Follow-up, what other outrageous ways were people "put to death" in Rome/Roman Empire era?

I read this "factoid" in the book "The 4AM Breakthrough" by Brian Kitely.

To be fair, I've not read either work in their entirety, but both seem to have the vibe of trying to impart wisdom through religious-like language, but both were written by non-religious individuals in the conventional sense.

I’ve seen a few movies and TV shows set in the 50s/60s (Dirty Dancing, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel) where relatively wealthy families would spend the summer in a bungalow in the Catskills or a similar environment. How prevalent were these family summer camps in society and what type of people would vacation here? Is it mainly an upper middle class East Coast thing?

Did families do this every year? If so, how would people be able to take the whole summer off of work to go?

What was the culture like?

Asking because the preface of the book says to take his accounts with a grain of salt

Hello Historians!

I want to make some food similar to what the Norse may have eaten during the Viking Age, and so I want to know some ingredients and spices used by the Norse people.

Hi all, I was wondering if someone has the answer or can point me in the right direction.

I am of the understanding that in Ancient Times, terms and ideas about sex and sexuality were quite different and did not conform to the understanding of "heterosexual" and "homosexual".

My understanding is that men and women were either "passive" or "active" in their sexuality (though, I am not true if that is how it was classified or even if it is correct). Is that correct, and can anyone describe what the terms mean if it is, or is that wrong?

I don't see any general overviews of the Soviet economy in the booklist, and just searching "Soviet economy" mostly gives five- or six-year old posts with no citations.

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I've seen depictions of the conquest of the Americas where you can see soldiers fully clad in armor whilst carrying an arquebus. So my question is: when did people decided that there was no point in bringing maces,shields and armor to the battlefield? and instead decided they should use mainly gunpowder weapons and colorful standardized uniforms

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I've seen a lot of memes recently concerning Vietnam flashbacks as the punchline. Even as a kid I remember hearing a lot about "Charlie was everywhere" in shows and movies. What makes Vietnam more horrifying than some other wars, even recent wars? Were the horrors just so recent and also heavily documented?

I’m reading Lefebvre’s history of the Revolution and Napoleon keeps coming into my mind. I know that he led the revolutionaries into battle some, but surely there was much anger and even insurrection when he came to power? What was this period of change like from this perspective?

Prompted by a comment elsewhere that people only tend to ask about Aboriginal Australians (is there an accepted shorter term..?) as foils for the Māori. I'm broadly interested in accounts of anything from social structure to cosmology, but in the interest of not being too vague, did they have permanent settlements? How large did these get?

As you can see, I'm coming from a point of near-total ignorance, so please be pedagogical :P

I have recently become pretty interested with the history surrounding the Portuguese Empire at the time of the Age of Discovery, so from the 16th to 17th Century but haven't really been able to find any books on the topic, any suggestions?

I was just watching a documentary about the B-17 Flying Fortress (an aircraft i've always loved) and it struck me as they demoed the twin 50-cal ball turret that these guys would have been firing wildly at any enemy fighter approaching them. That's a lot of bombers spraying a lot of lead over populated areas. Apart from the bombs, was this a hazard people worried about? Were there any documented events of people or property being hit by bullets fired from up there?

How was it organized politically, socially and how did education function?

Most modern military forces have a basic training, where new recruits are taught marching, discipline, working as a unit, etc. - as well as being fed, medically screened, and eventually shipped off to some specialty training.

What I'm wondering is, how did this sort of pipeline evolve? Obviously before volunteer armies, new recruits were generally generally conscripted, but what was the common practice for getting them up to speed, militarily speaking?

When did what we know now as modern military basic training start to exist, and what predated it?

I am interested to know if the Greek rivals treated captured soldiers with any respect, whether citizens would have been ransomed, those considered as lower class enslaved or executed. I’m assuming that the slave soldiers would have been re-enslaved but am also intrigued as to their fate.