After many years have slipped by, the leaders of the Greeks,opposed by the Fates, and damaged by the war,build a horse of mountainous size, through Pallas's divine art,and weave planks of fir over its ribs:they pretend it's a votive offering: this rumour spreads.

I wonder if the Swastika could be a representation of Andromeda or even the Whirlpool Galaxy.

When you go to a Mexican restaurant, you typically associate rice and beans as common side dishes from Mexico. There are many online recipes for “traditional Mexican rice”. But was there already rice growing in Mexico? Or was it introduced and it rose in popularity?

I was just reading online that some of the graduate programs for history often require to know the written language in a specific area of interest. When did you start learning that language in order to get accepted to a graduate program? I’ll be starting mandarin sophomore year as an undergrad, and I’m worried that by the time I’m done with school I won’t be ready to enter the next level of education.

According to wikipedia:

"Former Southern Baptist Convention President W.A. Criswell (1969-1970) welcomed Roe v. Wade, saying that ""I have always felt that it was only after a child was born and had a life separate from its mother that it became an individual person," the redoubtable fundamentalist declared, "and it has always, therefore, seemed to me that what is best for the mother and for the future should be allowed." This was a common attitude among evangelicals at the time. Criswell would later reverse himself on his earlier position."

I've also heard it said elsewhere that prior to the 1980s, most evangelicals regard abortion as a "catholic" issue and that the change was due more to political wrangling than actual religious convictions. Is this true?

How did evangelical Christians go from largely being apathetic or supportive of abortion rights to being so fiercely against the practice?

As I'm sure you well know, most people were sent to Nazi concentration camps via rail. They were degrading cattle cars rather than proper trains with restrooms and other facilities. People were usually crammed in with unsanitary conditions. The victims may not have known for certain that they were on their way to extermination, but given the human rights abuse that those trains already were, you would think people would have figured out that they were in a bad situation. Did anyone therefore attempt to escape? If there were any way to get out by somehow forcing a door open or prying open any section to get to the outside, it totally would have been worth the risk to just jump out and see if you could survive the fall with minimal injury. Maybe someone actually did that. With those being old box cars, maybe some of them weren't in good shape and had vulnerabilities that someone was able to exploit. If someone could find a way to escape their box car and run and hide in a nearby forest, maybe they had a chance for survival. Does anyone know if anything like this happened?

Many sources talk about the discovery of the rosetta stone and how it helped us learn more about ancient cultures, but I was wondering about what specifically it helped us learn that we did not know before. Thanks.

In more specification I am looking for what cities existed at the time and what political entities held influence on Corsica and surrounding islands in roughly 480 BCE. I understand Carthage held control over part of the island at the time but I would like more detail on that. Did they hold subject states in the region or was it more of a direct rule? Information on this and sources that could be used to research this would be much appreciated.

Obviously they were affected a lot, but what was a normal day like during that time? What did they change in terms of their work and school schedules? How did the economy fair considering there was also an enormous war going on at the same time. Of course I’m asking in reference to the outbreak of the COVID-19 virus (however it’s not nearly as bad as the Spanish Flu, at least right now), but I am also genuinely curious about that time period.

I read that there were actually 3 genres that emerged from Greek theater: Tragedy, Comedy, and the Satyr play.

I’m trying to wrap my head around the satyr play. At first I thought it was a form of satire (satyr->satire?) but it seems like that was not the case.

So how did Satyr plays differ from comedies? Why does only one complete Satyr play (Euripides’ “Cyclops”) survive when so many Comedies and Tragedies survive? Is there any connection between satyr and satire? When/why did they die out? Any other interesting facts about Satyr plays?

Thanks!

Broad geographical range here, but I'm interested in answers from anywhere within Africa or Oceania as I don't know much about pre-colonial LGBTQ+ history in any of the cultures in those areas. I've seen stuff online about gay men in Hawaii and fa'afafine in Samoa, but since those are male and third gender identities, respectively, I'm really interested to learn more about what possibilities existed for LGBTQ+ women in any of the many cultures in Africa and Oceania. I feel like I never hear about women from these places in discussions of LGBTQ+ history.

I read that after WW1, there was a regency for emperor Charles I, but he was prevented from taking the throne by the regent, twice. Why did this peculiar situation happen? Why didn't the Hungarian elect another king or do away with the monarchy entirely if the (rightful?) king is not allowed to take it?

Obviously this is touchy and I'm not trying to make a facile comparison between two historical events, but I'm always curious about how people handle this sort of thing. I know now that people are having more discussions about using the word genocide around the Trail of Tears, but I was curious, given certain events in Ottoman history, what's the common understanding of similar events in Turkey?

It seems pretty simple to me : start building factories with oil money, start investing in intechnology and education and let half your population work(females), start building infrastructure and stores instead of relying oil get a workforce who starts paying taxes and income inequality. As a bonus start building your own wepons from reverse engineering the wepons they have instead of overspending. Am I missing something?

I know this is probably an oversimplification, but I remember hearing that the Khmer Rouge's criteria for who gets the bullet included a category that was, more or less, "anybody who was French-educated and/or actually knew what they were doing."

Did this have a deleterious effect on their ability to maintain what equipment they had or the competency of their military?