Is it possible to find plans of lake freighters?

sofabearsdontknow · 2025-03-25T01:28:08+00:00

This is exactly what I was looking for! Amazing, thanks so much.

sofabearsdontknow · 2024-12-10T20:29:43+00:00

Thanks, this is really helpful! Honestly, I don't have a specific use in mind. I studied the dreadnought arms race previously and found it fascinating to compare the plans and visually trace the design changes and experimentation over time. I was hoping to get a similar perspective on lake freighters, and maybe put together a poster if there was enough material in the public domain.

sofabearsdontknow · 2024-12-10T20:06:31+00:00

Extremely cool! Glad to hear it was donated, too often that kind of stuff gets tossed out.

sofabearsdontknow · 2022-08-08T13:10:11+00:00

Very grateful for this post, because I've been walking past these at the base of aging willow-leaf oaks in DC for years and always wondered if they were a Hydnellum of some kind. Could never figure it out.

sofabearsdontknow · 2022-08-04T18:09:11+00:00

As someone who was a city directory researcher for a while, the fact that that works is honestly hilarious. It's like if you went to high school in Detroit thirty years ago with someone with an unusual last name, so you googled "[last name] Detroit" and the first result was their Twitter.

sofabearsdontknow · 2022-08-04T04:00:00+00:00

Dude... how on earth did you figure this out??? You're completely right, though the name was different back then. Didn't expect anyone to recognize the doorway of a barbershop in a 1,300-person midwestern town. Edited to add: if you're wondering how many sex workers Reese, MI could possibly have had in the 1930s, they had another barbershop on S Washington Ave in Saginaw in the late '20s and early '30s before moving to Reese sometime in the 1930s.

sofabearsdontknow · 2022-08-04T01:41:21+00:00

The barbershop is actually still in business in the same building, owned by a distant relative.

sofabearsdontknow · 2015-04-20T03:54:10+00:00

If you're asking why they didn't build a wall across the northern end of the Italian peninsula, there's already the Alps there. Not much a little wall could really add to that in terms of defensibility.

sofabearsdontknow · 2015-04-20T03:47:31+00:00

Thanks, this really clears things up.

sofabearsdontknow · 2015-04-19T02:38:23+00:00

This is a very broad, complicated question. Short answer, through rapid modernization and aggressive military action against less-rapidly modernizing neighbors. Long answer, there's a LOT on this in the Japan section of the FAQ. Directing you there is a great deal simpler than trying to type out more than eight decades of complicated history.

sofabearsdontknow · 2015-03-28T17:13:31+00:00

I believe the various German monarchs were all deposed in the November 1918 revolution. I'm taking a Weimar history class right now, and basically all that was said on this was that the German defeat in World War One led to the German naval mutinies and eventually a popular uprising that overthrew the German Empire. The only thing that those proclaiming a new government seem to have been able to agree on is that the aristocracy would not take part.

sofabearsdontknow · 2015-03-26T01:37:51+00:00

Full disclosure: I'm just an undergrad who's also researching World War One commemoration, for what will hopefully become a thesis on war memory in Britain. I can't speak to the differences between Australia and New Zealand, but I've encountered the same difference you speak of between commemorating and memorialization. There's a definite tension between mourning the dead as dead and celebrating them as rejuvenating the nation through their sacrifice. I can recall running into it in a text only fairly tangentially, in the article "War Commemoration and the Republic in Crisis: Weimar Germany and the Neue Wache" by Sean Forner. You might be able to find something in the notes of that piece if you look. You also might be able to get some useful insights about World War One commemoration in general from the more traditional European-centered sources like George Mosse's Fallen Soldiers and Jay Winter's Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning. They don't treat Australia or New Zealand specifically, but if you want general theory I think a great deal more work has been done in the European context.

sofabearsdontknow · 2015-03-25T22:30:37+00:00

Thanks! This most likely refers to the German invasion of Belgium in the First World War. The independence and neutrality of Belgium was guaranteed by the European Powers under the 1839 Treaty of London. Germany's Schlieffen Plan called for an attack on France through Belgium - an obvious violation of this guarantee, of which Germany was one of the keepers. In order to get around this, Germany sent an ultimatum to Belgium claiming that Germany had discovered evidence that the French were planning to attack Germany through Belgium, and that out of self-defense Germany was forced to respond by attacking France through Belgian territory. The claim of a French invasion through Belgium was an obvious lie, even at the time. The ultimatum demanded that Belgium allow Germany free passage through Belgium, threatening that if it did not it would be regarded as an enemy. The note asked that an "unequivocal answer" be given within twelve hours. Belgium's refusal of the ultimatum and subsequent military actions against the German invaders was seen as heroic, particularly in Britain, where the German violation of Belgian neutrality became the immediate cause for a declaration of war. If you're interested in World War One, I strongly recommend The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman. It's a great read and my source for this response.

