New Cumulative General History Quiz III

[El_Tigre]

There is another...

 

[Israelite9191]

The Portuguese East India Company? I had thought that the Portuguese gov ran all operations in the Indian Ocean. However, they are the only other Europeans from before the English that I can think of besides the Spanish, who I am pretty darn sure did not have trading companies. But, knowing my capacity to make leaping judgements, I will throw in a guess as to a possible Spanish East India Company?

 

[Hornblower]

That weird one that ran up to Murmansk?

 

[El_Tigre]

That weird one that ran up to Murmansk?

Yes, the "weird one": the English Muscovy Trading company, founded in 1555. It survived until 1917!

Israelite9191, I'm not aware that the Spanish and the Portuguese had any trading companies at all. AFAIK, commerce in both empires was monopolized by the state itself, which then granted trading permissions to individuals.

 

[Hornblower]

Go again dude. I got nothin....

 

[Israelite9191]

That's what was so confusing to me. Ah well, I should have known that the Muscovy Trading Company extended into Asia.

 

[El_Tigre]

Go again dude. I got nothin....

Okay.

I'm looking for the location and the date of the event described in the following text. It's a very long text, so bear with me, but it tells a story that shouldn't be forgotten.

Spoiler :

On July 1, a nine-year-old boy [...] left home without informing his parents. [He] set out to visit friends of his parents in [a village]. [...] In [his hometown], [the boy's] father, troubled by his son's absence, began searching for him. When searches and inquires brought no results, [he] was reported missing to the police at midnight. On July 3, [he] decided to return home, and that evening he came back to [the city I'm looking for].

His family and neighbors asked him where he had been. In response, he told a story about an unknown gentlemen whom he had met in [this town]. He asked him to deliver a parcel to some house and after that he put the boy in a cellar. With the help of another boy who was also there, [he] escaped on July 3. Obviously, the story was told by the boy to avoid punishment, but the neighbors and the boy's parents believed it. But two neighbors who were at [his parents home] when [the boy] came back had questions. One asked the boy whether the gentleman he described was a Gypsy or a Jew, and the boy replied that the unknown gentleman did not speak [the local language] and that he therefore had to be a Jew. [...]

On the next day, July 4, at about 8 a.m., [the father] set out for the police station with his son and one of the neighbors. On the way, they passed the house where Jewish families lived in [this town], the so-called Jewish house.

According to the testimony given by the father and the neighbor, they asked the boy if he had been kept at the Jewish home. [The boy] not only stated that he had been held there, but he also pointed to one short man standing near the Jewish house and said that this man had put him in a cellar.

At the police station, [the boy's] story was treated as a truthful. In a short time, three police patrols were dispatched to [the] street where the Jewish house was located. [...]

People started to gather very quickly along the way and to congregate in front of the so-called Jewish house. [...] The initial search of the house by the policemen convinced the crowd that the rumor about [local] children being kept there was, in fact, true, although, at the beginning, most of the people in the crowd behaved passively. They simply watched the police conduct their search.

Between 8 a.m. and 9 a.m., some of the main representatives of state authority in [the town] found out about [the boy's] story and its consequences. Among them were the chief of police and his deputy. In addition, two of the most important people in [the town] at that time, the chief of the Department of Public Security (the secret, political police) [officerA], and his [foreign] advisor also learned of the events unfolding on [the] Street.

At about 10 a.m., the police patrols and a group of functionaries from the political police were joined by an army contingent on [the] Street. According to the testimony of the deputy commander of the army division to which the soldiers belonged, about one hundred soldiers and five officers were dispatched to [the] Street. The newly arrived troops had not been told anything about the events, and they came to believe that Jews had kidnaped and murdered [local] children in the house on [the] Street. The soldiers got their information from the people gathered on the street. With the arrival of the troops, tensions rose very quickly.

The soldiers and the policemen then went into the building. Jews were told to surrender their weapons, but not all of the residents obeyed the order. The entry of the policemen and the soldiers into the Jewish house marked the beginning of the pogrom. Excerpts from testimony supplied by people who witnessed the outbreak of the pogrom describe what followed.

[A] resident of the house on [the] Street, said:

After the police took away the weapons, the crowd broke into the Kibutz (on the second floor) and policemen started shooting at the Jews first. They killed one and wounded several others.

[...], another inhabitant of the Jewish house who was on the first floor, said:

The soldiers went up to the second floor. Several minutes later two Jews came to me and told me that the soldiers were killing Jews and looting their property. It was then that I heard shots. After the shooting on the second floor, shots were heard from the street and inside the building.

This is how [this] pogrom began. The behavior of the policemen and the soldiers, influenced by the crowd outside, provoked it into action. After the attack inside the building, the Jews were led outside where the people killed them in a cruel fashion. Other eye-witness accounts given by Jews and [locals] confirm these events.

[...]

At about 11 a.m. [...], the chairman of the Jewish Committee in [this town], was shot by soldiers. He was killed while calling for help. Within the first hour of the pogrom, representatives of such key institutions in [the nation's capital] as the Ministry of Public Security (secret police) and the Chief Commander of the Police found out about the pogrom from their subordinates in [the town], who called [the capital] at about 11 a.m.

