I thought of this because I have two kids, and they and their peers all knew the common dinosaurs but age three - those mentioned above plus Brontosaurus/Apatosaurus and Pterodactyl. Children's books and television seemed to focus on the same set of dinosaurs 30 years ago when I was a kid, too. But why those, and not any of the thousands of other dinosaurs discovered since the 1800s?

Were these the first to be discovered? The first to show up widely in museums? Was there an influential early book or movie that boosted their popularity, like Jurassic Park (1993) did for Velociraptor? I suspect there's some interesting history here.

Thanks in advance for any insight.

In my ancient civilization class my professor had mentioned this happening, I believe he was talking about Druid (or a group of people in the greater English area) but it's almost been a year and I can't remember. Does anyone know about this? Since it was in the area of England where psychedelic mushrooms grow, and the Druid people used acorns in daily life and symbolism, could he just have switched up facts? Any input would be appreciated.

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I have to write a sort of a book review for my university paper and I'm not really into 20th century so I want some recommendations for books on that period.. also would be good if the books arent too large, 200-300 pages would be enough. Also, the book doesn't have to be about all of that period, but just about certain aspects or parts of it. Thanks in advance.

As far as I understand it, the ultimate rationalization of antisemitism in Christianity is the betrayal of Jesus by Judas, spurring a millennia-long history of expulsion and prosecution. Considering the tensions between Israel and much of the muslim world, is there a basis in quran for antisemitism?

Butter, perhaps?

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In modern history such as the WW e.g. omaha beach, verdun, etc. what happened to all the bodies? We still find the odd bullet casing here and there but no bones, at least not when I visited. Is there are group of people in charge of cleaning up all those bodies?

I know many old movies can be remastered to hd from the film but I had trouble finding a time line of the actual movie goers experience over the decades.

I'm more or less familiar with the pattern of the decline of American Indian languages, but I'm interested to know when people began to try to stop it.

It seems to be something akin to a universal solution to everything negative in folklore. Anyone happen to know why?

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I just learned about this and it's absolutely shocking to me that I could receive any kind of punishment.

Basically I am looking for how he was perceived at the time, as opposed to looking at him through a historical lens

I am writing a research paper on snipers in WWII for my history class. I was interested if anyone knew any good books or web articles I could reference.

I was hoping to learn about how Soviet, American, and German sniper units operated, and how they could have changed strategy throughout the war.

Also, I am doing an engineering perspective and comparison on the design of snipers during the war, such as the Mauser Kar98k, or the Springfield '03. This will be a majority of the paper.

Any references you might know that I could use would be greatly appreciated!

Aside from the first people to travel across it before civilizations were formed, did anyone know about the Bering Straight and what's now Alaska? Or was that upper part of Russia unexplored (and if so, how did people view it?)

I'm currently taking an early Americas class and can't find any primary sources. Not a homework question because it's not related to what we're studying. I find alligators as animals fascinating and was wondering if anyone had any information.

Little background, I'm writing a historical fiction about the Onin War that will potentially bleed over into the Sengoku Era and am having trouble with some events/timeline portions of the history that the Gods of Google are having difficulty answering for me. So I decided to come to the best place I could think of, here. I have many, many questions but for simplicity's sake, these are the big ones.

1. How did Hosokawa and Yamana die?
2. Why did fighting continue after Yoshimi defected to Yamana in support of his nephew as the next Shogun?
3. Why would Yoshimi supporting the claim of his nephew rather than himself, cause him to be declared a rebel by the current empororer?

Any help at all would be greatly appreciated! Historical accuracy is important to me with this book. I'm just having trouble finding resources beyond the broad strokes of history.

In late antiquity, it became a common Roman practice to re-purpose old, unused and derelict buildings or demolish them for their raw materials . It seems that the Romans did this indiscriminately and without regard to any "historical" value that the buildings may have had. Yet the "spolia" within the buildings or attached to them did indeed have some kind of value and this is why we see things like the Obelisk of Theodosius in the Hippodrome of Constantinople.

So my question is, what did the Romans think about old historical buildings? Today we as historians are highly concerned about the preservation of cultural heritage and sometimes cast negative lights on the Romans who thought differently. Is this a fair judgement? I am not convinced it is. And the Romans seemed to be more concerned about the present situation than focusing on the glories of the past...