I’ve been searching very hard lately for any evidence that “some” soldiers in the continental army had facial hair. I’m aware facial hair was out of style during the revolutionary era but I couldn’t imagine a less than perfectly precessional army would stay clean shaven as the war dragged on. I’ve taken close looks at some paintings from the era and some men have beards in the paintings. Any one have any other sources or answers?

I have a few specific questions, but I want to establish terminology first. When I say "firearm(s)", "rifle(s)", and "pistol(s)" I am referring ONLY to hand-held matchlock, wheellock, and flint-lock devices with triggers from before the year 1800. I am NOT referring to cannons, "hook guns" like the arquebus, or modern guns like the AK-47.

1. Were rifles more commonly firing balls at subsonic or supersonic speed? What about pistols? Did this change much between the matchlock era and flintlock era?
2. Would subsonic rounds from a rifle be able to penetrate 1400s plate armor a significant amount of the time? What about supersonic rounds? Would this change much using a rifle from the matchlock era vs flintlock era?
3. Would subsonic rounds from a rifle be able to penetrate the (presumably thicker to defend against firearms) 1500s / early 1600s plate armor a significant amount of the time? What about supersonic rounds? Would this change much using a rifle from the matchlock era vs flintlock era?
4. Same as questions 2 and 3, but with pistols instead of rifles.

That's all. Just wondering if there was ever a market for these mushrooms, or if there had always held a place of status not as a commodity.

Firstly, I know Homer was not the author of the stories.

To me it seems unlikely that we would have preserved the only two Homeric stories for millennia. To put it in a modern way, is it likely that we have the Homeric equivalents of Avengers Assemble and the Winter Soldier but we have lost all the other marvel movies?

The iliad, especially, has such a huge cast. Surely Hector had his own pre iliad myth? Or Diomedes? Nestor surely?

I dont mean the Aeneid or other later Roman stories but at the time that the Homeric myths were being passed on orally. Sure Odysseus makes for a good protagonist but I cant believe that some of the other iliad characters didn't have their own "stand alone" tales.

Hello, on r/WW2 it says Erwin Rommel committed war crimes. I’m a casual historian and never heard of this. Please tell me your answers down below, thank you.

So I have to assume that in the concentration camps of Nazi Germany and the gulags of the Soviet Union that uprisings to overtake the guards were attempted, but I can't recall from any of my history classes any that were successful. Were there any successes in taking control against their captors? Or maybe large scale escapes? If so, why were these attempts successful and not others?

Thanks

I recently looked through an older print from around 1800 and noticed numbering of the pages in addition to the regular page numbers. The numbers were both Roman numerals and letter-number pairs (C, C2, D, D2) intermixed.

What is the purpose behind this?

I just stumbled on the fact that during the catholic Christmas on December 25. 1914. Despite the rulling of both warring sides to refuse Pope Benedicts appeal to cease fire, soldiers in the trenches mutually agreed to cease fire themselves. For two days they played football and exchanged cigarettes and cheese. It seems mind boggling to me that such Chivalry existed in such a gruesome war.

My question is are there any testimonies on how that cease fire played out. Were there incidences where somebody broke the cease fire? How did the soldiers sustain their morale for fighting after they spent two days with their opossing side, since it is harder to kill someone who is humanized in your eyes?

I don't understand how a country with a population smaller than London could become so influential in the history of South Africa which had a population 4 times bigger.

I know SA had considerable resources in diamonds and gold, but why did the Dutch need to rule and control the country through such violence and force, creating apartheid and finally leaving politics in the mid-1990s?

I know that we have a seperate school board in Ontario because of the discrimination Catholics faced.

But what was this discrimination? I can't find very much information about what was actually happening.

I also feel like other religions has been discriminated against way more, but not having as much power as the church you don't see their school subsidized.

I don't get it and I would like more information so I can make an informed argument about the secular and catholic school boards no longer being seperate.

I need some sources for a college history project but I'm struggling a bit with reliable sources, even more so with primary resources. Thanks in advance!

Joseph Goebbels was disabled and Ernst Rohm was a homosexual but both were close friends to Hitler. Why did he excuse these two but kill many other homosexuals and sterilize disabled people?

I've been taught that under Saint Stephen and even under Coleman the Bookish, Hungarian serfs were expected to pay not a fixed sum of currency to their landlords, but 1/10th of their harvest, and offer another 1/10th to the church.

I was also taught the serfs did not really use currency, and relied mostly on barter within their village to get their things.

Now, I understand how a baron or a priest might collect their taxes, but how does said baron or priest turn that pile of grains and other perishable goods into currency to pay as a tax to their own sovereign? Who do they sell it to?

England has around 61 monarchs in 1200 years and 12 monarchs since the unifation in 1707. That is 20 and 26 average per ruler respectively.

Egyptian pharaohs have an average of 18 years over a time period 30 centuries.

You can see that when taking a long time period, the average time of reign will converge to average years between two generations. Anything more or less than that will lead to monarchs being very old or very young.

As we see in Japan, search any emperor and mostly he will be a child emperor ruled for 5-10 years.

Why didn't the line die out?

I understand that the Roman empire was a very socially stratified society, but I'm under the impression that skin tone, and especially what we call race, was not a factor in their heiarchal stratification of the Roman world. Am I misunderstanding something?

By the Roman Empire I'm using the term to refer to both western and eastern traditions, although maybe they weren't identical in this regard.

Thanks.

The older roads in many towns are named for families or landmarks that are long gone. EX: We have Grants Mill Road. Who was Grant? Where was the mill. Also Powder Powder Plant Road. Was it baby or gun or baking?

I’m a Lyft driver and I like to throw out this kind of trivia while I driving passengers around!