Major [...], the local secret police commander, and his [foreign] advisor [...], were on [the] Street at that time, as were other local officials and army commanders. During the first phase of the pogrom, the monsignor of the cathedral parish in [the town] went to [the] Street with another priest. They were going to check on what had happened and to talk with people gathered there. Officers stopped them. The priests were told that the situation was under control, and that civilians were prohibited from entering [the] Street.

Until noon, all attempts to stop the pogrom brought no results. At that time, the pogrom spilled over into the city itself as well. One resident of [the town] recalled:

At 11:30 some eight young people coming from the direction of the railroad station on [some other] Street ran a man down in the middle of the road. He was hit with fists in the face and head. From his face I could tell he was a Semite. I would like to mention that as a former prisoner of [some kind of prison] I had not gone through an experience like this. I have seen very little sadism and bestiality of this scale.

At about 12 o'clock, the army managed to push the crowd back from the square facing the Jewish house. However, the crowd did not disperse. The temporary calm was interrupted by the arrival of workers from [a] steel mill. The arrival of the workers marked the beginning of the next phase of the pogrom, during which about 20 Jews lost their lives. According to eye-witness accounts, once the workers arrived nothing could be done for the Jews inside the building or on the square. Neither the military and secret police commanders, nor the local political leaders from the [nation's] Workers' Party did anything to stop the workers from attacking Jews. The pogrom lasted until 2-3 p.m. New units of soldiers from a nearby school run by the Interior Ministry and from [the capital] finally succeeded in restoring order. Also, around 2 p.m. an official from the [city'a] court placed a call to the Curia requesting that the Church intervene on [the] Street. Five priests went to the street], where they tried to convince people gathering there to return home. The priests warned the mob that the soldiers would use their weapons. However, one of the soldiers standing nearby said that the [...] army would never shoot at [the locals].

Meanwhile, wounded Jews were brought to the hospital. While being transported, they were beaten and robbed by soldiers. The anti-Jewish mood did not end with the pogrom. In the afternoon, a large, anti-Jewish demonstration took place on [the] Street. In addition, a crowd approached the hospital and demanded that the wounded Jews be handed over to them. The pogrom in [the town] began about 10 a.m. and ended in the afternoon. Anti-Jewish events took place not only at [the] Street but all over town. In [this town], a Jewish mother and baby were carried out of their house and killed. Anti-Jewish actions also occured on trains passing through [the town] that day.

Over forty people were killed in the pogrom (some of them died later in the hospital), including two [locals].

You can use online (and offline) resources to find out the exact place and date, but don't use Google in combination with parts of the text. I hope this isn't too tedious...

 

[Israelite9191]

The Kielce Pogrom of July 4, 1946

 

[El_Tigre]

Indeed.

Because of 2 facts, this pogrom is even more depressing than it already is:

1. All of the jews in Kielce were Holocaust survivors.
2. Almost all jews in the city wanted to emigrate to Palestine as soon as possible.

Your turn, Israelite9191.

 

[Israelite9191]

These pictures all have some relation to a historically important movement. What is the name of the movement?
Note- The connection is not so apparent with each individual picture, one picture fills this definition particularly well, but within the overall scheme of things it should all (or at least mostly) click in.

 

[Israelite9191]

Come on people! Take a stab at it! Its not like its too hard.

 

[SoCalian]

the Zionist movement? because the bottom flag was and old flag of madagascar, and madagascar was one of the places suggested for a Jewish state.

 

[Israelite9191]

The Zionist Movement is correct! The first picture, going left to right and top to bottom, is the Coat of Arms of Basel, the site of the First Zionist Congress. The second picture is the Dormitian Abbey on the falsely named Mt. Zion in Jerusalem, named such by Byzantine pilgrims even thoughthe actual sight of Mt. Zion is unknown. The third picture is the Zion Nuclear Power Plant in Zion, Illinois downstate from Chicago. The last picture is, as SoCalian said, the flag of Madagascar which was suggested as a possible alternate sight of a Jewish state when it was a French Protectorate, the last flag before the current one. Your turn SoCalian.

 

[SoCalian]

I am looking for an event.

 

[Israelite9191]

California Gold Rush?

 

[SoCalian]

yup, your turn israelite.

pic one are levi's.

pic two is sutters mill

pic three is james Marshal, who found the gold at sutters mill.

 

[Israelite9191]

They are the richest family in the world, with a total wealth of unknown billions. Who are they and who is the mythic figure that they and many other important families of the region descend from?

 

[SoCalian]

royal family of dubai, and my guess would be muhamed or ishmael

 

[jameson]

IIRC the Sultan of Brunei is actually richer than any of the Arab rulers. Apart from which, the Walton family is richer still than all of those oil magnates.

I'm not aware of any famous ancestors in either case though .

 

[Serutan]

The Rothschilds? From Charlemeign?