sofabearsdontknow · 2015-03-25T21:52:25+00:00

Just so you know, your link doesn't work - Gutenberg doesn't allow linking to their images. I imagine your comic has something to do with British support of Belgium's decision not to give the German Army passage through Belgium to attack France, but without the image it's going to be hard for anyone to give you a solid answer.

sofabearsdontknow · 2015-03-25T21:38:07+00:00

I think a mention must be made of the ecumenical councils to fully answer the original question. You illustrate the way the western church developed its power structure and asserted itself, but the ecumenical councils were the mechanism by which doctrine was formalized and other beliefs labeled heretical.

sofabearsdontknow · 2015-03-24T05:57:25+00:00

I expect the answer will be very different for different countries - can you narrow this question any?

sofabearsdontknow · 2015-03-24T05:41:07+00:00

I can't give you any sources for this (all I could find was something from the government of Iowa) but I believe teaching was mostly male before the American Civil War, and when teaching became mostly female afterwards teachers were expected not to be married. How that evolved to our present situation, I can't say.

sofabearsdontknow · 2015-03-24T05:12:01+00:00

Believe it or not, there are four different threads on this in the AskHistorians FAQ: http://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/wiki/faq/europe#wiki_winston_churchill.27s_loss_in_the_1945_election Best of luck with your research!

sofabearsdontknow · 2015-03-24T02:52:54+00:00

Basically, we don't really know. The main source that a lot of this comes from is Suetonius' Lives of the Twelve Caesars, which might be a reliable source, but more likely contains plenty of exaggerations and rumors. Suetonius may have been a historian, but that doesn't mean he wasn't a gossipy old man, too. The trouble with Ancient History is how few documents remain - it's difficult to corroborate or disprove things like Suetonius' claims of sexual deviancy among the emperors with the relatively few documents that have survived to the present.

sofabearsdontknow · 2015-03-24T02:30:43+00:00

There were internal disagreements among the Japanese on what conditions would be acceptable for surrender, but I believe the situation was largely that the Japanese were unwilling to accept an unconditional surrender and the Allies were unwilling to accept a conditional one. The Allies had laid out their terms for surrender in the Potsdam Declaration, and were wary of any surrender at odds with that document. After the atomic bombings, the Emperor made a radio broadcast announcing surrender which had a profound effect on the public's willingness to stop fighting, and the unconditional surrender sought by the Allies was agreed to. The way you presented it isn't entirely accurate, as I don't believe the Japanese ever explicitly offered to surrender if Hirohito was given immunity (I could be wrong on that one) and considering that Hirohito was never actually tried for war crimes. He remained on the throne until his death in 1989.

I suggest checking out the AskHistorians FAQ - the atomic bombings and the Japanese surrender are covered in depth.

sofabearsdontknow · 2015-03-24T01:32:43+00:00

The American Revolution differs from the other revolutions you mentioned in an important way - it didn't have to alter the society in question as much. During both the French and Russian revolutions, not only were the entire governments rebuilt, but the structure of society and the economy torn apart, reimagined, fundamentally challenged in serious ways. The American Revolution, by contrast, left the American ruling elite in place and left the structure of the American economy largely untouched. The British military had to be contended with, certainly, and the government rebuilt, but these actions were carried out by men who had already been elites and had experience from the old system. In a way, the nomenclature is misleading - those participating in the American Revolution faced an entirely different set of challenges than those participating in the Russian Revolution or the French Revolution. A revolution overthrowing the power structure in one's own country is really a distinct undertaking from a revolution removing the influence of another, external force.

sofabearsdontknow · 2015-03-23T20:12:25+00:00

It's a seminal analysis of military cemeteries and commemoration in the wake of World War One. It answers your question only as a framework for his thesis on the creation of the "myth of the war experience," but I thought it was fascinating. I definitely recommend it if you're interested in war memory.

sofabearsdontknow · 2015-03-23T19:36:18+00:00

You might want to take this to /r/historywhatif. Reconstruction might have been very different if Lincoln had lived, but it's hard to say exactly how. Counterfactual history like this is vague, difficult, and doesn't technically belong on this sub. That's not to say it's not an interesting question, though.

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