On a post talking about nuclear energy coming into our country, with a fellow redditor we had a disagreement as to what the purporse of the Chernobyl nuclear plant was.
I stated it was an energy plant.
He/she stated it was a military instalation to enrich plutonium and energy was a secondary function.

Was it purely an energy producing plant?
Was there some military uses they were giving it?

Thx in advance everyone and sorry for formatting (maybe?), not the most avid poster.
I thought about posting on ask science but figured its been a while since it happened and some scientist dont know/ dont care. Cheers

Were the wives completely subordinate to their husband or did they have unique freedoms compared to standard marriages of the time? Was sex permitted between multiple spouses at once or just two at a time? Was female-to-female contact forbidden? Was there a hierarchy of wives within the marriage who had authority over one another? Was age or wealth a factor?

I would like to provide a bit of context firts. I am from Mexico, when we learn about history in school most of the time we start with "universal history", then we dive into Mesoamerican cultures, we discuss a bit from indigenous cultures in South America, then we jump into the Spanish contact with American civilizations (specially Mexicas and Mayans), following the Conquest of America and colonization focusing most of the time in the central and south region of the current mexican territory.

Most of the time when I hear about North American indigenous civilizations I can't place them in time or territory and when it comes to their genocide and subjugation only the English come to my mind but then another thing came to my mind, Nueva España's territory included most of what is currently the USA but I've never heard of the contact between the spanish and north american indigenous people.

Also I would appreciate if you could suggest any work related to the topic.

Good afternoon, I am trying to figure out what plane my Grandfather flew on as part of a crew in the Pacific in WW2. This stems from a particular story he told me years ago.

Here is what I have been able to narrow it down: He was part of a crew (he was not a pilot) of more than just 2 or 3, so that rules out any of the "fighter" planes. Based on the story (which I'll get to) it definitely was not a B-17 or B-29 (and he never once mentioned flying on fortresses). From there it looks like the B-24, B-25 and B-26 were all used in the Pacific Theatre. The plane he was on was capable of doing bombing runs on land targets as well as torpedo (or bombing?) runs on ships. I've tried poking around but I am having a hard time pinning it down.

The story is that of his crew getting "in trouble" for not following an assignment. They left the base they were at and 2 bombing groups went out. 1 was to target an island and 1 was to target Japanese ships. My grandfather's plane was to target the ship(s). He said his plane was maybe 6th or 7th in line to go for the ships. They watched the first 4 or 5 planes do as ordered - drop their torpedo/bomb - bank hard right and return due to the anti-air systems to the left of wherever the ships were. But when these planes banked right they opened up their wings and belly to the ships gunners and got shredded to shit. So my grandfathers plane and either the plane in front of or behind them decided to "buzz" the ship - drop their torpedo's / bombs - and then fly as fast as possible right over the ship as to not open themselves up and get shredded. Only 2 planes returned from that trip and as I was told they got in significant trouble for not following the order/plan. So I'm not sure which one of those 3 planes (or maybe I'm already way off and its not one of those 3) would fit this "model" of mission and would be used this way. Not sure if this in any way helps narrowing down between the 3 planes or not.

Other than that I know he did very little combat trips as he was arriving in the pacific very close to end of the war. I also know he was assigned to whichever particular plane it was his entire "tour" in the Pacific. Its been a long time since he told me that story and hes been gone for 10 years now and I happened to be talking to someone about it and it got me curious as to the plane he actually was on.

Thanks for reading and hopefully someone can help me pin it down!

How was having multiple lovers (with the consent of all parties) handled in the Edwardian era? The first example that comes to mind is Virginia Woolf, but is there any other documentation of similar situations at the time? I'm compiling research for my novel and could use some in-depth assistance. Thank you very much!

It is confusing to think of how hockey originated. Three games seem to have made an impact: shinty, bandy, hurley . What is each's particular impact?

But what about field hockey?

Who invented those 4 games? All in Scotland?

I know many people claim they invented field hockey.

This evolved from my previous question answered here already by the illustrious /u/hillsonghoods.

I've read a comic a while back called Rock Candy Mountain, in which a vagrant in post-29 Crash America escapes from the Devil in search of the land mentioned in the song The Big Rock Candy Mountain, by Harry McClintock. At the end of an issue, the author mentions that the song was inspired by McClintock's "hoboing around" his youth in late 19th century / early 20th century America.

