What happened to the hundreds of thousands of pounds of brass left over from world war 2 from shell casings from all types of weapons? Did the countries collect and recycle it or sell it for future manufacturing? I would imagine battlegrounds were piles and piles of casings and other material that could be reused. Did any countries actively collect casings from howitzers and such after use and reload them at local camps since shipments of ammo could take a while?

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I half overheard some cool people talking about Roman attempts to push into Arabia, or dealings with the Nabataean kingdom and it sounded like a pretty rough time for Rome. What was happening? Was it a one off thing, or a fairly frequent area of conflict?

I have England in my mind but the question extends to anywhere - that is, before the age where people were able to have photographs of their monarchs framed on their mantels, etc. What were the chances that your average person in York (for example, somewhere well outside the seat of power) would have known the likeness of the Monarch?

It seems weird to me how Italy, Romania, Hungary and other states had a new regime installed never changed their flags but the Nazis did change the German Flag, considering they were nationalists it seems weird to me that they would want to change a national symbol like their flag

I recently watched a video detailing some near-death encounters Alexander experienced along his campaign that seemed like the sort of material that would be found in a novel rather than a history book. So, do we know where the line can be drawn between propaganda, myth (exaggerated and amplified by later rulers of Ptolemaic Egypt, the Seleucid Empire, etc.), and legitimate historical events that actually occured during Alexander's campaigns?

Also, were any royals infamous for having deceptive portraits?

If one was trying to geta better understanding of the history of Islam within the Middle East, what books would be recommended? Likewise, are there any books of the Middle East prior to Islam?

So, books prior to Islam in the Middle East , books of Islam in the Middle East. It doesn't really matter to me if it is historical or Archeological.

Specifically, the phenomenon of an indigenous people being remembered through the mythology of the culture which displaced or destroyed them.

Bonus question: Why do we have it just to sit there and do nothing?

Sorry if this is a stupid question, like I get why we needed it when we had the gold standard but we don't have that anymore so what's the purpose of hoarding it?

Are there any documents confirming that this actually happened?

Are there documented reactions of the recipients?

Where are these remains today?

Why did hitler never bomb and landmarks in Britain like the royal palace or Big Ben? I know he didn’t burn Paris because his generals didn’t want it but why did they not bomb landmarks in Britain to lower morale?

Most Mongols were not Christians, but some tribes were "Nestorian" Christians (though I'm not sure that's what they considered themselves? Maybe that's just what Europeans called them?), and a number of influential princesses were Christian.

What was this Christianity actually like, as practiced by the Mongols? Did they have a liturgy, and what language was it in? Syriac? Mongol?
Were there famous Mongol saints they venerated?

Did they produce Bibles in Mongolian?

Did they have Churches?

What was the position of priests and Bishops in the culture of the Mongol tribes that practiced it?

Do we know anything about their theological positions?

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I'm also interested in Central Asian tribes that held important positions in Mongolian culture, but were actually Turkic rather than Mongolian. I know that the Mongols sent a Uigher bishop to Rome, so clearly they had Bishops.

I'm taking this text from the Wikipedia article. "The ancient Greeks used one of three words to refer to the home location of the Spartans. The first refers primarily to the main cluster of settlements in the valley of the Eurotas River: Sparta.[16] The second word was Lacedaemon (Λακεδαίμων);[17] this was also used sometimes as an adjective and is the name commonly used in the works of Homer and the historians Herodotus and Thucydides. Herodotus seems to denote by it the Mycenaean Greek citadel at Therapne, in contrast to the lower town of Sparta. It could be used synonymously with Sparta, but typically it was not. It denoted the terrain on which Sparta was situated.[18] In Homer it is typically combined with epithets of the countryside: wide, lovely, shining and most often hollow and broken (full of ravines).[19] The hollow suggests the Eurotas Valley. Sparta on the other hand is the country of lovely women, a people epithet"

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I was reading an article claiming the US was really an elective monarchy pretending to be a republic (and that the UK was a hereditary republic pretending to be a monarchy). Is this true? And what exactly is the difference between a republic and an elective monarchy?

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