Where there any plans on Western Ally or Soviet side how to treat the Führer if he didn't comit suicide but was captured?

I heard that Stalin wanted to create a "living Hitler exhibition" in the zoo of Leningrad but I doubt this is true..

Hi guys!

I am a student of forestry and I'm writting an essay about usage of mushrooms and some curiosities about them. I’m looking for an information about cases of death or serious damage caused by one of the mushrooms written down below. I’ve found about the death of Pope Clement VII and the Roman Emperor Claudius because of Amanita phalloides, but I’d like to have something more.

List of mushrooms, that I’m interested in:

Amanita phalloides (Death cap)

Amanita pantherina (Panther cap)

Amanita virosa (Destroying angel)

Cortinarius orellanoides (Fools webcap)

Inocybe erubescens (Deadly fibrecap)

Galerina marginata (Funeral bell)

Thanks for your attention!

I think it’s no surprise given Jewish historical written tradition in Europe was mostly focused on religious study and artwork, that there aren’t any surviving martial histories. Also of course because in most of medieval Europe (and at many, various points in time) Jews were forbidden to maintain armor or weapons or to soldier professionally. But we know there were exceptions—Ott Jud (Ott the Jew) for instance was a famous martial instructor of the Holy Roman Empire and a court Jew. There are a seldom few examples of people like this.

Yet we also know Jews were often fighting, defending themselves and their ghettos from marauding pogroms or crusaders. I’m wondering if we have any record at all in western in Central Europe of Jewish soldiering in the Middle Ages. Could be anywhere from the Norman conquest until the Renaissance.

I know about the renaissance polish Jewish military history and of medieval Jewish history in what is now Spain and in the Middle East and Asia. So for simplicity sake, I’m asking specifically about western or Central Europe.

I was reading a post about sex workers centuries ago and I read that they consisted of poor people and freed slaves, so my question is waht was the thing that made a specific group of people slaves if it wasn’t their economic status? Who were these people across history? Not just after the colonization of Africa but before that as well.

My question is largely aimed at understanding the transition from Late Western Roman culture to medieval feudal+chivalric culture and how this transition was heralded by the Barbarian tribes and what religious, cultural and political events influenced these changes.

I haven't seen this really addressed.

It’s baffling to me that a civilisation could just forget something so basic and useful, I mean, in an entire empire of millions of people, nobody had an old family recipe from their parents? Nobody had it written down?! Like, I understand it was a time of great upheaval, and people had bigger things to worry about, but still, it’s like if people nowadays forgot how to make plastic, it’s crazy

Did the Aboriginal Australians manage to live in relative peace and harmony or did they also have their own conflicts pre-european discovery? I know that pretty much every other continent had a time period of intertribal wars I've just never heard or read anything about Australia having any tribal conflicts or feuds

I'm writing a piece of gothic horror, and the lights on a chandelier would dim and die out when the monster is nearby.

If I wanted to be accurate, what kind of indoor lighting technology was in use in the house of a wealthy man living in San Francisco in 1890, especially in a room where he might be entertaining guests? What about in commercial places like shops or small businesses?

As I understand it, arc lights were too intense for indoor use, and electric bulbs still burn out too quick to be practical. Would they be more likely to be using gas or kerosene/paraffin for chandeliers (and other permanent light fixtures), or would candles still be the preferred lighting method? Were candles still used in addition to the chandelier if it was turned on? If so, how were the candles positioned in the room? Would they be placed all over the room, or would they be limited to where one would be, say, gathering and talking or reading?

And how common were these languages were spoken by, let's say, the 3rd century?

I was reading a timeline of the Norman Conquest and I noticed that William built a lot of castles during his reign. Why did he do that?

So, today everybody knows that summer in the northern hemisphere is june-september and in the southern hemisphere in december-march. But this is honestly not something one can figure easily alone without knowing about how the Earth orbits the sun, at which angle and so on, so I guess people like ancient greeks weren't aware that places that they weren't even aware existed experienced seasons at different times than them. At which point and how did people realise this?

To clarify to the mods: I'm not asking just a year or just the person who did, I'm asking how did this happen, I'm asking context where it happened, I'm asking how did this discovery impact the society where it was found (if it did).

Thanks !

As much as I enjoy history, economics is my true armchair hobby (and undergrad lol) but when is there crossover? I'm not talking about historic examples like Adam Smith talking about historic Chinese silver inflation. I'm more interested in recent crossovers/discoveries

I'm trying to find a good way to dive into the genre in terms of general aspects, the early days, influential personalities, key events around history, essential pieces. Something that gives me a structure so I can dive deeper in the aspects I'm interested later. I need to start an investigation for a series of articles but I'd like to earn more context and historical accuracy.

As an example, I have a background in classical music in which you can read about renaissance, Baroque, the 20th century vanguards, different waves born in different countries. While moving towards that, you can study the actual plays, different sounds, key pieces, etc.

Can you recommend a good resource to start? May be a book, encyclopedia, documentary, or even a post here on reddit that can guide me through it. Thank you!

Wife and I are watching a show, and the dad is proud of the new bomb shelter he built and it got me wondering. Were bomb shelters prevalent in the US in the way TV shows portray them? Did the US, specifically, focus on building shelters?

Hello! I am in possession of a family heirloom which is a panoramic photo taken of the aftermath of a Tornado that destroyed my family's Minnesota farm in 1931, killing my grandfather's sister.

I have done some basic googling of the specifics I have of the photo/storm in question but I have found no information on it and certainly no pictures resembling the one I have. My question is, would this be of historic interest? Where would be good places to post this photo? Does anyone know of a good place to look up historical information like this? because according to the notation on the photo it may have been taken by a newspaper.