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Modern libraries allow people to access informational/recreational content for free (or, highly subsidized through taxpayer money). When they were originally established, did libraries receive negative press from content creators like authors, similar to how musicians and filmmakers today object to the sharing of music or movies through online portals?

I was interested to find out somewhat recently that two seasonings I use frequently (cilantro and coriander) are from the same plant.

I am used to cilantro being used in Mexican cuisine, and coriander more in Indian cuisine. My understanding may be flawed, but are these two seasonings both used in single cultures? Did the use of both spices evolve around the same time?

from what i heard blue was incredibly rare and expensive and yet every depiction of the picts shows them using it, how come

How would a young woman know how to send messages this way and how would a young man know how to interpret them? Did anyone actually use this?

How many female soldiers were there anyway?

Amidst all the controversy surrounding Battlefield V, I'm curious to know how often you would see a female soldier in the different theaters of war. Or in other words, what percentage of combatants were female?

Thank you.

As an Oregonian it’s interesting to me that the West was barely tamed by the time the US entered WWI. I was just wondering if there’s any information on western Native American tribes hearing about or witnessing battles during the civil war? What did they think if they did? Did the far western tribes that still had little or no contact hear rumors of a Great War in the east with armies that would soon come for them when they were done killing each other?

I’m not quite sure how exactly fighter planes stored shells after being used, and the only other way could be just dropping them. Anything ranging from minor to severe injury? Did the planes have shell storage boxes on them for this purpose?

I've read that the historicity of Jesus is accepted by almost all modern scholars. Do they think the same about the Twelve Apostles?

I'm asking specifically about people who were acceptably Aryan and could have easily survived (or even thrived) under the Nazi regime for practical reasons, but couldn't stomach the idea and killed themselves instead.

I have to imagine that there were some educated and liberal-minded German citizens prescient enough to see where things were headed, but unable or unwilling to emigrate or "get with the program."

Do we have any records, particularly suicide notes or final memoirs, of Germans who killed themselves rather than be a part of an evil new regime?

Perhaps a very niche question but I thought I'd give it a go. I watched the movie in question a short time ago and was curious whether it portrayed the musical style of the 1910s accurately. It was a question I had thought of a while ago when I saw another Judy Garland musical set in the same era and about the same vaudeville era, Easter Parade.

The music in both these films seemed very jazzy to me in a way which would naturally be totally anachronistic as early as the mid-1910s, but yet it surprises me that movies made in the 1940s, when a great many people in the audience would remember the vaudeville era (and would likely have seen these movies as nostalgic evocations of that time) and I'd imagine would be annoyed if the music was updated unrealistically as such.

On a side note was tap dancing as widespread by this same point in the 1910s as these films portray? I've always been meaning to look more into the history of this dance form but the Internet doesn't seem to be too knowledgeable about (book recommendations perhaps anyone?).

Thanks all!

I've always wondered why VA isn't part of New England, seeing as the second English settlement (and first permanent one) in the U.S. was in Jamestown, VA. And, of course, there was James I's Virginia Company. Regarding VA's status as a commonwealth, I realize that "state" and "commonwealth" can be used interchangeably; but there are nuances between the terms. Is there a reason that VA decided to use "commonwealth" in its official name? Thanks in advance!

Sorry if this is a stupid question, or if its been asked before which I assume so. I get how sediment could build up, by I have two questions based off this:

1. Firstly, does that mean in places built over ancient cities, we're actually getting higher above sea level? So a hypothetical settlement 1000 years from now, would be closer to space than a settlement in the same location now?

2. I was watching an episode of time team at Kew, the palace complex had the Dutch House, Orangery and a larger palace. The Dutch House and Orangery which remained in use to this day are still level, yet the dig-team found the palace beneath their feet. So was the palace built on lower ground than the orangery and dutch house, how did the palace end up underground but not the other buildings?

Excepting a few areas, the vast majority of modern North Africa is desert with little in the way of natural resources (that the Romans would have utilized). Why did Rome conquer and hold the area for centuries after Carthage was destroyed?

What cultural, religious or economic factors contribute to one region of the world having so many more damn people than the rest?

I have seen mention of things like Positive Christianity, Reich Orators, and other things, but can someone give me a better sense of what religious life was like under Nazi rule?