Driving on the highway today I was struck by how strongly I could feel the force of acceleration. I began to wonder whether this was a distinctively modern experience. Before personal automobiles came into wide use, what kinds of G-forces would everyday people have experienced? (Do horses accelerate fast enough that riders feel similar G-forces?)

I was reading some texts about how Sparta fell at the hands of Alexander after other city-states in Ancient Greece were conquered by his father, Phillip the second of Macedon. However, I don't understand how this could even be possible. The Spartans were killing machines, their strength most notably displayed at Thermopylae, where 300 of them along with some 700 hundred thespians who ended up destroying some 20,000 Persians. Surely even Alexander the Great couldn't have killed such a war machine!!!

Was intermarriage even a thing between Celts and Saxons? Did they create truces/pacts of peace with hostages or wards?

For example, a Welsh chieftain sending his daughter to England to marry a Saxon lord to ensure peace (or something of that nature).

Just a random thought, I'm genuinely curious.

What were vikings thoughts on sexuality?

I know that most black pepper entered Europe through Italian ports back then, and they kind of has a monopoly on it, which is one of the reasons that so many other places kept trying to find alternate routes to India. But just how much price gouging was there? If you lived in France or the Holy Roman Empire, how rich would you have to be to afford to regularly eat black pepper? Would you have to be a king or other high-ranking nobility, or would it be something that lower ranking nobility and middle-class tradesmen could afford?

Did the Dutch have to enrich the soil or remove salt from the earth after claiming land from the sea with windmills?

I’m losing a lot of sleep and can’t eat from the stress of trying to understand the material. I get Cs on daily quizzes and want to do better.

Hello, hello.

I'm seeking input and information surrounding specific carrier based aircraft squadrons from the Japanese Navy during WWII.

For some context, I play a mobile game called "Azur Lane", in which there are certain aircraft squadrons that come from real life examples. Squadrons such as Wade McClusky's SBD squadron (Battle of Midway), the 831st Barracuda squadron (Operation Tungsten), or VT-18 (sinking of Musashi). These equipment often carry gameplay benefits over standard equipment as well as being interesting pieces of history to tie to the ships.

However, lacking in presence is any form of Japanese squadron. I browsed online articles for any kind of significant squadrons, I checked the wikipedia entries on the orders of battle for Midway and Philippine Sea, but these Japanese squadrons and commanders are often only listed in name with no linked page or additional information. This leads me to consistent dead ends.

Now we're in a bit of a content drought, so as bored players and enthusiasts often do, we start with a lot of "what if's". One such "what if" was looking at possible candidates for these named squadrons. Unique equipment that were backed by actual history and legacy.

So far I've discovered only a few squadrons / named individuals, mostly from exploring the (laughably) "IJN strong" Kantai Collection and its collection of "named squadrons":

Tetsuzō Iwamoto A6M2 Squadron - operated fighters from Zuikaku during battle of Coral Sea, defending the carrier from incoming attacks.

Egusa Takashige D3Y Squadron - operated dive bombers from Souryuu in the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Joichi Tomonaga B5N Squadron - operated from Hiryuu to damage Yorktown during the Battle of Midway.

Shigeharu Murata B5N Squadron - operated from Akagi to heavily damage Hornet during the attack on Pearl Harbor. Squadron switched to Shoukaku after Midway.

What other squadrons or individuals, if any (are some of these even worth the mention?) would meet or exceed the history and fame of things like McClusky and the 5 minutes of fate, the torpedoes of 818 that jammed the rudder of Bismarck and directly leading to her demise, or the VF-17 Corsair squadron and its remarkable kill ratio?

If I glossed over a detail of the request let me know.

Regards.

has it overall been extremely helpful? trustworthy? etc?

was the united kingdom real? does the dan stele say the house of david and is there evidence of a united kingdom? jews in egypt? jesus? the wars? the conquest of canaan? jericho? etc?

i dont need that much specifics but im wondering the overall trustworthiness of history in the bible.

Forgive my ignorance, I don’t know much about that time period.

did people see it as part of daily life or was it frowned upon

In the 19th and 20th century sobreity was "in" as evidenced by Prohibition, the Welsh Sunday Act of 1881, and the Norweigian Spirit Ban, but did any of these happen on the African, Indian or Asian subcontinent? Specifically around the same time as the USA and UK?

I know that the rifles were very inaccurate, that's why they used "line infantry". But how effective were the rifles in killing people?

I've been looking for more information regarding Iberian cultures especially pre bronze age collapse stuff.

I've seen this referred to in a Shakespeare context as "the falling sickness", and while I am personally unfamiliar with the exact ramifications of epilepsy in day to day life, this seems like something that would be more relevant, or at least noted upon, however the singular case I am aware of in which a seizure caused direct consequences was during the Battle of Thapsus (from a casual source that inspired this question).

How did the culture/people of the time perceive this kind of disorder, was the knowledge of this common or even known at the time, and are there any more speculated or known cases of this affecting either his political or military career in any real way?

It would be a lot simpler if the interval between any two notes were the same. For example, similar chords on a piano would have the same shape and be transposable between the notes, and music notation would be simpler. We could, for example, have a system based on A, B, C, D, E, F# and G#, where every note is a whole step a part from the adjacent ones. Why is that not the case?