I'm a Sri lankan. My mother tough is Tamil. I interested in learning more about Tamil language. Specifically how old is Tamil language and it's origin's.

I read a lot of stories as a kid that were set in earlier centuries, and often poor children would be described as wearing rags. I pictured it then as them wearing old, tattered clothes with tears and stains. I think this interpretation came from the stories often being set during winter, so when they were described as shivering in the cold, I would imagine them being so cold because their clothes were full of holes. Was being "dressed in rags" actually more like wearing patchwork clothing, or maybe wearing older clothes that had been mended beyond recognition?

From my European school perspective it seems like most jews lived in Eastern Europe, for example Poland and the are that is now Ukraine. However, I am aware that a big part of Isreal's current population are jews from or with parents/grandparents from arabic countries. How big was the population of Middle Eastern jews and is my perception that most jews came from Europe to Israel is wrong/eurocentric?

How did RBMK reactors come about? What was their evolution from the early versions to the latest models? How did they differ from the models used by the western countries?

Hey everyone,

I am a history student in Germany and not to long ago we had a multiple classes on Didactics of History which simply started with the question: "What is History?"

The theories we dealt with during the class came almost exclusively from German scholars: Michele Barricelli; Jörn Rüsen; Klaus Bergmann; Hans-Jürgen Pandel; Johannes Meyer-Hamme; Bodo von Borries and so on.

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So maybe a bit more of a free and personal question than what comes up here regularly, but what is history to you?

To be specific, I'm looking for any credible sources on how the Nazi regime and Hitler's ideologies threatened disabled people in Europe. The Holocaust, entirely.

Wikipedia says about 250k disabled people were killed during the Holocaust, and I'm having some trouble finding stories or any real good research on that specifically. I'm disabled myself and into advocacy and I'm really interested in this portion of WW2 that I can't seem to find much coverage on. I've heard a lot of people say things vaugely about how the disabled were treated, but I don't know any good commendable sources. I've heard about the 7 dwarves of Auchwitz but that's about it.

Thank you!

I’m honestly baffled, no matter how much I look into this I get pulled into click bait and this is getting on my nerves, pederasty only started in the 7th century BCE in Greek culture but that’s all the information I have can someone help me? I don’t have a lot of experience in searching about Greek in of itself so this has been a hard experience for me

Hello. This question is probably very basic, from a technology/ technological history standpoint, so I hope I will be forgiven if any part of it is based upon false assumptions. Here it is: In the latter 19th century (say, 1899 -1900), if someone decided to construct a dynamo to electrically power a compound of about a dozen buildings, would the dynamo itself need to be powered by a generator or engine powered by (for example) gasoline or diesel fuel?

What were relations like between the U.S. and Mexico during that time and was there ever a real threat that Mexico would attack the U.S. for Germany?

Asking for purposes of DND character, "hegde knight" themed or deserter/ survivor

would it be more strange to see lorica segmentata then other armor? Feasible for someone to upkeep?

what about lorica hamata? not too different from other chainmail hauberks?

adventuring around in broadly mediterranean, near east. europe areas

I am looking for a book (ideally written firsthand by a sailor) about living on a ship with at least some logistics of how the ship was controlled (for example hierarchy of different sailors or how food and water were stored) pre-20th century.

Thanks a lot!

Or if they tried what stopped them? Seems like an obvious place to go conquer given their relatively close proximity in comparison to other places they went, and the continent being disunited with great riches to plunder.

Obviously it was a pivotal moment in Islamic history. We know that Hussein was killed by Yazid’s forces in Karbala, Iraq. But how accurate are Shi’ite (and Sunni) sources when it comes to describing the events of the battle? What is the historicity of this crucial battle?