History Questions Not Worth Their Own Thread VI

[ParkCungHee]

He was on the left, alongside everyone who isn't a Bourbon Restorationist.

 

[Traitorfish]

Weimar Germany is one of those awkward periods of history where people are trying to figure out what "left" and "right" mean in the absence of traditional reference points, namely the Kaiser. Hitler certainly ends up on "the right" by 1933, but that's at least in part because the Nazis played a major role in deciding what "the right" was in interwar Germany.

(Not, mind you, that this has anything to do with "totalitarianism" or "socialism", or whatever unhelpful reduction is usually peddled in this context. You can't resolve these sorts of ambiguities by imposing alternative over-simplificatons.)

 

[History_Buff]

No one has ever been able to give me a clear, unbiased answer to this one: where was Hitler on the political scale? Left, right, something else...

He was on the right, but was also aware that austerity was bad.

 

[Traitorfish]

Well, he was aware that austerity was unpopular. It's hard to credit him with the basic economic literacy to tell you whether it was good or bad.

 

[History_Buff]

That is a good way to put it.

 

[gay_Aleks]

Is the story of the Divine Wind (i.e that due to divine intervention in the form of typhoons, the two Mongolian invasions upon Japan were foiled) true?

 

[r16]

ı think the Japanese put a solid fight on both occassions and the second invasion might have been already defeated before the typhoon .

 

[Louis XXIV]

Is the story of the Divine Wind (i.e that due to divine intervention in the form of typhoons, the two Mongolian invasions upon Japan were foiled) true?

Do we have any sources besides the one that includes it? It's hard to say what's true when you lack anything objective.

 

[Flying Pig]

Is the story of the Divine Wind (i.e that due to divine intervention in the form of typhoons, the two Mongolian invasions upon Japan were foiled) true?

A more interesting question when dealing with the fusion of legend and history is to ask what it says about Japan that its people choose to believe that it was true.

 

[Kyriakos]

Any good source (online, but not just some wiki stuff) about the Michael VIII Palaiologos vs Charles D'Anjou historyline?

It pretty much ended with the Sicilian Vespers, and it seems they both were quite able rulers who might have managed to take over at least some of the other person's realm if met with less worthy adversaries.

 

[Tee Kay]

Do we have any sources besides the one that includes it? It's hard to say what's true when you lack anything objective.

Mongol, Chinese, and Korean sources, and archeaological evidence from wrecks found off the Japanese coast.

The typhoons were a thing; they were probably not divine though.

 

[Masada]

Mongol, Chinese, and Korean sources, and archeaological evidence from wrecks found off the Japanese coast.

Some of those are wonderfully well preserved.

 

[r16]

and actually the USN lost a destroyer or two in 1944 . In a typhoon . And upto 20 or 30 P-51s were lost in a single stormy day in -ı believe- 1945 .

 

[Louis XXIV]

Mongol, Chinese, and Korean sources, and archeaological evidence from wrecks found off the Japanese coast.

The typhoons were a thing; they were probably not divine though.

There's archaeological evidence? That's cool to know.

 

[H4run]

The Japanese durıng WW2 pretty much confıdence that the US wıll never able occupıed Japan, they belıeve thıs dıvıne wınd wıll come to assıst them just lıke backthen. However they suffered a bıg slap of fact when the dıvıne wınd doesnt come to assıst them on repellıng US ınvader. Sınce then they not actually belıeve that the wınd ıs dıvıne, they see ıt as natural coıncıdence that not really there to aıd them. So they belıeve the Mongol been repelled by the wınd, but they dont belıeve ın the dıvınıty of the wınd. A Japanese bro tell me that.

 

[History_Buff]

ı

Ugh, not you too. What's with you Turks and not wanting to use 'i's?

 

[Dachs]

I think it's charming!

 

[r16]

will see whether it will grab enough CFC members' attention to mount a campaign to get the mods to ban anybody that uses the ı . Presuming it's not a computer updating that went kinda awry .

and please take note that Haroon is not Turkish .

 

[H4run]

Ugh, not you too. What's with you Turks and not wanting to use 'i's?

I posted that post while using the university's computer with Turkish keyboard, the thing is they put "ı" in the place of "i", while "i" they allocated it far away from my other finger that it force me to use my little finger each time I want to type "i", plus I get used to type "i" where it used to be so it really against my reflect. So I just gave up trying and type "ı" instead of "i".

And yes as r16 said, I'm not a Turk. That is the reason that make it even harder, I'm not train and grow up with Turkish keyboard configuration.

 

[History_Buff]

and please take note that Haroon is not Turkish .

Well my mistake then, I thought that he was for some reason. Which I guess I could have verified for myself in about 10 seconds of googling.

I posted that post while using the university's computer with Turkish keyboard, the thing is they put "ı" in the place of "i", while "i" they allocated it far away from my other finger that it force me to use my little finger each time I want to type "i", plus I get used to type "i" where it used to be so it really against my reflect. So I just gave up trying and type "ı" instead of "i".

And yes as r16 said, I'm not a Turk. That is the reason that make it even harder, I'm not train and grow up with Turkish keyboard configuration.

Well then, let me rephrase, why does a Turkish keyboard put "ı" in the place of "i"?