If so how have the meanings of those terms shifted over time?

Just for some context as to why I'm asking. I'm from the Philippines and, in the part of the country I'm from, the main Christian denomination is Episcopalian from the American colonization, and obviously the majority of the country is Catholic and that also has a big influence. A common way that indigenous beliefs are referred to is as pagan beliefs/practices and I was wondering the history and technicalities of the ways those terms were used.

Did the roman legionaries wear red like Hollywood shows us? As I understand it the roman soldiers had to pay for their own armor and weapons when joining the army and red was an expensive color back then. So did even the plebs that joined the army wear red or is this just something that pop-culture has made up? Similar to the myth that vikings wore horns.

Did bombed out tanks just get left out in the fields to rust away? Did the metal get recycled into rebuilding Europe?

Hello, I'm a second year student and I'm looking for a good read for the last bit of summer. There are so many books out there but I'm after something that's well written and enjoyable. I took a historiography class last fall and the teacher spoke about popular history books that resonated with a broader audience. We read The Return Of Martian Guerre as an example and I loved it, it felt like a novel or a narrative. I'm looking for something like that. Our professor discussed some of the problems and criticisms of the authors research, and that made the read Imo even more immersive. I read mostly political science stuff and am interested in labor history and more broadly 20th century European history, especially the Russian revolution and the Spanish Civil War. This might sound stupid but, of course I've read "stuff" but certain things really stick out, while other stuff is a bit more dry. Some examples Orwells Hommage to Catalonia was amazing, i really enjoyed Reza Alan's Zealot, and am currently reading Stephen Kotkins Biography of Stalin which is very comprehensive and well written. Im hoping for recommendations related to some of the topics I've mentioned but I'm open to anything primary or secondary (but obviously the emphasis is on secondary), book or article, and lastly any book on a any topic that is an amazing read and deserves recognition. Thanks.

I apologize in advance if this is against the rules.

Are there any areas in history that are severely lacking in Historians, or at least English speaking ones?

I'm a bit all over the place and would like some suggestions to look in to.

I was watching the movie Chicago a couple days ago, and in the movie a lawyer gets the protagonist out of a murder charge by doing press conferences with her and lying to the press to generate sympathy.

Back then, was the public so interested in criminals that the press actually spoke to them in this manner?

I have noticed that it is not just in the United States, but they are referred to as this in other countries as well (I'm from the UK)

Also, it doesn't seem like it would be a logical conclusion to refer to Africans as black and Western Europeans as white, as they're more brown/peach coloured respectively

If someone would be able to help shed some light on this it would be much appreciated, thank you :)

So as I understand it, there used to be three distinct terms to refer to parts of Asia (apart from the Russian part): Near-east, Middle-east and Far-east.

Middle-east refered to what is now Iran, Pakistan and India. Far-east to anything east of that. And Near-east to The Levant, Mesopotamia and Turkey.

Nowadays though, I see the term 'Near-east' rarely used. And 'Middle-east' seems to cover both the areas of the old 'Near-east' and 'Middle-east'?

When and why did this happen?

All so often old or religions of native people aren’t given names but instead just called [Insert Civilization] Mythology. So what were the actual names used to describe Nordic, Aztec, Roman, Greek, or Egyptian mythology?

I know this is a dumb question but I'm genuinely interested. I've seen pictures of the pass and it doesn't look too difficult to pass if you have a navigator and you're experienced

EDIT: nobody can give me a clear answer, comments keep getting deleted :/.

If you're educated on this topic in the slightest please tell me I'm really interested in this whole situation as I'm visiting Lake Tahoe and I heard about what happened to them. Really want some answers pls.

Edit 2: why am I being downvoted? I'm just trying to get educated on the California Trail and Donner Party :(

My old typography teacher--who sometimes has no idea what he's talking about--told a wacky story about the inventor of Mr. Coffee building a suburban neighborhood with a nuclear reactor buried underneath in order to gift the neighborhood with free electricity unconnected to the main power grid, got away with it for years, until an inspector noticed something fishy was going on and the reactor was carefully decommissioned. I assumed this was true for years but now can't find anything about it in Google searches. Wikipedia says Mr. Coffee was invented by two guys, not one, and neither of their articles say anthing about a suburban development with a nuclear reactor, which one would think would be highly notable. I'm starting to wonder if one of my teacher's friends made a joke based on Mr. Fusion from Back to the Future and then my teacher misunderstood. Is there any truth to this story?

While speaking with the British observer, Longstreet says something along the lines of “we should have freed the slaves first, then fired on Fort Sumter.”

Was this view seriously discussed in the south? I thought slavery was one of the primary rights the south was fighting to preserve. Were the confederates planning on freeing the slaves after they attained their independence?

Was this just to demonstrate Longstreet was an abolitionist himself?

Since at least WW2 if not earlier, the U.S. Marine Corps has had a fixed-wing aviation component. Why? Why would the Marine Corps have an organic aviation component, rather than having it provided by the Air Force and/or Navy?

So, the picture I've gathered of Sparta over time in this forum is that actual citizens were essentially a leisure class, rich enough to hold slaves and estates and not really have to do any practical work. What sort of upward mobility was there in this society? For example, in Rome an Equestrian could potentially become a Senator over time. Could a non citizen of Sparta gain enough wealth to become a true citizen? How difficult was this process?

A little context: I'm reading the book "The Paradigm" by Jonathan Cahn, which attempts to use Old Testament Isreal's turning away from God to the worship of Baal as a doom-and-gloom warning for events in modern America, based on what I feel is a very flawed knitting together of coincidences between ancient Israeli political and religious figures and modern American ones. I can see where the logic is problematic, but I don't know enough about the relationship between politics and religion in America historically to determine if the fundamental premise of the book is outright wrong. (that premise: Both nations were founded on the "Word of God" and experienced problems when turning away from God.) While I know that Christian values have certainly influenced American politics, can anyone reasonably go so far as to say that Christianity formed the very foundation of the country?

Is it true that on D-Day places like Omaha and Utah beach had close to 100% fatality rates within their first waves?

In most U. S. western movies they depict army infantry as the government authority in those times. Were the marines only utilized for amphibious warfare alongside the navy?

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P.S. I didn't forget about HW, I just wanted to keep the title short.