Pavlovlian Behavioral Training or classical conditioning is an attested method first shown by Pavlovlian to elicit trained responses. In the history of the methods used by the Intelligence services has there been any research into whether they have used such behavioural modification methods to g...

According to a list published on Wikipedia, the USA has been involved in at least 80 covert and overt actions in attempting to subvert the domestic governance of foreign governments during the period 1946-2000. Unfortunately this list does not go into much detail, apart from mentioning they had ...

Vaclav Havel, was one of the leading figures of the Velvet revolution that toppled the Czech communist government. He was arrested multiple times by the regime, the longest being for four years. The article doesn't make clear what he was charged with and one suspects that they are merely trumped...

I know that both Chinggis and Genghis are often used interchangeably, but is one more correct than the other?

According to Wikipedia the (communist) leader of Romania (member of the Warsaw Pact) said that the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Warsaw Pact forces is a "grave error". How could he "get away" with this speech? I mean the Soviet Union just proved they are ready to invade an ally if it steps ou...

In the Odyssey, Penelope is courted by 108 suitors, who camp out in her house/royal court indefinitely, behaving badly, while she delays them. I'm having trouble understanding the historical and cultural context here. Is enough known about the culture Homeric Greece to definitively explain what's...

The Treaty of Versailles fixed German reparations at the end of WW1 at 226 billion Gold Marks. The Gold Mark was the currency of the German Empire, and Versailles fixed the values of the "papiermark" at 1914 prices. In order to relate this to todays economics I would be interested to know what...

The Munich Putsch put Hitler in the spotlight on an international level. So why didn't the league of nations act- or any other country for that matter?

our names are Max Weber, and Owen Peachee we are 8th graders at Monticello Trails Middle School in Shawnee, Kansas. For my Pathways (Project-Based Learning) class, we are making a documentary about the 1936 Olympics. We were wondering if you could answer a few questions that we have about our d...

A narrative commonly taught in schools and propagated in books is that Galileo Galilei "dropped two spheres of different masses from the Leaning Tower of Pisa to demonstrate that their time of descent was independent of their mass" (Wikipedia). According to the same article, "it is accepted by mo...

The third president of the United States was a lifelong admirer of W. A. Mozart. Or rather, of Mozart's music; he arranged to meet Mozart in Paris when he was Minister to France (August 1784–September 1789)—purportedly with the intention of commissioning a work in honor of his wife—but was so dis...

Hi all, Wondering if anyone can help me identify which army uniform this is? My GG Grandfather (b. 1878) signed up for the Second Boer War in the British army as an Irishman and possibly WW1 in the American army after emigrating in 1902 so I don’t know which era it’s from. Any help at all wo...