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Is there a place I can volunteer? A place I can donate money?

I was doing some thinking yesterday on Anzac Day and got me wondering. When Gallipoli battle occured, Australia was only 13 years olds.

Did the they consider/identify themselves as Australia, English Or even state based identity (New South Welshmen) ?

Often one will find the claim, that siberian or saami shamans would feed fly agaric mushrooms to reindeer, and then drink the urine of said reindeer. Supposedly the reindeer filters out the poisonous substances, leaves the psychoactive ones in the urine, safe for consumption.

Being saami myself, and never having heard of this practice, I started digging around. There are no sources for this practice amongst the saami people.

So I started digging around for sources on the claim that siberian shamans did this, and I’ve yet to find a primary source that have witnessed this practice.

Can any of you guys help?

My best guess is that ideologically, Jesus is an attractive person to worship. The pagan gods were not your friends and wreaked havoc on the world while Jesus was love and wanted to save you.

Sorry if this has been asked before. But before Hitler became one of the worst humans in history, who did people claim was the worst at that time? Atilla the Hun? Who was the worst bad guy prior to Hitler?

I know the treaty of Versailles had various stipulations against rearming, specifically against the formation of an airforce, but I've recently heard about clandestine government efforts to recruit future pilots through local glider programs, and while I know Hitler mobilized the entire nation for its war effort, but thinking about how quickly it was done, I couldn't help but wonder if the previous government had been attempting to rebuild already.

Mussolini was ruling Italy for about 20 years yet when war started in europe they weren't ready until 1942. Why would a militaristic state not be ?

I have to write a paper about a World War II topic for my final project and am trying to finalize my thesis statement.

The tidbit about Anna Komnene interested me. I just assumed that Classical Greek literature would be well loved in the Hellenized Eastern Roman Empire but it's probably more complex.

I tried reading about it on Wikipedia but even there I found it rather complicated for me. Can someone explain about it a bit ?

What was the crisis ? Was there almost a civil war ? Was Yeltsin's victory beneficial for Russia in the long run ?

One claim I often hear is that the Muslim Empires, namely the Rashidun, Umayyad, Abbassid and Ottoman Caliphates, spread in a very brutal, aggressive, and a more intolerant manner in comparison to their European or Asian counterparts. And is often used as a foundation upon which to argue about Islam has "Always been at war with the world." Whilst this claim IS NOT something that the majority of people believe, I have heard this emanate from a significant minority of individuals, and some rather influential people, such as Bill Warner in his (rather awful) comparison of the Crusades and Jihad.

I was wondering how much historical truth there is to this claim?

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