I have an ariskia type 99 from ww2. It was a Japanese soldiers. The imperial seal on the gun is grounded off. I’ve seen other guns sell that have the same thing grounded off. Can someone tell me why

Can't figure it out. This comes from Ian Kershaw's Hitler: Nemesis, and the report is from 1939

I was reading Keynes' The Economic Consequences of the Peace and noticed that, while European leaders were mentioned by name, Woodrow Wilson was referred to as "the President". I have a hard time deciding whether this was meant to emphasize American power (Keynes did suggest that the Americans could have dictated terms if they so chose) or if there may have been a hint of mockery underneath.

My question is: how did the powers of Europe perceive the United States at the end of WWI, and how much leverage could Wilson draw on at Versailles?

It's my understanding that teaching career sailors to swim is a relatively modern innovation - at best, there just wasn't the time/money for it...and at worst, you don't want your sailors to get the idea that they can just dive in the water and swim away from a fight gone sour. Does this hold true for the Scandinavians of the Viking Age?

Pith helmets were undoubtedly out dated by the 1960s so why did the North Vietnamese army still use them?

Obviously tax is a source of income, but between the independence and the first tax income, how did India pay for their expenses. Did the UK provide some pocket money?

In the Old Testament in the Bible, polygamy doesn't seem to be off limits. Solomon, for example, has hundreds of wives and concubines. However, in Paul's letters in the New Testament, he seems to prescribe monogamy. I've read that at the time of Jesus, polygamy was no longer common among Jews. When and why did this happen?

I find myself thinking about this a lot. Burning a fellow human alive — one of the most horrific, awful, painful, terrifying methods of death — is awful by every stretch of the imagination, and I’m sure any operator of one has to feel immense guilt. Were there any statistical correlations between Flamethrower operators and PTSD in any war, or any personal experiences of moral horror or guilt told by their operators?

I have now heard of three Legends on How The Sun was created.

The First one is About Tonatiuh, the poor God who wanted to become the fifth sun and now the Humans needed to give him Blood Sacrifice.

The second one is About Nanauatzin and Tecciztecatl. Nanauatzin was brave enough to jump into teh Fire than Tecciztecatl, so he became the sun.

The Third One Is About Huitzilpochtli who beheaded Coyolaxqui and she became the Moon and he the Sun. So the Sun is Fighting against the Moon and her 400 Sisters and Brothers so they dont kill all the Humans. And to help the Sun you Need to give him blood sacrifice too.

WHICH of These is True? Why are there so many in the First place?

If my understanding is correct, its just one of those systems which stuck after Charlemagne decided to use it officially and with Europe's rise it became the norm. However, in the current day and age with greater coverage of global historical events, would it not be convenient to have a linear time line which is not predicated by the birth of Jesus?

So throughout history many have labelled McClellan an incompetent individual when it came to how he ran the Union, however what I am wondering is, why? What exactly did he do to earn this label?

Every artistic remake of Rome or a specific Roman building always show ancient Rome as a crowded, pristine city of these gorgeous marble structures forming the maze of Rome. However, in these recreations we never see if some buildings were damaged, vandalised, under construction or if the streets have banners for different merchants and rubbish thrown into the gutters, so I wanted to know how realistic these recreations were.

Was the west freaking out about something that could, but wasn't planned to happen. Or were the fears justified?

I have a passing knowledge of various aspects and events of World War 2 but in interested in getting more of an overall account of the time line. I'm actually most interested in it from a battle and front lines point of view, how the zones of control changed over time etc.

Is there a book you recommend?

This is in reference to the sel du devoir in the Grande Gabelle.

I'm interested in learning more about the history of the far-left and what the different "factions" (e.g. Marxists, Leninist, Bolsheviks, Maoists, etc) believe in and how they're different from each other. I imagine this is a pretty broad topic and there's probably not one book that covers everything, but any books on any of the belief systems would be helpful. I would also guess that the Communist Manifesto is a good starting point?

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Thanks in advance.