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Assuming that most people had to come from far away, and horse-drawn carriages weren't the fastest, how did people leave at the end of the night? Did hosts have to provide everyone with somewhere to sleep, too? And how late did parties normally last?

EDIT: Anyone can post for their area of expertise, but I was picturing the 17th-19th century England or Western Europe.

I'm thinking that if it was easier to just cross the large, inner border, why not just escape there and fly to West-Berlin? Doesn't make sense to me, so what am i missing?

We see many times sieges in movies where the defenders actually rally outside to fight the invading army, how true and historically correct was this, and did this happen frequently? What's the strategic point on going out of the big walls?

-Edit I'm not talking about prolonged sieges where the defender went out to defeat the sieging army and free the city from the siege, I'm talking about armies which just arrived with the intent of taking the city by fighting it out

So English is considered a Germanic language, although depending on your source only about 30% of the words in English are derived from German words and Modern English is very French based.

So, it's the Norman Invasion in 1066 that brought about this big influence of French on the English language, so I'm curious as to what happened before that. Where does the German influence come from and is English just called Germanic because of it's origins? Did Germany conquer England at some point? (or maybe Prussia back then? My knowledge of this period is non-existant).

Following the success of "The Post" and numerous other successful popular portrayals of the Vietnam war, I got curious and wanted to know more about the fight back at home -- the conflict between the American Government and people.

So if I am correct the initial reaction of the American Peoples' reaction to the war effort was close to indifference? Yet I would like to know what elements pushed it to the anti-war rhetoric so prevalent in the early 1970s.

Can someone explain the job titles signified by Numbers in UK politics and defense? They're used as shorthand when I read the news and listen to the BBC but I never remember them accurately. There also seems to be an offhand use of addresses to refer to the PM staff and Parliament, yeah? Is there a cultural underlying that also explains 007 and MI6 etc?

I know it's a silly question. My apologies :)

Also, I know it's not easy/possible to apply definitions of nation and people to groups that lived 2, 5 or 12 centuries ago.

However, I recently watched a TV show in which a guy said that a "famous British historian" wrote that "Bulgarians, Danes, Serbs and the Portuguese" are the "4 oldest nations of Europe". There are many ways to dispute this claim, but are there actually any historians that support it? Did any serious historian ever say such a thing? This is probably related to the Bulgarian and Serbian states (sort of) that developed (7th century?) during the Byzantine Dark Ages, and that continued to exist, in one way or the other, until the Ottomans arrived, and afterward established themselves as nation-states in the 19th century? And probably related to the famous never-changing borders of Portugal and the well-known Denmark of the High Middle Ages?

Thanks for your reply!

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I've seen it depicted by Prussia, The Holy Roman Empire and the Byzantines. What is the origin of this symbol and where was it first seen as a standard?

Given that Caesar and Marius supported the plebians, while Cilla and Pompey supported the patricians, and Caesar rose to power partly because of his resistance to Cilla.

I noticed that not all, but a lot of Hindu gods are represented with blue skin. I don't know if this due to religious, symbolic or technical reasons but certainly there may be and explanation and a moment when it started.

Hey yall,

I am really interested in european history (greek and roman to colonialism in Britain etc).

I'm not a very experienced reader though I would be willing to read books. But my question really is, how do I start learning history. Are books a good way or can a watch documentaries, are youtube videos good sources.

Thanks in advance :)

~M