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I am searching for any book resources which explain the development of kingship, institutions, and royal organization's in medieval Europe.

If anyone could help me in pointing me to any book that talks about the topic I would appreciate it.

Albania, Iceland, Norway, Turkey are all in NATO, but not in the EU.

Austria, Finland, Ireland, Malta and Sweden are in the EU, but not in NATO.

Can somebody tell me why is that? Why are some countries in EU but not in NATO and why are some countries in NATO but not EU?

I'd be forever grateful if you gave some examples for specific nations too!

It's often said on this sub that our understanding of Norse mythology is much sparser than what popular culture would have us believe, because our main sources, the sagas, represent a narrow and distorted view of the beliefs of only one corner of the Nordic world, filtered through the lens of an organised religion. Do we fall into the same or similar traps with Greek mythology?

Ive noticed that trying to achieve an even coat on a large surface with a brush is really really difficult. Did they use some sort of specialized tool for this?

Also, since the Bible was only in Latin at the time, how would they actually know what it said?

I’ve always been intrigued by the Freemasons, and I have absolutely no idea what they do, what they stand for, I’ve heard some crazy stuff and just want to clear everything up in my head, can anyone just give me a brief history of them,

Within Canada, there is a growing idea that being a health advocate is an integral part of being a medical expert. This stems from the observation that promoting good health policy and combating misinformation about medical issues are important measures in assisting patients in working towards good health. My understanding is that this is relatively new idea in the medical world and is certainly a hot button issue given the current pandemic, but I am curious about the actions and advocacy of physicians during the onset of the HIV/AIDS pandemic.

Were physicians working toward combating stigma and misinformation during this time and are there any particular examples of physicians leading effective campaigns or messages that were successful and could possibly help inform our current pandemic struggles.

In case you're unfamiliar: "Jody" is a common American military slang term for a man who stays behind at home while a soldier, sailor, marine, or airman is off fighting. Jody gets to enjoy all the pleasures of home, including, usually, the girlfriends and wives of those overseas.

I'd imagine this phenomenon is not new, but I'd like to learn just how much it was openly discussed in the militaries of the past, what jokes and memes they had, and, on a more serious note, how fighters with significant others back home dealt with the worry of betrayal back in the day.

I know the United States is a Protestant country, and the ban was a vindication of pastors and the more conservative wing, but historic Protestant churches also use wine at eucharist

How did Catholics react to this, did the vatican manifest at the time??

So i've been told that during ww2 Shinto beliefs played a big role in the reasons behind why Japan refused to surrender. Things like Hirohito becoming an actual god in the eyes of japanese soldiers and how they used temples of shinto as training camps and propaganda.

But how did the actual soldiers see that? Was it a common belief that Hirohito was an actual god and the Yokai were helping them in the war? Did they think Hirohito was invencible?

I looked at a lot of maps of Tokyo from the Edo period and before, and I never see town squares or plazas depicted. Why is that? What were the public spaces that these people occupied instead?

Culturally they are similar in their high value of faith, but in most other aspects they seams worlds apart. What lead to the major cultural distinction and change?

Not like why they were due to WW2 I mean before that. Why are there two German speaking states?

I am not personally old enough to remember a time before infant and baby formula were commercially available. And I think all the specialty formulas on the market now for various allergies are even newer still.

But there have always been some women who for whatever reason can't breastfeed. For one, sometimes you just don't make enough milk. I know wet nursing was done and was probably the logical second choice, but what if for some reason that was not available to someone? I'd imagine low income mothers could not afford to pay a wet nurse. And maybe in a small rural environment a wet nurse was just not available. So what did mother's do?

Adjacent to that, were nondairy recipes for formula ever used?

Who are trusted historians without biased views about events that happened in middle east, Europe or Africa, and in general. How can I know that this is really what happened ? Are there trusted historians/books about specific eras ? Like for example from 800BC to 1500 BC read this , etc...

A considerable portion of American and other Western spy movies depict these things negatively, focusing on things corruption or the idea that the West and USSR are morally equivalent, and the CIA/MI6 are just the same or just as bad as the KGB.

I am thinking of things like John le Carré's writing, which has been made into numerous films, and is described by Wikipedia as "portray[ing] British Intelligence agents as unheroic political functionaries aware of the moral ambiguity of their work." The entire Bourne series is about rogue and out of control CIA operations. In "Spy Game" the CIA wants to let an operative rot in a Chinese prison to avoid upsetting politics. In "Enemy of the State", NSA agents are trying to kill a congressman.

There are of course plenty, probably a majority, of movies that depict Western spies heroically (the entire James Bond series, for one), but there is a significant chunk of movies that do not.

Is there any similar tradition of spy movies in Soviet and Russian cinema that portray the KGB/FSB negatively, and how did their depiction change, if at all, between the USSR and in Russia in the 1990s after the breakup of the USSR?

I was listening to the Hardcore History podcast about the Pacific War and Dan Carlin says that the Japanese government essentially lost control over the army. To what extent is this true?

What I'm even more curious about is how overall coordination (or lack thereof) existed during the initial stages of WW2. I know there was a lot of debate over wether the North (Army invades Sibera) or South (Navy invades Pacific Islands) should be attacked. If the Government didn't really control the army or the Navy, how was a single plan even coordinated?

I enjoy researching my family tree and have found two ancestors that served in WW1 (none from WW2 oddly) and both are at cemeteries in Europe. Both have there names on the memorial wall but don't have a dedicated headstone and grave.

I was wondering why that would be? I assume as they are named there body is not unknown and must be buried somewhere near the original battlefield. Why were they not reintered like the others?

TLDR: Why do some people have full graves with headstones whereas others only have names on shared memorial walls?