Sorry if I seem like a knucklehead. I have a limited grasp on the extent of WW1 history.

So, towards the end of the Njal saga there's a courtroom drama where the accusing side attempts to discredit the defending side on the basis that they have bribed their lawyer. So Mord, who is leading the accusing side, demands that 6 judges are removed from the those presiding over the case, and the rest of the judges pronounce the verdict.

Apparently, that was a huge mistake, and he should have removed 12 judges instead, so the total of the remaining judges if three dozen. That was apparently not very widely known (it seems there are very few people among lawyers and other judges that are aware of this), yet a grave enough mistake that threatened to make all of the accusing side (the good guys) exiles and outlaws, effective immediately. Questions:

What were the reasons behind removing judges from the case? How did this practice work?

And why was it so grave a mistake that people could have literally gotten themselves killed over this?

Waving aside the fact that his voice was recorded on a record which was then played over the radio, thus making his speech even harder to understand, what exactly was so difficult for the ordinary Japanese person to understand regarding his speech? Was it vocabulary, conjugation, pronunciation? I know that Imperial Japan was trying to retain its samurai traditions, so would the English equivalent be as if, I don't know, Henry VIII was resurrected and decided to speak to a 1940s British public?

Maybe I'm not looking in the right place or not hard enough, but I'm not getting any explanation as to what exactly made it sound so anachronistic, or even an inkling of what I could equate it to.

My understanding is that humans, as we know them now had moved deep into Europe and Asia by 20,000 years ago. Was this just luck of the draw or were there other contributing factors to large kindoms arising out of the deserts?

I had heard vaguely that it was believed by some that Stalin, who officially died of a stroke in 1953, may have died as a result of exposure to Polonium in his clothing.

Is there a definitive answer for this mystery?

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I've been thinking about this for a while now. Does every historian just have an overview of history and have specified areas where they know much more or do they all have an insanely in-depth view of every event? Obviously this varies on what degree you have and if you've pursued a phd, but I'd like to know how difficult the tests are and how well read the average historian has to be.

I learned in school that it has something to do with the fall of Rome and Barbarians being displaced by the Huns? This could all be completely wrong though, so I'm hoping for a more thorough answer?

My dad and I were debating whether a medieval farmer in Britain would have been able to keep track of their birthday, or calendar dates such as Christmas day.

Is there any corroborating evidence that the people described in the christian bible as the Amaleyktes actually existed?

I have been reading about the conquista and can't find any evidence of the Tlaxcalans and their allies having any spoils of war after the conquista... Seems like they were treated like any other "Indio" after the war with the aztecs was done.

He was still alive in that time, did he flee to another country?

If so, what are some of the estimates? I'm interested in total number of homo sapiens.

I know there was some controversy about the choice of the USS Missouri as the location for the official surrender, since it was not the most decorated ship in the harbor that day. I am curious to know why the surrender took place aboard a ship at all instead of on land.

Was the location choice following some diplomatic norms or were their practical reasons for not doing it somewhere else? I know the surrender of Germany took place in France and that warships are technically considered the sovereign territory of the flag they fly under. Did the surrender need to occur at an allied location?

I’ve read a while ago that Nahua people came to modern day Mexico somewhere from the north. Is anything know about that time period in their history?