How did the factories and such motivate people to work and how were people's inputs compensated, if by definition (at least in theory) every employee got the same salary?

I have recently read - in an article about Saint Patrick's Day - that the English Victorians used arsenic as a clothing dye to get 'emerald green' cloth. Did they really do this? Did they not know it was a powerful poison?

I was just watching something about the interwar period (Time Ghost Between 2 Wars) and the host mentioned something about women allegedly swooning at the very mention of one particularly handsome actor's name.

Presumably, women did not swoon over just one man's name, but was women swooning something that really happened?

I know about the Mukden incident and how Japan was able to invade Manchuria, but I can't seem to figure ot why they wanted to in the first place.

Sitting backwards in a chair has been a symbol of someone being "cool" (to the point where someone doing it is now a parody of being cool) I know this extends at least 20 years ago, because it appears to have been in a thing in the music video of "Gangster's Paradise" from 1995. Does anyone know the first instance of this with the implication that this was "cool"?

Note: I searched and this has been asked before, but there were no answers.

Like the dragons that Alexander the great fought were most likely elephants. How do historians figure out stuff like that out?

I am not exactly sure how to define this, but hearing "so and so was assassinated" today carries quite different connotations from just "so and so was killed". How far back into history can we find this distinction? (Not necessarily using the literal word "assassination")?

Would Julius Caesar's death be considered to be something "different" from an ordinary murder, by his contemporaries? Henry IV's? Abraham Lincoln's? Franz Ferdinand's? JFK's?

In general, when did people start attributing special importance to murders for political reasons, as opposed to killings for personal gain or out of anger/passion?

Can anyone explain to me about what Market Garden was

And I'm also interested in archaeological history too so books covering that would be nice as well. And not just the Middle East Bronze Age, but the world over.

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For self-knowledge purposes I want to read Xenophon's Anabasis, in English, and I figure a version with commentary might be for the best.

I know there are several translations available, over the centuries, and I remember my history professors talking about how some translated editions of ancient works (in general) are considered much better than others.

I'd like to know what version, translation, edition, etc. would be highly recommended for someone in my position - and why that version, if you happen to have such an opinion. I enjoy learning about ancient cultures and military history, but I have no ancient language skills and am somewhat, but not supremely knowledgeable about this time period and setting. For this reason I'm thinking an English edition with commentary would be for the best.

As a bonus question, if anyone happens to have good familiarity: what would the added purpose be of reading Arrian's Anabasis in addition to Xenophon's? The summaries of Arrian's work that I've read have not really given me a good idea of what additional value one gets out of reading Arrian's work in addition to Xenophon's. I don't necessarily want to delve into the later view of events from the perspective of Arrian's contemporaries - in that case, would reading Arrian really convey that more more information about the events as told by Xenophon, or is it mainly studied to provide insight into Arrian's timeframe and contemporaries, in a comparative sense?

Many thanks!

So I just read about some glass created in India about 5000 to 10 000 years ago. It cites texts that chillingly resemble the descriptions of nuclear bombs. Also, they talk about radioactive glass/skeletons that were produced by a bomb 10 000 stronger than the trinity nuclear bomb.

I remain exceptionally skeptical, but I have to have some closure on the topic. Anybody know a satisfying theory about it?

How was the practice viewed by the common people/the clergy of the period? Would it have been considered excessive or morally objectionable for say, a non-landowning serf who had gone on a pilgrimage to bring back a supposed relic fragment of some faraway saint's wishbone, and keep it for themselves to wear for good luck, rather than to donate it to the local church?

I know that alcohol definitely existed and was consumed by Native peoples long before contact with Europeans, but why wasn't alcoholism more prominent within the Natives prior to their experience with Europeans as it was after European contact?

I heard recently that the French Foreign Legion was a lot like the Night's Watch in Game of Thrones, in that people with criminal pasts could join up to sort of clear their records. Is that true? I have been doing a little bit of research (Wikipedia) and I haven't seen any mention of it.

Eg. Kingdom of Bavaria

Surely if they had taken over Rome in the 1600s it would be game over for Europe. Especially because they believed they were the true successor of the Roman Empire.

Pretty much what it says on the tin. I would like some good sources on the Nordic Bronze Age, with a short summary and link to where I can read or buy them. In particular, I’m interested in NBA society, religion, warfare, and art. Thank you very much!

I've never really been able to find that out