/u/nowlan101's posts
Mark as read: Add to a list
After the fall of the Romanov Dynasty and the imperial government, what happened to the members of the Okhrana?
Mark as read: Add to a list
What role, if any, did interpreters have during the Pacific War? How were they trained? Was there an increased need for Japanese speakers when the U.S. entered the war?
Mark as read: Add to a list
Mark as read: Add to a list
Mark as read: Add to a list
When and how did Hawaii transform from a an occupied series of islands, home to sugar plantations and migrant Japanese workers, to the extremely expensive tourist attraction it is today?
Mark as read: Add to a list
Mark as read: Add to a list
How was the newly made USSR able to fund huge industrialization projects and send men and military gear to Spain? Where did they get the money for this? And why didn't their economy collapse?
Mark as read: Add to a list
Considering that a lot of early South Korean government officials were collaborators with the Japanese, how did this affect relations with them post World War II? Did they try and compensate by taking a hard line stance with Japan? Or was this a non issue?
Mark as read: Add to a list
According to Wikipedia, Islam came to China when the Tang Emperor — at the behest Sa'd ibn abi Waqqas, the envoy for the third Caliph, Uthman — approved construction of a memorial mosque in Canton. Why this overt acceptance of Islam? It's hard to imagine any European nation doing that.
Mark as read: Add to a list