I really come up with a blank here and googling offers some vague answers. We know more about the actual operating systems and hardware used at the time, than the actual end-user software.

Are there any examples of said software usable via an emulator of 8086 or other hardware of the day?

I know that in 1785 the Continental Navy was disbanded. The constitution was ratified in 1789 and Article 1, Section 8 mandates that Congress "provide and maintain a Navy" but the U.S. Navy wasn't reinstated until the Naval Act of 1794. That leaves 5 years without a Navy, spanning the first two congresses. I know money was an issue but how did they legally justify this? Did checks and balances fail or was their some legal loophole they exploited?

Is there a reason why paratrooper units in the Cold War era and beyond are usually the ones stirring lots of controversy? In France, it was the Paras who threatened to seize Paris and Corsica if de Gaulle wasn’t installed as President. In the UK, there was Bloody Sunday.

During the Neolithic shift from a hunter-gatherer society to an agricultural one, humans started permanently settling and claiming land. But I presume that early on in the process, large amounts of land remained available for settlement. As time went by, the availability of free land decreased. At least by the time of the late Roman Republic, centralization of land in the hands of a few rich landowners became a structural problem for Roman society, as the poor were left landless and flooded the city of Rome. Julius Caesar ended up settling his veterans in very far-off lands that he conquered, which implies many men would be willing to permanently settle overseas, where they could get a plot of land, rather than in their own country, where they couldn't.

Since the Neolithic Revolution, in Europe (or contemporary societies that practiced agriculture, rather than continued living a nomadic or hunter-gatherer lifestyle), what's generally the latest point in which someone could go and freely settle unoccupied fertile land, uncontested?

If a knight or any other fighter killed an enemy in battle was it okay to take their armor and weapons?

From what I understand, there are some in the Islamic world who hate that the House of Saud refers to themselves as king, because the only king is supposed to be Allah. So why didn't the Saudis take on a more traditional Islamic title such as Sultan? From my understanding, Sultan is a high king.

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The famous battle of Thermopylae, which I’m sure we all know, where the heavily outnumbered Spartans led by Leonidas made their stand against the Persian forces. The story goes that one ephialtes of trachea showed the Persian forces a secret passage through the mountains the Spartans were defending , allowing the Persians to make a breach and defeat them. My question is, how accurate is this? It seems like a made up story of fiction, almost too perfect. Do we know if this actually happened, or has the public been deceived? I saw a thread about Greek history, but it was focused on the Peloponnesian war, so I decided to make a separate post

I suppose there's always more about the Western Europe, but if there's something credible and well-explained about the Eastern Europe, I'd greatly appreciate it!

Thank you in advance, and have a great day!

Hi reddit historians, i'm searching information about Byzantine Themes (provinces or districs). I found some short paragraphs in some books but it wasn't enough. Is there any book or article dedicated to Themes topic? Thanks.

I’ve been watching a lot of documentaries about World War I and looking at fashion from late 19th century to mid 20th century and it seems that everyone is wearing a hat of some sort. Why?

I'm asking because , back when I was in middle school I got a MRSA on my arm. The doctors seemed quite panicked about it, and said if I had come in later I might have been dead. But at the same time its a very easy thing to catch. I'm sure tons of fighters got staph infections back then, just wondering if it was a death sentence or do they have ways of fighting them off ? Cause when I went to get my MRSA taken care of, they had to slice it open and drain it, while at the same time making me take strong antibiotics for almost a month. Vikings didn't have antibiotics lol.

By 'regular criminal', I mean a rapist, murderer, thief, etc.