I’ll be writing a paper in my seminar on the transition from pagan to Christian iconography on coinage and I need help finding some sources.

As a subsidiary: how closely am I following continental politics and foreign affairs to see if my cloth will be embargoed? Or are English merchants buying it all off me to export and I dont care about what happens to it afterwards?

The title. Where are the great works? The poetry and painting? This group conquered China, shouldn't China reflect Mongolian culture to some degree? Is Modern day China a remnant of the Mongolian Empire?

How will it be chosen now if i follow his call? Do I just do what my Captain/sargent says? Do I get any option to choose if I want to participate? What if my Colleagues know that I voted for him? I know it's a very generalized question and it probably differs from case to case, I'd still love to get an insight to what's happening to a standard soldier in these situations.

I ask because it seems like it could be a hazard (waterborne disease, crocodiles etc.) and difficult to execute architecturally. While I know the last point may seem laughable considering we are talking about a culture that literally built pyramids, I still find it hard to visualise given the inundation cycle and the difficulty that comes with building in such conditions.

Even when I consider a building in another location, perhaps opening to a river or the sea, I still don’t know how this would work.

I’ve tried searching for examples but I’ve yet to find anything. Any assistance is greatly appreciated.

So I just watched the movie "Lola Montès" (1955) by Max Ophüls and it's based on a true story about this femme fatale who was sedusing a lot of men, some of them in high places, all over Europe in the 19th century. During this movie I was wondering how she managed to never give birth to a child and if she even got pregnant in the first place? Did european women (also sex workers from that time) who had many different sexual partners but who didn't want to get pregnant just had sex during specific times of their menstrual cycle? Where they aware of this cycle? Did their partners just "pulled out" or practiced anal sex? Was Lola Montès infertile? Or did women like her just got a lot of abortions?

Bonus question: How did they practice safer sex in the early 20th century?

I also wanted to ask why she didn't get a shitload of STDs, but apperently she suffered and probably died from syphilis.

From what I have understood, the city of Florence was under theocratic domination of Girolamo Savonarola from 1494 to 1498. But Piero Capponi, an ancestor of mine, seems to have been named ruler of the Florentine Republic from 1494 to 1496: how was the political power organized ? Was he a lackey to Savonarola ?

From what's ve read and heard, by one side it is considered solid work based on Greif's experience with researching the Holocaust and his position as an unbiased foreigner. On the other hand, Greif is criticised for his lack of experience on this particular subject, exaggeration of numbers and supposed connections with the political establishment in Serbia and Srpska.

Are the criticisms justified or is the book accurate and objective look on the history of the camp ?

Presumably unintentionally. Also presumably, would just go through without detonation.

Were moats very common? Were they very hard to defeat? Did they keep fish in them? Was the water stale?

What possessions would someone being transported to the Americas in the 17th Century be allowed to take with them?

Presumably the answer might be very different if the transportee was a volunteer rather than a criminal?

If you want me to be even more precise: criminal, and the year is 1657. The person in question is English, not Irish or Scottish. The crime is being a musician (I have no idea how they would have framed the charge).

[I'd actually welcome ANY information or sources on the lives of transportees in this period. It's just that this particular question was bugging me especially.]

I'm writing a script about a girl (15) in the 19th century in Mesoamerica. She is the daughter of a captain that is searching for a guano island.

I'm having trouble imagining the economic and social status of this girl. Also I'm not sure if captains were middle or lower class.

Any book, documentary, movie, youtube channel, etc that could help me understand better this period, would be amazing :)

So i always thought it was suspicious that during the mideval era the seat of the main sect of Christianity also happened to be in the same city as the capital of the Roman empire.(yes I understand in later years the administration was moved to medialonum/Ravenna) but the spiritual capital has always been Rome.

The pope holds the title "pontifex maximus" which was actually verbatim the same title held by chief preists in ancient Rome. I beleive ceasar even held it.

