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Notes to The Student: 1. Due to the events of the Napoleonic Sanhedrin and the post-Napoleonic reaction in Germany, the Netherlands... -
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THE STUDENT JUNE 1840 Gideon Chelemer had grown up on stories of his great-grandfather’s arrival at Acre, nearly penniless after having...
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Jord839 replied to the thread Best case scenario for native Americans in the US.I'm going to be perfectly honest, this mostly just reads like you fixated on a couple words (race-mixing, in this case, which I admit...
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Jord839 replied to the thread Best case scenario for native Americans in the US.You're... literally repeating what I said like I didn't just say it? It's literally in the quote you posted? The point of bringing up...
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"Shackles of the Regime" “… and as we went to bed, I passed a horrid sight–a boy, lucky to have been thirteen years old, hanging from...
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Jord839 replied to the thread Best case scenario for native Americans in the US.I'll agree that it doesn't mean that much in a lot of ways. On the other hand, native languages and cultural traditions have survived...
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Jord839 replied to the thread Best case scenario for native Americans in the US.I think people are vastly overestimating the loyalty of Britain to the natives. Sure, there was some pressure to keep up with the US...
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Building toward 1840, another note on population. When last we left the issue in 1765, the Yishuv had about 40,000 people and had been...
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Jord839 replied to the thread AHQ: Is a prosperous Congo possible with a 20th Century POD?.I'm not really romanticizing him. I specifically pointed out that since he wasn't exactly trained in diplomacy, administration, or...
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Jord839 replied to the thread AHQ: Is a prosperous Congo possible with a 20th Century POD?.South Korea was a military dictatorship and economic backwater for a very long time. We think it was more successful in hindsight given...
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A hell of a lot of weird takes in this thread. An often ignored factor is that many of the African colonies were decolonised in 1960...
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"Signs of the Times" "Yes, love is free; it can dwell in no other atmosphere. In freedom it gives itself unreservedly, abundantly...
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Jord839 replied to the thread What if Jerusalem had assented to the 1538 Sanhedrin..Now I'm curious: Is the idea just 5 relatively powerful hereditary dynasties that happen to be around when the Union of the Levant...
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The Napoleonic arc is done – I hope I’ve managed to deliver some turning points, some new directions, some food for thought about...
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THE SARRAF BASHI AUGUST 1815 The Shorja Market was burning. From Sassoon ben Salih’s house on Shari al-Hennouni, he could see the...