommendations for documentaries explaining the US history

I am going to visit the US in summer for the first time. Besides some things from movies, I don't know much about its history. I would like to know more about it in detail. Ideally starting far back in its infancy till today. Something like 8-10 hours of video material in total. Appreciating all recommendations. Also, I dont expect it to be one big documentary but many different ones focusing on certain time eras.

Thanks forward!

Looking for articles that give an overview of the political importance of the papacy during the Middle Ages. Something that touches on great political moments that the papacy had a hand in creating and/or solving with some discussion on how future events were altered as a result of these politics.

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The subways here in Athens also found lots of ancient stuff, in fact some of the stations (the Acropolis station in particular) have it on display like a mini museum, it's pretty neat

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I think that would be a charged attack

"All good stories deserve embellishment." - Gandalf

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Finally an article on the history of photography. Surprisingly little scholarship on this. Let's be clear: an editor isn't supposed to ruin the pictures they don't choose! Seems weird for people on a history sub to be ok with the destruction of historical artifacts.

That said I like the author's examination of said ruined photos through the context of Barth's punctum. Also like her argument that Stryker's editing both subverted America's view of itself, in terms of poverty, but also reinforced it through the absence of POC.