I get this gut feeling(for want of a better word) that the roman catholic church as an political entity in the mideval era was essentially the last remnant of the roman state, that overtime mutated and metamorphorised into its own political entity.

Or am I looking too much into this? And the papcy was just quarted in Rome becuase it was a major capital city in the founding days of christianity?

Apologies if this has been asked before. Did the infrastructure for an international slave trade still exist in the 1860s? Did the confederacy have any interest in reopening it?

I read years ago about how U.S. President Zachary Taylor died unexpectedly after eating a large helping of raw cherries and ice cold milk. My understanding is that he may have actually died from cholera, and people at the time mistakenly thought the cherries caused it, though some historians and medical experts think Taylor could have died from gastroenteritis caused by the acidity of the cherries.

Tonight I was reading about Oxford University’s Bodleian Library, and I saw a bit about Thomas Lockey, who was Bodley’s Librarian from 1660 to 1665. He died in 1679, of none other than a ‘surfeit of cherries.’

Curious, I googled the phrase, and learned that Catherine Douglas, Duchess of Queensberry, also died of a surfeit of cherries, in 1777.

When I was only aware of Taylor’s death, I assumed the cholera story was correct, but now I’m wondering what the experts think.

Did Taylor die of cholera, ODing on cherries, or something else?

Did people actually die from eating excessive amounts of cherries, and if so, why do we never seem to hear about that happening now?

Was the phrase ‘a surfeit of cherries’ perhaps a euphemism for something more salacious, or did people at the time really think the cherries were responsible?

For example, the British famously wore bright red which made them stand out rather than greens or browns which would have provided some camouflage.

Throughout etymology, there are continual references to the left side of things or the left hand being unclean or otherwise stigmatized. Sinister, for example, comes from a Latin word used to denote the left. Words in Romanian (stângaci, also used for clumsiness or awkwardness), French (gauche, also meaning clumsy), and English (from Old English lyft, meaning weak) also have derogatory associations with their words for left.

Recently, I saw a post on r/quityourbullshit which indicated that Greeks share/d a similar disdain for being left-handed, as the left is referred to with a word that can also mean “the best”, αριστος, but left-handedness has a negator tacked on the end in the form of χειρας, literally translating αριστοχειρας into “the opposite of the best”.

Beyond that explanation, I still wondered if the Greeks may have held the left in some regard such to conflate it with a word indicating the best, notwithstanding the obvious disdain for those who were left-handed. To the Ancient Greeks, was the left side of things less stigmatized than in other places? If not, why use αριστος to communicate the idea of the left?

The New Deal was a series of social programs spanning many sectors, with its intent to help bolster the economy and usher in a "return to normalcy". One could make a strong argument that the US's involvement in WW2 was the single most important contribution to getting out of the GD.

With that aside, how significant of an impact did the New Deal have? I recall reading somewhere that it had little to no effect, and somewhere else that it actually lengthened the span of the Depression.

So historians, what is your take?

Thanks!

I would like to learn more about the knowledge each side had of nuclear weapons development. I am aware of allied efforts to destroy German held heavy water treatment facilities in Norway between 1940-44. But, did the Germans know how far along the allies were in nuclear development? And were the Russians, Japanese, and Italians also aware of the development of nuclear weapons? Did the US announce to the British and Russians before attacking Japan with nuclear bombs? Did British, French, and Russian Scientists assist American efforts with the Manhattan project or was this a unilateral effort? Thanks for your input!

watching redcoats march, either in movies or even on parade for tourists in england, makes me wonder why they dressed up so much when death was likely in a napoleonic-like battle with lines of infantry shooting volleys at each other? why all the fancy ribbons and buttons?

R/TIL will often feature posts that a large number of cowboys were black and Mexican, quite the contrast to the Hollywood version.

Were cowboy groups segregated, or did they work together?

Did black and Mexican cowboys need to visit different saloons, general stores, brothels etc when passing through a town or between drives?