We just finished our WWII unit and learned about "Destroyers for Bases" deal. What happens when the 99 years pass? Will this be a big deal in the future when the agreement ends?

BTW This isn't my homework assignment, I think this is one of the wierder agreements in US history

Thank you in advance

I have always been intereseted in history and linguistics, looking at France, Spain, Portugal and great Britain in particular I have always wondered when did people start calling themselves French or British. Who are French in particular, they speak a romance language, area had a history of Roman and Germanic occupation, before that I believe it was largely Celtic. Do French people fall into a larger category of european cultures? How does they're heritage play into they're identity? Are their ancestors Roman settlers, celts, or Germanic peoples?

When we think of the shield wall it reminds us of the roman empire and the early middle ages-Viking age. In fiction its mostly associated with people with round shields yelling "Skjaldborg" or " Scildweall". When we start to see fiction about the high middle ages (I know fiction should not be what we base ourselves in, but sometimes its what we have visually if you are not a historian) we stop seing the shield wall. And in the bayeux tapestry we see the normans on horses and angles in a shield wall. Does that mean that the shield wall died with the norman style of war? It seems like a very effective tactic.

Im sorry if the question seems stupid but im very curious. Thanks again to the historians who make the fantastic job of making us enthusiasts understand these things better.

In the wake of the recent Christchurch massacre, I’ve been left wondering if this sort of lone wolf attack is a modern phenomenon?

Obviously automatic weapons make this sort of attack much easier to commit in the present day. But did it happen before the advent of automatic weapons, or even firearms?

Specifically, I would like to know whether massacres (let’s say upward of 20 individual victims), committed by one individual, occurred before:

a) the invention of automatic weapons b) the widespread adoption of firearms (let’s say, before 1600 CE)

I understand this might be a difficult question to answer, not only because it's a pretty niche topic, but because there's apparently a bit of a dearth of evidence surrounding Indian Ocean ships before the past couple centuries.

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I've been studying the dhow trade for some time as part of my research for fiction writing, but some of the specifics seem to be a bit vague. The most pertinent questions I have concern the larger, deep-sea type dhows, namely baghlahs and ghanjas, which according to some vaguely sourced information on Wikipedia may have reached 100 feet and weighed over 200 tons. I'd certainly like to know if this is accurate, first of all.

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Second, and more importantly, I was wondering how these ships would have been constructed, if they were indeed constructed, in the 13th-15th centuries, before widespread European contact with the Indian ocean. Most of the more reliable sources I've read, such as The Swahili World by Stephanie Wynn-Jones and Adria LaViolette, describe the ships of this period as being predominately sewn boats; that is, built with heavy, waterproofed cords instead of iron nails. This allowed the boats to be beached safely, since the hulls were able to flex much more; this, in turn, let traders stop at ports which would have been inaccessible to ships which required deeper anchorage. But all the boats they describe are smaller examples still in use today or in recent times, such as dhows or mitepe, which were primarily meant as littoral vessels and were not really suitable for either deep-sea voyages or large-scale shipments of merchandise.

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So, my question is: how large did dhow-type ships get in the 13th-15th centuries? Can you build a 100-foot baghlah as a sewn boat? Would a sewn boat be a viable ship for deep sea trade, or were these larger ships--if, indeed, they were built this big before widespread European contact--built as nailed ships, and intended only for trading at large ports?

Culturally, etc. Did he consider himself Welsh, or just use it to get support? Did he speak Welsh? Did he have a Welsh accent when speaking English? Did English people consider him Welsh? How much of his life had he spent in Wales?

So we are all aware of the IRA’s rebellion against British rule in the Irish War of Independance, but what I do not understand and can’t seem to find out is why Britain ruled over Ireland in the first place? What is the history of Britain’s hold on Ireland? Was it migration or was it unfair government practices? Why did the IRA have to rebel from the British government in the first place?

All answers are greatly appreciated :)

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What is a good book with an overview of American slavery and post-Reconstruction racism?

You hear a lot about the European front, the battles in the pacific and to a lesser extent the battles in Africa but what about south america? I know they weren't active battle fronts but was there allied or axis support from some countries? Did they send troops or resources?

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If you look at any law/theory/principle/study proposed before more than a hundred years ago, it is very likely to only have 1 persons name attached to it, for example, Newton's laws, Bernoulli's principle, the Taylor series, arrhenius' acids and bases, Darwin's theory of evolution etc... where as now, any scientific finding will have been done by a large team of colleagues. Why was there little to no collaborative work between multiple people? Surely somebody working in Europe would be able to travel to another European country for work, so why didn't they?

Was their a name for a soldier who trained in firearms specifically? What kind of guns existed in the Ottoman Empire during Suleiman’s reign?

I am from Texas, and my wife from Venezuela. She doesn’t understand why black people and white people have such animosity toward each other. There are black people living in South America due to the fact that Spaniards shipped and sold black people into slavery. Now, it’s as if it never happened. All races live in peace. One of her best friends is black, and her nickname is “Negrita”. If I called someone that, I would get beaten up, put up on the news, and lose my job. How and why did things go so much differently in the US?

What were the houses build from? Was there a fort?

How did they gather food from their surroundings? Was the ground fertile?

How was the island where it stood? How did English travelers reach the island? Did they took boats from the ships? Etc.

Also, with what Native tribes would they have interacted with? What where the local North Carolina tribes?

Thank you so much for your help.

I'm assuming China/India/Japan after the war began to industrialise which boosted their populations from the rural areas? But I was wondering if there's anything more to it

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