In a dnd campaign with a mod of this discord and roleplaying a follower of hermes. What would be the times that I would pray? How would the prayers go and what would be required of them. Do I offer sacrifices? How often should I pray? What blessings were often asked for from the gods?

I was thinking about this today, Germany's Final Solution was resource intensive. They used up men that were required on the front, and probably more importantly, it diverted trains that were sorely needed on the eastern front.

What was the motivation? The German government probably believed that the war was winnable? Why didn't they fight first, and wholesale murder later?

To add onto this, I know the Shogun effectively ruled but my understanding is the Emperor would give his blessing or appoint the Shogun. If the Emperor was a figurehead, why did this matter?

I am looking around and 90% of what I find is just that it started in the civil war.

Were soldiers not allowed to vote when deployed before the civil war, was it just a logistical problem, or could they?
Then there is another act allowing voting in WWI, was the Civil War voting temporary?
Were overseas/deployed soldiers not allowed to vote (presumably in peacetime as they seem to pass temporary measures for various wars) until the 80s?
Were soldiers just stationed in a different state not allowed to vote at various times?
Could a lot of the military not vote in the beginning of the country due to not owning land?

Everyone says that Romance languages overtook the Celtic languages in places like Spain and Gaul, but nobody explains how exactly this happens. Wouldn't Latin speaking immigrants have to outnumber the natives to replace the language? Certainly just being ruled by Rome isn't enough to have your language replaced, since Common Brittonic wasn't replaced by Latin. It seems insane to me that an entire language group from a country the size of France can simply disappear because of foreign occupation.

I'm an ambitious young African American man living in rural Missouri in 1938. My dream is to go to the Lincoln Institute (Now HBCU Lincoln University in Jefferson City). I've read a lot and have a bit of education here and there but no formal high school past 8th grade. Is there a path for me to attend college at such an institution? What barriers do I face? Are there remedial classes that will help me? Are many others in my cohort facing the same barriers? Or am I out of luck until I find a high school?

I'm trying to understand and find answers about fish and their depiction, specifically during the Viking age ranging from Norway to Ireland. I only know a few drawings of fish and I'm wondering if I can find any more on how they would be drawn and viewed.

My second nuclear related question of the week! In reading "Making of the Atomic Bomb" by Richard Rhodes, I was struck by a curiosity. The ultimate impetus for the U.S. Manhattan Project was the transmittal of the MAUD Committee's findings, which concluded that the creation of a bomb was not only possible, but feasible, and feasible on a time-frame relevant to the war. MAUD Committee's findings were based on the original Frisch-Peierls Memorandum, which arrived at its conclusions because Peierls decided to calculate what would happen if he assumed a reaction mediated by fast-neutrons in pure U-235; he explicitly discounts the possibility of a slow-neutron reaction in U-235 OR a fast-neutron reaction in U-238/natural uranium.

Why didn't U.S. scientists, notably those who were most concerned about the use of fission for a bomb (e.g., Leo Szilard) emphasize the use of fast neutrons in pure U-235 as proof that a bomb was feasible?

In the book, the pre-MAUD transmittal U.S. work is almost entirely concerned with slow neutron reactions in moderated systems. Even Szilard, who was the most notable figure concerned with the use of fission as a bomb, tended to emphasize the use of slow neutrons in moderated systems?

When learning about WWII in school, it was always implied that Japan surrendered out of fear America had 1000 of these mysterious super weapons, but apparently that’s not the case.

Wikipedia tells me Japan specifically brought in scientists from their own nuclear programs, who were apparently able to confirm it was a nuclear attack, but any country using this weapon would only have a few available.

Whether or not the bombs or the Soviet invasion caused Japan’s surrender is a subject for another debate. I’m just wondering how Japan was able to figure out the truth so quickly given the extreme secrecy of the Manhattan project and their isolation from the international community.

From the descriptions of decimation it seems kohorts were divided into units of 10, and one was chosen to be killed by the others. Would the officers including the centurio also be distributed to these groups? What about higher officers? Which rank would be sufficient to be above decimation?

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I've often heard it mentioned that ancient hoplite units were extremely vulnerable to being attacked on the side as they were very slow in turning and, well, pikes can only face one way.

Now, this is probably just my naive view on the matter, but wouldn't it be relatively easy to lift all the pikes of the formation, turnabout 90 degrees and lower them again to face the enemy?

In his video "Top 11 Historical Misconceptions", at number 6 WIAT claims that the Europeans came to Africa to exploit resources from the continent is a myth. WIAT claims Britain's investments at the turn of the 20th century were not from Africa but from other more wealthier colonies like India and Canada. Another point is that WIAT claims the Europeans colonized Africa in the 19th and 20th century mainly for pride rather than resource extract. How much of this is true?

It seems to me that the German Luftwaffe could have just sent hundreds of HE-111's to obliterate the beaches and kill ten's of thousands of British and French soldiers. The British absolutely had naval superiority at the time but I don't understand what was stopping the luftwaffe from absolutely obliterrating the retreating British forces.

Title says it all! I've read a few different opinions and I'm curious what the modern line of thinking is.