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So I’ve just seen some original footage of some ships being attacked by kamikaze pilots from Japan. About 1900 planes have damaged several ships but my question ist how did the Japan army convince the pilots to do so? I mean these pilots weren’t all suicidal I guess but did the army forced them to do it somehow? Have they blackmailed the soldiers? Thank you for your answers :)
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It bankrupted Britain, costed its empire, deprived its superpower status and privilege. Yet how come Russia, who suffered most, bore 90% of the casualties, got stronger as war went on and become a superpower immediately after the war?
Don't they have war debts to pay, cities to build and population to grow back? How could it project its power so vast across Europe when everyone else was recuperating.
America I can understand. But how did Russia do it?
I’m Chris Gerrard, a professor of archaeology at Durham University (UK). I work on lots of different things like the archaeology of natural disasters (earthquakes and tsunamis) and direct big-scale excavations at the bishop’s palace at Auckland Castle (County Durham), Shapwick village (Somerset – with Mick Aston from TV’s Time Team) and at Clarendon royal palace (Wiltshire). I’ve dug quite a bit in Spain and Portugal too. I tend to work at the edges of my subject where it touches on history, architecture, geography and earth sciences but basically I’m interested in people and in daily life in the past, where and how people lived. I am an ‘academic’, I suppose, but I am committed to public history and to communicating research to the widest possible audience.
Most recently I’ve been fortunate to be involved in an extraordinary project in which two mass burials were found here in Durham in 2013. This video will give you a flavour:
Over the next two years a complex jigsaw of evidence was pierced together by a team of archaeologists to establish their identity. Today we know them to be some of the Scottish prisoners who died in the autumn of 1650 in Durham Cathedral and Castle following the battle of Dunbar on the south-east coast of Scotland. This was one of the key engagements of the War of the Three Kingdoms (or Civil Wars). Using the latest techniques of skeleton science we tried to give back a voice to these men through an understanding of their childhood and later lives. Archaeological and historical evidence allows us to reconstruct with vivid accuracy how and why these men vanished off the historical radar.
Since this discovery, we have been tracing what became of the survivors. On a journey which has led me to clues in France, Barbados, Maryland (USA), Virginia (USA), Massachusetts (USA) and Maine (USA) as well as places in the UK including the Cambridgeshire Fens, North/South Shields, Newcastle, the coal mines of County Durham. We know most about those who left for New England and their descendants, among them actors John Cryer and Kate Upton - among 400,000 others who are passionate about their ancestry. We’ve been lucky enough to win some prizes for our work including a Living North award and best (British) archaeological book of the year 2018 but the best aspect of the project is how we can connect the descendants of the Dunbar survivors with their own past – I’ve never been involved with any archaeology project which has been able to do that so directly. The response has been overwhelming.
You can find out more about our Scottish Soldiers project here: https://www.dur.ac.uk/archaeology/research/projects/europe/pg-skeletons/
And about ‘the book’ of the project (but there’s more to come!)
Scottish Soldiers: https://www.oxbowbooks.com/dbbc/lost-lives-new-voices.html
And other aspects of my research here:
Title mainly. As I mentioned, I've noticed some trends between the two countries, I assume due to the proximity of the two nations and their relative power. It also seems that this entanglement lasted literally centuries, perhaps from 1000 all the way until the 1800s or so.
Examples of things I've noticed are the marriages between the two countries' leaders that took place, especially early on. Certain positional territories have confused me as well, such as Normandy. From what I understand, Normandy was for much of its history ruled by English kings, and in one instance I heard that a French king demanded that an English king bend the knee as a vassal of the French king due to Normandy still sort of being under French dominion (even though it was ruled by an english king???). As I said, this history is extraordinarily deep and confusing, and any links to relevant reading would be much appreciated.
I understand the various, significant reasons for their ‘fall’, such as, the destruction of the buffalo, the setting of and breaking of certain treaties, the reservations and their attempt to civilise/Americanise the natives, the impact of mining, American attitudes towards their culture and the role of the American army. However, there is much controversy over the ‘main’ reason or the most significant reason and I personally do not have a final conclusion on this. I believe this could be an interesting historical debate.
Edit: I am talking about the natives in America in the 1800s, around the civil war. Just to clear some confusion
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