From what I understand, unlike in Cuba or Colombia or Mexico, most predominantly-European citizens of Argentina are descended from 19th and 20th century immigrants rather than earlier Spanish colonists. And unlike other colonial immigration destinations like the United States, the profound majority of Argentina's immigrants were from Italy.

What effect did this have on the preexisting language and cultural traditions of Argentina? Did Argentina's governments during these period forcibly assimilate these people?

Sorry any grammatical errors.

Edit: I read through this twice and still forgot to put an "and" between the centuries. Thanks dyslexia.

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According to some Greek sources, Persia used slaves during around 330 BC. However, didn't Cyrus the Great abolish slavery? What was the status of slavery in the Person Empire (500-330 BC)?

The definition of slavery in this question would included people who were purchased as property for economic output, forced into military service without pay, as well as eunuchs acting as members of the royal court.

From my understanding the role of the Royal Guard is more or less a ceremonial one. Why don’t they use traditional rifles like their colleagues from the US, then? The modern rifles also seem to stand in contrast to the traditional uniforms they are wearing.

Talking about in Europe and only about the period where steel plate armor was a thing, not the period of time where chain mail was the “best” (for lack of a better word) armor available. If they did, what would it be like? Was it uncomfortable, was it like a speedo type thing, etc. I looked up pictures of armor and from what I could tell it was part of the piece that protected the waist area. I need to know how to draw this for poster I’m making on knights. First ever reddit post, sorry if I messed something up.

Browsing on Google Earth around Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Maryland, you can see a very obvious ring-shaped lack of trees. I saw this and thought it might be a particle accelerator, but to my knowledge APG has no particle physics functions.

Some cursory looking around on Google found that it is the Edgewood Arsenal Tandem Van de Graaf Accelerator, built in 1969, and (I presume) now inactive.

My questions are:

What was this facility used for, and were any important discoveries made there?

Why was it built in coastal, forested Maryland instead of somewhere drier and more open?

Was this run-of-the-mill technology at the time, or was it highly advanced?

Why was it shut down?

What became of the accelerator after being shut down?

What is the facility used for now?

And also an interesting bit of trivia I discovered upon looking into it: the accelerator was designed by a company at which Donald Trump's uncle was a principal designer. So was the president's uncle involved in building this accelerator?

I was thinking about this today in the shower...who was the first person to say, "We should probably take baths more often."? It's a strange question, but I'm hoping someone has an answer. Or something close to one.

From many different ethnic groups who live in Ethiopia why only two(Amhara people and Tigrayans) consider themselves as Abysinians?

I have a ggggrandfather that was a judge in Pike county Missouri during the war. What was the political climate there? Would most people have been sympathetic to the southern cause?

A few more questions that I'm quite curious to learn about. If these could relate to Texas that would be amazing but it dosen't have to be if info is scarce. #1 Depending on the time frame/year of enlistment will I be more than likely stationed in the South to guard the Reconstruction process or would I be sent to the frontier to fight the natives? #2 During enlistment could I "choose" which unit I wanted to be in as in modern times you can "choose" your MOS/army role, say for instance instead of being in the infantry I wanted to be in the cavalry? #3 If I am stationed out West or in the South what would my daily duties be like and how would they compare or contrast with each other? #4 What would the social standing for a man of my background be in the Army? #5 How dangerous will this new line of work be compared to staying home in backbreaking poverty?

So the Italian peninsula in Roman times was like unified country, how did it transition into the separate city states that were later unified again in the 19th century?

I only ask this because it feels unlikely that men in these times would have perfectly sculptured abs/pecks without the kind of gym-obsessed lifestyles we see today; and yet a lot of early and renaissance art does portray male figures in this way. Was it enough to just be a soldier or farmhand? Or did only certain men in particular professions look like that?

It seems to me if you have a spear with multiple blades on the front meant for piercing, you could stab your foe multiple times with one thrust, increasing the chance of hitting a vital organ. There's probably a reason why these kinds of weapons rarely if ever existed and were never used on large scale.

Was Nazi propaganda successful enough so that people believed they should be killed if old or disabled, for the benefit of the nation?

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Or, was this a temporary scheme to lessen expenses on healthcare, that was not intended to be continued in the long-term?

Or your typical slave-owning rapist, for that matter? (Yes, by our notions of consent). Sorry if this question has been asked before, but it suddenly hit me like a ton of bricks that I don't even know how that situation might have looked.