Ok so i am not a denier of the party switch, frankly i could care less (I’m libertarian) but something isn’t adding up. If the parties switched during the southern strategy then how do we explain the classical liberal, laissez-faire republicans before that? For example Hoover, and Coolidge. They were certainly not progressives or a modern liberal.

Also, why are skirts the standard for women today, as well? Shouldn't it be the other way around? As men have external genitalia that is more compatible (and comfortable) with skirts compared to pants. How did these come to be?

To be honest, I've been looking everywhere for an answer to this, only to get the digital equivalent of a confused look.

Albarelli covered CIA history (such as the Olson case), but folks who write about that seem to mix in with conspiracy theorists.

Does anybody know of his credits? His academic ethics? I don't want to read anything that could lead to false conclusions.

I was just wondering how much the general public knew, mainly outside of Germany, about the concentration and extermination camps in World War 2. Surely if a proportion of the German population were aware of their existence, the news would have filtered through to other countries? Of course, all the Allies could try to do was defeat Germany and their allies, but one would have thought the population in, say, the UK would have known. Thank you!

Now they use massive tanker trucks connected to large refineries, but how did this infrastructure begin?

As far as I know, during the expansion of the british empire, indian cotton was heavily imported by England and other european nations. I also know that cotton cloths were commonly used as trading goods in the african slave trade. But, when it comes to clothes and fashion, at least in England, cotton rarely appear during the period. How was cotton used in Europe? Was it used as clothing in the Americas?

I'm interested in how the Kirishitan of Japan's late medieval/early modern period understood the Christianity that the Portuguese and Spanish missionaries brought to them. I suppose another question might be, how orthodox was the average understanding of Christianity to the converts of the Sengoku period?

Konishi Yukinaga, for example, refused suicide after defeat in Sekigahara and was executed. Which seems to be pretty in tune with Catholic teaching against suicide. But was there more syncretism than we are led to believe? Were Kirishitan still making offerings at Buddhist temples and to Kami shrines? Were there attempts to bring various Kami into the Christian pantheon of saints, a la certain European gods that became later canonized?

To further qualify my question: It is common parlance to say that the US (&UK) ousted Iranian Prime Minister Mossadeq in 1953. That they tried is undeniable. However, what is also undeniable is that the plan did not succeed at first. The coup leaders were arrested and the shah fled to Rome. Only days later, after massive protests, was Mossadeq ousted.

I have read different accounts of this event. Some (like Barr's "Lords of the Desert") highlight the CIA's role in bribing mobsters and religious leaders to organize anti-Mossadeq protests. Others (like Axworthy's "Revolutionary Iran") seem to think Western commentators overemphasize the CIA's role in what was really a domestic protest, led by bazaaris and the clergy, against the growing influence of the leftist Tudeh party.

What is the overall historians' consensus? How important was the US' role in orchestrating a coup in Iran?

Correction: I said Mossadeq was ousted "later in the year" when he was actually ousted four days after the first coup attempt.

Been thinking about Monster Squad (1987) lately ('tis the season), and it struck me that this movie assumes that the kids would have been familiar with black-and-white Unviersal Monster movies from the 1930s-1940s. How likely is that? Where and how would they have seen these monster movies?

After looking through some images of the Great Wall of Peru, I thought I'd go back and look at the Great Wall of China to note similarities, if any, that I find. I noticed that it appears that the fortified side of the Great Wall was facing China, which strategically make no sense. You have on side with crenellations (think Castle Walls) and the other has just a normal knee wall. The side with the crenels should face outward, to provide protection and strategic advantage. I would make sense to challenge the thought of China building this as a defensive fortification, versus it being built by the people occupying the opposite side, which I believe would have been Tartary.

Anyone have any insight on this?

One of common themes in early Imperial Rome, say 1st century AD, is that Rome simply didn't have enough standing legions to do all it wanted/needed to do. If they needed to go on offensive on one border it had to weaken other. Or when threatened on one border it had to shuffle legions from another, thus weakening it. For example conquest and pacification of Britannia required 4 legions, whose absence was felt elsewhere.

So why not raise couple more? Sure, it was expensive but surely exposing border to enemies because there were not enough legions to go around was worse and more expensive in long run? Given that in the Year of IV Emperors usurpers raised their own legions surely Rome itself could do same and sustain them.

In the game “war thunder” the most common tank shell for World War Two tanks is APHE (Armor piercing Ballistic capped Hight explosive” it is a shell designed to explode with penetration. There is also Solid Shot Armor Piercing which is just a shell that pierces armor with no HE. And High explosive, Just an explosive with low penetrating unless it is a big caliber. In World war 2 what was the most common shell that tanks had?

I’ve studied Punic civilization quite a lot, and for obvious reasons Carthage predominates the scholarship massively. But while I know that Gadir is older and had a very important temple to Melqart, and that Utica was the second largest Phoenician/Punic settlement in North Africa (I believe), I don’t really know much else about them or other non-Carthaginian Punic settlements. What do we know of their governments, people, traditions, economies, and the like?

Holy carp three awards for asking a question? Thanks community!