Imagine yourself being an upcoming or already established artist in the early to mid 19th Century, perfecting your craft with a brush and doing portrait jobs for wealthy families... and here comes along an invention that allows for near instant portraits of the subjects. Was camera photography met with resistance by the painting/artists community of the time? or was it accepted with open arms?

Because of the human nature to resist change surely the invention of camera photography didn't rest easy with upcoming painters or artists of the time.

Saw article about women in bosnia that had specific style of tribal tattoos so that got me wondering if there are any preserved archives of what tattoo a typical serb would be sporting before culture shifted?

Asked this question a while back and didn’t get an answer, perhaps I can now :)

I realize the answer may vary from culture to culture. But pretty much every traditional costume I see has barely anything in common with what people actually wore historically. Who coined these 'traditional costumes'? When? And is there any European nation in which their stereotypical 'traditional costume' is actually true to history?

Looking at various posts about hieroglyphics, it seems that relatively simple words or concepts would be represented by a string of symbols that would take far long to draw than their English translation. Even just looking at the evolution of English, it seems that words have trended toward being shorter as time went on. Is this just a layman noticing patterns that don’t actually exist or have languages become more efficient?

I was watching a person use a dog ball thrower and was reminded of the woomera, a lever like device our first nations peoples used to throw a spear long distance. I don't recall any other cultures using anything like it, even the javelins of ancient Greeks were hand launched.

I understand that bows, crossbows and even ballistae existed, but I feel they're more of a "stored energy" type technology.

the debate one is dead.

During World War II most countries preferred to use domestic designs over foreign ones. Most major nations had their own rifle designs, their own plane designs, their own ship designs, etc. So what about the Swedish Bofors design was so appealing that the Americans and British decided to use it over domestic alternatives?

The amount of resources expended to destroy three of Germany's ships is mind-boggling to me. Like, I get the Bismarck; he destroyed the Hood, Britain's flagship. But the lengths they went to to destroy Germany's only other two battleships doesn't make sense to me. What can two battleships do against the entire Royal Navy?

In the early spread of Christianity Paul wrote several letters to churches in various places. How were the letters distributed, did they have a postal system anything like ours?

If the answer to the first question is yes, did the slave traders consciously know about it? Was there scientific research about immunity?

I've been web searching for half an hour now and cannot find any good answers.

Recently discovered that my great uncle was a navigator in a Lancaster bomber during WW2. Only met him a couple of times before he passed and never had the chance to ask as I was too young.

Hello,

I am interested to learn about how the implementation of the modern Turkish alphabet affected the lives of every day citizens. Was there significant opposition from those who were already literate in the Arabic script? How long did it take before a majority were able to understand the new alphabet? Did some continue to definently use the old script decades later??

I look forward to your answers and thank you in advance.

Every account I have read about D-Day and the subsequent Allied campaign in France says that the allied forces were totally unprepared for fighting through the hedgerows used by French farmers in the area to enclose their fields. I understand that aerial photographs were misleading about the height of the hedges and that allied planners were expecting them to be more like English hedgerows, but it is not as if they were fighting on totally alien terrain for the first time. The hedgerows had been there for scores (if not hundreds) of years. The British and Americans had fought in France during WWI. Churchill himself had traveled to France many times in the pre-war years. The French resistance was providing detailed info to allied planners about the location and extent of German defenses on the coast. Yet the first time U.S. troops encountered hedgerows they were gob-smacked by how high and dense they were. Why?