If the Anglo-Saxons were from Denmark, followed by the Vikings and the Danelaw, followed by the Normans... How is at least the "England" part of the UK not considered a Nordic country?

I halfway know my answer, in that they are culturally different. But why is the English culture different vs. how Iceland has remained a Nordic Country?

My question may be sophomoric, but I'm hoping to prompt some great AskHistorian to explanation!

Thanks!

Sylvester Graham, creator of the Graham Cracker, was cited as a member of such a movement or idea, but he's the only person I can actually find that relates to this.

Historical descriptions of Atlantic, Mediterranean, and Caribbean naval wars mention that merchant vessels of hostile nations would be routinely seized, sometimes openly and sometimes through privateers. Britain in particular achieved something like naval supremacy during the Napoleonic Era, able to intercept most Continental shipping of enemy states.

But what happened to fishing boats? Would they be captured as well? Would it be worth it to haul the boats back home to one's own fishermen? Or would they hide while enemy fleets were around? Would this cause a massive disruption to the food supply of certain countries?

I had a history professor tell me a while ago that before/during the era of the IRA, tensions were so high in parts of North Ireland that split towns would have one sidewalk (or part of the sidewalk) painted green and the other painted orange, marking it as "safe" walking territory for your religious group. Can anyone back this up, or find an article/source about it? I may just be searching wrong, but I can't seem to find anything on it.

Were menstrual products different? Were women prohibited from doing certain things? Did they wear different clothes?

I've now seen several times in online political debates that when someone on the (usually far) right is called a Nazi or compared to Hitler, their response is that "Well, Hitler was a socialist." Considering the name of the party, how truly "socialist" would the Nazi regime's policies be considered on a modern scale?

How did the travelers like the conquistadors, pilgrims and French hunters stay hydrated while on the way to the Americas? Did they just carry that many jugs of water?

I heard that they supplied troops with canned food during ww2 but didn't assign can openers or anything of the sort. Is there any truth to this? If so why, and if not, is there any where this idea could have originated from?

I've been reading a lot of Medal of Honor and other WWII citations and noticed a high percentage of officers were naval reservists rather than full fledged navy officers. I'm aware that many older, retired officers were reactivated, especially to run auxiliary and transport ships, but I also see quite a few 20-25 year olds, often joining right out of college part way through the war, commanding small patrol ships and whatnot almost always listed as being from the USNR.

Question is directed towards any knowledge on the larger battleships of ww2. Does anyone know of any personal accounts or descriptions of what it was like? Im interested mainly how rudimentary the navies of the time were compared to now, because even at the time they were manning huge metal warships.

So, clearly they weren't counting down to Jesus birth, but what year was it at any given time pre-gregorian calendar? Did different societies consider it a different year? When did we all hop on the current year?

From Augustus to Diocletian, on average, how many auxiliaries were attached to a Roman legion?

I did a search on this subreddit and on google but nothing really came up.

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I stumbled upon this fact in an article, explaining that the West spent more and thus suffered more on dealing with Germanic tribes and Gauls, whereas the East had Egyptians and Greeks. So how reliable is this information?

I'm a 20-year-old college student majoring in history, and I've realized that I have only superficial knowledge about late 20th century America. The history courses I took growing up never got beyond WWII or the Civil Rights movement. What are some good books to learn more about the last few decades of American history?

Did they ridicule it or did they look up to its greatness?

What are some of the most hotly-debated topics on Cold War history in recent years?

Thanks in advance for your answers!

All the famous stories about women soldiers and pilots in the Eastern Front center around defending the motherland from invasion. Did women continue fighting in the Red Army once they began pushing back toward Germany? Did they fight all the way to Berlin?