I'm particularly interested in the shareholders and those who worked in India, did they return home? Were they given any renumeration for the lost assets, or were they all just told to suck it up?

Relative being the keyword here. From 1500 to 1600 there was a shift away from heavily armored gendarmes and the increasing dominance of pike and shot tactics; from 1600 to 1700 was the shifting away from armor almost entirely and the decline of the pike, so in comparison 115 years of men lining up and shooting at each other with flintlocks seems like progress stalled right?

I am aware there were tactical doctrine changes such as the many Napoleon brought about but even still it pales in comparison to prior centuries, at least to a layman. Did anyone at that time notice or comment on this, or suggest radical changes?

Southern Apalachia is one of the most heavily mined regions of the U.S. Northern Appalachia, from Upstate New York through Northern New England and ultimately into Canada, has comparatively little resource extraction beyond a history of large scale granite quarrying.

Is this just because the minerals aren't present there or are there other cultural or historic reasons why mining never took place there. If it is simply because coal and other natural resources aren't present there in any significant quantities, what is the geologic explanation for this when it is one mountain range that presumably has the same natural history across its entire length?

There are lots of famous photos of the civil rights movement (desegregating schools, cafes, ect.) that have segregationists attacking (physically or verbally) the civil rights protesters and children attending school, whatever happened to the segregationists in the photos? Did any historians/journalists ever interview them latter in their life? Did any ever apologies? Did their notoriety hamper them in latter life?

Sooo... here's the thing(s). Taking the time to stop and lay siege to Iwo Jima was stupid an any tactical advantage gained by having it was nullified by casualties, resources lost, and how LONG it took. The US Navy's surveillance showed that they had no ships. Minimal long range artillery. And ONE Zero who's pilot was so incompetent that he got shot down by a scout pilot in a float plane. They could have just gone around, out of range of whatever the Japanese had, and let them sit there until the war was over. Then, after the Japanese surrendered, they could have brought their generals, admirals, and some other officials over on a Japanese ship to tell them the war was over. It was a huge blunder that wasted so many lives and resources. So, again, WHY did the US pursue that course of action?

like if you're a peasant woman in 1103 and you want to wean your baby of breast milk, what would you start feeding them instead?

When I was in college (many years ago), I took a history class that covered aspects of ancient Greece and Rome. My professor offhandedly mentioned the practice of "striggling" one day that caught my attention. I just googled and spent some time trying to find more information about it, but there doesn't seem to be anything, so I'm curious.

According to the little he said about it, striggling was a specific practice around drying the skin by scraping off the excess water with a "striggler", a polished piece of wood, bone, etc, and then allowing the skin to air dry from there. People would sit in hot baths striggling away sweat, or if they came out of the bath they would striggle the excess water and air dry. I vaguely remember him saying that they (the upper class?) believed strongly in air drying only, which they didn't consider striggling to disrupt like toweling or other methods. It sounded like a mainly upper class practice having to do with leisure time spent at public baths, sometimes servants would do the striggling.

I also remember he said something about striggling being related to the belief that not doing so would throw off the balance of the body's humors. When sweating, for instance, they believed the sweat would get reabsorbed into the body during the process of drying and that the body expressed sweat in order to get rid of it, so striggling it off was good for health. Similarly, water after a bath would get absorbed so striggling the excess would keep things "in balance."

Where did my professor get this idea and the term "striggle" from? I can't find anything about it, and now that I think about it, it seems weird that there would be an English term for a practice that didn't seem to survive into modernity.

It is well known Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy wanted to displace the peoples of the lands they conquered to make way for settlers (i.e. Lebensraum, Italian settlers in Libya). Did Imperial Japan have similar plans to create colonies for Erhnic Japanese in places like Korea, Taiwan, Manchuria, Indochina, Philippines, etc.?

Telluric currents are very low frequency electrical currents that are subterranean or submarine, that are, according to Wikipedia, the result of natural and/or human activity. Today we can detect them with modern instruments. But in the past, certain ancient peoples (notably the Celts) would build dolmens nearby or on sites with telluric current. These are sometimes referred to as ley lines amongst esoteric groups.

Unfortunately, I cannot find anything about how these electrical currents were detected, apart from new age blogs. How did the Celts do it?

(I apologize if this is a question more suited for AskScience!)

We were taught in school that people did whatever it took to escape from East Germany to West Germany after World War II. How accurate is this, and are there documented cases of the opposite happening- those from West Germany escaping to East Germany?

I'm working on a game about Golden Age of piracy. But I have a lack of knowledge in these area.

Especially, I really don't know how Europe should be presented for players. I want to present the reasons and causes of piracy in 16 century.

Could you recommend me any sources? Films, books, articles, etc. Anything is fine.

(Apologies if this upsets anyone.)

In the last couple days, I’ve seen all sorts of crazy posts on Reddit. Such as that kids brought guns to school through 60s and implying this was why there weren’t shootings then.

So what is the history of this horrific aspect of American life today? How did this become so engrained in our society?

I know so little about this that I'm a little uncertain how to phrase the question right. But my understanding of 'operational warfare' was that modern armies maneuver quite a lot to encircle enemies without doing battle.

Fabius Maximus was famous for en encircling Hannibal at Campania 217 BC, which (to me) seemed similar in concept to a cauldron battle from wwii.

But did the 'concept' (or 'doctrine') of operational warfare exist before the modern era?

I'm a history student in a federal university in Brazil, and I remember hearing someone say (can´t recall if it was a teacher or just the internet) that the "protestant inquisition" killed way more than the spanish inquisition, especially when it comes to witches. But for the life of me, I can´t find any books on that subject (would love an answer with some sources).

My understanding is that astrology- the practice of predicting the future, divining the will of the gods or of fate, or gaining hidden information about the present- was the practical application of astronomy- the practice of watching the Sun, Moon, planets and stars, as well as relating to things like calendars. Both were considered to be equally valid sciences. In the 17th and 18th centuries, astrology became more and more seen as a pseudoscience, while astronomy grew in importance.

What discoveries allowed this, and what prevented astrology from changing to include the new information? Included with this, how valid was astrology considered to be before this time?

He's been called one of the church fathers of antisemitism, and people have drawn a line from his writings all the way to the Holocaust. But early on he condemned cruelty towards the Jewish people as unchristian. So what happened?