A battlecruiser is a ship the size of a battleship with the armament of a battleship but the armour of a cruiser to have the speed of a cruiser. It was designed to outrun everything it couldnt outgun (battleships) and outgun everything it couldnt outrun (cruiser size and smaller) The British developed this design in 1909 prior to WW1. Supposedly the Germans built their own battlecruisers shortly after since they were in a naval arms race with the British. However, from what I know, they sacrificed speed and a smaller main weapon caliber for more armour. Doesnt that in essence make them battleships? Or is there something I got wrong and their armour is even better than that of battleships? Hence the sacrifice of the main armament?

According to my Grandmother, my Great Grandfather was killed on February 19th 1942 near or in Stalino (the modern Donezk). I've already submitted an appeal to the "Deutsche Dienststelle" half a year ago. After reading a little bit myself and read that the Donbass Offensive, which also included an attack on Stalino, started in August of 1943. So I was wondering if German troops were already advanced towards Stalino by February 1942 or if my Grandmother got something wrong there. According to her there was a "Gefallenenmeldung" (KIA report), but I'm not sure about that as she first mentioned they only knew about his death from a soldier returning home who told he was one of his comrades and buried him next to a road in Stalino.

I would really appreciate it if some of you have any more answers for me. I have not seen my Grandmother cry often, but when talking to her about my Great Grandfather she could not hold back even after 65 years had past. So I really want to get more information for her. If needed I can also attach a picture of him.

Was reading a linear algebra textbook that noted that the algebra of vectors displaced the algebra of quaternions as the language of physics and I am curious why that would be the case. Is there a good book or article that goes into detail on that? Hopefully one that can be understood by someone who is not much of a mathematician.

Additionally any good history of math book that goes over the development of math in the early modern era to the 1900s.

Tomatoes seem to be such an integral part of so many well known Italian dishes and with tomatoes being a new world fruit got me to wondering what the cuisine was like before their introduction. Was there a major difference across the board recipe wise or were tomatoes just kinda added into time honored recipes?

While most of Europe was already noting the rising tensions, they stayed with their bolt action rifle leaving the US to be the only country to enter the war with the vast majority of its troops sporting an autoloader, though some countries attempted to get autoloading rifles into mass production in the middle of the war.

In a follow-up, did the various European nations seek out semiauto designs for widespread issue without success, or did they feel it was unnecessary at the time?

I was redirected here by an excellent reply to my request on r/suggestmeabook. I'm looking for books about Scandinavian history, culture, and languages. I'll be doing more research myself as time goes on, and I wanted to ask the good people of Reddit and see if I couldn't get a good jumpstart on it. Thanks for reading!

From what I know the US seemed to be the only country not using a bolt action rifle as one of their main weapons. Semi-Autos seemed to have been around for a long time and even using weapons like the Winchester Repeating Rifle seems better than these bolt actions that held like 6 bullets. Was it simply the money it cost to manufacture them?

How was Taiping's "version" of Christianity viewed in Europe? Did they view him similar to as they would Muhammed? Was there any support in Europe considering it would spread Christianity to China?

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I was watching a TV show which utilized this kind of funky music to invoke pornography as part of a joke, and it got me wondering - why are these smooth bass lines and minimalist wah-wah guitar chords so invocative of porn? Was this just the sort of music which was popular when video pornography started to take off?

This is the prompt: "Explain why the United States, the first nation created through a rebellion against colonialism and founded upon the principle of self-determination, became an imperialist power at the start of the 20th century." We have to write an introduction with thesis and multiple body paragraphs (no conclusion). I have many messy ideas of what to write about, such as how industrialization and the 'bounciness' of early US foreign affairs affected this, but have no idea of how to organize these into an essay. Grateful for any help!

I am interested in the times around and including the Second Punic War, the Late Republic/ Caesarian Civil War, Augustian Civil War, Early Empire, and Late Empire. I would rather have these books be purchasable from Amazon.

Like the title says, why did they change it as much as they did, rather than just writing Latin with the Greek alphabet? Couldn't they just have settled on minor changes if they had to adapt the script?

Always been curious why Hitler violated the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact in 1941 so shortly after having to reinforce axis powers on southern front in Libya and so close to the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor.

I understand it was always a fragile agreement, but for such a well-run war machine it seems like an odd time to open a 3rd front.

Churchill calls the American president and asks about a purchase of war planes, and because of trade treaties the American president suggest he sends a team of horses to pull them over to the Canadian border, did this actually happen, and what were the trade treaties americans had made prior to their declaration of war on Germany that led to this?

The author writes that in the fourth and fifth centuries, in Alexandria, Athens, Rome and elsewhere, “the Christian church demolished, vandalised and melted down a simply staggering quantity of art. Classical statues were knocked from their plinths, defaced, defiled and torn limb from limb. Temples were razed to their foundations and burned to the ground . . . many of the Parthenon sculptures were attacked . . . monasteries start to erase the works of Aristotle, Cicero, Seneca and Archimedes. ‘Heretical’ — and brilliant — ideas crumble into dust. Pliny is scraped from the page. Cicero and Seneca are overwritten. Archimedes is covered over. Every single work of Democritus and his heretical ‘atomism’ vanishes. Ninety per cent of all classical literature fades away.”

I am completely baffled at how the English and French monarchs avoiding contracting diseases after literally touching people who had them. The only thing I have found is that they would perform the royal touching ceremonies during the colder months because it was harder to spread diseases then (which is news to me).