What exactly am I missing? Were there other people before the first Pilgrims except the Natives that did slavery?

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St. Augustine was founded by the Spanish in Florida in 1565. Jamestown was founded in 1607. Yet Jamestown is commonly known as America's first settlement.

Is this just a blatant case of popular misinformation, or is there something key that I'm missing?

If I were at a historic site in Jamestown, what would the employees say to justify their site's legacy as The First?

In the literal sense did the trains follow their schedule?

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Hello, this may seem like a strange question to want to know the answer to. I was using an online "medieval city generator" that essentially determines how many people of each profession would be present in a medieval town/city. I enter 2500 for population and it suggested that a town of this size would have 4 bakers. 4.

Now I may be wrong, that's why I'm asking you guys, but that seems incredibly low for me, since it would mean that each baker would have to make bread for over 600 people daily. I don't know much of the subject, but I doubt it would even be possible to bake that amount of bread in one day without industrial technology.

Does anyone actually know how many customers a baker would have daily in the medieval period?

I gained access to this account my grandfather wrote about a war his great-grandfather fought in. I can't tell when or where this was fought, so I'm wondering if it rings any bells from any of you:

"While he was in the British army, he fought in the Crimean War. He was wounded in the foot while he was a soldier. I especially remember one part that he told to me. Now the Crimean War was when they were fighting Russia. I also remember another part while he was a soldier that Grandpa told us about. He told us about the war about Napoleon. When Napoleon was crossing Europe, conquering the countries and the places, he told how Napoleon's army was invincible. There were no armies that could stand up against it. The reason they were so invincible was that his army was mounted on horses; they called them lancers. They had a twenty-foot lance that they would hold out in front of them. When they would charge, they would just charge through force, and these lances would kill the enemy soldiers or whomever they were charging. Sometimes the enemy didn't have any way of getting to them before this twenty-foot lance would kill them. But Napoleon was taking these different countries, one after another. They came up against this army. They were traveling towards each other. And this army lined up their defenses. They were traveling west, and they lined up their defenses right on the edge of a big wash. The ground was fairly level on both sides of that wash. They lined right up on the east side of that wash. They dug in trenches where they could get down for protection in these trenches. One of Napoleon's main tactics was that he would locate the enemy, and then he would come up within a certain distance of the enemy. Then just at sunrise, his lancers would charge into the enemy camps. They would charge into the enemy camps and destroy them a lot of times before they knew what had happened. This army was prepared for that. They were prepared right on the east side of this big wash. Now the night before it rained, and the water ran down through that wash, made it all muddy. There was water in the bottom. When the sun came up, Napoleon's Lancers were charging straight into the sun. In fact, as the sun came up over the horizon, Napoleon's soldiers had begun their charge. They would have the first wave, and the second wave right behind them, and the third, and the forth in that manner. When they got to that wash, before they got to the wash, they could see these soldiers all lined up in front of them. They were looking right straight across the wash; they didn't know it was there. They could see these soldiers all lined up in a big wide line waiting for them. They figured they were going to do the same thing they had done so many times before. They would charge through those soldiers and kill them with these lances. Just as the sun started up, they made that charge. They came on with the horses running full speed. The lances projected out in front of them ready for the kill. They got to this wash, this ravine. The first soldiers on their horses, that was the first time they saw that ravine, and they couldn't stop because there were horses behind them and there were horses behind those horses. The horses behind them pushed them over that ravine. At first they weren't too worried because they thought, "Well, we'll drive down through this ravine and come up the other side, and we'll be into our enemy." But when the horses went down through that ravine, it was muddy. There was water there, and they got stuck in the mud, in the water. Not only couldn't they run, but they couldn't even walk. They were stuck. So the horses behind them came in, and they marred them right into the mud. They piled up there, and the horses behind came on top of those horses. The ones behind them came on top of those. They couldn't stop; they couldn't get through. The horses couldn't climb over the other horses. They were piled up there. Napoleon's army was destroyed in that wash. They just filled that whole wash up with horses and soldiers. They killed their own soldiers."

At the beginning he says Crimean War, but the implication is that he fought against the French in this battle. He had another great grandfather who fought in the Napoleonic Wars, so I'm wondering if this account is getting confused between the two. According to the book Les Miserables, this is what happened at Waterloo, but I'm not sure how accurate that is. Does this story match anything any of you have heard at all?

Was it similar to how surnames based on professions became popular? I'm especially curious about the name Cashdollar because it sounds like it was invented by a hip-hop artist in the '90's.

bonus question! How responsible was he for the loss for his own head?

Why did the Red Guard, who passed the adjective 'red' to the Red Army of Workers and Peasants, originally call themselves red?

Moreover, certain minor factions called themselves 'Green'?

And sort of follow-up question, does the American term 'blue force' originate as opposition to the 'red force', i.e. USSR?

I'm reminded of the research into the Higgs Boson using CERN's Large Hadron Collider. Most people were apathetic some curious to learn more about physics but there were also some strange reactions including ultimatums about the end of the world.

Although Marie Curie named the phenomenon 'radioactivity' it was Henri Becquerel who may have been first to observe it in 1896. I'm no scientist but I understand radioactivity to be decay of an atom at a fundamental molecular level. Which may have challenged existing understanding of the atomic structure.

Radioactivity was understood over a period of time. How did the public view the discovery/ discoveries over time? Awe, fascination, fear, apathy?

I'm not too far in to the game yet but I've yet to hear anything positive about Wenceslas the Idle and nothing really negative about Sigismund. Is this blind nationalism a common feature of the time or something?

I am currently in the midst of planning my first trip to Europe, and was searching for tips on reddit. I think I would really like to see Poland, and more specifically Krakow. Seems fitting since I am half Polish and have also heard great things.

On some random thread, I saw a redditor comment on how beautiful Krakow is, and commented that even the Nazis believed it to be so beautiful that they purposefully spared the city.

I'm curious as to whether that is the true reason. I doubt it, but it would be a cool fact if it is.