This, however, isn't the only place I've encountered this trope of "homeless men and vagrants singing tall tales"; the game Where the Water Tastes Like Wine takes a lot of inspiration from 30s America and it features that, and the movie Dolemite is My Name has Dolemite learn his tall-tale rhyming from homeless men in the 70s. Hillsonghoods mentioned this was probably influenced by The Dozens, another style of rhyming from around that time, but apparently that refers to insult-competitions instead of tall tales.

There's also classics like Charlie Daniels' The Devil Went Down to Georgia and Bob Dylan's Motopsycho Nitemare, which seem to be referencing this tradition of singing tall tales, but I can't for the life of me find out if this is an actual "Thing" that happens (or happened in the past), or if this is just a common literary trope and these folks just like to talk about stuff that never happened.

I'm reading a story set in that time period where the protagonist is an anti-slavery pacifist. It feels kind of anachronistic, but on the other hand the slave trade was banned in England by 1100, so there must have been some sort of opposition to it from someone.

I am looking to read up on the most reliable and unbiased information about Yugoslavian events mainly in the period between 1991 and 2001

As the underlying conflicts were incredibly complex, its obvious that books on this topic would be the best source of information. Could someone please help determine which books and are closest to the truth?

The general consensus is that he just smeared his opponents by implying that they were communists no matter what their actual political views were.But is that all it was ? Did he perhaps at the very beginning earnestly look for communists before realising he could use it as a grift to make himself more powerful?

I’ve just finished a course and am undertaking a recommended reading regarding the subject.

It seems that the archaeological record indicates a relatively peaceful immigration and assimilation and blending of cultures between the Germanic and Britannic peoples following the exit of the Roman Empire in 410 CE.

Why then do Gildas and The Venerable Bede paint it as a violent incursion if no such thing took place? What are their motives for portraying it this way? My impression is generally that it has to do with an early precursor of “European Nationalism”, though in this instance fixated on a cultural group - the Bretons.

My idea of good is strictly connected to historical accuracy, but an interesting delivery also goes a long way. I’m thinking of joining audible plus again only to access some courses but I wanted to hear some advice on this first. Thanks!

If anyone would be able to shed some light to what most likely occurred, that would be amazing. My Czech grandfather remembers being sick in bed with the measles at 8yo in about 1941, possibly in Brno. His mother was dragged out of the house and disappeared for 2 years. He has absolutely no idea why. He says she was a loving affectionate mother but she was cold and generally a completely different person when she returned. His father had already 'disappeared' only to return years later, not sure why either. His mother was German and his father Czech and I believe his father may have been the mayor of the town at the time. He rambles and mind all over the place so it's hard to pin point exact details. Any ideas?

In the movie 'Dolemite is My Name', right at the end they say that Rudy Ray Moore's rhyming style earned him the nickname of "Godfather of Rap". The movie also portrays him learning this from homeless men. Is this actually how it went down? Doesn't rap music have deeper roots?

Now, I ask because here in my country we have something called repente, a regional art form of improvising tall tales by singing rhymes. They're not really supposed to be funny, but they're supposed to be impressive. Was something like this a thing among "hobo culture" at the time?

Guilds have always been of interest to me, however I realise I don't know much about how they're organised in real life, only how they're commonly depicted in fantasy a d fiction.

As the title says, why was the Apollo program given that name? With the purpose of getting to and landing on the moon, wouldn't Artemis have made more sense since she's the goddess of the moon, as opposed to Apollo who is the god of the sun.

Not public executions, but do we have records of how often people people were put to death by the French government? It has been hard to find resources for me because everything gets overstocked by the Reign of Terror when I try to look information up.

Alexander the Great is the perfect example, and would trade away everything for fame. Seems like they would have heeded ghost Achilles

"The people of Asia made no matter of the seizure of their women. The Greeks, however, for the sake of [Helen], recruited a great army, then came to Asia, and destroyed the power of Priam."

I was talking to my girlfriend about which artists or genres we see as dated nowadays, for reference we are both in our early 20s. We then began to wonder what people 100 years ago saw as dated or old people music. Not exactly what was popular to old people of the 1920s, but what songs or genres did young adults of the 1920s view with a sense of cheesiness/disconnect? Thank you!