How was the overall quality of their healthcare? Were there enough doctors/medicine for such a large country? Did they do house calls?

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I know that there were many developments to the development of firearms as we know them now. Originally they took lots of time to reload and were very inaccurate. But did firearms become a battle necessity as soon as they were developed? Did it take time for militaries to train infantry to be effective or did it take further technological advancements? Are there examples of battles of gunmen completely obliterating armies that opted to not use firearms?

I'm not sure I'm in the correct subreddit for this question and I realize language changes over the centuries so I thought this would be a history question more or less.

I know that some African American became sharecroppers and I'm sure there were a lucky few who found jobs, but after the war ended and they were no longer provided a place to live, food, etc, how did they survive? I realize the housing and food they were provided was substandard when they were slaves, but it was something. Where did they live and what did they do when they were set free with no house, land, money, job, etc.

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We all know that the USSR was struggling to keep up with the US technologically while also trying to keep its economy a float, but at what point did the US figure this out?

I'm writing a fiction right now in a fantasy setting, and at one point in the story a country falls into anarchy after the royal family is wiped out. Has such an event actually happened before? I'm trying to figure out realistically what would occur in that situation. If a new monarch were to be chosen, how would it be done, or what would be the most likely outcome of the country's government?

I'm aware that the pike was the standard weapon of footmen during this time, but I've also heard that short-swords/long knives were common during this period. Additionally, I've also read that falchions were fairly common weapons, but I have no real way to confirm this.

The test itself had numerous signatures from the light, heat, and sound of the explosion itself as well as the radioactive traces being spread in the dust and air.

While someone might not have been looking for a the project specifically, did anyone manage to notice the signs of a atomic bomb detonation?

Reading a book on China right now, and the author talks about alien rule during Imperial China, and then the Chinese would every so often come along and kick the foreigners out. Even if the foreigners were ruling in the "Chinese Way" they would still be considered alien. Yet, from what I understand there were multiple ethnicities in China throughout its history and the boundaries were widely different throughout it as well. So what distinguished in the mind of the Chinese who was and was not Chinese?

I posted a picture of a WWI medic and his dog in r/oldschoolcool and in the comments this question came up because he's carrying a rifle.

In the TV Show Black Sails a pirate ship furls its sails and uses the curvature of the earth to hide the hull of the vessel whilst someone in the crows nest to watch over another ship without being spotted themselves.

Now I remember googling this at the time, and had to work really hard to find info on it, but I did find it was a technique that was used, but I'm trying to find that info again and can't. Can anyone tell me a bit more about it as a technique?

Obviously, the Melian Dialogue is an invention of Thucydides, but what ideas is he trying to get across? Does he think Melos should have bowed to necessity and submitted to Athens's ultimatum, and does he think the Athenian position was manifestly unjust? Melos became a byword for cruelty in the Greek world; does Thucydides comment on the aftermath, and whether or not Athens was pragmatically justified in crushing Melos?

Ok, this popped up on Facebook & normally hate these things as most are so loose with the correlation of ‘facts’ that it makes my blood boil, but this particular antidote covered areas I know nothing about & was at least plausibly interesting. So please feel free to tear the below apart (& ignore some of the bad attempts at humour):

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