He suggests sailors couldn’t afford all the alcohol they were given when out of the Navy so stayed on ships for their daily rum ration. I think they just drunk grog to get through the terrible conditions and because it didn’t spoil.

We’re watching master and commander and trying to work out why men would go to work on these ships in such horrible conditions!

In the anime "One Piece" they mention a void in history, meaning that they don't know what happened in that period of time. Is there anything similar in our history?

It seems like King Edward III could make a good argument that he was, by blood, closer to the French Throne than its current occupant. And he was a native French speaker with close ties of blood and fealty to the French nobility.

Did most accept his rule? Was he an outsider they despised as a foreigner? Was he not French enough, or they just didn't like that he was based in England?

How was Truman told about the bomb? Did the army ask his permission to use it, or did they just say “we’re gonna use a big new weapon!” Was telling him a big deal, or was it just not in passing?

Paul Strathern's The Medici paints a very Faulknerian image of a bleak and decayed Tuscany under the later Medici Grand Dukes, but I also understand that Tuscany, and Pisa in particular, was an important center of the Romantic movement. This is not necessarily a contradiction (if nothing else, there is a gap in time) but based on other aspects of the book I would not be surprised if Strathern's image of post-Renaissance Tuscany was simply a distortion.

Thanks to the Vikings show then The Last Kingdom who made me curious about this lexical field,

for those who didn’t get exactly what im looking for : the history of the English + Scandinavian area FROM The Germains TO few years after vikings fall.

Seems counterintuitive to use the whole juice instead of turning it into valuable sugar instead of using molasses which I believe was considered an undesirable waste product.

By this, i mean that whilst i understand the justifications for things like the hundred years war, which were disputes over feudal fealty and such, i don't understand what the legal Justification would be for redrawing a kingdom's borders or annexing another kingdom into it. What were the justifications for abolishing all the tiny Welsh principalities during the conquest of Wales? What were the justifications for the multitude of times the border between say England and Scotland or France were redrawn?

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I'm really into pirates right now but I don't get the name of the ship

From my understanding, much of the area acquired in the Louisiana purchase in particular had to be explored on foot or covered wagon. But tornado alley would have been dead center in the territory, and the southern areas get bad storms themselves nowadays.

My question is how did explorers and travelers predict and avoid the weather? Or did they sort of just hunker down whenever it caught them? I imagine driving a covered wagon through a supercell thunderstorm would be quite a harrowing experience.

Is it possible that the weather was more consistently mild at this point in time?

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I'm curious because the answers i've been given seems too broad or not enough specific for me to understand.

I'm asking because I am increasingly witnessing people here on Reddit labeling some current Republicans in the USA as "fascists".

And it just seems wrong to me, but to be sure i'd like to know from people that knows better.