Hey everyone, after having watch the anime "A Place Further Than The Universe" (Which, if you haven't watch, do, its a 10/10 imo), I have become interested in the topic of Antarctic. So, what are some good suggestions for books and resources on it?

My current history professor was discussing the Aztec culture and how conquistadors spread disease that led to the downfall of the Aztecs, but she mentioned that the Aztec name is incorrect, and that the actual culture called themselves the Mixtec. Who exactly were the Aztecs? What culture were they?

Can u pls tell explain to me what made hitler to hate jews, like the jews must have done something right that made hitler and the germans in ww2 to hate jews so much . Anne frank website tells that hitler used jews as a scapegoat to rise to power , and that the reason was jews were the cause of loosing in ww1 , so why did he think jews were the reason for loosing ww1. Also how did germans change from hating jews to start treating them like human beings.

Is there possibility of another letter being added in the alphabets in future?

From Egypt, to Spain, to the holocaust. Why the Jewish people? I don’t mean the reasoning that people throughout history have given, like Hitler claiming they stole wealth, I mean why has that specific minority group been targeted?

In the Easter service I attended the preacher worked the Parable of the Prodigal Son into his sermon and I wanted to get the story's broader cultural context, and also a couple more specific questions.

Firstly, the preacher mentioned that when the son asked for his inheritance early it's as if he had told his father "I wish you were dead" and that the father could have, by all rights, disowned his son right there; is that a true statement?

Secondly, the story says that after foolishly spending his money the son is forced to work on a pig farm, but I've heard archeologists say one defining feature of Jewish settlements going back to 1500 BCE is a lack of pig bones in refuse piles. Should the story be understood as saying the son was literally working for "the enemy", the occupying Romans, or is it a metaphor for doing work considered beneath the station of the son of a man of some wealth, as the father appears to be? If the former, how common in 1st century Judea were farms (specifically those raising pigs) owned by Romans; if so how common would it have been for the paid laborers to have been Jewish (I'm guessing quite common since they were the majority of the local population); and if so would a Roman farm owner have reasonably expected his hired help to do work against their religion, in this case touching an "unclean" animal?

Sorry if the title has any glaring points of ignorance, my ignorance on the subject is kind of the point

All I found was our military disclosed info about their B-41, which had a maximum output of 25 megatons.

But, the article said the B41 output to weight efficiency was better than the tech behind the Russian Tsar Bomba.

Is there any evidence the US military actually created a nuke greater than 50 megaton output, as a one-up to Russia?

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I am looking for fiction or nonfiction about the Elizabethan era of England. Topics and subjects include: Tudor England during Elizabeth's reign, Sir Walter Raleigh, The Roanoke Expeditions, and the Indian tribes that were encountered during the Roanoke expedition.

Basically all you can tell a teen about World War 2

Apologies if my premise is incorrect. I've read several books about the US Space Program (most recently Gene Kranz' Failure Is Not An Option), and often the narrative presented sees to be this:

• Soviets beat the US to space (Sputnik)
• Soviets beat the US to manned space flight
• Soviets beat the US to manned space walk
• US brings all the pieces together to land a man on the moon, a journey the soviet space program never even makes.

How come, at this last point, the Soviets literally didn't get off the ground? I understand the USSR had their N-1 rocket design, but it had many problems and only one (or two?) prototypes were made, none of which were launched successfully.

I'm curious why the Soviet Union, who seemed to be the clear leader for most of the space race, suddenly lost so much momentum?

Maoist China, the Soviet Union and Republican France all created new calendars starting with the beginning of their revolution, all three governments rarely mentioned historical events predating the revolution and the Maoists’ even destroyed cultural Chinese artifacts from thousands of years ago. What is the purpose of this.

I understand that candles were used to light up the interior of buildings instead of torches. But I don't know how cheap wax was, and or how common candles really were.

Disclaimer: I’m a Mason and I know the general things we say, but I’d be interested in a hopefully unbiased look at the question from a historical perspective.

EDIT: Words are hard/spelling

Why were there all these left-wing terrorist groups in Europe during the 1970s? How did that happen? Were they in contact with each other? Did they have support from the mainstream left? For that matter, I thought the 1970s were the era of Eurocommunism so did these two groups interact? What was the result of this terrorism?

As in, is the information gleaned from erotic literature and pornography (like the dress of the time, for cases of pornographic images, and sundry information that can be gleaned about people's thoughts or daily activities, from erotic literature) used when writing about history, or is it largely disregarded because, as today, a lot of erotic literature and pornography can be wildly unrepresentative of the norms of the day.