I've seen in movies and videogames, probably cliché but they show Russians drinking vodka and partying to accordions during German invasions, probably as a way to calm the nerves. Did this actually take place normally?

What did the leaders of the House of Osman go on to do after the fall of the Ottoman Empire and establishment of the Republic of Turkey? Thanks!

Would clients have any interest in continuing to see me once I started to show? Would I be able to charge a premium, or would I be destitute? Would I be able to play off the mother/whore dichotomy in my favour? What are the prospects for the child?

I very rarely hear lost causers say something that actually have history backing it (like how they say the confederates didn't secede because of slavery) so does this myth have any actual facts behind it?

edit: Have*

It struck me reading the Wikipedia article about The Twelve Caesars that there's no mention of the history of the book as a book between 121 AD when it was written and the 20th Century, at which point several translations and editions are given.

What actually happened to the book over the intervening years? If we did a census every century, would it turn up in say dozens of libraries, hundreds of libraries or thousands of libraries each time?

Do we have a good sense that it, e.g., was present first in Rome and then in Byzantium, and then in the Arab World, and then it was transmitted back to Western Europe? Or were there always some copies in Italy? Was it transmitted consistently in Latin or translated back and forth?

How old is the oldest extant copy of The Twelve Caesars? Do we have a general idea of how many "generations" of transcriptions there were between it and an original from 121 AD? How many extant copies are there that predate the invention of the printing press (if any)?

I've asked about The Twelve Caesars to keep the question as clear and specific as possible, but honestly I'm equally interested in any Ancient Roman book. I'd also be interested in what search terms I could use for further research (because it's a book of history, googling about its history as a book hasn't been very helpful!)

I have seen it be referred to as communist, and Stalinism is usually told to be a version of communism, except the USSR stands for The United Soviet socialist republics, and socialist is in the name, so which one is it?

I was googling about poisonous plants for my DnD campaign when I noticed that, in Chinese literature, the cure for the poison is usually something that actually exist, such as liquorice, honeysuckle, or mung bean, and there are detailed instruction on the amount to be used and how to mix them for the cure.

Obviously, I have no idea if those Instruction are accurate or not.

Meanwhile, in the West, the antidote...just works. While "Find the Cure" is a popular trope, I actually couldn't find any Western literature that depict mixing and creating antidote the same way Chinese literature does. There's no "Creation process" for the antidote, and if there is, it involves dropping some undefined, fantastic ingredient.

Or may be I just didn't look hard enough.

My Chinese friend said this is because ancient Chinese has a much more developed toxicology than the rest of the world during that time, citing books such as Shennong Bencaojing that existed way before the rest of the world have any idea about toxicology.

So...what gives? Is it really because the difference in medicine development?

I'm asking a very general question from a position of ignorance: After the second triumvirate, did a Roman emperor with any longevity and/or administrative success ever come out of the Roman Senate? I.e., did a Senator, or even a lower-tier bureaucrat ever rally legions or veterans to his cause, take the purple, and hold it? Or am I misunderstanding in thinking that having the loyalty of legions was even necessary to achieve such an end?

I'm aware of the Praetorian Guard eventually just auctioning off the emperorship during the later years of the Western Empire, but my understanding is ost of them came to ugly ends rather quickly.

Pigs make meat while other animals make extra produce AND meat for example eggs, milk, wool

Historians and experts of Reddit, If you may put your political beliefs aside for a second, I have an extremely important question to ask. Was America founded as a Christian nation in any way, shape, or form? I have been researching all night and would love to continue to hear from real historians and researchers.

EDIT: I brought in the political beliefs part because my “conservative” friend refuses to believe any evidence contradicting his “argument” if it comes from something he perceives as “leftist.” Even though every thing I stumbled across (video, article, etc.) is as independent as anything could possibly be!

From 1929 to 1936 the United States deported as many as 2 million people to Mexico. Mexico at this time is immediately post revolutionary and it seems like this massive influx people would have had a significant impact on the region. I can find hundreds of articles about the impact to the USA but no information about how Mexico was impacted. What was the impact to Mexico as a result of repatriation programs in the 1930s? Sources greatly appreciated.

It’s a running joke in pop culture that Disney has top-notch lawyers that aren’t afraid to peruse legal action against anything they feel threatened by. That they're so powerful that it's almost useless to fight back.

When and how did this reputation start? Is it solely due to their lobbying over the decades to change copyright law (yet take advantage of public domain works), or is there more to the story?

Was this the case during the Walt Disney era, and if so, was it directly due to Walt Disney himself?

I'm sure there's been a thread made like this before, I'm very new to Reddit and can't seem to find much lol.

So I'm doing this assignment on the great depression and this is what I'm trying to research.

- the effects on the Great Depression on Germany

- what caused it and when

- how it changed middle-class peoples lives

- what changed socially

- what changed politically

- and how they eventually recovered from it

Does anyone have any good websites, threads, sources, documentaries etc to help me with this. A majority of stuff I find is about just the great depression in the US Aaah, so frustrating.

I'm sure its a lot I'm sorry, Thank you for anyone who has taken the time to read this and maybe give me a response!

This could very well be a misconception based on media, but no one in Western warfare in the 18th to 19th centuries seemed to "take cover" when in combat. I also have a distinct memory of a Civil War documentary that said taking cover was considered cowardly. Is this true?