Hello, Spaniard here, I was thought about Visigoths at a very early age and loved their history and researched their army, but I could not find anything about a Visigoth navy, if they even had one, hence my question; Did the Visigoths have a navy?

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I was listening to a ham radio friend talk about a church event in his town, and he said it was "at Holy Ghost Church, um, that's Holy Spirit Church now."

I grew up learning about the Holy Ghost, and I remember when the name changed to the Holy Spirit, with churches and Catholic organizations all following suit.

I have some ideas of why this happened, but rather than trust my fuzzy childhood memory, I'm interested to know the story around this change and how it came to be. Thanks!

These non-flair comments are common, but contribute nothing. I suggest they be subject to removal.

• Clarifications. If you can't answer the question to begin with, you can't clarify it for people who can.

• Tangents. "Follow-up question to the OP:...". It's not a followup if no one has actually answered the question yet, it's just distracting from the question asked.

• Re-directions. "I don't know anything about this subject or history, but I think this might be a better question for..."

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Yes, several lone survivors survived for decades hiding in the Pacific, but there was remarkably little organized resistance coming from the defeated Axis powers. Compared to insurgencies seen during the Peninsular War, Vietnam, and present day conflicts in the Middle East, why were there no fanatical German or Japanese units who continued to fight post-surrender?

I don't know why but the idea of a peasant in the dark ages taking a day off and hitting the beaches of say, Barcelona, and building sand castles while there is a literal castle to defend against Moors seems silly to me but at the same time it seems like human nature to want to relax and get some sunshine or play in the ocean.

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Answers I've found online don't seem to be able to explain this very thoroughly. I get that they may have cost too much to maintain and defend as colonies, but was public opinion in the UK or in the colonies themselves for self-rule? Or did they generally want to remain with their global cousins as one unit? I've never heard of any significant movements against colonial rule if there was any like with the War of Independence in America and the protests in India.

There are currently movements such as CANZUK attempting for greater unity between the countries again, and in the previous colonies it seems to be gaining quite a bit of traction, which would suggest to me that maybe the Australians etc didn't necessarily didn't want to leave in the first place.

Can someone illuminate at all?

It seems that both the United States and the Soviet Union had working designs in the 1950's for intercontinental range cruise missiles (SM-62 Snark and SM-64 Navaho for the US and Burya and RSS-40 Buran for the Soviets), but they were all abandoned in the beginning of the '60s. Why they did not see widespread deployment? Were intercontinental ballistic missiles, that came just a couple of years after them, just that much cheaper/better? I know cruise missiles had reliability problems, but the early ballistic missiles were not exactly 100 % reliable themselves.

Essentially, what were alternative ideas regarding the essential building blocks of matter pre-modernity? The four classical elements were integrated into biology, astronomy, and other sciences for thousands of years- were there similar non-Western configurations?

James Clavel's novel Shogun is set around the late stages of the Sengoku period in Japan. Although a lot of the novel is fictional, it is largely inspired by real events and people, such as characters like Toranaga (Tokugawa Ieyasu), John Blackthorne (William Adams) and so on. The novel often depicts the japanese society of the time and describes the lifes of the farmers, samurai and others. My question is about how historically accurate are those depictions? Are they close to reality or just western reimagining? Any aditional comments about the novel are very welcome.

Thank you for your time!

It seems to be one of the quintessential pieces of British design, and is recognisable nearly the world over. Was there anything definitively special about it's design that set it apart from other planes at the time? How did it become such a bastion of British fortitude?

In light of the news that a Russian warship was discovered, supposedly having £100 billion in gold on board, I can't help but wonder why they would carry that. Wouldn't this just be excess weight? Surely payments to soldiers could be done with coins and notes?

It's obviously not just this ship either - Swedish warships, Spanish gallions and so on also supposedly had large quantities of gold on board. For the Spanish I suppose it could just be them transporting it from the new world, but when it's more locally, it makes no sense to me at all.

What is the reason that warships in the past carried such immense amounts of valuables?