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Hollywood gives us fictional portrayals of Soviet officers prepending "Comrade" to other titles in, for example, the fictional film The Hunt for Red October set in 1984. Decades ago I'd read ...

I'm looking for a PDF with the original Arabic text by Ibn Fadlan (the passage before he meets the Russ). Related question

This question has answers elsewhere on the network: https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/201726/can-you-help-me-identify-this-location-from-1918 My great uncle was in WWI and I found this photo ...

When a British captive officer taunted Surcouf with the words "You French fight for money while we fight for honour", Surcouf replied "Each of us fights for what he lacks most" ...

It appears that the American Revolution established the states as thirteen separate sovereign nations, with the Declaration of Independence, officially on July 4, 1776: We, therefore, the ...

The narration of a youtube video about the third & forth crusades: On October 2, 1187, Saladin took over Jerusalem, which triggered the Third Crusade. Isaac II made an alliance with him to ...

I recently began reading about a fascinating episode of North African history known as the Fulani Jihad States. It was basically a jihad-type war led by the charismatic intellectual Usman dan Fodio, ...

Is this correct? International law (particularly before 1945) was entirely dyadic: any relationship like the state of war, or even neutrality, was always defined between a pair of two states.

Samaritan historian Benyamim Tsedaka noted that many Samaritans who converted to Islam retained their original surnames, passing them on to future generations. Consequently, in most villages with ...

My father served in WWII as a truck driver. What does '3638th QM Tk Co 235th QM T Bn Mobile' indicate under 'Organization'?

A young physics genius Ettore Majorana vanished without a trace in 1938 after withdrawing money, sending contradictory letters, and boarding a ship that was supposed to take him from Palermo to Naples....

Communication is vital to administering a big territory. How did the Mongol Empire manage communication and administration across such a vast territory without technology and in such harsh climate?

ITN claims that West Berlin police sometimes thwarted escape attempts from East Berlin. That seems to be supported by the video they show. Why did West Berlin police do that?

This answer about Tolkien's use of "machine" to mean "plot device" / "deus ex machina" says that such use of "machine" is archaic. But that means that there was ...

The Minoans of Crete (c. 3100–1100 BC) developed one of the first organized civilizations in the Mediterranean. Despite the lack of deciphered written sources, archaeology provides evidence of their ...