Knights were from rich familys with lots of cash. And wore fancy lad stuff. But what did a foot soldier Wear since they we're poorer. And how did they get the money

A big part of the RBC heritage, a golf tournament played on Hilton Head Island, is its Scottish origin. Tournament organizers encourage people to wear plaid and otherwise celebrate the Scots. Why is this so if the man who originally claimed Hilton Head Island was Captain William Hilton (an English man)?

Many classes I've taken involve the slave trade to the Caribbean and I'm getting the feeling that something about sugar plantations was akin to throwing slaves into a wood chipper. Why the "high turnover?" What about sugar cultivation requires so many slaves and such a constant importation of more labor? Apparently even after the abolition of the African slave trade, coolie laborers (I think this is offensive, but I don't know another term for them) were imported to Trinidad and other places in the Caribbean to replace the need for more and more imported labor. Why was there such a dramatic and constant need for labor in these sugar plantations? And why was the survival rate of these laborers so low?

Let's say you want to do a PhD on American reactions to the Soviet collapse. Unfortunately, for a substantial amount of archive material you will need a security clearance.

As historians, how would you handle referencing and bibliographies as well as various other issues that come with handling classified material?

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Just like in the title, it amuses me that for such a vast and rich subcontinent UK can rule over all of them when every other powers want it too, shown by existing ports of European powers already in India. When EIC eats and destroys various Raj and Maratha Empire bit by bit, why no one takes the chance and get their own portion of land too?

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Hello. I apologize if this isn't an appropriate question or doesn't go here. I am working on research for a time-travel story. One of my main characters is Indian, and finds himself in England in 1848. I'm having trouble finding information on how he would be seen and treated and what sort of discrimination he would face. He's also going to be looking for a cover story, so I'm open to ideas about who he could claim to be to arouse the least suspicion possible.

Thanks in advance!

I always knew a phylactery to be the object/container which a Lich uses to house their soul, similar to the horcrux from Harry Potter. But it has come to my knowledge that a phylactery is actually a religious term, specifically related to tefillin and related practices in Judaism.

Is this simply a case of applying the word to a similar but different context?

I'm picturing underground 12th century concerts where they rock out to diminished chords.

Looking specifically for what was going on behind German lines during the final months of the way, particularly with a lot of attention paid to civilians. And the early post war years from a civilian point of view.

Were there any riots or disorder following his death ?

I read in a textbook that before WWI (it literally says "until 1914") USA was a debtor to European countries. However, at the end of the war, the European countries were the ones owing debt to USA because they needed fund for war. How is this possible? How could USA change the situation so quickly and become the borrower instead? What I am trying to understand is how is it possibe that USA was in debt if it had enough resources or funding to sustain a war and even lend money to other nations.

I've always found Oman and the Ibadi faith interesting, but I haven't found a good short (or not so short) summary of their history. How exactly did they manage to survive when surrounded by nations that saw them as at best a different denomination, and at worst a continuation of the hated Kharijites?

I've read about British army officers, for instance, becoming observers during the American civil war and the Russo-Japanese war.

Is there something particular about the history of these two countries that facilitated this cultural transmission, or does the Belgian terror feature in the cultural memory accross the continent?

I know Liberia and Sierra Leone were both used for commercial rubber production, was there something about rubber production that made it uniquely terroristic?

My instinct towards him is that he seems good, being a Social Democratic leader who helped transition Germany from its imperial system to a Republic. However, his use of the Freikorps seems problematic. Plus, the Weimar Republic did eventually fall. So what do historians feel about him? Was he a good politican who helped save Germany from total collapse and anarchy, or was he a closet authoritarian who paved the way for national socialism?

I have a few questions..

1. Is it possible to turn masts to catch winds, like in Sea of Thieves? does it require a lot of men to rotate it? will it need ropes?
2. Where is the Kitchen or Galley or whatever it's called, located usually? and what does it have?
3. How did people repair holes on the ship in mid battle? Planks and nails?
4. What is the main use of the Bilge Pump?
5. Where are the toilets usually located?
6. How many crew members should there be on average
7. Could a full crew operate a ship properly without any experience or actual knowledge on how to operate a ship? Is a little bit of knowledge enough? Should they be properly trained to do so?
8. Where is the steering wheel located? Out in the open or under a ceiling?

I’ve read they their troops to help the tsar, how much truth is there to this?

Are there instances specific to European colonialism that make post-colonialism solely focus on this period? Or is my question begging a false comparison? Would be fascinated to hear anyone more informed than me!

Upon seeing The Act of Killing communists were systematically killed in Indonesia in 1965 with estimates ranging from 500,000 - 1-2 million dead in a year. Why is it named as mass killings and not just Genocide?