I ask because of two factors.

1. We have records of sexual activities between slaves and their same-sex owners from China, Greece, and Rome.

2. We have records of sexual activities between males slave-owners and female slaves in the United States.

Something I've seen from time to time is the remark that once the Russians moved their factories eastward they were beyond the range of Luftwaffe bombers. I've also seen a lack of heavy bombers being considered as a weak point for Germany.

So what I was wondering is, if the Luftwaffe had an effective force of heavy bombers with enough range would it have made any difference whatsoever? I thinking specifically of Russia targets but also in the West.

(I am defining Heavy bomber as something in the Lancaster/B17 size bracket.)

Most of what I have read about American expansion (which probably applies to colonization of the Americas as a whole) is that the vast majority of natives’ deaths attributable to whites came from disease, more so than outright violence. But, most of this happened when Western civilization did not yet understand disease communicability as we do today.

My question is simple, but I understand that depending on the people and diseases involved, there could be complex or even multiple answers to this question.

It was my understanding that the entire area of Pripyat was closed off, how could they continue operating reactors 1, 2, and 3?

This showed up as a fun fact in fact-a-day book, supposedly he objected to how little the pirates wanted to ransom him for, increased the ransom amount, then came back and crucified the pirates. This sounds like Caesar fan fiction to me, and while it’s on Wikipedia, their source is a kids’ history book. Any ideas where the story comes from?

Would your average citizen be able to afford such luxuries as wallpaper, paint, or other decorations like paintings, etc? Would these even be available in the Soviet economy to begin with? In lieu of that, what other options might I have to satisfy my creative soul?

This question as been on my mind for sometime, i first saw the idea brought up in the game mafia 2. So in reality, how often if at wall was the mob involved with Mussolini's Italy

To clarify, where there any like patriotic mobsters. People within tbe local mobs that could or would lind a hand with the CIA for example when fighting threats to the United states or communists? And then hypothetically speaking. If the US was invaded like in the movie Red Dawn, would organized crime form organized resistance or take advantage over the situation?

About a year ago I came across a video mentioning something like this slightly. I have been researching this fenomena, but I couldn't find anything concrete on this matter. I remember that they were walled in a certain bridge but couldn't remember which one. I would like to know about historical books which talks about this, if possible.

I was always under the impression as a kid that those big tall pillars typical of Roman buildings were always solid marble. I have always wondered how they got so smooth and so shiny.

I also learned as I grew up that a lot of the time, structures (such as bath houses etc) were created out of brick and then ‘wrapped’ or ‘clad’ in marble.

What I want to know is;

1. How did Roman’s make pillars out of SOLID marble and make them so smooth?

2. How did Roman’s use marble as a cladding material? How did it stick to walls etc? Nails?

3. Are these ^ skills we’ve lost over time, or can it still be done to the same degree of intricacy and still look good/ornate?

4. I saw green/red looking marble, which I believe is jade/jasper - this was used to clad things too. Was the process for doing so the same as marble?

This stems from a recent trip to Rome. The Caracalla Baths (?) were once entirely clad in marble. But now, only a brick shell remains.

Hello everyone, I was wondering if anyone could help me. I have successfully researched the aviation history in my home town going back to 1909 all the way up until the outbreak of WWII. I would like to diligently put together a record of all the combat and sorties flown by the Luftwaffe, the RAF an later the USAF over my region, but I can't seem to find any books or websites that deal in that sort of dry information. The area I'm looking at in Essex, England.

I know that there is the National Archives, but unfortunately to do what I would like to do I would have to buy every record at £3.50 each which would cost upwards of thousands of pounds! Thankfully I managed to find a couple of books on WWI that did this, giving just a day to day account - but obviously there were very few sorties flown in WWI and it was a comparatively easy task.

Does anyone have a starting point, or know of any resource I could use? I've been looking for books and have yet to find anything that seems to fit the bill.

My history books went from wheelbarrows of worthless reichsmarks in 1929 to fleets of tanks, submarines, and ships in 1939 during what I am told was a worldwide economic depression.

How?

One interesting feature of books and movies set in Franco's Spain is how many of them use childhood and fantastic metaphors to approach the era - even after his ouster, when metaphor isn't needed for safety. I don't know if there's a link to the Latin American magical realist school that fed into this, but how did this technique become such a prominent trope for this era? (for example, Bruno Schultz aside, there doesn't seem to be an analogue for Nazi era literature)

One reads about a profusion of weights of shot: three-pounder, four-pounder, eight-pounder, twelve-pounder, et al. Obviously heavier is better, but how much so? For instance, how much superior were a ship of the line's 18- and 24-pounders to a frigate's 12-pounders?

Despite weapons such as the Spencer, Henry, and Colt repeating rifles coming on to the scene with impressive magazine capacities during the American Civil War, the US Army failed to adopt a standard rifle capable of firing more than one shot at a time until the Springfield 1892 Krag. Why didn't they make a rifle like the Henry standard across the army after the Civil War? Wouldn't the single shot 1873 "Trapdoor" Springfield rifle be a step back backwards from repeating rifles of the time?

Something I’ve always been curious about is how battlefield tactics changed or didn’t change post-napoleonic wars and following the development of guns like the needle gun. Everything I read about wars like the Franco-Prussian war or the Spanish-American war gives in depth analysis to the grand campaign strategies and mentions the battles casualties, where they fought, etc. But I want to understand the tactics behind it. Did they still fight in lines similar to the US civil war? What was the skirmish lines role? How important was flanking and how did they flank? Any help would be a amazing!