The Tempest stela from 18th Dynasty Egypt has been much discussed and debated. Many scholars believe it describes damage and odd weather caused by the eruption of Thera, but this remains uncertain.

Follow up: we know the Old West was violent but are there any stats of how many people were actually killer's or a percentage of the population which was killed?

Something else I have wondered is, did they have beer? Beer would be tough to have out in places with no refrigeration and tough to keep carbonated I would think.

Het Nationaal Archief in Den Haag lijkt me een goede plek om te beginnen. Op de site onder "onderzoek", "hulp bij uw onderzoek" kun je al gericht zoeken onder "Tweede Wereldoorlog", "Militairen en Marinepersoneel" etc.

Je kunt ook in levenden lijve archiefstukken inzien zie site onder: "onderzoeken", "plan uw bezoek".

(nationaalarchief.nl/onderzoeken)

Anders heeft de lokale bibliotheek of gemeente van bijv. Rotterdam misschien ook wat archieven over destijds die je op aanvraag in kunt zien.

Hopelijk heb je hier wat aan. Succes met de zoektocht, makker!

Started as an outgrowth of coursing in England, and emerged in its recognizable modern form, featuring circular or oval tracks, with the invention of the mechanical, or artificial, hare in 1912 by an American, Owen Patrick Smith. O.P. Smith had altruistic aims for the industry to stop the killing of the jack rabbits. In the 1920s it was popular with the middle class in the US and the US, but quickly became a working class phenomenon in the 1930s.

So, this probably has a more modern explanation, but I remember learning about an Ancient Greek play, The Birds, which references a “cloud cuckoo land.” Why do we use it today? Probably one of those Victorian era cultural things that caught on.

Edit: A quick search seems to corroborate this. Also maybe the inspiration for being on “cloud nine.”

Aristophanes coined a term meaning "an unrealistic or ridiculous utopia" in his satirical play "The Birds" in 414 ce. That term was later (much later-- 1800s) translated as "Cuckoo Cloud Land" or "Cloud Cuckoo Land." It's not much of a stretch to apply the beliefs of Cloud Cuckoo Land to the cuckoos themselves. Additionally, cuckolding referred to a woman's infidelity, often as an insult to her husband (unrelated to Cloud Cuckoo Land; most likely related to the cuckoos' hiding their eggs to be raised by other birds), again, painting the poor cuckoo in a less-than-flattering light.

They had museums back then, but, in England at least, you could also go tour private homes when the family was away and private collections often had works by great masters.

Lots of churches had paintings and sculptures.

Bowing is a sign of deference or respect.

The right hand in front to show you are weaponless.

The left behind, to hide your “evil” or dirty hand.

In the USA it was considered pretty nutty before the late 70s or 80s to run for exercise or fun unless it was for a particular sport. Jogging was getting a start in the late 60s, but the long distance for no reason was frowned upon by orthopedists.

Short answer: the soviets didn’t see Poland as an independent country.

As far as they were concerned, it was a part of Russia that had been occupied by the Germans. Also, controlling Poland would mean that they would be able to intervene in Germany, at the time going through communist uprisings.

Poland also acted aggressively towards the Soviets in order to secure its borders. Making war inevitable.

Another answer is: fking soviets wanted to spread fking communism to the Europe. And Poland was the first country on their way.

Honestly, people have been doing that for a very long time. Male homosexual activity is documented in the early BC’s across the world. There are entire sections dedicated to anal penetration in the Kama Sutra for heterosexual anal penetration.

Given it’s not much of a leap for a horny brain to go “What if I stick it in here” I think it’s safe to say that humans have been going for that bootyhole since we were early hominids running from Pleistocene megafauna.

Isn't sodomy literally in the bible?

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I think Timur would certainly be in the discussion, he was supposedly a very avid chess player and the Tamerlane chess variant is attributed to him.

Emperor Justinian I of the Roman (Byzantine) Empire. The man has it all, skill, shrewdness, patience, and the ability to think strategically on multiple levels. With apologies to Trajan, Justinian might just have been the real "Last Roman." Hi dynasty was one of the last to be named in Latin. His dynasty was also the last one to rule Rome itself.

Justinian spent his entire career getting amazing things done with never quite enough resources to do them properly. He weathered the plague and invasions from literally all sides, locked horns with a Persian empire at the height of its own strength, and still managed to reclaim several lost Roman provinces including Hispania, Italia and Africa. He goes down in history as one of the greatest individual monarchs the world has ever known.

It’s an impossible question to answer. There are some truly fantastic generals that we know about, and all had some chance at defeating any of the others under the right conditions. Flat out, Napoleon had the most recorded victories of any known General, and in his prime he was certainly a contender for top spot, but he never had to fight the Golden Horde, possibly the only pre-modern army faster than him. He had Marshalls under him that would also qualify as top of the line generals in their own right. Archduke Charles, one of the only men to defeat Napoleon while Napoleon was at in his prime, would also have to be on the list. Then there is the great Korean general Eulji Mundeok, a man capable of directing hundreds of thousands of men while fighting terrible odds and coming out on top, or Emperor Tokugawa, who had one of the most elite medieval armies in the word, or any one of a dozen ancient and classical era Chinese generals…

Cardinal Richelieu or Axel Oxenstierna? I would look for people who were able to see moves in advance and design a plan. Along this theme would be some of the Native American leaders who were able to keep their people afloat despite the advantages colonizers had, when one thinks about how few Iroquois there were, yet how long they resisted colonial powers, that has to be some higher level strategy. Certain African leaders would also be nominees as well.

Since they practiced oral curriculum a lot, and certain acts might have been framed by culture to bear a symbolic meaning, for example, as a consumption of semen of knowledge, we have reasons to suspect the answer to your question to be positive.

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Stop touring or performing in front of any audience after 1966.