I'm thinking pre-"American dream" but I'd say any western, English-speaking country would have a reasonably similar dynamic.

Alternatively, why didn't china refine gunpowder weapons as much as europeans?

At a museum and the question popped into my head, how much contact would an Ingenious group in what is now eastern Canada, have with a group situated in what is now the Southern US, or with a group in Western Canada? Were long distance relationships the norm?

Edit asking about contact before any European arrival

Why did not powerful shogun or general ever consider toppling the emperor and making himself the new monarch of Japan? You see this kind of thing happen across China, Byzantium, Francia, Germany etc.... So, what made the Japanese imperial family so resistant to replacement?

I was reading about the 12th century Christian sect catharism on Wikipedia, which claimed that the group refused to eat anything that was a product of procreation (meat, eggs, milk), but that they ate fish because the thought of the time was that fish naturally came about by spontaneous occurrence. Is this accurate? If so, when did we discover that female fish lay eggs and that male fish fertilize them?

Hi, l have an education in Social Science from high school were l have read history, noting, the social science program in sweden has the most history courses of all the high school programs. l have also studied and completed historian courses with high grades at university. Is this enough for me to call myself historian? Or do l also need a degree in the field? Which l don't want because there aren't many jobs available in Sweden for historians.

Britain really could not afford to leave a substantial force in the Falklands to defend it and needed to destroy Argentinian military power in order to have a lasting victory. Could Argentina just leave without any casualties and come back a few months later when the task force leaves? Continue a few times until Britain gave up frustrated?

In Ancient Greece, Rome or other cultures, how were animal sacrifices were conducted? What happened to the meat? Did they just burn it for the gods or have some sort of cookout with some of the meat?

In so many ancient mythologies the death deities and the afterlife is subterranean but the realm of the gods is always associated with the sky, why is that?

From my casual research, I can say that Zanzibar was a very slavery centric society in the 19th century, one with deep racial tensions. But it is unclear whether the slavery system differed from the US South and whether the South had any influence on the development of the slave plantations

Included in this are also other forces of Indian kingdoms. What allowed British troops in the 18th century, like at the battle of Plassey, to confidently take on and defeat much larger Mughal forces? What was it that gave these British forces the edge that made them serious opponents of the Mughal empire? Was it discipline, weapons, tactics, morale or politics that allowed this?

One popular perception of Johnson, aside from his role in Vietnam, is his apparent ability to ensure Congress voted his way. The passage of the Civil Rights Act is a frequently cited example.

Was Johnson really unique in his ability to lobby for support in Congress? Have any other presidents served as Senate (or house) leader, and did they go on to have similar relations with Congress?

As an aside, would it be accurate to say that Johnson was able to maintain Democratic Party unity i.e. did Dixiecrats tolerate him?

I think I’ve only really ever seen this portrayed in a cartoon. Was this actually a thing? If not, where did this ideas originate?

My grandfather was on the USS New Orleans (ca-32).

This ship, like so many deserving but ultimately forgotten parts of history, should have had it’s story played out on the silver screen (imo).

It had an absolutely miraculous journey from Pearl Harbor, onward. It was a “ghost ship” and nicknamed the “NO (such) Boat” because everyone thought the goddamn thing had sunk so many times.

I have read what is available online, along with two firsthand accounts in books (one was written in 1944 and had to be heavily censored) but I know there is information a layperson wouldn’t know how to find.

Where can I hire someone to learn all about my grandfather’s boat so they can tell me about it?

One of the trending posts in r/interestingasfuck currently is an image of a Soviet couple supposedly selling "butchered humans". In the comments there are further claims that Russian citizens ate other people during WWII and that "cannibalism was rampant" during the Holodomor famine. How true are these claims? Further, is there a history of cannibalism during famine worldwide?

So, the only castle I'm finding an estimate on is Hildagsburg. Which is 2-3m man hours. Not exactly a useful estimate. So simple question that probably has a disturbing complex answer: How much actual work would it have taken to build a friggin castle? High side ballpark estimates are what I'm looking for, though if someone wants to go in to details, I would love as much information as someone wants to bury me under.

I bought a wooden model of the Santa Maria at a thrift store because why not 1400's ships are nice, and I just got the idea to put a year on the base of it, which currently only says "Santa Maria". The only year i had in mind was 1492, but i figured that might be a bit odd since I assume it was older. So I looked around online and saw some websites claiming it was built in 1460, but I cannot find any sources for the claim so where on earth are people getting that information and is it true or entirely made up?