I was consulting the 1930 translation of the Papyrus Ebers by Cyril Bryan for a paper when I came upon a medicinal recipe to heal abdominal distress. The recipe involves cooking 4 ingredients, wormwood, elderberries, sebesten, and "sasa-chips" in beer before straining and giving to the patient. Does anybody here know what "sasa-chips" is referring to? The closest thing I could find is a type of bamboo only found in East Asia which does not seem like a particularly likely candidate and I don't have access to a more recent translation.

I was doing a bit of family history and saw one man was an “Aide to the Kaiser” before fleeing to America. Attached was a picture of him in a German military uniform. This would’ve been in the 1860s in Germany.

I have read some articles about the U.S. trying to enforce treaties like UNCLOS (Law of the Sea) even though they havent ratified the respective treaties of their own. After further research I found out that they havent ratified the International Criminal Court Treaty, Kyoto Protocol, Cildren Rights Convention (U.S. being the only non-UN nation to havent ratified it), the convention on the elimination of All forms of Discrimination of women and many more. I get why they didnt ratify or sign any treaties concerning use of special weapons (e.g. Ottawa Treaty), the moon treaty, commerce or Environment-realted treaties, or similar. But why did they sometimes sign but not ratify other fundamental treaties/conventions (Children and Womens Rights) and trying to enforce them nonetheless (UNCLOS for example)?

I'm seriously confused by all the information online. Especially when it comes to the year.

Would 21 June 5 AD be written as 'Ante Diem X Kalends Julius', or simply as VI・XXI・V.

Or some other format altogether?

How would the date be abbreviated, written formally compared to informally, and spoken in conversation?

Also for story writing purposes, how would it be written on a sign to promote an event?

What's the reason for Christians taking a negative approach on dragons (presenting them mostly as the devil) in the Middle Ages when most other cultures used the dragon as a good luck charm? taking into consideration the natural predator theory... surely we should all instinctively be afraid of dragons and not just the westernised culture.

It’s something I’ve been curious about, as I know that many of the French aristocracy survived the Revolution by emigrating to other countries, and I couldn’t help but wonder if there were any who remained in France and avoided the guillotine.

My whole life I thought that Jews and Christians were naturally enemies after Crucifixion but a few days back I learned that Jews and Christians lived along before Crusades and that Christians even respected Jews as the nation who witnessed the world before Christ. And my thinking went like: So Jews acted as a middle men between Muslims and Christians in trade and if Crusades were meant to fight off the Muslims, weren't Jews viewed as kind of traitors for having connections with Muslims? And then this hate evolved and snowballed. But I am not sure how right my thinking is so could someone confirm or comment what did really happen?

Can anyone shed some light on WHY further excavations of the Herculaneum Villa of the Papyri are not ongoing? Is it the Italian government?

Clearly there isn’t much time, as Dr Janko has stated many times.

Hello,

I am writing the sequel to my first novel in a series. At the end of my previous book, one of my characters was rushed to a hospital and amputated off screen. This was October 1912. I need to research what it would be like for this character in the following spring (May 1913). Does anybody have any suggestions for written resources I can access online? Book titles and comments with information if you have expertise would be appreciated too. Thanks!

Were they just slaves one day and out on their own the next?

Was there any sort of process for them to go through or programs to help them getting necessities and finding work?

Did a lot of them stay with their previous owners?

I’m honestly probably too ignorant about the topic to ask the right questions so any guidance on the subject is appreciated.

So I habe recently stumbled across a subreddit about people not getting that people are homosexual, and actively searching excuses why that can’t be. A lot of posts in there were about historical figures, like Achilles and Patroklos, being classified as straight or just having „intimate relations“ by historians. Is that an actual existing problem?

So my impression is that today few people resent their parents for giving birth to them in the place they did. It seems to me that it's understood that everyone tries to life their best life.

However, when I imagine the future and colonisation of space, e.g., Mars, Moon, asteroids, other solar systems etc., I could very well imagine children resenting their parents for dooming them to a hostile planet, a life on board a multi-generation starship, etc.

I would probably question my parents' decision to move from their Amsterdam appartment to Antarctica to raise me there.

As far as I know, there were significant historical colonisation efforts, e.g., Siberia by Russia or the west of the USA.

Do we know how descendents of these colonists / settlers felt about their parents decision to raise them in a rather suboptimal environment?