History questions not worth their own thread II

[Agent327]

I've always sort of thought of the Third Reich as an attempt to rebuild the Holy Roman Empire plus the Prussian territories. The First and Second Reichs kind of combined I guess. The conquests like Poland and Ukraine I always figured were planned to be administered more along the lines of colonies or with military governments for an undetermined amount of time. It's interesting they considered the Dutch as Germans since they had not even been formally part of the HRE since Westphalia and really split off much earlier than that. Makes me wonder what they planned for the Scandinavians.

Not much, I´m afraid. The term "Third Reich" is purely historiographical; the Nazis themselves simply called it "the Reich". Other than the fact that there had been a Holy Roman and a German empire before, there isn´t really any relation ideologically speaking, since it resulted from Hitler´s coup d´état. Furthemore, the Nazi idea of "German" was racial (instead of linguistical, as it should be), but then Nazi ideology never had a yota of understanding of science (and technology) anyway.

 

[Lord Baal]

Actually, the Nazi Party referred to Germany as the Third Reich for a short period of time, before they changed to the official terminology of "the Greater German Reich."

 

[ParkCungHee]

I'm no fan of Schmelling's behaviour - though I am a fan of his boxing - so I'm sorry if I gave that impression. Merely pointing out the irony of him having a Jewish manager.

Right. I'm just very used to coming across books and repeated stories about how Schmelling 'defied the Nazis and kept his Jewish friend and manager'

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

This might be your source if you want to read up on it. It wouldn't surprise me. After the War, there was no value to preserving the lives of freed blacks as their was with slaves.

Antebellum means Before the War.

 

[bombshoo]

Did the Kellog-Briand Pact have any actual benefits? I've read that it was the basis of a lot of international law that developed later. Is that true, and if it is, is any of it relevant today?

 

[Agent327]

Actually, the Nazi Party referred to Germany as the Third Reich for a short period of time, before they changed to the official terminology of "the Greater German Reich."

Yes, well, that´s why I generally term my phrases rather carefully; I don´t mention the Nazi party. Other than that you are ofcourse correct. My bad for assuming this known.

 

[GoodGame]

What's the etymology or ethnic origins of Abraham Lincoln's surname?

I'm thinking Lincoln might be French.

 

[Agent327]

Lincoln is a city in the UK.

 

[GoodGame]

Lincoln is a city in the UK.

Ok, but is that city's culture derived/influenced from the Norman conquest?

 

[Dachs]

Roman Lindum used to be on that site.

 

[Plotinus]

And, before that, Celtic Lindon (meaning a body of water).

 

[Louis XXIV]

So...Hungarian?

 

[LightSpectra]

What would CFF rather see an article on: a history of Alsace and Lorraine, or Louis-Napoleon's contributions to the end of the old European order in the 19th century?

 

[spryllino]

The latter.

 

[vogtmurr]

alsace-Lorraine - thats where some of my family came from

 

[Xanikk999]

Did the arabs living in the middle east before the age of islam eat pork? What about back in ancient persia or even earlier? Was eating pork always forbidden as a cultural taboo and islam just reinforced the prohibition?

 

[Cynovolans]

Did the arabs living in the middle east before the age of islam eat pork? What about back in ancient persia or even earlier? Was eating pork always forbidden as a cultural taboo and islam just reinforced the prohibition?

Pork wasn't ever popular in Arabia and Israel because they couldn't eat grass, and so anyone keeping them needed to buy expensive grains to feed them. That made pigs competitors with humans for food.

Zoroastrians are not forbidden from eating pork, but they don't tend to. I don't know if it is a Persian tradition, or something they adopted from living under Muslim rule.

 

[Ajidica]

What would CFF rather see an article on: a history of Alsace and Lorraine, or Louis-Napoleon's contributions to the end of the old European order in the 19th century?

Louis-Napoleon. I've always liked the dual revolution.

 

[Lord Baal]

The latter.

This. Both would be interesting, but I've always been fascinated by Louis-Napoleon's contradictory efforts to make a name for himself and cash in on his uncle's name.

 

[Tee Kay]

Pork wasn't ever popular in Arabia and Israel because they couldn't eat grass, and so anyone keeping them needed to buy expensive grains to feed them. That made pigs competitors with humans for food.

Actually, the Jewish and Muslim prohibitions against pork make a lot more sense in this context.