There were obviously thousands and thousands of American planes in the air at a time (all flying right next to each other heading to drop paratroopers in the same area), so how did they avoid colliding? Was there an agreed-upon speed that everyone traveled at to help reduce the chances of crashing?

I just watched the Titanic movie and Rose survives being on the half of the ship that rises out of the water. Did anyone actually survive the final stages of the sinking?

Im taking a class right now where the professor uses this phrase a lot. It's a black studies course and I'm white so disagreeing is a non-starter, but especially in the American education system, does this phrase have weight?

I think I heard years ago on the History Channel that after Spartan boys were taken away from their families for military training they were paired up with an older man who would mentor and have sex with them. Then when they came of age and were married off to a woman they were so used to only having sex with men that their wife was supposed to shave her head to look like a boy when they had sex for the first time.

Is this sensationalist revisionism or is any of that actually true? If so what are the sources for it?

Was Chandragupta Maurya unable to conquer the Tamil Kings or did he just have no interest in doing so?

There are several major empires that impacted the Anatolian region (like Pontus) and middle east (Selucids). Is it just a lack of information? Because I can barley find anything on pre Roman history in the area. Maybe it's just because I'm a sophomore but IDK.

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Many supporters of Antifa and other antifascist groups point to the Battle of Lewisham and the Battle of Cable Street as deserving success for the the decline in fascist movements. I can't help but notice these occur late in the 1970s and the late 30s, right before the economy started to improve in both instances.

How much can we credit the movement's violent opposition, versus economic changes, versus a shifting focus on the evils of Nazi Germany/apartheid in S. Africa for the decline in the far right? Are there any other factors that played a part that are being ignored?

I would imagine that following the Norman invasion, it might be possible that Anglo-Saxon nobles or warriors might make attempts to take back the English throne. Were there ever any cases of uprisings or resistance?

Quoth Wikipedia:

The Greek word khthon is one of several for "earth"; it typically refers to that which is under the earth, rather than the living surface of the land (as Gaia or Ge does).

Now, I know the term "Gaia" not only denotes the "living surface of the land", but also a personification thereof, sometimes referred to as a "goddess", but I'm not quite sure whether that is a suitable term at all, since, while certainly a mythic figure of divine proportions, Gaia was not subject of worship, though I may stand to be corrected regarding that matter. In modern European dictum, there is no real differentiation between surface and interior when speaking about Gaia as the goddess of "the Earth" - this always seems to imply that, though the ancient Greeks may not have held Earth to be structured as we know it to be, they would have believed all of planet Earth, everything that was soil, rock, and so forth, to fall under the domain of that personification, Gaia. However, given the passage quoted above, did the ancient Greeks see the personification, qua deity, Gaia only as a personification of that surface, excluding the subterranean khthon? Or would that also have fallen under what Gaia represented? If not, was there a personification or deity of khthon itself? Was khthon Hades' domain, or was Hades' domain perhaps located within the physic khthon, or was it considered to be a place below khthon, or even entirely separated from both the surface and the subterrane?

The term bloody is often used in phrases such as "the bloody car won't start!" or "why won't this bloody thing open up?". I'm interesting in knowing not only how this phrase originated, but how it developed over time. Did it start out with the same purpose it serves today, or did it have an entirely different meaning in the past?

Did knights and foot soldiers bring along siege engine specialists when they went on a campaign that could include a siege? Where did the "engineers" learn their skills?

The Inferno wasn't translated until 1782, and the first full translation of the Comedy didn't appear until 1802. Considering the Early Modern English interest in Italian literature that resulted in an Elizabethan translation of Orlando Furioso and a partial translation of the Decameron during the Jacobean period (not to mention Shakespeare's various plays with Italian sources or settings), one would think that the Divine Comedy would have been at least partially translated around the same time. What factors prevented this from happening?

Like an Asian explorer who documented journeys to the west?

EDIT expanded to include any non European explorers?

I thought I remembered reading that at some point in the American Civil War, I thought towards the end, a practical repeating rifle was available for mass production and distribution, but that the department of war shot it down, thinking that they were too complex for soldiers. I also thought that the Gatling gun was available during the war. Are either of these things true? If so, why were what seems to be massive improvements in weaponry refused in favor of older, ineffective weapons?

Out of the 300,000+ British and Allied soldiers evacuated at Dunkirk, how many were actually saved by private craft (either manned by Royal Navy crewmen or by private owners)?

How many of the private little ships actually carried British troops back home and how many served primarily to shuttle troops from the beaches to larger Royal Navy ships off shore?

I'm reading The Archers Tale(Harlequin for my European friends), and it told of how some knights were penniless, and had to improvise helmets with old pots with eye holes cut out. I'm curious to know if this is true or not.