I'm watching Band of Brothers right now and I'm on episode 2. The American airborne soldiers dropped before the Americans, Canadians and British landed on the beaches, which I didn't know they came before. So my question is did the Nazis anticipate this and already have their AA up or was their defense hastily put together??]

Was there ever a time and place when, by chance, both sides planned to launch an attack on the enemy trenches at the same time? Did the soldiers ever meet and fight each other on no man's land?

Looking for more bigger picture commentary as opposed to a focus on the royal family and the Tsar.

Hi guys,

For school I have to do a huge project this year where I get to choose a topic and then research and write a ton about it. You are expected to put atleast 80 hours of work into.

So I've obviously been thinking about things that interest me but have been having trouble coming up with a concrete topic to research. I was thinking of doing it about WW1, maybe something having to do with the causes for WW1 or maybe about the failures of the Austro Hungarian army.

Do you have any good ideas for a topic?

Some examples of topics done by last years students are: "What effect did the Franco-Prussian war have on WW1"
"How comparable is Trump to Hitler" (Title is a bit clickbaity, it focused a lot on the similarities between modern america en 1930's germany)
"To what degree is Russia actually a democracy"

It'd be great if you could help me out!

So as the title says, what was the Eiffel Tower made of. Iron or Steel. The reason I ask is that we touched on it in History class lately and all sources I come across say Iron but the teacher says Steel as it was made in the Steel Era.

to be fair to me I never realized they'd start offering it to other people.

If this was the case, how was the colony able to overcome this? If it's not, where did the women come from, or was the incarceration gender ratio not as skewed as it is today?

Edit: 1492***

I was reading a Russian history book and it seems that it couldn’t pinpoint an answer of which was more influential in determining Imperial Russia’s fate. What do you all think?

for my dissertation i need to know the mean price of a slave -the cost for vessel owners from the african countries they were taken from and the price of slaves once they were transported to north america or britain. Unfortunately I havent been able to find such a database which would give me the figures i need. Can anyone help?

I find the legal use of meth very very interesting, this post is referring specifically to brands such as Philipon, Pervitin, among others. Obviously the legality prevents these products from "existing" in modern time, but it seems like it was on such a large scale that unopened containers or just empty containers for general historical memorabilia purposes would be all over the place.

Having grown up in the Carribbean til he was 17, did Alexander Hamilton ever have or retain an accent that made it a dead giveaway where he was from?

What is the earliest evidence of pornographic images, or are there any recorded sexual acts that people could pay to watch or something similar?