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  1. R

    Are incels as big a potential problem as Islamic radicalism among men

    Are incel men as big a problem in the future as Islamic radicalism is now? Is there any truth to the widely quoted statistic that only 20 percent of men have ... and monopolize the women while the bottom 80 percent have no ... at all, do incels in the future have a potential to cause as much...
  2. S

    What kind of value did men place on fertile women in the earlier dynasties of China?

    The numerous articles I've read about daily life in Ancient China confuse me a little. They make it clear it was a very patriarchal society. But go even further and paint a picture of a society where women are often disregarded and sometimes even killed at birth for not being male. This confuses...
  3. R

    Are Northwest European men a lot more effeminate now than during the Napoleonic wars?

    After seeing the film Waterloo, are Northwest European men a lot more effeminate and less masculine now compared to the days of Napoleon? Maybe the Napoleonic Wars, WW1 and WW2 killed off the masculine men, particular in Germany, and so it is only the metrosexuals and the softer men that were...
  4. starman

    How many men deserted in 408?

    In The Fall of the Roman Empire a New History of Rome and the barbarians Peter Heather considers Zosimus's figure of nearly 30,000 deserters as "impossibly high." The true figure, he believes, was around 10,000. I suggest, though, that Zosimus was pretty much on the mark. IMO in 405, at the...
  5. P

    Renaissance men's fashion.

    Good afternoon, I found something like that. I think that this doublet is from 16th century, but I am not sure. So I am asking you for identification. Graphics or paintings where someone is wearing something like that would be very helpful.
  6. C

    Origin of Robin Hood's merry men

    Robin Hood was said to have had 143 merry men with him, and they were all dressed in Lincoln green. Even if Robin himself was based on a real person, what about the small army of outlaws at his command? Here's an idea. Though it's not 100% certain, there's good evidence that earliest stories...
  7. R

    How did grown Roman men or Greek practice pederasty

    Now if we believe that sexual orientation is permanent or that we are born with the sexual orientations that we have and that you can not will yourself to change or modify that, then how is it that it seems that a majority or vast majority of free Roman or Greek men were having ... with teen...
  8. AlpinLuke

    Men's freedom to pester ...

    Catherine Deneuve [with dozens of French women] is defending "Men's freedom to pester". Let's avoid easy comments ... [article: Catherine Deneuve denounces #MeToo in open letter - CNN] Substantially she says that there is a new "puritanism" at the horizon ... a female one [I would comment]...
  9. PoochieMoo

    How many men sneaked aboard and burned the Philadelphia?

    I think this event in history is just awesome (my avatar is a picture of it!) but I never knew how many men actually did it. I've looked around but I couldn't find an answer. Does anyone know how many people actually went aboard and burned the ship?
  10. Jake10

    How would society change if women start having babies without men?

    The process by which two female mice can create babies has been discovered, as has the means of using chemicals as artificial sperm. So, if women can start having all female babies without needing men, how will that affect societies around the world? We can create babies without men, claim...
  11. D

    Transport of black men in USA.

    Hello.Did the french company of Senegal,whose office was in Bordeaux, transport black men in the USA during the period 1785-1792 ? Thank you.
  12. V

    Did Charlemagne kill hundreds of Saxon men, women and children in a field?

    Did Charlemagne ever have his soldiers put to death by sword, hundreds of Saxon men, women and children, in a field, when they refused to be baptized? I read that years ago, in more than one place, and have often cited it as fact. Today I cannot find where such a thing happened. Charlemagne...
  13. royal infanta

    History and Women and Men

    I was just looking at a discussion on another forum and someone suggested that the majority of women suffered stockholm syndrome throughout history because they were in arranged marriages, and because of patriarchy, and all women had it bad, etc. My opinion, tends to be that ignoring this mass...
  14. M

    Catholic Majesty´s men

    Throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the Crown of Spain carried out an unprecedented territorial deployment in history, which meant an economic, administrative and military effort of the highest order, consuming almost all its human and economic resources. The conservation of so...
  15. A

    USS Indianapolis Men Of Courage vs Mission Of The Shark

    Okay, I've read three books about the USS Indianapolis in the past few weeks following viewing the movie "USS Indianapolis Men Of Courage". I saw "Mission Of The Shark" years ago and own a copy of the dvd. It goes without saying that I am a huge fan of "Jaws" and the Quint speach. Have you...
  16. S

    A Day in the Life of the Important Men.

    Hello all. I'm looking for resources on what life was like for a man ruling a city in the 13th to 15th century- basically what his yearly calendar was like and what kind of issues he had to deal with on a day to day basis. Did he have to deal with the contemporary equivalent of budget meetings...
  17. gustavolapizza

    men who single handedly caused the collapse of their own nations

    are there in history men, mostly ruler i suppose, we can point as the direct cause of the collapse of their own nations or civilizations? i'm not talking about a man that ended up to be there at the wrong time in history, like, i don't know the last king of france or the last emperor of rome (...
  18. J

    Distances traveled on foot by mountain men

    I have read a few accounts of mountain men putting in 30 mile days on foot. Osbourne Russell in Journal of a Trapper put in some really long days (30ish miles a day for multiple days) on foot while being injured and no food for a couple of those days. Members of the Lewis and Clark expedition...
  19. V

    Men at arms-jupons?

    Hi all. Please bear with me as I'm trying to learn as much as i can about an era i know very little about! In the Hundred Years War era, and particularly Agincourt, knights were required to bring a retinue of archers and men at arms. Did the men at arms and archers belonging to a specific...
  20. bedb

    Three men the ancestors of Europeans?

    Most European Men are Descended from just Three Bronze Age Warlords, New Study Reveals | Ancient Origins This article says most European men descend from three warriors. When I did my timeline the studies indicated more than this, but that time frame was around 2,000 BC Thoughts?
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