Can someone help me with a history of the RIC pre easter rebellion?

This question comes from watching The Frankenstein Chronicles, and there’s some minor spoilers below, so if you want to watch it stop reading now.

In the show, one of the main characters is a black policeman and intends to marry a white girl. Would these two things (the profession, and the marriage) be accepted in the time period i.e. 1820s / 1830s?

Obviously the show is not intended to be an accurate period drama, given that it’s about resurrecting the dead, but I’m interested to know about the above.

I've often seen the claim that there is as much evidence for Hercules as there is for Jesus. I have found that accounts of Jesus were recorded in the Gospels and the writings of Paul decades after his death. There are also mentions of Jesus by several historians like Josephus, Tacitus, etc. I was not able to find the same evidence for Hercules. Is there any validity to the claim that they have the same amount of evidence that they existed?

From what I understand, the former English colonies in 1787 had effectively no non-Protestant population. There were some old Catholic families in Maryland, a few thousand Catholic Irishmen across the country, and very tiny Sephardi Jewish communities in certain coastal cities. Although some individual colonies were founded by certain groups to protect their ability to worship freely, the religious history of the English colonies was generally antagonistic and sometimes violent. In the 1650s, Puritans banned Catholicism from Maryland, despite that colony's Catholic origin. Around this same time, Jews were expelled from Georgia.

The religious protections of the first amendment have had pretty huge implications on American law, history, and demographics. But why was it written? I'm surprised that the religious conservatives who dominated colonies like Massachusetts let this amendment be ratified. Were there fears that religious freedom would compromise the colonies' Protestant character? What kind of backlash did this amendment instigate?

In Conversations with Stalin by Yugoslavian Communist Milovan Djilas the author talks about his meetings with Stalin and other Soviet top brass. The following extract from a meeting on February the 10th, 1948 interested me particularly (emphasis mine):

Stalin then turned to the uprising in Greece: 'The uprising in Greece has to fold up.' (He used for this the word svernut', which means literally to roll up.) 'Do you believe'- he turned to Kardelj- 'in the success of the uprising in Greece?' Kardelj replied, 'If foreign intervention does not grow and if serious political and military errors are not made.' Stalin went on, without paying attention to Kardelj's opinion: 'If, if! No, they have no prospect of success at all. What do you think, that Great Britain and the United States- the United States, the most powerful state in the world- will permit you to break their line of communication in the Mediterranean Sea! Nonsense. And we have no navy. The uprising in Greece must be stopped, and as quickly as possible.' Someone mentioned the recent success of the Chinese Communists. But Stalin remained adamant. 'Yes, the Chinese comrades have succeeded, but in Greece there is an entirely different situation. The United States is directly engaged there- the strongest state in the world. China is a different case, relations in the Far East are different.

So when was the first recorded time that Stalin considered the US a great power, and was this the first time the US was considered a greater power than the Soviet Union? I was surprised at Stalin's admission in the extract. Frankly I expected him to be too prideful to admit that, even in a private meeting with other Communists. Are there any public statements by Stalin where he describes the US as more powerful than the Soviet Union?

Thanks.

My question is: Do we know anything about this Professor Baumann? And do we have some sort of written record of what was said in the debate Hitler and Baumann had? Unfortunately, I cannot seem to find anything of the sort online.

As most of you probably know, during a DAP party meeting in September 1919, after Gottfried Feder finished speaking, Hitler got involved in a heated political argument with a visitor, Professor Baumann, who questioned the soundness of Feder's arguments against capitalism and proposed that Bavaria should break away from Prussia and found a new South German nation with Austria. Hitler managed to impress Drexler with his oratory skills, and it all went on from there.

Many thanks in advance!

I know so many people with bad acne that is only cured with intense drugs like accutane or topical medication like Salicylic Acid.

What were people’s skin like historically? I’m curious about ancient history and recent history like when photographs were first invented (I haven’t seen anyone with bad acne in an old photo).

Have people always had terrible acne and just couldn’t do anything about it? Or is acne a modern phenomenon?

I’m sitting a public pool and the smell of chlorine has me wondering....

Given the number of people who would frequent the baths - how did they keep the water clean and safe? Or was there a lot of water born illnesses?

It isn't necessary that a moon orbit its planet in this way, which would be completely clear only after orbital mechanics were understood better due to Kepler and Newton (and others). I was interested if religions came up with a reason for this being the case, or if they just accepted the moon as an immutable body in the sky.

Various lever action designs as well as revolver rifles had been around since the late 1830s, why were both sides predominantly using muzzle loading rifles during the civil war when there were more advanced munitions on the civilian market?

Was there any significant attempt to modernize infantry equipment during the war? I know Gatling guns were deployed during the war, but were somewhat ineffective due to being treated as artillery as opposed to an heavy infantry equipment.

Thank you.

I've heard tell of the dark and scatological sense of humour that people seemed to have in the Middle Ages, evidenced by folk tales, sermons and exempla. But I am having trouble finding literature on the subject. So, what sorts of stories or jokes were sure to provoke laughter from the people of Late Medieval Europe?

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Also, sidenote, what did the natives call the continent America?

What was it like for a normal Jewish person in the USSR? Jewish politicians? Were they targeted or treated equally?