What is the statue on top of the Nebraska Capitol Building? Atop the 400 foot tower of the Nebraska State Capitol stands a figure casting the seeds of life to the winds….the Sower. The statue of the Sower, modeled after the traditional method of hand sowing grain for planting, is a symbol of the importance …
When and why did “Near East” become “Middle East?”
After the Ottoman Empire disappeared in 1918, the area called the Near East was not used, and the Middle East came to be used for the entire region. When did Near East become Middle East? Middle East essentially supplanted Near East in the early 20th century, although the two are now used interchangeably among English …
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How did medieval cities get rid of waste?
Obviously, medieval cities lacked infrastructure that dealt with the disposal of human waste. Instead, waste was simply dumped into rivers or buried in the ground. And although there were rules forbidding the disposal of filth outside people’s homes, according to the article, these rules were mostly ignored. What did medieval people do with garbage? They …
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U-Boat Mutiny in WW2?
Were there any mutinies on U-boats? NEW U-BOAT MUTINY AT KIEL REPORTED; Sailors of the German Navy Kill 38 of Their Officers;- Geneva Hears.31 дек. 1969 What was the deadliest U-boat in ww2? U-505 If ever there was a submarine laden with bad luck it was Germany’s U-505. Despite sinking eight Allied ships early in …
What crops were part of the medieval spring harvest?
While the plough teams were busy on the fallowfallowFallow is a farming technique in which arable land is left without sowing for one or more vegetative cycles. The goal of fallowing is to allow the land to recover and store organic matter while retaining moisture and disrupting pest life cycles and soil borne pathogens by …
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Looking for a people where the “traditional” gender roles are shifted
What are examples of traditional gender roles? For example, girls and women are generally expected to dress in typically feminine ways and be polite, accommodating, and nurturing. Men are generally expected to be strong, aggressive, and bold. Every society, ethnic group, and culture has gender role expectations, but they can be very different from group …
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Curious office hours of Topographical Bureau where Napoleon served in 1795?
What did Napoleon do in the French Revolution? He launched a series of committees, which over several years saw the creation of the Civil Code of the French People. This code clarified the laws of the French Revolution, and was better known as the Napoleonic Code. When did Napoleon become first consul? In August 1802, …
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What anti-Japanese guerrilla units were active in Manchuria from 1944-1945?
Who was the British’s most trusted guerrilla during Japanese occupation? Spencer Chapman, a British army officer highly decorated for his military record in Malaya, once called Chin Peng “Britain’s most trusted guerrilla representative.” In 1945, he participated in a victory parade in London and was honored with an appointment to Officer of the Order of …
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Has the US army ever fought an urban battle?
Battle of Monterrey, Mexico The Battle of Monterrey was the US Army’s first major encounter with urban warfare. Is urban warfare the hardest? Urban warfare is the hardest type of warfare that any nation can ask its military to conduct. It is more difficult, more complex than any other—not least because urban terrain is not …
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Why did Western democracies sign the Munich Agreement?
Why did they sign the Munich Agreement? Hitler had threatened to unleash a European war unless the Sudetenland, a border area of Czechoslovakia containing an ethnic German majority, was surrendered to Germany. The leaders of Britain, France, and Italy agreed to the German annexation of the Sudetenland in exchange for a pledge of peace from …
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