You see things like Jesse James who was heavily influenced by the events of the war or the fact that the railroad became a vital point to the Unions success during the war and it's boom in later years.

How did it affect people going west or the general politics of the era?

Did people in the year 1 know it was the first year? Or did they know when it was year 200?

What are the main mythological animals, beings, spirits, etc. that an inhabitant of England, living around the time of Alfred the Great, would believe to be real?

I’ve been reading up a little, apparently Merlin would not yet have been developed as a character, though the mythological stories of Welsh and Roman heroes who would later become Merlin were around. Elves were believed in, and were seen as fair, white humanlike people, beings capable of inflicting sickness on humans. Dragons would not be seen as dinosaur-like beings with four legs and wings, but instead were thought of as large serpents. The ancestor to the word “dragon” wouldn’t even be used, and wyrm would be more common. Folk magic was used to treat illnesses and such.

What other stuff can you tell me about the mythology believed in at this particular time?

I know that Dwight D. Eisenhower was the supreme commander of the allied forces, my question is if he had a Axis counterpart.

While I have been researching the janissaries from the Ottoman Empire, please correct me if I’m wrong, but it seems like initially (at least before the 16th century) they were all “slave soldiers”. I.E. children taken from their home and militarized.

However, I am wondering what the wealthy did with their children who wanted to become soldiers. Was this an option? Where there any “knights” in the Ottoman Empire? Are there any good books on the subject?

Thank you in advance!

How many people were deported under the McCarthy era, and what made a person qualify for government surveillance, arrest, or deportation?

An interesting theory I heard is that Odin, Vili, and Ve may have come from the same primordial Indo-European Vedic religion that Hinduism derived from - where their corresponding gods being Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva. However to this day those 3 Hindu gods have sizable cults, but by the 10th century it appears the 3 most popular gods were Odin, Thor, and Freya.

Did Vili and Ve even have cults to begin with or did they become some sort of background character?

There is a lot that has been written about female brothels which catered to the rich and famous like straight Hollywood stars but there is not that much written about gay brothels even though I'm sure gay prostitution existed. So did any brothels like that exist and where they run similarly to how a female brothel is ran?

I can understand why this would be accurate in the 18th century as other states such as France and Britain were centralizing more into the beginnings of a unitary state, while the Holy Roman Empire's states were all practically independent, but in earlier centuries wouldn't the level of decentralization have been similar, with vassals having significant power while the kings of France or England would at times have only nominal authority over their vassals?

And I really don't know history very well. Any other info you can provide helps too, like the climate, the relationship with the UK, if any Germans came to America and vice versa, stuff like that.

It seems the intention is to teach some signs, but they often just function as another sort of fingerplay instead. How has the ASL community reacted to these kinds of uses?

India is an incredibly diverse place, which many, many local languages and dialects. I know the early Mughals spoke Persian, but was there any attempt to standardise and impose a language throughout the empire?

I'm having a bit of trouble finding a detailed report on the battle of Shrewsbury (1403), does any of you guys know of some reports or where to search?

Does anyone have any good recommendations for books about the Paleolithic period of human history?

I'm interested in any book regardless if it's about the lower, middle or upper Paleolithic.