Did people just have open holes in their houses? Did they use animal hides? Bark? Big rocks???

More specifically, what was the earliest textual or archeological evidence we have for the use of window coverings in permanent structures?

I just can't get a concrete answer as to why exactly

Surely there were others from the British side who who would have been pretty qualified too and have the advantage of already engaging German forces several times and know the channel and the weather and the terrain. Was Eisenhower just that good? We’re any allies kinda pissed off that he would get/got/still gets so much credit for its success? It’s his letter everyone thinks about when they think of the event.

By december 1991, the union lost all influence on its republics. If the USSR had no republics and would cease to exist after 142-H was signed, then what's the practical purpose of signing 142-H if there was no one left to recognize it as a legitimate authoritative document?

Would there be any significance if the dissolution never made it into a final document?

Farmers used to support progressive and populist candidates like Eugene Debs and William Jennings Bryan. Now, they are reliably conservative. What changed?

Why is North Korea the way that it is? Why is it not just a standard underdeveloped Marxist-Leninst / Communist country in the way that, say, Cuba or Vietnam are? Why did it abandon Marxist-Leninist orthodoxy for the quasi-religious ideology of the Juche Idea? How and why did it's neo-imperial cult with religious overtones become distinct from the more standard Stalinist personality cults of other Communist nations?

I have a family bible that was used prior to the Civil War. It is a sad mess after 150 years but it contains a running list of names of slaves and their children. The original Bible owners lived on on near what is now Tuskegee U. I contacted TU in the 90’s but could not get any interest. Somebody has got to want this information. I’m getting old, I need to get this info where it will be useful. Ideas?

I’d love to know read more about the area we currently know as North and South Korea. The history is fascinating to me. But I haven’t had much luck in finding much that was in-depth.

I’d even take accurate novels or podcasts. Anything really.

Thanks so much!

So after the civil war ended what happened to the slaves in the South? My best guess would be that most of them carried on doing the jobs they had been doing before but getting paid for it(but low pay) or were most of them freed and it's not our problem now approach taken?

I have seen two flags and anthems for Austria-Hungary. The flags differ in detail of the crowns, that is the two coat fo arms (Hungarian & Austrian).

The two anthems are:

Gott erhalte Franz den Karier! Under Guten Kaiser Franz!

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and

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Gott erhalte, Gott beschütze, Unsern Kaiser, unser Land!

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Which now of the two flags and anthems are actually correct? And where used in the dual monarchy of Austria-Hungary between 1867 and 1914. If both where used which one was used more often?

I know the battle of Agincourt was famous especially because of the English's heavy use of longbows. Was this because Henry V had a stroke of tactical ingenuity and chose to saturate his ranks with so many archers to great affect, or was this due to circumstance that demanded Henry rely on archers and he just got lucky at how successful they were? I understand that the battle of Agincourt was very unorthodox from what I understand from other Medieval battles, so I'm just curious as to how this famous battle's unorthodox strategy came to be.

When it became apparent that Alexei was a hemophiliac why didn’t Nicholas overturn the Pauline succession laws and reinstated Peter the Great’s succession law which allowed the czar to appoint his own successor?

A czar’s power and authority is absolute so why wasn’t this an option for Nicholas?

We know that Captain Samuel Nicholas is considered the first of the lineage, the first Commandant, however this is mostly a historical approximation, as he never held that title. I haven't found any sources to the establishment of the title of Commandant, nor any information as to why this title was used over the title of Chief of Staff used in other branches. It appears that at least the Army COS position was not originally named that but changed, why didn't the USMC position change?

World War One is famous for its massive trench networks and for it being the first instance of full-scale use of modern weaponry. The civil war also had trench networks just to a smaller degree and also used the newest technologies of the time. These similarities are fairly obvious, I wanted to know if there were any other similarities.

Hi all, I was wondering if anyone could recommend to me some books on Stalin? I’m interested in this aspect of Soviet history but don’t know where to start. Thanks for your time

I'm reading "Napoleon: A Political Life" by Steven Englund and he says:

Bonaparte was already at war with England, and now with the Turks, but he had no wish to make war on Islam. To the contrary, he proclaimed far and wide his good feeling for the religion of Mohammed. "The Roman legions had protected religion," he said, and the French army would do even more than that. The French dated their proclamations in both the Islamic and the Revolutionary (but not the Christian) calendars; they promulgated them in Arabic as well as French. The Arabic versions often contain more strongly phrased religious language than do the French.

Did any Revolutionaries share Napoleon's positive view of Muslims? Why did French Revolutionaries (or at least Napoleon) have good feelings towards Muslims in a time where (I would think) most of Europe would despise the Islamic world?

The story I've heard is that Ghengis simply wanted to trade and after negotiations sent down a trader. The governor and his men robbed and killed the trader. Ghengis Khan sent envoys to sort this out with the Sultan who had them beheaded, mutilated, and sent them back. Vengeance was sworn and Khwarizm was wiped from the map.

I know history is written by the victors, but why would the sultan do that? Was he obligated to back his governor? Was he thinking to start a war and take the Mongols' trade goods? Was he afraid of the Mongols and wanted to show strength and fearlessness?