I just found out randomly that men do this to propose and i was wondering if the women can do it too.

I understand that there are disagreements as to the degree of population replacement in Britain, but in any case it seems to be greater than the level of replacement of other migrations in late antiquity, say the Visigoths in Iberia. This is based on the genetics studies I’ve read (on Wikipedia).

Feel free to point out if this question is based on misconceptions.

Cultures like Buttermilk Creek, Toca de Tira Peia, and Pedra Furada date near 5-11k years older than the Clovis culture. Yet sometimes are "among fierce debate" (according to wiki) about the authenticity of their dating. We've found evidence that are inhabitants older than clovis, yet clovis is still cited as the oldest human inhabitants in the America's. Given all the evidence stating otherwise, why?

Kemper, Manson, Bundy, Gacy, Zodiac, and Son of Sam are just ones I remember off the top of my head.

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I work at a university as a teaching assistant, and in the last two years, I had a big problem. A lot of students don't know anything about Holocaust?! I found that reality frightening. So I want some recommendations about the most disturbing photos and videos, movies about Holocaust and how terrible that event was.

Thank you.

I've got a question about firearms used by both sides in the American civil war.

I notice the soldiers are using muskets which take a very long time to reload, while it appears the higher ranking officers had revolvers that could hold about 5 or 6 bullets and shoot in a semi-automatic manner.

Why wouldn't they equip all of the soldiers with revolvers so that they could shoot 5 or 6 times in the same amount of time it would have taken them to just shoot once with a musket?

I’m primarily interested on histories of education in the early modern Americas, though histories of education in the modern period generally would also be appreciated.

I’ve tried looking it up, but I can’t find any information other than that of a duke. I may not be looking up the right thing. (If this is an improper place to ask this I will remove it).

For example, Battle of Gettysburg or Vietnam War. One is based on a town name and the other the name of the country.

As I was reading through some materials on the Manhattan Project, I decided I wanted to learn more about the gaseous diffusion plant K-25 because it was the most expensive and largest facility of the Manhattan Project, and because it was the perfect example of a technical/engineering problem that needed to be solved even after the project commenced full-steam in late-1942. However, while existing materials I was able to find did a good job describing the nature of the technical problem to be solved (e.g., that a material was needed with sufficient pore size but also able to resist corrosive UF6 - all while being easily manufacturable), I could find almost nothing on either the nature of the Kellex gaseous diffusion barrier or its manufacturing in open-source materials (the best you get is that Clarence Johnson, a Kellex engineer combined the best attributes of two existing barriers). This got me thinking about a question - what do we still not know about the underlying technical achievements (not just limited to the design of the bomb at Los Alamos, but across the entire project) of the Manhattan Project?

A second, follow-up question would be, what are the best resources for diving into more technical detail about the project writ-large, from bomb design to the production of fissile material?

Hello, i really enjoy learning in general and would like to hear your suggestions about some good quality podcasts. Thanks in advance!

So the British Empire and the United States used a mix of professional civil servants and settler democracy to administer their territories and colonies, but how did the Republic of Venice, the Republic of Genoa, the Republic of Piss, and even the Republic of Florence manage to govern their territories?

Did they have a system of professional civil servants or bureaucrats? Did they have special schools and exams for them?

Were these places given a Republican system of government or were the locals treated as second class and colonized peoples? Especially since many of the Venetian colonies were populated by non-Italians and non-Catholics.

Were these places put under the rule of the military or the Church? I did hear that some colonies were treated as feudal holdings by aristocrats and merchants.

I am curious about Florence since it seemed to occupy Pisa which used to be a maritime republic. Were Pisans given self-governance or representation in the florentine government and legislature?

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Historians, was the Silk Road easily navigable for travelers? There are accounts of Chinese and other Easterners traveling overland on the Silk Road to visit Western Empires and vice versa. Was the Silk Road an easily followed route? I know that it wasn't an actual road like a Roman road would be. For an ancient tourist traveling along it would it be very difficult follow?

So, for the past few years I've had a passing interest in the very elusive Cathars, and by extension their Balkan cousins- Bogomils. I've read into the "sceptical camp" and the "traditional camp" of these things, and I do recognise that there is no real generalised and clear scholarly consensus on the subject, but I'm admittedly a little confused and haven't found a satisfactory answer. A lot of the debates I've seen are on the semantics of the term "Cathar" and whether any group actually self-identified as them, and I've also seen the debate on a unified Cathar antichurch, but my main question is was there any form of dualism in Western Europe at all at the time according to the sceptical camp? Sure, they may not have been unified and they may not have had any organised structure, but is there a grain or truth in any of this? Was there any vague set of dualistic heresies in western Europe, potentially originating from the Bogomils or even arisen independantly?

The full joke is:

I like to throw an “I’m kidding” at the ends of jokes now, in case the jokes are ever played in court.

You ever heard a joke played in court? Never goes well. They’re like, “‘And that’s why you shouldn’t give to charity.’ Is that something you find funny, Mr. Mulaney?” Um, at the time. I found out recently that jokes don’t do well in court.

So, some friends of mine were sued in college for property damage. And they were guilty. And the lawsuit dragged on for years and years and eventually, I got a call when I was 28 years old. It was my friend from college, he said, “Hey, that lawsuit with my neighbor is still dragging on and my neighbor just subpoenaed all my emails from college that mention him or the lawsuit.” And I said, “That’s crazy. But why are you calling me?” And he said, “Because you should be concerned.” He said, “I have an email here from junior year where I wrote, ‘Hey, guys, I’m going to miss practice tonight because I have to meet with my neighbor about that lawsuit thing.’ And you replied, ‘Hey, do you want me to kill that guy for you? Because it sounds like he sucks and I will totally kill that guy for you. Okay, see you at improv practice!'”

Of all the sentences in that email, I would be ashamed to have read out loud in a court of law, I think the top one is “See you at improv practice.”

At some point, someone recognized that this wasn't serious. How far back in history would someone like Mulaney have to go for this to be taken as a serious threat? How have cops and attorneys and judges evolved their approach to keep up with the rapid pace society shifts language?

I could imagine the now cliche villain laughing heartily at the hero can go back pretty far in history, but I cannot pinpoint any origin.

From what I understand, the ethnic tensions and lack of a desire to be unified that caused the balkanization of Yugoslavia existed during the interwar period, and the only reason it stayed together during the Cold War was Soviet support and a dictatorial government. Why didn’t Yugoslavia instead fall apart in the 20s or 30s?