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I mean besides Mussolini's attempt to build one.

In World War II my granddad was one of two doctors aboard the USS Monterey (CVL-26), serving a crew of almost sixteen hundred sailors. On the worst day he spent on the ship they had to treat ten severely wounded men, and it was surely very difficult for just the two of them.

I wonder though, if his ship had been torpedoed or bombed there could be dozens or even hundreds of deaths and terrible injuries for them to deal with all at once.

What were the two of them supposed to do? Was their training for this sort of scenario?

Thanks!

What would his daily schedule consist of? Did the general population have any understanding of what the role of the president was?

I don't want to sound stupid, but I recently read the Odyssey and couldn't help but wonder. The entire epic is steeped in myth and fiction, but the Trojan war actually seems plausible in its depiction overall. I was just wondering if this war actually existed and what resources we have describing it (besides the Odyssey and Iliad).

Please be kind, I hope I'm not missing an extremely obvious part of history and just sound ridiculous.

I'm investigating what methods peoples of the past used to travel upstream before Steam Power become available. More specifically, I'm wondering how the people who navigated the Mississippi and the Nile rivers would have done so, particularly with vessels of sizes larger than personal craft (small to large scale trading ships). From what I can discern, these two have their own difficulties that make answers for other rivers seems less likely. Namely, the Mississippi is too large in many places for beasts of burden to pull the craft along from the shore, and the Nile shares this problem with the Mississippi in addition to how it runs counter to all prevailing winds, meaning that sails would be all but useless.

It seems like there wouldn't be many men available to be in the SS (paramilitary branch of the Nazi Party) if they were already pulling most of the fighting age men into the Wehrmacht (Armed Forces of Nazi Germany).

If they didn't "vanish" like some other civilisations, did they evolve into what they are today? What happened to them between then and now?

I want a book that starts around 1000 and really explains the development, interactions and fall of various major powers.

How does France become the power it was under Louis XIV? Why did Spain end up in the Netherlands? Who were the Bourbons?

This kind of thing, decade by decade, 1000 to around the start of the 20th century

I could read about the 7 Years War, but of course the context for that is another book... etc... ad nauseum

Is there any book that gives an overview?

A coworker showed me a paper he has to write for a class about his family. In the paper he mentions that his great grand uncle died fighting in Poland.

I don’t remember ever reading anything about the allies (UK, USA) fighting in Poland. Haven’t been able to find anything on google.

He did say that his family isn’t polish and that his great uncle was drafted between 42-43 and served in the Army.

I recently learned that my best friend (Russian immigrant) was taught that the Tsar and his family were basically "figureheads with no power, like the British royal family is today." Her mom and dad (both still in Russia) were taught the same thing. They are adamant about the British Royals comparison.

Bonus: "That's why we hate self-proclaimed revolutionaries, they're all just trouble-making, violent thugs! They killed that poor, beautiful family!"

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Needless to say, that's not what I was taught here in the US, either about the Tsars or the revolutionaries.

I read about the progroms, Bloody Sunday, and the Tsar's idiot recklessness in war. At the very least, I was taught that they were tasked with great responsibility and failed to live up to what was required of them. But part of my friend's logic is "They didn't even have any power. What could they have done?"

But like... If the Tsar was so powerless, how was he able to dissolve the Duma?

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I don't know what to believe. My friend's family is highly educated. I was a history major, but specialized in the MENA area - just read a few books on Russia.

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So...

(1) What was the real deal with the Tsar?

(2) Why does my friend's family believe these things? Is it all a concerted anti-revolutionary effort?

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I've been searching around for a little while on this, since I read that this civilization had the first recorded recipes, but there's very little information I could find.

I’m particularly interested if anyone was able to crack it? What was its algorithm? How was every German military group able to know the password to decrypt the next days messages, since supposedly they changed the password at midnight? Seems like an impossible feat to distribute the passwords to everyone without them leaking out to their adversaries.

Apologies if this is the wrong place to ask, it just seemed right.

I AM writing an essay about SU involvement in services but more detail about this particular event wouldn't help me with it, I'm just interested. This SU movement happened 200yrs before the next similar SU event in the UK, and I'd love to know what primary evidence we have about it. All I can locate are numerous articles simply stating that it happened, but none that explore what on earth it was. Nothing about how we know it happened, who organised under that title, what their demands were, it's successes and failures, nada. I'm no historian, pls help me quench my thirst for knowledge

First of all, if this is against the rules I'm sorry. I would like to work designing guest experiences at museums, such as doing outreach, designing exhibits, and providing hands on education. Is there a path for this? Is this even a thing?

I was reading recently about the Đổi Mới reforms introduced during Nguyễn Văn Linh's tenure as general secretary in the late 1980s, and wondering why Vietnam, based on a Soviet model of socialism, was able to transition to capitalism without collapsing, while the contemporary Soviet perestroika and glasnost led to the nation's collapse. Cuba entered the "special period" in the early 1990s, suffering near famine until the government accepted generous economic aid from the USA and made some reforms, but Vietnam avoided this, despite having previously also been dependent on Soviet aid and economically struggling in the mid 1980s.

Hi all. I'm doing a Masters degree in history at a good British university. I took quite a gap (three years) between my under grad and this post grad degree. I'm actually in the second year of a one year degree as I missed most of my classes and was unable to complete the degree due to illness. I'm also likely going to have to begin a brand new dissertation topic due to the fact I am unable to keep the same supervisor (he is going on a research sabbatical). The whole process has been hell and I came within inches of leaving the course entirely but was persuaded not to. I had hoped to do a PhD but that idea is completely dead in the water.

Anyway, that's all off topic but helps give some context. Essentially there is a big focus at this uni on the use of theory within essays. During my undergrad degree we never did this but they seem obsessed at this one. I missed so much class due to illness and just haven't figured out properly how you use theory (bar a few very specific situations) within essays and can't seem to find a damn thing online about how to use it.

Any pointers to articles or advice in general is welcome.

Thanks!

I’ve been learning about the Spanish monarchy in the 17th century in it euro class recently. I’ve found it to be super interesting, but i just don’t understand how it fell. My teacher has vaguely said it was due to economic and social reasons, but still hasn’t really explained it. Can anybody help me out?