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I was watching a comedy show made before the Second World War and I started wondering about what was comedy like behind the iron curtain.

From what I can recall, the Tonga/Polynesian people that originally colonized the remote islands dotting the Pacific Ocean, such as Hawaii, embarked into the Pacific from the east coast of Asia.

Did they ever travel further east than Hawaii and make contact with the tribes inhabiting the North American west coast?

So, I'm making a set of maps of medieval Scotland, including Shetland, with contemporaneous names, and I'm looking for - I've had a look around, and old Norse seems to have used 'utsjor' for the wide ocean, possibly 'nordhaf' for the North Sea and 'Vesterled' for a Western trade route - can anyone verify these, and also where the vesterled might have covered? Thanks in advance!

It's an idea I've heard from educationalists pushing for radical changes to the way education is done.

Inspired by Persepolis, I recently went down a rabbit hole of wikipedia articles on the subject but would like a more unified account that's actually a good read. Thanks

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As a follow up, I know that there were free black people, and that it's likely some identified with the Patriot's cause. Did this rhetoric about British-empire-conspiring-to-enslave-colonists ring more true to these people, or did it just turn them off from the increasing radicalism of white colonists?

This is a translated letter I received from Das Bundesarchiv today: "As a member of the unit 1st Battery Artillery Regiment 30 is on September 20 1941 in Bordowka / Russia fell. He was bearer of the dog tag: - 856 - 3. / l. A.E.A. 30 (= 3rd Company Light Artillery Replacement Division 30) His final resting place he found in Alschenka in a single grave, 23 kilometers north of Demyansk in Russia. Whether the grave still exists today or in what condition it is I can not make a statement."

Does this indicate if he was a Nazi or just a regular German guy who had to fight for the German army? What was his role in the military?

I’m going to use the example of the TV series Stargate SG1 for this question. Throughout the series, Daniel Jackson (historian/archaeologist/geek) will refer to something that happened in an ancient earth civilization or how writings discovered mirror certain ancient earth languages. Sometimes I will get on the internet and try to verify this random mentioned fact and sometimes it’s true and of course for the sake of a show completely fictional. So my question is are there historians or archaeologists that come in and assist with getting some of this information correct? Something like “historical reference director” or anything like that?

I had heard that women couldn't be actors, so men played female parts; while I imagine there isn't a lot of information on the lives of transgender volk during this period, was being in the theatre an accepted outlet for those that identified as something different from the gender they were assigned at birth? Did actors who played female parts face prejudice off the stage?

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I don't read either language, but chow mein is clearly an English transliteration of another language, while a supposedly Gallic name like Commius and the possibly Pictish Calgacus sound suspiciously Latin rather than like a related language(in this case, Welsh or Breton). Did Gallic and Brittonic really sound a lot like Latin, or is there a quick way to "back translate" words into something that sounds more like the original word?