In the movie 'My Fair Lady', Henry Higgins tells Eliza that if she is successful with her instruction and is believable as a duchess at Buckingham Palace, then she will be given '7 and 6' to start a new life. Higgins doesn't seem like an overly generous man, so I'm wondering how much money that would have been. The story supposedly takes place around the turn of the 20th century, so let's say 1905. Was Higgins being generous, or was he insulting Eliza with a low number? How much would 7 and 6 from 1905 be worth today?

I am doing some research for mod im developping, and im planning on adding daggers to it. The plan is to have daggers be used as a stealthy stab weapon, but for them to also serve a purpose as more of a combat wepon as well. I know daggers can be dual wielded, but I was wondering with what weapons they could've been paired.

I was watching Robbin Hood: Men in Tights, and Richard the Lionheart comes on screen and I got curious how an animal from another continent came to symbolize things like royalty, courage, and other virtues in Heraldry?

Can anyone recommend a book on the stories of the Greek myths, from the gods to the heroes? I'm aware of recent stuff, like Stephen's Fry Mythos book, but I'm skeptical of it's accuracy and number of myths told.

It seems like practically all cultures, and certainly those around the Greeks and Romans, practiced elite polygamy, but the Greeks and Romans had a strict adherence to formal monogamy that extended even to those elites who could have afforded more than one wife. Do we know the origins of that practice?

Hello experts! I ask this question out of curiosity for my own family. My father's side of the family is Mormon, and I always assumed it was my white grandmother who converted my Native American grandfather, who had grown up on the Comanche Nation reservation in Oklahoma. But, I learned it was the opposite - my Native American family was actually Mormon and my grandma converted. I know that Native Americans have a special place in Mormon stories, but I hadn't encountered Native American Mormons outside of my own family.

So I'm curious - Did the Mormons have a tradition of trying to convert Native Americans or proselytizing to the tribes? Thanks so much!!!

Do I travel up North to see how it's going or do I wait for information to get to me? If it's the latter, who sends that information? How does my access to information change when a battle happens closer to me, like the Battle of Kettle Creek? What amount of control does the local government have on what I can and can't publish?

*for their research papers. It sound strange that the other public-funded research and development department gave them away for free.

I'm doing a project on MREs throughout history and I'm recreating them. So please help, historians

Hi,

I’m wondering about the rationale behind sleeping arrangements aboard 18th-c. naval ships. The USS Constitution has hammocks for sailors’ beds. Were these hammock-beds effective at reducing sea sickness? I assume they also served other practical purposes, like saving money compared to more traditional beds, and keeping sailors above any water that entered the ship. I’m mainly wondering whether the hammocks swung significantly, and if that motion was preferable to a bed on the floor.

I've noticed when looking up the bronze age collapse that basically nobody in western academics has any idea what caused the bronze age collapse specifically. Some say invasion from sea people, some say trade collapse, some say plague, and they're probably all at least partially correct.

I was wondering if, during this massively catastophic period of history, there may have been any people who said "fuck this, I'm heading east" and told someone what they had witnessed in the west.

Do any eastern historians warn of the collapse of western civilization and act in reaction to it? Does anyone mention it even as a passing "shit's going down"?

I feel like when a society is colapsing, oftentime they'll be too busy dealing with that to write about it, but nearby nations might not have that same issue.

Thanks in advance.

TL;DR: Did the Zhou dynasty ever tweet about the bronze age collapse?

How did they differ culturally? Is their language different? How did they dress? How was their government built up? How did they react to the Roman expansion?

They had settlements as large as 46,000 people, practiced agriculture, and even have evidence of developing an early version of the wheel (potter's wheel) and depictions of wheeled vehicles well before they were invented in the Near East around 3000 BCE. Yet whenever people talk about "early civilizations," people bring up Norte Chico from Peru, Ancient China, the Indus River Valley, and the Fertile Crescent, but CT is just considered a culture. One could argue that they were largely destroyed by invading Proto-Indo-Europeans, but the same could be said of the Indus River Valley civilization, who are still considered a civilization. What's the dividing line here exactly?

Was there some kind of need to profe who a person is and how was this handled?

The recent fads of movies like Morbius and that new Minions move had me thinking, do we have any records of past cultures experiencing the “So bad it’s good” phenomenon in their times? I’ve always found bits of comedy like that to really add some color and humanity when reading into the past.

According to Wikipedia, after Israel's annexation of the Golan Heights in 1981, most countries consider it illegitimate because "land gained by either defensive or offensive wars cannot be legally annexed under international law". Even most of Israel's allies do not recognise the annexation of the Golan Heights, with only 1 country other than Israel recognising it (namely the USA).

If international law refuses to acknowledge land gained by either defensive or offensive wars, where is the cut-off date for this?

Also:

• Does this mean that Russia/USSR annexing Kaliningrad after World War II (a defensive war for them) is also considered illegal? Why/why not?
• Does this mean that the PRC annexing Tibet in 1951 (an offensive war for them) is also considered illegal? Why/why not?
• Does this mean that India annexing Goa in 1961 (an offensive war for them) is also considered illegal? Why/why not?
• Before anyone says "the world recognises Russian, Chinese and Indian conquests because they have nukes":
  • Israel has nukes too
  • As an Australian citizen, while our nation exists on Indigenous land, our nation's existence is recognised worldwide despite our lack of nukes. Does our record of injustice against Indigenous people jeopardise our continued international recognition?
• Turkey's annexation of Northern Cyprus in 1974 is recognised by Turkey and no other nations. Does this mean that the cut-off date for the legality of land annexation is somewhere between 1961 and 1974?

Saw this post on Witchesvspatriarchy about Native Americans not liking Christian missionaries doing proselytization. Just want to know if this statement is true or not

Hello all,

I was recently introduced to a theory regarding the true provenance of Cyrus II. The theory speculates that Cyrus II was originally not a scion of Achaemenid family stock, rather he married Cassandane, the daughter of Pharnaspes, an Achaemenid, thus making Cyrus II an Achaemenid through marriage and not blood.

Does this hypothesis have any discrepancies?

Of course, since Cyrus' life is shrouded in mystery, we will be left perpetually scratching our heads; nevertheless your opinion is welcomed.