Started reading The Gulag Archipelago, and its sort of mind numbing, the scale of it described in the book. But it does not put a number on them. Indeed, he concedes the incompleteness of his knowledge already. Was wondering if we have any data today? How many people in ratio to the population ...

In 1938, in a desperate bid to slow the Japanese advance, Chinese forces breached the Yellow River dykes at Huayuankou, killing hundreds of thousands of civilians and displacing millions more. The event was politically toxic to the ruling KMT regime and taken advantage of by the CCP as recruitmen...

This is not strictly a history question, but I hope you can help me: I'm looking for original ancient art depicting king Midas (Ideally a mosaic, but anything will work, as long as it is from the "ancient era"). Searching online with the most popular search engines has been an absolute waste of t...

I am very fascinated by the Umayyad Invasion of Gaul and I am looking for a book SOLELY from start to end dedicated to this subject. I tried to find it on the Internet but to no avail, maybe there is not a single book on the Umayyad Invasion of Gaul due to the ephemerality of the invasion: I don'...

How did Lucy (the first human) get its name? Why is it named Lucy? It seems like a pretty random name.

During the course of 1942, Stalin called for the Allies to start a "second front" to relieve the pressure on Soviet Russia. The Allies responded by launching Operation Torch in North Africa in November, following Montgomery's victory at El Alamein. His subsequent westward pursuit of Rommel into ...