I'm looking for the name of the woman depicted on Paul Stahr's "Be Patriotic" World War I propaganda posters. Did war propaganda mascots often go without names?

If you read the Diamond book, you should also read Questioning Collapse where various experts in the fields Diamond looks at in Collapse explain the mistakes he makes.

I think the main issue is they just don't have enough examples of it. So it's mostly looking for more of it, hopefully with either new symbols or in different arrangements or with some kind of context clue.

There's a fun book about the translation of Linear B by Margalit Fox called the Riddle of the Labyrinth. It shows what what kind of volume of symbols is needed to account for things like if the writing is gendered or to account for different people's writing styles.

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These are really interesting persons to research! Thanks!

The Ukrainian anarchist was Nestor Makhno and I think the Admiral was Aleksandr Kolchak.

Neither of them were all that weird compared to Roman von Ungern-Sternberg, but that's only because Ungern-Sternberg was such a massive weirdo, he was in a class all by his own. The only figures who get close to him are Grigori Semyonov, Boris Annenkov, Ivan Kalmykov, and Aleksandr Dutov. An American general, William Sidney Graves, wrote of them:

>Semenoff and Kalmikoff soldiers, under the protection of Japanese troops, were roaming the country like wild animals, killing and robbing the people, and these murders could have been stopped any day Japan wished. If questions were asked about these brutal murders, the reply was that the people murdered were Bolsheviks and this explanation, apparently, satisfied the world. Conditions were represented as being horrible in Eastern Siberia, and that life was the cheapest thing there. There were horrible murders committed, but they were not committed by the Bolsheviks as the world believes. I am well on the side of safety when I say that the anti-Bolsheviks killed one hundred people in Eastern Siberia, to every one killed by the Bolsheviks.

Other rather odd people involved in the Russian Civil War could include:

• Georgi Atarbekov: Armenian Bolshevik and Chekist. Bragged about having personally stabbed Nikolai Ruzsky.
• Aleksandr Eiduk: Latvian Chekist and poet who wrote verses about the joys of killing.
• Naftaly Frenkel: Former smuggler turned builder of the Gulag
• Mikhail Kedrov: Chekist and pianist. Notorious for his cruelty.
• Lavr Kornilov: Cossack and White general who loved mass murder and the Totenkampf
• Béla Kun: Hungarian journalist turned Bolshevik. Tried to start a Soviet regime in Hungary, but failed and was forced to flee back to Russia.
• Vladimir Purishkevich: One of the killers of Rasputin; extreme anti-Semite, proto-fascist, and supporter of Kornilov
• Sidney Reilly: British spy, probably Ukrainian by birth. Involved with an abortive plot with Savinkov to overthrow the Bolsheviks.
• Boris Savinkov: Terrorist, drug addict, novelist, and womanizer
• Maria Spiridonova: Terrorist and assassin who looked like a schoolmarm. Initially an ally of the Bolsheviks, she later turned on them and orchestrated the assassination of the German ambassador, Count Mirbach.
• Semyon Ter-Petrosian: Better known as Kamo. An early friend and ally of Stalin who was responsible for the 1907 Tiflis bank robbery

I case you hadn’t noticed - and this seems to be a trend among science deniers- all life lives in a linear fashion. Our existence is linear. People can pretend otherwise all they want - all that does is make them wrong.

Yes this was missing from the context the previous time I read this. The two evidence together is very interesting.

Yes. The title is pure click bait. Essentially not knowing dates does not make the history any less important. Dates, however, are important to history.

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Invading the USSR was always going to be a necessity. Hitler needed to secure access to oil in the Caucasus and possibly Iran (who were keen to ally with him).

The Soviets had a Non-Aggression Pact with the Nazis that was supposed to last until 1949, but they broke it in 1941. I think it's more likely that the Winter War simply shifted the invasion timetable earlier.

Did the battlefront failure of the USSR in the Russo-Finnish Winter War in 1939 give Hitler the confidence to invade the USSR in 1941? It was mentioned in the linked video but I am thinking that even without this Hitler would have invaded the USSR. Thoughts?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gba7ApKhHWY

E.H. Gombrich.

A Little History of The World

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There were a few, but most revolts were about taxation/power struggles. The Fatimids were not to heavy on the proselytizing.

Fatimid Dynasty Egypt was a Shia dynasty ruling a Sunni majority but I can't recall any revolts by the Sunnis

Thanks i knew about this guy already and I meant like insane peoples during the civil war. Like the Ruler of all Russia who was an admiral and an ukrainian anarchist who made a short lived anarchist state in Ukraine.

Were there many examples in history when a Shia dynasty ruled a country with a Sunni majority (or vice versa)? If so, were there any revolts on a religious basis?

Is there a real thing as "Manna" (bible reference). Didnt do a deep dive online but trying to figure out if it is even a real thing nowadays. Can imagine popcorn from heaven - that could fill up a few thousand...

If it was evident that they couldn't see (blindness was very evident) they might be exposed (abandoned and left to die). The extent of how often exposure actually happened, and what its actual intentions were, is debated though, but it is something that pops up often in common myth (Moses, Romulus, etc).

But then you have to consider what we might actually use glasses for today. Not everyone is near or totally blind, most people just need them for things like reading road signs while driving, or reading books. But, in antiquity these things might not have been as necessary (especially driving). So a lot of these people would have lived fairly normal lives.

And once you lived past a certain age, you were expected to live a life into old age, so teeth would fall out, eyes would weaken, and other parts of the body stopped working as well just as they do today. But you would stay as part of the family, live with them, and be taken care of.

As for things to help people read, certain crystals, and glass, can magnify things (hence a magnifying glass) and these things were known and used for reading and other purposes since antiquity.

I wonder often what people with bad vision did before glasses were readily available. Just die off?

Start with your local library and ask them, fund of information most of the time.

I apologize because this isn’t a book but I saw a video a few months ago that I liked. It’s on YouTube the video is called timeline of world history and the poster is called useful charts. A nice 17 minute summary of major world empires and other important historical topics. Very general but covers major empires across the world, I liked it a lot.

Oh, that uh I dunno. I'm sure it happened just super rarely.

I meant like, Bruce Lee punching an armored knight out.