Questions tagged [europe]
It is the second smallest continent, forming the Western extension of Eurasia.
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What is this lapel pin logo?
I got this lapel pin in the mid-1980s from a retired communist partisan in Hungary. He had more pins, mostly of communist/socialist organisations, trade fairs, and combines.[1]
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Where can I find a historic recipe for red cherry-onion jam?
A while back, I had duck with red cherry-onion jam at a medieval restaurant. Allegedly, it was a historic recipe, originally prepared in 1445 for the wedding of one of René d’Anjou’s daughters.
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Did the British Queen raise young women of humble lineage to serve her?
The House of the Portuguese Queens in the 13th and 14th century could be described more or less as the following:
high social class
- donas or ladies-in-waiting (widows or women married to important ...
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Do these depictions of hunt in medieval Catholic churches have the same symbolic meaning? If not, what is it?
I have come across 3 depictions of a hunt in Catholic churches.
The first two are tiles that were on the floors of an English abbey and a church not far from Reims, France; I could not find any ...
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What were the contemporary European reactions of de Vlamingh's sightings of black swans?
Willem de Vlamingh is reportedly the first European to have seen black swans near modern-day Perth, Western Australia in 1697. The 'black swan' had existed in Europe as a metaphor for about fifteen ...
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Has the 'indefensible-castles-for-nobles-to-discuss-but-peasants-to-gape-at' theory been proposed for Continental Western Europe?
I did try and make the title shorter but I didn't really know how to describe this as "the Liddiard and Morris theory" wouldn't make sense to many people. If someone can word it neater then ...
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What was the average tooth to tail ratio of medieval armies
The tooth to tail ratio is the ratio between the fighting force (tooth) and the non-fighting force in an army. In other words, how many non-combatants directly supported and supplied an army.
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Cost of producing posters in World War I
I know that a lot of posters were printed out during World War I, but am confused by the cost for the government to produce all these. A google search normally yields some results, but this time it is ...
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In what contexts did male friends kiss in Europe in the 1700s?
In Stanley Kubrick's film Barry Lyndon, there's an scene where the title character's mentor, Captain Grogan, is gunned down by French troops. As he lies dying he asks Barry to "kiss me, my boy, for we ...
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Has a reenactment of the firing of a carcass projectile ever been filmed?
From a Scientific American blog, on a "carcass" round:
an explosive mortar shell (developed by the French) wrapped with
incendiary material, this round was fully engulfed in flame after
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Economic aftermath in Europe and the Middle East of the Black Death
The following excerpt is from Blinkist's summary of The Silk Roads by Peter Frankopan:
Europe after the plague was an altogether different place. The
population had fallen dramatically, but this ...
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Percentage of helmet owners in 15th century Europe
There already is a similar question, but it has been closed as unclear. I will attempt to post a clear question instead.
Time : 15th century
Country: medieval Europe excluding Eastern Roman
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Why the wording "land war" rather than just "war"?
Many media outlets call the Russian-Ukraine war the biggest "land war" in Europe since WW2. Examples:
The Economist (2022-11-18):
biggest land war in Europe since 1945
Reuters (2023-09-12):...
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Was there a time when Montenegro executed all of its millionaires?
I bought the complete works of G. K. Chesterton for $1 for my Kindle and read them. Somewhere in all those volumes (as I remember) he asserts that Montenegro executed all of its millionaires (and ...
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What is "trek-leertje" and what it was used for in the 17th century Dutch Republic?
Encountered this expression in the writing of the Dutch scientist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek. In this passage from his Arcana naturae detecta (another version little different) , he describes a tool that ...
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