I'm gonna go ahead and say I read Victorian romances lol.
However fairly recently I was wondering about how accurate exactly some parts were.
For example "the ton" as I understand involved nobility or those with ties to a title. The ton had a "season" where young ladies would basically debut as eligible for marriage and try to snag a husband. This included many house parties, horse rides, etc. They often talk about "snubbing" or "cutting" someone out of the ton. What did this entail? They seemed to have a lot of respect for etiquette and polite society's opinions. What was their etiquette and specifically what were things that ladies and lords could do to insult or use as an attacks against someone, without verbalizing said insult. So for example passive aggressive shows of superiority and competition. I'm Particularly interested on wardrobe decisions and of certain styles of dress were seen as statements of allegiances, snubs, or taunts. I apologize for my poor wording but for some reason I can't find a more eloquent way to explain it.
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I recently learned about anubis' weighing ceremony and how if a person's heart/soul is heavier than the feather then they''re bad. If they're heart balances with the feather they're good. Are there any stories or myths where someone's heart was weighed and it was lighter than the feather? Cheers.
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While suicide by sword (e.g. Seppuku) exist in Japan and some other cultures, did literally falling on one's sword actually happen in medieval Europe for disgraced or failed knights or nobles (which I'm assuming the time period the phrase came from)? Was it considered an honorable or acceptable penance? How did it reconcile with the contemporary condemnation of suicide?
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The thought came to me whilst watching the vikings (not the most realistic), they all have blood on their faces and are sometimes happy about it. I'm curious to know about all soldiers not just the vikings.
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If not, did the decision allow for Southerners to bring slaves into free states regardless of the laws of those states?Did the decision make abolition in the territories illegal?
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Whales are massive and I'm just wondering how they actually carried them and put them onto the ship and everything since whales can weigh thousands of kilograms.
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What is it usual for people to be named after military opponents of the US Army?
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There have been recent reports that a declassified British document indicates "at least 10,000" people may have died at Tiananmen. This seems far higher than what I previously thought. How can we evaluate this in light of other historical evidence?
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-42465516
https://www.yahoo.com/news/10-000-killed-chinas-1989-tiananmen-crackdown-british-063526012.html
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I have my (deceased) great grandfather’s military discharge paperwork. On it, it says “Honorably discharged for C of G. To enlist in the Regular Army, WD cir 310, 1945.”
Why did he have to be discharged and re-enlist? And what does C of G mean? Thank you in advance.
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There were apparently Genii even of the Empire and the Emperor along with of natural places, but how did those relate to gods. Were gods just particularly big Genii? Were gods of other people and religions just Genii as well?
Additionally what about nymphs. They existed in Roman mythology (right?) so were they just a certain type of Genii?
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I wonder if Finland and Estonia were about equal in wealth.
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I've read only the Falangists called themselves proper fascists, and they were sidelined and absorbed by the Franco regime after it came to power.
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Civilians in the US and England were urged to eat corn and potatoes instead of wheat, as seen in this poster: https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2016/02/23/sendthemwheat_custom-925dc146ed4355c20a735491676a771d63c9a9cb-s1500-c85.jpg
Why was wheat so special? Why was it being saved for soldiers? Why couldn't the soldiers just eat corn and potatoes?
And if wheat was so important, why not just grow more of that and less of the corn and potatoes?
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Infant mortality was higher and people in general died more frequently, but does that mean people didn't value their own lives and the lives of others? Is there any historical reason behind the saying?
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If yes, do they bear any resemblance at all (whether in lyrics or in melody) to later ditties that we popularly associate with pirates of the era, like "Fifteen men on a dead man's chest" from Treasure Island or "A Pirate's Life for Me" from Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean ride?
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