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Before the king's were thrown out, how big was the Roman regions?

Sorry if I'm in the wrong subreddit, but my grandfather used to sing a short song to us when we were kids. My mom said it was old even then.

It went like:

Fee! Fee fi! Fee fi fo! Feastday! Coomalotta coomalotta coomalotta feastday, Oooooh noooo, not feastday, Innaminna dexxaminna ooh wah uh wahlaminna, Exxaminna sollaminna ooh wah uh wah, A be billy oat goat'n bo bo b'dit'n'dot'n quinine, shhh, let's go.

I'd really appreciate any help. Thanks!

As an American, there's a hint of glory/patriotism about the PT boats, and a quick survey of other countries shows they all had torpedo boats, though of different sizes and configuration with a good degree of difference from the US ones. Did we use ours differently? Who else was a prominent user?

From the little reading I've done, it seems we had some bases up there(notably Dutch Harbor), why didn't we use them to attack and harass the northern home islands, or maybe even invade Japan or Manchuria?

Geography would probably be a challenge, but I wouldn't think of it any more a challenge than a sandy atoll with nothing on it, and we already owned them negating the need for an invasion(of the Aleutians).

Why are Ruthenians mentioned in old censuses? Who were they? Is it just a name change?

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As in how many of them were true Nazi's and really liked the philosophy?

"one out of five males died before X years", "diftheria killed as much as x in the Y century" and so on.

Obviously I'm talking about times when there was no statistical study about these facts.

Recently I’ve been re-watching through the TV show Vikings whilst off sick from work. It’s a show I have mixed feelings about; it’s great to see any show generate interest in a historical period, but not at the price of complete inaccuracies, which the show has aplenty.

I have a couple of questions related to the way females are depicted in the show. I’ll ask them in kind, and expand on them where necessary.

First, quite simply, were there likely to be female vikingr? I think it’s undoubtable that some Norse women were martially trained, but I’m asking specifically about vikings (I.e. those who raided overseas). If you accept that view that women were considered far more valuable than men in the period, then it seems incredibly foolish to risk those women in raids. On the other hand, it makes complete sense for women to be trained in defensive combat, to protect communities when the fighting men were away raiding.

Secondly, could women achieve the status of Jarl/warlord/Queen in Norse society? The depiction of Lagertha in the TV show got me thinking about this (a total Mary-Sue of a character who I cannot stand, but let’s not digress into that). I again have my doubts about this, partly for the same reasons as I doubt the viability of female raiders. I also doubt it because as I understand it, the Thing was a proto-parliament comprised of freeMEN; it seems somewhat contradictory for females, excluded from the Thing, to be able to assert authority over its constituents.

The only article I could find about female warlords came from The Guardian. That publication has a bit of a reputation for finding an inch and taking a mile, so I’m maintaining a bit of scepticism about what it says. A female skeleton buried in a grave alongside weapons does not necessarily mean she was a warrior, let alone a warlord.

I’d be delighted to hear any thoughts on this.

Yes, I know this is a stupid question, but many people here in Greece have said this to me. Basically, the story goes that during WWII, Greek soldiers would throw bed sheets in front of tank tracks or straight at them so they would get sucked up inside them. This would cause a jam and stop the track from moving, making it an easier target. Is there any way this could be true?