Can anyone give me the history of these statues? The time period they were actually erected? I have been told they are also cheaply made and no museum would actually want them as well but no sources. I know this is up for a heated debate everywhere but I would love some educational sources on it all.

How would they be able to afford a ship? I have this imagine in my mind that many pirate ships were stolen, but if this is the case, how could they even be stolen without a ship to raid the ship, I suppose it's possible to steal a ship while it's in port, It's also theoretically possible to board a ship and simply have a mutny and seize control of the ship, while already at sea, and it's possible that ships were simply given to new captain from older captains if they managed to seize one, but these are simply what could theoretically be possible, rather than what actually happened historically.

Some friends and myself are running pennanf paper campaigns. I'm the GM and we really like it to keep it realistic and low magic. I have some problems with the research to pull this off.

It's still fantasy and so on don't have to be 100% true to history and ages etc.

So one is probaly a bit more heavy armored with a brigantine, mail and Gambeson

So probaly most of them will wearing half plate but not full plate.

What about the typical rogue? This sounds not really viable against armored opponents in a open fight.

When I do some test examples like explained above... Let's take 2 with half plate, an archer with lightarmor(Gambeson?) maybe a medium one.. Gambeson, mailshirt etc? And a rogue like one.. Also just Gambeson?

Now let's put them against some opponents.. How about like 5 peasants.. Clothes and tools like a woodaxe, knife pitchfork.

Can they even be a threat to the party or do they just get massacred? I'm mostly concernd with my half plate guys beeing to op.

What about some bandits? They would probaly also mostly have clothes.. Maybe a rusty sword.. Maybe even some mail or a Gambeson. Knifes.. Tools too?

Probaly pretty similar fight like the peasants.

What about a group of watchmen or men at arms? Loadout here would probaly be maces, shields, polearm/spear. Gambeson, mail, kettlehat/Helm, maybe even. Breastplate

And probaly one of the tougher opponents.. Knights with half or full plate.

I have started to read about the Mexican American war and I have noticed it’s less taught than say the civil war, I also noticed it’s not re-enacted as well? Why do?

I’m currently reading “The Pink Triangle,” by Richard Plant. It’s a remarkably insightful book on homosexuality in Germany during Nazi control. From what I understand, Nazis loved to scapegoat different groups as being degenerates and reasons why they failed as a country after World War 1. Once Fritz Haarmann, a serial killer, was discovered to have murdered dozens of boys, communists used his sexuality as a way to vilify homosexuals. This eventually snowballed into another reason why Hitler killed his friend Roehm, despite tolerating his sexuality before he feared Roehm was plotting against him.

The book mentions that Nazis, such as Himmler, believed homosexuality was a disease (and inherently criminal) which needed to be exterminated:

“Homosexuality was to be diagnosed as a contagious disease. The plague was highly dangerous because it affected the young, precisely the group destined to bring future soldiers into the world.” (page 102, The Prink Triangle)

Which is interesting- because on the previous page, he mentions that only German homosexuals were prosecuted because gay Germans ultimately did not produce pure aryan babies. Gay men from different countries were just sent back.

So how did they believe homosexuality was spread? If it’s a disease, surely there had to be a way to be transmitted, right? If they did not care foreign homosexuals went back to their own home countries, did they let them live in hopes they would spread their “disease”?

Sidenote: I love reading gay history. If you have any recommendations on any kind of gay history, I’m all ears. I barely know anything about gay Russian or African history. I’d love to learn more!

Was English always the main choice? If yes, then how about Yiddish or other languages depending on the nationalities? (Russian, Polish, Ukrainian, etc)

I could trace my family tree back hundreds of years, and by and large everyone would live in a society pretty much the same as our current one. They would live in an independent state with cities and towns and an organized ruling government.

For early civilizations, that was not the case. In Ancient Egypt, for example, the Early Dynastic Period of kings and independent states was only a few generations removed from relative "anarchy". Was there any type of recognition that "things are no longer the way they were"?

If they did recognize this, did they particularly care?

From my understanding, Constantinople was one of the most well defended places in the world. So how did the Crusaders take the city with seems to be a short siege and only two assaults?

Hard pressing their unmoving faces against each other. Was there a code or some censor's rule that forbade them from showing their lips in contact with anothers?

I'm watching S1E1 of The Saint, and was just reminded that they all kiss that way. I grew up imagining that the whole era genuinely kissed that way, but as a middle aged adult, it seems obvious that nobody in real life would do that by choice.

Or am crazy? Is there some erotic appeal to mutually grinding your skull through your partner's lips?

This is something that's been repeated recently in the context of people removing public statues. It sounds like a made-up factoid that's convenient because it seems to support arguments that some people want to make. I wasn't very satisfied with the info I got just from a quick Google.

Yes I know this was on Tumblr as a joke but then I started really thinking about it and wanted to know, Google has been no help

Could a farmers children still be living at home in their 20s and working the farm? Or would they have moved out and started new work/their own families by this point?

What sources or who are considered the best people for religion in the U.S., specifically the advent of Evangelicalism?

So I’ve read that bishops wouldn’t actually give mass in medieval england, and that role fell to “priests” but whenever i look up medieval priests they talk purely about parish churches. So would an archdeacon act as a priest in a cathedral context?Who would have given mass in an english medieval cathedral?

I am trying to put together some notes for a possible book about fun trivia and stories surrounding alcohol. I've read many of the descriptions of the Maednads but I can't quite distinguish between myth and history in some of the accounts. I appreciate any help that may be offered.
PS if you have any historical alcoholic tidbits you have in your back pocket and would like to share, that would be much appreciated. Thanks

In the portrait made by Vasily Tropinin, Pushkin has seen in Scottish kilt. Is there any specific reason for his wearing that geographically distant ethnic cloth?

It's said that she had an insane amount of power and influence. Would've she been able to take the throne for herself if she had wanted to?

I hope this question is appropriate. I sometimes encounter that German historians (especially ancient historians) complaining about English speaking historians are more and more not able to read German or other continental European languages and thereby being unable to receive the research done there. [1] Is there any legitimacy to these complains? How extensive is continental European research especially regarding ancient history received in the anglosphere? It is expected from history students to understand French, German, Italian?

[1] An example: "Auffällig sind hingegen die vielen Fehler beim Zitieren fremdsprachiger Literatur, was jedoch für das an der Rezeption internationaler Literatur nur noch sehr bedingt interessierte bzw. dazu befähigte Angelsaxonien nicht weiter verwunderlich ist." Kehne, Peter: Zur althistorischen Erforschung der Markomannenkriege, in: slovenská archeológia LXIV, 2016, p. 209.