As an Irish person living in England, I've heard countless times about how back in the 50s and 60s, these signs were very common, posted outside houses for rent. I'm sure discrimination like that was rife, but I'm curious as to how common that exact wording was in reality? Is it a case where one or two signs existed in reality, and became so notorious that everyone heard about them? Or were they actually a frequent sight across UK cities?

One of the successes of the USSR was said to be that there was no homelessness and people had a right to housing . I am skeptical of this claim and I have found articles from the eighties that reported that the Soviet Union indeed had a homelessness problem. But what about before the eighties , was there really no homelessness before then?

Didn't the Lorica Segmentata offer better protection than the Lorica Hamata? Wasn't the process to produce a Lorica Hamata (chainmail) much more labour intensive than the Segmentata?

How about the Lorica Plumata? Was it widespread like the hamata or just kept for the best troops? Apart from logistic and production considerations, what armour offered the best protection overall (hamata, segmentata, or plumata?)

Pros and cons of each one?

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I asked this in r/sikh and was wondering if I could get an alternative perspective from someone who may be familiar with Sikh Warrior culture. From my understanding they have a long and proud warrior culture. I enjoy learning about warrior cultures and I hear the Sikhs have an extensive one. I am wondering:

Who were the Sikhs greatest enemies? What was Sikh warrior life in ancient times? What made them unique? What weapons and tactics did the use? Did sikhs have any strange warrior customs? Was there a code to being a Sikh warrior?

Modern historians seem to have a pretty good idea of how Roman legions functioned, from the individual kit of soldiers to recruitment to organization to military organization to tactics. Did lords or nobles in the Dark and Middle Age kingdoms that arose in the wake of the fall of the Roman empire - cognizant as they were of the Romans' success and power - ever attempt to replicate its military in order to replicate its success? Did they know enough details about the Roman military to be able to, or is that kind of detailed knowledge limited to modern historiography?

I'm having an argument with my friend and he said that the entire army of the persians where made out of slaves, is this true?

Please note that I do not mean to offend anyone, I believe both Jesus and Muhammed were real people.

Is it true that during the U.S. Civil War, civilians would attend and observe battles from a distance as a form of entertainment?

Medieval (suppose Paris in the 13th century) and Ancient (suppose Rome during the Empire) nightlife is something often romanticized nowadays. It is easy to imagine a bustling fire-lit tavern or inn with many patrons, lots of alcohol being served, people chattering, gambling, soliciting prostitutes, and maybe someone playing a stringed instrument.

How accurate is this notion? Were these establishments common and popular? Did they really exist at all?

So, I got into a discussion with my friend today and he sad to ask this subreddit about this, Who actually invented the plane, Santos Dumont, or the Wright brothers?

My boss knows I majored in history, so he brought in a box of documents for me to look at and figure out what to do with. I looked through them and figured out which ones were already available electronically through university libraries and the like, and I actually found a couple that weren't available anywhere. I also have a couple things that are interesting in other ways, like, his however-many-great grandpa worked for two railroads for a combined time of about 40 years, and in that time he apparently kept all of the train tickets he ever bought. I have those in a big stack too. Apparently when he died they were all mailed to a relative; the packaging is torn open, but I still have the original packaging from when they were mailed in the 50s.

My first instinct was to start taking pictures of everything, but there's just too much here for one person to scan. I could probably scan the tickets by myself, but the books are just too big a task. What can I do with these to make sure they get recorded somewhere, and is there any value in recording the books? I'm going to scan the tickets regardless because that'll likely have some personal value to my boss, but I'm not sure he cares so much about the books. The one I'm most interested in knowing the relative "interestingness" of is a manual on diesel engine maintenance from the early 30s. These years are approximate, also, but I do have exact years. I'll go get the exact years later, but there's a person sleeping on me right now.

EDIT: I'm looking through some of the pictures I already took, and I found something I forgot about; there were also a couple hairs in the books, near the binding on a couple pages. I took pictures but didn't touch them. Most of the books were clearly either never read, or just put on a shelf for reference, but never actually used. The book I found the hairs in was the one that had the most signs of having actually been frequently used. My boss is also in to genetics and tracing his family tree back and whatnot; is there any chance that any meaningful data could be extracted from a couple hairs?

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EDIT: Correction! The earliest document is from the 1890s.

Hi, I know that there were many people like Walt Disney who were known to be Anti-Semitic, but on the other hand, many important founders in Hollywood (like Jack Warner or Louis Meyer) were Jewish. So I was wondering how prevalent Antisemitism was in classic Hollywood. Who was it mainly targeted against, and what forms did it take? Thank you.

Just the stuff pertaining to the Prophet .

A little background: this guy I captured is a big shot. He fielded a third of the enemy's army, is very wealthy, and his family is going to want him back. After the main melee, things broke out into scattered fighting, where I bested and captured him. My men at arms, a few of my levied peasants, and even a few mercenaries (hired by someone wealthier than me) were in the immediate area fighting as well.

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Now how do I ransom this guy? Is this going to be life changing money? How long will it take the money to reach me? How much of that ransom will reach me, and when it does, am I supposed to share it with the people fighting nearby? The war is over, I'm heading home and I hope to never see those boorish mercenaries again, I'm not supposed to throw them a tip before we part am I?

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(I realize a few things narrow down when this could have occurred, but I'm really not looking for an answer from a very specific time period. I would be equally interested in an example from ancient Greece, feudal Japan or the Hundred Years' Wars. However, if that is too broad for this sub and I need to narrow it down then I guess I would choose medieval Europe.)

Recently a guy in r/AskEurope gave me a very negative description of the treaty of Trianon, saying that the french

lied to us on every turn to make us comply with their demands promising us a seat at the peace talks, then arrested our delegation and only allowed them to make their case after the borders were already decided based on falsified documents we were given no opportunity to debunk.

Also he added that

Pál Teleki made such a strong case in half a dozen languages that most of the Entente representatives were considering extending the peace talks.. and then France vetoed that.

They seem claims too big to be true, especially considering that france had nothing to do with Hungary; is there any truth to this and if so why did the French mistreated the Hungarian so badly?

Im assuming they were basically forced to go along with it right? Its either that or move away to a different country no?

Did any men refuse to join the army and fight for them? What would happen to him?

Is being a non-supporter something you could get away with back then? Could they just oppose all of it quietly while letting others think they are big supporters? What could you do if you opposed nazi ism back then? Was it all underground networks? Could you openly oppose it?

Would you say the majority of Germans genuinely bought into the Nazi movement? Or was it like the current situation in the US where the majority of people oppose Trump but that small very loud group of supporters("fans") was enough to win the electoral college and hold the rest of the nation hostage. Did most people opposite Hitler? Or did all the opposition move out so the majority of Germans left would actually be supporters?

Im just wondering how your average citizen who opposed Nazi-ism would live back then. Did their life continue on as normal? Was it legitimately dangerous for them? Or would they be fine if they just kept their head down and didn't make any noise?

Why did conspiracy theorists focus on Jews of all things? What made them pick jews? It seems to go back many many years too. Crazy to me its lasted all this time and people are still coming up with insane conspiracies involving nefarious jews. Its insane people behavior.

What is their issue? The stereotype they are all wealthy and cheap? The fact they had a ton of influence in Hollywood? What is it about Jewish people that set off the conspiracy theorists? What are their theories about jews? What do they think jews are doing exactly?

I don't get any of it.