I was playing Day of Infamy, a game set in WWII, and someone was complaining that they could not hit anyone. I told him to aim a little lower, and then made up that it was military practice to have your sights set at a farther range than expected. I made up that it was better that way since you can always lower your gun if an enemy was closer, but if you needed to aim higher, the sights of the gun would obscure the target, making it more difficult to shoot.

What I am asking is, was this done in WWII? Did any military do this practice? What were the doctrines that soldiers set their sights to during WWII?

My teacher is a Hindu nationalist who is doing a class on the Aryan Invasion, or more specifically on why it's wrong. He's quoting only Out of India theorists like Michel Danino or Koenraad Elst. That very biased lesson with an agenda left me very frustrated because I can't be sure how factual it was.

Can someone explain to me the merits and the weaknesses of those theories with a more academic approach?

If not why not?

If I recall from university the original Senate was composed of the individual patriarchs of the leading gens' of the early Roman polity. Was this preserved and kept so that no more than one family member from each gens could serve at a time in the Senate?

Side Question, did every Patrician gens have a Senate seat? If not then did the Patrician families lacking Senate seat wield power in any way?

As someone who reads a lot of American History (1800s/early 1900s), I am curious as to when and why there was a political shift in the 20th century from the Republican party being more widely supported in the north to now being more widely supported in the South.

What happened that cause the Republican party to lose support in Northern states and to gain ground in Southern states?

What is the historical reliability of hinduism. Can things be historically traced to have happened as hinduism described it in their religion.

Especially between citizens, considering their work routines and religious beliefs. Was depression even considered a disease back then?

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Another semi-related question:

As civilizations develop and cultivate resources, it seems nearly universal that the strongest civilization will attempt to conquer massive areas of land to remain the dominant race at some point. The Native Americans never carried out conquests on the enormous scale that Mongolia, Rome, or China did. Was this due to their technologies or were there environmental obstacles that prevented this from occurring?

Wallace was depicted as a 'Man of the People' and a very important part of the FDR administration, kind of like one of the unsung heroes of US politics during WWII. He seemed progressive, and wanted less corporate influence in politics.

Was that a thing with slave owners in the US or in Africa?

I’m not talking about tactics, or maneuvering troops on a macro level. What I mean is do we have any idea how individual soldiers in something like a Greek phalanx would be told what to do? And how was that order filtered down and handed out to individual groups on a hectic battlefield?

For instance, if in a battle a phalanx has to change its dimensions, like go from 10 men long to 30 men long, how would something like that have been ordered and carried out in the heat of battle? And that goes for tactics in organized ancient armies throughout the world.

I hope my question makes sense, I’ll be happy to add clarification if needed.

While doing research on an ancestor of mine I came across a transcription of the Georgia Central State Hospital admission records from 1842-1861. It is fascinating (albeit often quite tragic) to flip through, and it has sparked many, many questions about the perceptions and treatment of mental illness in the mid-nineteenth century. One interesting thing that I have noticed is that many of the records list an unrelated disease, such as typhoid or scarlet fever, as the "cause of insanity." How did doctors of this time believe that a virus or bacterial infection altered the psyche of someone who had previously been considered mentally sound? What sort of behavior in patients recovering from an illness would lead to the conclusion that they had become "insane" as a result?

"Islam saved women who were exploited, enslaved, and regarded as second class in the darkness of the pre-Islamic Age of Ignorance from the position of a poor creature and elevated them to a new status as a blessed being. Islam freed women from being treated as a tool of pleasure and laid Paradise under their feet. If the essential sources of religion and the exemplary lives of the first two generations of Muslims who lived after God's Messenger are carefully studied, it will be seen that Muslim women were absolutely not confined to their home and they were never oppressed. If those who come up with such claims are not prejudiced and are not making deliberate assertions, then these ideas stem from being ignorant of the essential principles the religion set on this matter and from attributing misconceptions and misapplications—which originate from interference of local customs—throughout history to Islam"