The interviewee in question said that most of his friends had an eclectic collection of jazz albums. They'd have vocal jazz, like Frank Sinatra, and other jazz records, but "everyone was obsessed with Chet Baker."

You always hear stories about teenagers who kept their Pat Boone records in their top drawer and their Little Richard records in their bottom drawer. You hear about kids obsessed with Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, and other early Rock 'N' Roll singers, but you never hear about teenagers or young adults listening to jazz.

The pop history narrative begins with teenagers loving swing until it died with the rise of Be-Bop. Then jazz took a backseat. "Let's Get Lost" contradicts that.

What is the real story?

The Philippines and Indonesia were right there. Did European colonization preempt China from going beyond Taiwan, or were there other factors?

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At first I attributed to Archaeological remains, but there are whole abandoned Assyria cities that get less attention than the Great Pyramid alone. Then I thought it may have to do with European occupation, but European powers also controlled much of the Middle East in the early 20th century to gain an interest in their ruins. So what gives?

Also, this question spawned from a seperate, but related thought. Why do the Persian Empires get so little attention in western academia?

If Charlemagne was crowned the first Holy Roman Emperor, how did the crown end up being a Germany centered one, compared to. Frankish one?

I’m reading Mythos by Stephen Fry which I think is a really engaging and approachable take on the Greek myths. It comes across as half fictional narrative and half textbook...and this has led to a problem.

In the book Fry mentions that Prometheus created men of many different types originally from clay/mud (before Athena brought them to life). He mentions some were bronze coloured, some white, some yellow, some even blue and green. He then says that Zeus, coming down to inspect his work, accidentally tramples on the blue and green ones - presumably explaining why we don’t have blue and green skinned races.

Now, the question I have, is how much is this true? Cursory Googling seems to tell me not much more than the basic brush strokes, so this might be Fry’s embellishment. On the other hand, I know that some of the clay figures had names - leading to the Golden Age of man. How much do classical references make of the individual clay figures Prometheus made?

Thank you (hopefully) in advance and sorry if this is the wrong Sub for this - if so is there a alternative place to ask?

I've done some poking around and all I can find are mid-renaissance dates when the first guns were made, but surely they were not commonly seen until later. Circa when would any army have some handheld rifles or pistols?

I feel like in my 30ish years living in the US, I've been told around a half dozen times that the federal government is on the brink of shutdown and at least twice for my state government. The news always reports really vague and ill-informed-sounding quips about what would happen in a government shutdown. Though I've never heard of any actual consequences that made me or anyone I know notice that a shutdown happened or was looming.

Have there ever been any real, significant government shutdowns in the history of the US? What caused it? What were the consequences?

Obviously the people who interacted with him would have known but would the man on the street have known FDR was disabled? Did newspapers report upon it or show photographs of him in his wheelchair? And on a more speculative note, would they have cared? Presumably polio was something they would have been familiar with and would not have carried a stigma.

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I seem to understand the French and British were adament on dismantling the Ottoman Empire and cutting it in chunks under their direct influence, but did they ever (in hard times, for example after the failure of the Gallipoli campaign) consider peace or reached out for a peace deal?

And the other way around, did the Ottoman ever try to negociate a separate peace that could have "saved" them?

Thank you in advance for your answer!

The earl of Northumbria is rumored to have killed Ragnar by throwing him into a pit of snakes. Did many rulers maintain a pit of snakes for the purpose of execution?

We are all aware of the face that Gen. Washington was one of the most important figures of American history. But how did he stack up as a general, leader of men in battle, and military strategist? When we think of people like Hannibal, Napoleon, Rommel, and Patton, it's relatively easy to find the military attributes and thinking that made them great generals. What, if anything, made Washington so great aside from being an important statesmen?

What was stopping, say, a random pianist throwing a concert pretending he was Mozart, or a random man telling a Medieval village that he was their king?

So is it true he shaved it down to the size he had it so his gas mask would seal during ww1 and his superiors wanted him to shave the whole thing?

Which is to say, what did marines do in the ships outside of combat? How were they treated by the sailors - were they "one of the men," or an exclusive group?