Was Austria just a name given to it because it was in the east and didn’t have a specific group of people to represent it?

So I know that the Vikings created "flyting" around the 5th century CE,which is a practice of 2 people exchanging insulting lyrical verses in a melodic pattern to each other to out-insult the other,similar to modern rap battles.For example,a painting made in 1895 depicted the Norse gods Freyja and Loki flyting with each other.

However I wonder if there were any flyters in particular that were considered to be the greats of their time similar to how modern rappers like Eminem,Tech N9ne,Kendrick Lamar and Ski Mask The Slump God freestyle often.Could these past flyters beat any modern rappers in a rap battle?

I don't remember the Christian monastic group that were vegetarians, but I think I've read about it. So is vegetarianism in the West fairly recent, or was there any continuity since Pythagoras?

The M1911 service pistol, originally designed in 1910 (with the M1911A1 revision occuring in 1924), has been used by each branch of the USA's armed forces to some degree over the past 100 years, and still sees some usage today. How, over the course of 100 years, has the perception of the gun changed? How have foreign powers perceived the gun over time?

I hope this post isn't breaking any rules, and I'd be happy to re-try posting with any fixes required. Thanks!

Are the Shakespeare quotes/scenes we like now the same as contemporary audiences would have been into? The balcony scene, 'to be or not to be', 'now is the winter...' etc.?

I can definitely reason that given how massive these buildings are, that they're probably repurposed for non-residential use now. Are there families who still can afford to upkeep them? How much funding is dedicated to historical preservation?

If you search for "free alien" or "alien clip art" on Google, you get this green or grey person with huge black eyes, a round head and no nose. Apart from the creature from the film "Alien," I think it's safe to say this is what comes to mind when someone hears the word "alien." Where does this design come from? Do we have an old science fiction story to thank, or perhaps is it based on a real report/sighting?

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As a quick note I mean all the tiger variants.

In a lot of media I hear a lot about how unstoppable German tanks were, especially the Tiger family of tanks. While I wouldn’t say they weren’t good in a battle against other more lighter vehicles, how was it’s actual impact. There are a lot of people who make claims online that “it wasn’t penetrated from the front during the entire war”, and that “It took 5 Sherman tanks to knock one tiger out”, but these seem a ludicrous. I would like to know how much of an impact they played in the outcome of the war.

Texas and California both became states in the decades before Railways connected most of the continental US. How long would it take to travel from Texas (especially the inland central/west regions) or California to Washington DC in the 1850s and 60s, and how were the early congressmen of such remote states expected to appropriately juggle their time between Washington and their home districts?

It's my understanding that some of the farther regions, especially in California, could take up to 6 months to reach before they were connected via railroad. Given that representatives only served 2 year terms and needed to campaign at home, it seems like a very precarious position.

There have been several powerful English kings and queens. Henry VIII, Elizabeth, William the Conquerer, Henry VII, and so on were pretty powerful. However, who was the last king or queen to have significant power? Maybe we can compare the monarch to the prime minister? If so, would that mean King George I since Walpole had more power than he did? Can we claim Walpole had more power than King George I?

So I have come across a post here about books from history written by great leaders and warriors. And I got interested a lot in reading those books. Can anyone suggest any book from medieval era that is easy to find and buy online, and if so are they written in old English, or are they translated so that we modern people can understand.

P.S. I am not an English native speaker so pls don't mind my English

I'm from the UK and it boggles the mind trying to work out how they got so far and were still able take over territories and retain them for so long. How the heck did they do it?

To my understanding the large entourage that went to his funeral were all killed EXCEPT his personal royal guard and their wives to safeguard the location where he was buried. I was told that the guards then took up territory around where he was buried and killed anyone who entered.

Surely this had to be a shock back at the capital. Are their any documents or plausible stories that address the reaction of the rest of his court or vassal kingdoms? Who reported the massacre if everyone was killed except the royal guards?

Just wondering. I posted this to another thread a while ago but it went nowhere.

I’m wondering if Australia had a frontier period similar to the U.S. Western expansion era. Were there gangs of outlaws and groups of lawmen or bounty hunters roaming around? Were there skirmishes with settlers and natives? That sort of thing.

Edit: I wasn’t clear enough in the original question.

I have just been watching the highly accurate Troy (2004) directed by Wolfgang Peterson and all the warriors appear to wear breast plates and arm/shin guards. Is it accurate to depict ancient Greeks as wearing this type of armour and if so why were these particular areas deemed worthy of protection? Notably in the film several soldiers are hit in the thigh which appears to be lightly protected, why did they not think these areas needed protection?

I phrased the last part of the question wrong but hopefully you get what I mean

As a history major (University of Pittsburgh) with a concentration in U.S. History but a general interest in all historical study, what books should I definitely make sure I have read?

When Googling this question, I typically get that this was due to a new social class of teenagers. However, with more restrictive laws against child labor and better standards for education, teenagers were around long before the 1950s. So my question is:

1. What makes rock-n'-roll more controversial than other rebellious music in the past (ragtime, jazz, swing, etc.)
2. Why did rock-n'-roll occur in the 1950s and not before?

To what extent did the Byzantine Empire embody the Roman Empire after the Western Roman Empire fell? Say, in the year 1000 CE, did the Byzantines have running aqueducts and other staples of Roman society, or were they basically just another Medieval society by that point?

What books about medieval history in general would you recommend?