It is well known that white actors in Blackface played African Americans in the movie, but I have the vaguest memory that there may have been some actual Blacks playing extras. I could also see, given the subject matter and the time that not only were no Blacks hired but none would willing act in...

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I am looking for references or information of a person who published a book about Christianity and Finance in 1932, in London. This person was from the military, achieving lieutenant-commander rank. I am not sure this is on-topic though. On the one hand, the person is not purely a "common citiz...

Here's a typical situation. I see a question. I write an answer that draws upvotes. Then the OP revises the question. My answer starts getting downvotes. The critical comments are generally that the answer is "out of sync" with the (revised) question. My typical response is that my (timestamped)...

It is justified creating the grant tag just for this question ? I personally had no idea this guy existed - also, I don't think it should be encouraged to create new tags for every historical figures, especially those who aren't extremely well known.

I did something for the first time ever on any SE site today, and that was not reject an edit from an anonymous user. (I am able to open review queues on 5 SE sites). This particular edit was nothing but helpful, but whomever offered it is listed as an anonymous user. My experience for the last...

Queen Anne (reigned 1702 – 14) had seventeen known pregnancies but died without surviving issue. Only five led to live-born children and all of them died before she even ascended the throne. Did any other monarch have so many known pregnancies yet fail to produce a surviving heir? If not (and I ...

Dwight D. Eisenhower graduated from West Point in 1915 ranked 61st in a class of 164 better known for his abilities on the football field than in the classroom. Upon graduation from West Point he seriously considered a civilian life option rather than pursuing a commission. He spent WWI in the ...

Zhang Zhenglong, in his The Barrel of A Gun 1949 mentioned that divisions of northern men (mostly Manchurian recruits) were debilitated by countless diseases such as malaria, heat injury, diarrhoea, flu and skin diseases after they entered into Yantze river basin. However, Gong Chu in his memoi...

can someone tell me what happened in 1973 and 1988. Thank you.