I'm interested in the broader aspects of the decline in the number of servants (and in what type of servants) each household would prefer to keep (and I'm referring to richer house holds, rather than middle class), but in particular, I'd like to know when it became more common for maids to go home at night, when they got more time off, etc. I've tried searching, but I just keeping finding information about England, and I'm interested in the US. Especially New Jersey and New York. More city than country living.

I know they attended Schelling's lectures together but that's it. Did they ever have a written correspondence or even talk to each other?

They're both contemporaries but had completely different ideas. It'd be interesting to know if they historically interacted with each other.

There seems to be very little information about map use in Rome. There is the Tabula Peutingeriana but that is focused on roads and is not geographically accurate. If they did not use geographical maps then how could armies move around western Europe and find and engage enemy armies?

The Jones Act prevents foreign-flagged ships from carrying cargo between the US mainland and noncontiguous parts of the US, such as Puerto Rico, Hawaii, Alaska, and Guam. What was the historical context for the enactment of this law, and what are some of it's effects to this day?

It seems commonplace in Europe for many sports teams' fans to have political affiliations of some sort; in contrast it seems anathema to much of American sports culture. Was it always like this? If not, when was the change?

So how come? How is it that Austria and Germany are different countries, especially since the Habsburgs owned just about all that land.

To add more to this query, how come Switzerland is also not part of some enormous Austro-German state?

Obviously, the instrumentation is vastly different from these periods to today, but I'm talking more about music theory and song composition. Specifically, what kinds of things (generally speaking), were considered to be traits of "good" music then that aren't so now, and vice-versa?

I understand that this question is definitely subject to individual tastes, but I'm asking about the general consensus among the listening public. In particular, I'm curious if it's plausible that a music appreciator from that these periods could enjoy any popular music today, or if it would be possibly even 'offensive' to their tastes.

For the past year or so I've been reading a lot about the history of Japan. Every time I've read about the Meiji restoration, things seem to get incredibly confusing. During some free time this morning I tried to read more in depth about it, in order to clear things up. Now I just have more questions. Here is where I'm struggling:

• The unrest leading up to the restoration of the emperor makes sense. So the final Tokugawa shogun resigns. This is the first and biggest area of confusion. He resigns, hoping to accomplish what? Was he wanting to restore the emperor? After he resigns he is still a regional leader and is defeated in the Boshin war. Why resign and then keep fighting? Also, what was his resignation for? Was he expecting another Tokugawa to take his place?

• Choshu and Satsuma were the main protagonists on the other side of the Boshin war, and they fought the last shogun. Did they support the emperor? It seems like while all this was going on, the emperor basically just said 'Hey, I'm the emperor again now." But all the sources I read say he was young and not involved in politics. It seems like there must be something going on here.

Basically I find it hard to understand how the shogun resigning, followed by the Boshin War, leads to the emperor being restored and actually having power. There must be more going on but every source I look up does not explain it well and I end up more confused. Could anyone give a more in-depth overview of how all these things led to the emperor being reinstated?

So today I was surprised to learn that the Soviet Union espoused the idea of complete gender equality in 1917. That seemed remarkable to me, but then I even read that they also decriminalized homosexuality at the same time.

Was this simply lip service? Was it truly implemented? And how the heck were they so progressive on these social fronts in the early 20th century?

Bonus question: what is the modern Irish perspective on WWII? How is it taught in schools?

Often we see brands showing ownership on TV and in movies, but I've read that in the Code Noir branding would only take place as a punishment.

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Was reading about the shipwreck of the "San Pedro de Alcântara" and it's said the ship suffered with not being water tight enough, needed a constant use of pumps. So what was the standart for ships around 15-17th century?

i just learned about this, and im curious, why did general relativity become suppressed in the ussr?

How did a person get online before user-friendly ISPs like Delphi started offering Internet access in late 1992?

I know that a company called Alternet was offering commercial Internet access as early as the beginning of 1990, however I'm not sure exactly what the nature of the service was. EUnet launched an Internet service that was also open to commercial users at the exact same time, but again I'm not sure if it was the kind of access you could get onto a PC at home or something that was catering only to businesses and organizations that had people of technical know-how. From 1990 on, could anyone buy Internet access for themselves if they were willing to pay the money? I do know that for the first couple years their services were very expensive - like $1000 a month or something ridiculous. There's only a handful of sources online that even reference these early Internet companies so I'm clueless as to how user-friendly and accessible to the average computer user they were.

Would Internet access from these companies during this time be something that a non-technical person could navigate? If you got Alternet dial-up for example in 1991, would you get a user-friendly AOL-like interface installed too? Would it work on your Macintosh, or would you need a special Unix computer to access it?

The Web was basically non-existent at this time (in 1992 there were fewer than 100 websites, and it didn't really attract attention until 1994), so it would have mostly consisted of FTP files and e-mail service. Search ability was extremely limited too I would imagine, since all you had was Archie and Gopher, which were not nearly as useful as Google. Prior to Archie's release in late 1990 I think you would have had to have someone tell you via e-mail or Usenet where a file's location was if you wanted to access it.

Was home Internet access (true Internet, not just Compuserve or Prodigy) extremely rare prior to 1993? Also, was it possible at all to get the Internet at home in the late 1980s? Could you dial into a college or something if you wanted to access some of the FTP files on the NSFnet? Could a nerd in 1989 e-mail a researcher in Finland if they wanted to from their home PC? Was Usenet available before the real Internet?

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Hi guys, I'm doing a project on The Great Leap Forward and the Chinese Cultural Revolution but I can't find any really solid long term impacts as since Mao's reign, their government has done a remarkable job in reversing many of the negative effects and sweeping the rest under the rug. All i can find are immediate impacts however, what I really need are things that have lasted up until at the very least the 90s. Thank you all for your time and even if nothing comes of this post its greatly appreciated nonetheless.