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I’m currently working on my family history and have discovered one of my ancestors - Jens Nielsen, 1744-1789 from Roskilde, Denmark. One record has listed 6 different wives. Is that possible or is it more likely to be an inaccurate entry?

Thank you in advance!

Here in Canada, the Prolamation is so important that it was enshrined in the 1982 Constitution, and I've even seen the Proclamation of 1763 described as Canada's first constitution.

What were the contemporary reactions to this legal enshrinement of indigenous sovereignty? How did it get undone?

We all know about Valkyrie’s and Einherjar, but what about youth who died, people who died in times of plague, and people who died of old age? What became of them in the afterlife

The first assault rifles were developed during WW2 by Germany(StG44). Shortly after, the Soviet Union followed with the Kalashnikov guns and countries such as Belgium also started developing their guns. Why did the US not try to keep up with this arms race and only released it's first assault rifle in 1964(M16)? Also, what effect did this have on events such as the Korean War?

I'm writing a paper on Booker T. and am struggling to find evidence for how his effects on education affected white people. Any help is appreciated!

Was there any alternatives and if so, what were they?

I'm doing some initial groundwork for a story I want to tell in a game I am writing, and I was wondering how a mercenary company actually operated.

My specific questions would be:

• Did they maintain a constant roster of people? Or did they work more like a temp agency?
• Would they have kept paying their soldiers when they weren't on a contract?
• Would they have been paid per battle? Year?
• How would a potential client contact them? Would the mercenaries advertise?
• If it was essentially like hiring an army, how did they make ends meet between contracts?

As I write these I realise that different companies could work in different ways depending on the contract. I'm thinking more about the Condottieri around the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries but I might just be biased because the Wikipedia article on the Condottieri has some good information about the business side.

Xenophon's Ten Thousand seem to be a collection of many different mercenary groups. Would it have been normal for rulers to loan out units from their armies in times to get them experience in times of peace? If not, where did these men come from?

Are there any articles or books people can recommend? I'm very much interested in the day to day business side of running a mercenary company. Any period would be of interest!

I had posted this on /r/history a year ago, but didn't get much traction

I recently found out that the five boroughs consolidated to form New York City in 1898. Did people from Manhattan, the Bronx, Staten Island, Brooklyn and Queens consider themselves to be just parts of a single metropolis before then?

On a speculative note, had the Subway system been set up differently, would Manhattan and Brooklyn be considered more like San Fracisco and Oakland?

Just a thought that came to mind while learning that Da Vinci was born out of wedlock, would this have likely affected his position, or anyone else's, in Italian society?

I'm traveling to Italy in January, and I thought it might be nice to know how the modern Italian state developed. I know that Italy started out as a bunch of independent city-states (Rome, Venice, Florence, etc) and that they were unified at around the same time as Germany. What are some good resources on how Italy was unified?

There was much linking between black and Haides, the lord of the dark world, as it hinted death, so was it even more ominous a color for clothes than in our age? Did common people not care about it or were the "virtuous" people who cared not for such superstitions?

Is there some clue to the dating of Alcman? He speaks, among other things, of the Tyndaridai, so maybe he was of a late Archaic date? Or perhaps an earlier date? It seems to me that he should be before Tyrtaios, and that Tyrtaios should be at the time of Theopompos which was the time of the gradual conquest of Messenia, and before the time of Anaxandridas when the gradual alliance with the Peloponnese was done. But I just don't know, so please someone can reach out a thoughtful reflection?

Was nationalism a thing? Were there peasants and nobles going "Hell no, we dont want this!"?

Homer knew about them in the “dark ages”, since he included them in his famous poems. But that was before the big Greek civilization came into existence. Where and when did Greeks create myths about their gods?

I tried to search online, but couldn't find much... Can anyone elaborate on why exactly he was charged with war crimes, and his general involvement in the Croat-Bosniak war?

Hey guys I'm writing a paper on the industrial revolution in 1800-1850s England and about the living conditions of the working class' from an social and economical stand point. Is there anything I definitely need to cover?

PS sorry for my English it is not my first language but I'm trying😊

Edit: I don't seek an answer but just some good points or certain events that I can look into and research for my paper

I mean in movies and in fiction pretty much any town always has a brothel or a cathouse, and invariably one of the characters is a prostitute or madame. I’m wondering how close to reality this was. Thanks.

Why is it that so many groups have been against Jewish people for so long? And what started all of it?